Re: [SAtalk] Help! (Dumb noob questions about upgrading and other stuff)

2004-01-29 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, January 23, 2004 10:18 AM -0800 JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But now I'm faced with the daunting task of upgrading (via CPAN on RH 7.2, and I don't know squat about CPAN) from 2.55. 7.2 has been end-of-lifed, so you might think about starting from scratch. I'd suggest getting a spa

Re: [SAtalk] help please....cant stop them at all.

2004-01-29 Thread Martin Radford
At Fri Jan 23 21:30:58 2004, Martin Radford wrote: Five days to reach the list! I hoped SF would have cleared the backlog sooner than that! > This seems to be a signature with these mails, but I haven't put > together a rule for them yet. The following *might* work: > > header L_SPAMMY_RCVD R

RE: [SAtalk] Help! (Dumb noob questions about upgrading and other stuff)

2004-01-28 Thread Bret Miller
> >Yes, SA logs by default. > > Where might it be logging to? I can't find anything in > /var/log/ and it's > not putting anything in to my CommuniGate logfile. I just > see CGPSA being > called, and then the message being re-inserted into the queue > after it's > been scanned. > If it's logging

Re: [SAtalk] Help: 2.63 will not compile

2004-01-28 Thread Dan Wilder
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:01:46PM +0200, Thomas Kinghorn wrote: > Hi List. > > Just downloaded SA2.63 but cannot get it to build. > > RH9 with exim-4.30 > > make gives: Makefile:74: *** missing separator. Stop. The make error is a leading tab on line 74 that got changed to one or more spaces

Re: [SAtalk] Help! (Dumb noob questions about upgrading and other stuff)

2004-01-28 Thread JR
At 07:01 PM (-0800) 1/23/2004 (Friday), Kenneth Porter wrote: But now I'm faced with the daunting task of upgrading (via CPAN on RH 7.2, and I don't know squat about CPAN) from 2.55. 7.2 has been end-of-lifed, so you might think about starting from scratch. I'd suggest getting a spare box and loa

Re: [SAtalk] Help! (Dumb noob questions about upgrading and other stuff)

2004-01-28 Thread JR
At 11:50 AM (-0800) 1/23/2004 (Friday), Douglas Kirkland wrote: A few questions you need to know. Does the users control the user_prefs file? If so can they write there own rules. Does each user has their own Bayes database? If so, how do they get trained? How are you getting the email to spa

Re: [SAtalk] Help: 2.63 will not compile

2004-01-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:01:46PM +0200, Thomas Kinghorn wrote: > RH9 with exim-4.30 > make gives: Makefile:74: *** missing separator. Stop. First guess: http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/MakeMissingSeparator -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Euler's Identity ... the Sine/Cosine thing..." - Ins

Re: [SAtalk] help please....cant stop them at all.

2004-01-28 Thread Martin Radford
At Fri Jan 23 06:46:33 2004, Thomas Kinghorn wrote: > > Below are the headers & I have attached the mail. > > These are getting worse. > > To top it off, SA learned it as HAM. > > If anyone knows of any rules that could work on these mails, It would be > greatly appreciated. [I've posted mo

Re: [SAtalk] Help! (Dumb noob questions about upgrading and other stuff)

2004-01-27 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 10:18, JR wrote: > So I inherited sysadmining our Spam Assassin install that runs as an > external filter to our Communigate Pro server (using CGPSA). > > I've managed (thanks mostly to this list) to figure out how to train

Re: [SAtalk] Help: How to add files of tests?

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Radford
At Fri Jan 23 02:45:51 2004, Evan Platt wrote: > > At 03:26 PM 1/22/2004, Chris Thielen wrote: > > > Where would I add, say big_evil.cf? Are there any other recommended files I > > > download and install? > > > >Maybe this helps: > >http://lists.altn.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee9117d/1 > > Don't I w

Re: [SAtalk] help please....cant stop them at all.

2004-01-27 Thread David A. Carter
Quoting Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg28318.html That's a great post...we should add it to the wiki, if you're so inclined. I'd be happy to do it, but I didn't just want to plug it in there w/o asking the author first. Regards; DaC --

RE: [SAtalk] Help! (Dumb noob questions about upgrading and other stuff)

2004-01-26 Thread Bret Miller
> But now I'm faced with the daunting task of upgrading (via > CPAN on RH 7.2, > and I don't know squat about CPAN) from 2.55. Upgrading is a good thing. However, since I know pretty well nothing about Linux and precious little about CPAN, I'll leave this part for someone else... > Beyond that "m

Re: [SAtalk] help please....cant stop them at all.

2004-01-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:16 AM 1/23/04 -0600, David B Funk wrote: Trim off the Bayes poison and relearn it as spam. The payload contains several unique misspellings that would be good Bayes signatures. Why trim off the bayes poison? Doing so just poisoning your bayes database in a different way. http://www.mail-arc

Re: [SAtalk] help please....cant stop them at all.

2004-01-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Thomas Kinghorn wrote: > Below are the headers & I have attached the mail. > > These are getting worse. > > To top it off, SA learned it as HAM. > > If anyone knows of any rules that could work on these mails, It would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks All. > Regards > Tom

Re: [SAtalk] Help: How to add files of tests?

2004-01-22 Thread Evan Platt
At 03:26 PM 1/22/2004, Chris Thielen wrote: > Where would I add, say big_evil.cf? Are there any other recommended files I > download and install? Maybe this helps: http://lists.altn.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee9117d/1 Don't I want to avoid adding to the local.cf? That's overwritten during an upgrade,

Re: [SAtalk] Help: How to add files of tests?

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Thielen
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:50, Evan Platt wrote: > Ok, I'm running SA under Alt-N Mdaemon. AFAICT, it's a standard install, > albeit Windows. It's got a Spamassassin.dll file - Is there anywhere to > update this? I did a yahoo /google but turned up blank. I don't know if you can update the SA engine

Re: [SAtalk] Help: Still getting through the 2.62

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:05 AM 1/22/2004, Thomas Kinghorn wrote: I have attached a few mails that are still getting through. These are scoring extremely low. The number of mails like these that slip through is on the increase. Any ideas as to how I can block them? I am using SA2.62, Exim 4.30 (with the exiscan 4.

Re: [SAtalk] Help with report pse

2004-01-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:40 AM 1/19/2004, John Fleming wrote: Does that use timing from the sender's computer time, ISP times, or what? It compares the date and time of the "Date:" header against the timestamps added into the Received: headers by the various mail relays. since the error is in the 6-12 hour range,

Re: [SAtalk] Help needed with url rule

2004-01-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:23 PM 1/15/2004, Brian Ipsen wrote: What would a rule look like to match a pattern like (I've read a little about matching, but not enough to get it working): http://(anything).(com|net|org|info)?rid=[0-9]{1,5} use the uri ruletype.. it will only search within web links: uri MY_URI_RULE /\

RE: [SAtalk] Help needed with url rule

2004-01-15 Thread Yackley, Matt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brian Ipsen > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Help needed with url rule > > Hi! > > I'm no expert in regular expressions, but a bunch of the

Re: [SAtalk] Help needed with url rule

2004-01-15 Thread Adam D. Lopresto
I'd probably use something like (untested, but it should work) uri LOCAL_RID /\?rid=\d/ describe LOCAL_RID Has a possible remove id scoreLOCAL_RID 0.01 and then adjust based on whether or not it's doing what you want. You could be more specific (for instance, limiting it to com|net|org|

Re: [SAtalk] Help with whitelist_to

2003-12-16 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:15 AM 12/16/2003, Marcio Merlone wrote: Back on-list, wouldn't be useful to make a rule to white-list a message when sent to abuse@, but only when it has no BCC or tons of rcpts? So, our abuse@ team could receive spam complains and still not become some kind of open relay... It's impossible

Re: [SAtalk] Help with whitelist_to

2003-12-16 Thread Marcio Merlone
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:18:54 -0500 Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:13 AM 12/15/2003, you wrote: > >On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:25:38 -0500 > >Terry Milnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > > > > whitelist_to[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (...) > as a further off-list clarific

Re: [SAtalk] Help with whitelist_to

2003-12-15 Thread Marcio Merlone
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:25:38 -0500 Terry Milnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried dropping the comma after [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see > the comma included in the spamassassin.conf man page. > > Marcio Merlone wrote: > > whitelist_to[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes,

Re: [SAtalk] Help with whitelist_to

2003-12-15 Thread Terry Milnes
Have you tried dropping the comma after [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see the comma included in the spamassassin.conf man page. Marcio Merlone wrote: Hello all, I think my whitelist_to is not working, can someone help me? On /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]# grep [EMAIL PR

RE: [SAtalk] Help with Mark Motley's perl script - part2

2003-12-10 Thread Lentz, Wayne
>-Original Message- >From: Lentz, Wayne > >So I tried that and it helped as the script now runs, but it does't pull any >messages off Exchange. It reports that it pulled 1 message, and does create >an empty file named "1" in /var/amavisd/spam. It produces these results >regardless of how

RE: [SAtalk] Help with Mark Motley's perl script - part2

2003-12-10 Thread Lentz, Wayne
All, It was suggested off list that I remove the '<>' brackets from this section: my $server = Mail::IMAPClient->new( Server => "", User => "", Password => "", Uid => 1, Debug => 0 ); So I tried that and it helped as the script now runs, but it does't pull

RE: [SAtalk] Help with Mark Motley's perl script

2003-12-10 Thread Scott Harris
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Lentz, Wayne > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 7:38 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [SAtalk] Help with Mark Motley's perl script > > Guys, > > I'm trying to use the perl script that M

Re: [SAtalk] Help with DCC setup for use with Spamassaian

2003-12-09 Thread Alex S Moore
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:52:10 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..snip> Yes, I just erviewd the firewall config. It will pass all trafic > originating on the innsied. I see that may not be a good general case, but > it should be OK here (Small home network). > > BTW, I decided to try (breifly)

Re: [SAtalk] Help with DCC setup for use with Spamassaian

2003-12-09 Thread stan
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:34:14PM -0600, Alex S Moore wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:05:42 -0500 > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0600, Alex S Moore wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:32:23 -0500 > > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ..snip>

Re: [SAtalk] Help with DCC setup for use with Spamassaian

2003-12-09 Thread Alex S Moore
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:32:23 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..snip> > > > Thanks for the helpful reply. > > Do you think my firewall is blocking, even given the traceroute that shows > I can get to one of the servers? I'm behin a NAT'ing OpenBSD firewall if > that matters. > Yes, becaus

Re: [SAtalk] Help with DCC setup for use with Spamassaian

2003-12-09 Thread stan
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:34:59AM -0600, Alex S Moore wrote: > DCC has been one of the more difficult things for me to setup, but I like it a lot. > > You need to run only one of the dcc programs, depending on your needs. Run dccd if > you want to be a DCC server and you have registered on the

Re: [SAtalk] Help with DCC setup for use with Spamassaian

2003-12-09 Thread Alex S Moore
DCC has been one of the more difficult things for me to setup, but I like it a lot. You need to run only one of the dcc programs, depending on your needs. Run dccd if you want to be a DCC server and you have registered on the dcc network. Or run as an anonymous connection either dccm for a sen

Re: [SAtalk] help

2003-11-13 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:27 PM -0500 "Mueller, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please remove me from the mailing list... > Thanks in advance. In the headers of every message... List-Unsubscribe: ,

Re: [SAtalk] help (how to unsubscribe from a sourceforge list 101)

2003-11-13 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:27 PM 11/12/03 -0500, you wrote: Please remove me from the mailing list... Thanks in advance. Every message posted to the list has the information you need to unsubscribe yourself in the headers... List-Unsubscribe: , Go ther

Re: [SAtalk] Help on SpamAssasin

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Thielen
Sounds like you have this: Internet email goes to a routable IP address on a Linux PC. Linux PC (w/routable IP) runs NAT, port 25 is forwarded to Windows PC Windows PC (w/non-routable IP; 10.0.0.x or 192.168.0.x are common) runs a MTA on port 25 and receives the forwarded connections. But you wan

RE: [SAtalk] HELP !!!! spamd using too much CPU !!

2003-11-03 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Gary Lopez Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:50 PM > It seems that spam has gotten 10 times worse and the spamd > daemon is spawning too many processes and eating up CPU as well as > memory. You don't want spamd to spill over into swap. It will crawl so slow it will crash your machine. RTFM at h

RE: [SAtalk] help with sa-learn

2003-10-25 Thread Bill Polhemus
IIRC, it should be Sa-learn --spam --mbox kill William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph P. Wetstein Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SAtalk] help with sa-learn

2003-10-23 Thread Gator
I've just been struggling with the same thing. When I ran sa-learn in debug mode with the -D it complained that I hadn't loaded DB_File which is required for the Bayesian filter. I just loaded that Perl module and now it works fine - or at least it is working. -- Jack -Original Message-

Re: [SAtalk] help with sa-learn

2003-10-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:55 AM 10/23/2003, Joseph P. Wetstein wrote: When I do a: "sa-learn --mbox --spam kill" I get: Learned from 0 message(s) (127 message(s) examined). First, I'd check for file permission issues.. make sure you've got the ability to create files in ~/.spamassassin. It's really easy to do somet

Re: [SAtalk] help with sa-learn

2003-10-23 Thread Chris
I had trouble with sa-learn too and it was permission problems in the end. Make sure you are running the command as the person you want to check rather than root. Also, use the debug flag (-D) and then you'll get a lot more info. - Original Message - From: "Joseph P. Wetstein" <[EMAIL P

Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Can't Invoke SA From Sendmail Alias

2003-10-17 Thread Justin Mason
Bill Polhemus writes: > I have wanted to set up a "spam trap" for some time. First, I created an > account, called "spamtest," on my system. Then, I went to Usenet and posted > a ton of "test" messages to every newsgroup I could think of (mostly the > pr0n ones) where the address would be harveste

RE: [SAtalk] HELP: Can't Invoke SA From Sendmail Alias

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Polhemus
Okay, someone already responded that it is “SMRSH” that’s the culprit. So I got to learn a bit more about how smrsh operates. Seems as though it will only allow Sendmail to run a very few shell commands, and only those programs that are explicitly in the /etc/smrsh subdirectory.   The typ

RE: [SAtalk] Help Installing

2003-10-15 Thread Uve Lokk

Re: [SAtalk] help - freezing!

2003-10-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:36:34 +0200 (CEST): > so ppl, if sy meet this problem and solved it, please reply > No, I haven't, but it really doesn't look like a spamd problem. spamd is only one of several victims of this. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Intern

Re: [SAtalk] Help, Why doesn't this rule work?

2003-10-03 Thread JJensen
spamassassin --lint I imagine I am told to run this somewhere in the various doc's but missed it. Thanks, it works now. Matt Kettler wrote: At 02:22 PM 10/3/2003, JJensen wrote: I have it at the bottom of my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf I restarted services. I sent the test spam "/usr/sh

Re: [SAtalk] Help, Why doesn't this rule work?

2003-10-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:22 PM 10/3/2003, JJensen wrote: I have it at the bottom of my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf I restarted services. I sent the test spam "/usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.44/sample-spam.txt" and added "braintmr" in the subject line (with out the quotes) and it was still tagged as spam. head

Re: [SAtalk] Help, Why doesn't this rule work?

2003-10-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/03/03 12:22 PM, JJensen sat at the `puter and typed: > >I have it at the bottom of my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf >I restarted services. >I sent the test spam >"/usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.44/sample-spam.txt" and added >"braintmr" in the subject line (with out the q

Re: [SAtalk] Help, Why doesn't this rule work?

2003-10-03 Thread Frank Pineau
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:22, JJensen wrote: > I have it at the bottom of my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf > > I restarted services. > > I sent the test spam > "/usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.44/sample-spam.txt" and added > "braintmr" in the subject line (with out the quotes) and it was still > t

RE: [SAtalk] Help needed with spam deluge...is internet email bei ng totally swamped?

2003-09-23 Thread Chris Santerre
Our company has prbly received about 400 in the past 2 days. Yeah, kind of high, but no different from your others like Code Red. It should hopefully be all over soon. I think the nimrods who still don't have anti-virus software on their PC's should be hung by there ankles. People who have it run

RE: [SAtalk] Help in Understanding how to make a local.cf file...

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Santerre
See the link in my sig, and www.exit0.us Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men." - Willy Wonka > -Original Message- > From: L. D. Jame

RE: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-17 Thread Tom Organ
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan > Fullmer > Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter > > > alright, one more question

RE: [SAtalk] Help Unblacklisting RBL

2003-09-17 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:35 AM To: Jennifer Wheeler Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Help Unblacklisting RBL Nope -- it's got nothing to do with SpamAssassin at all, so no amount of whitelisting it in SA will help you. You need to whitelist it in the software that's

Re: [SAtalk] Help Unblacklisting RBL

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Morris
Nope -- it's got nothing to do with SpamAssassin at all, so no amount of whitelisting it in SA will help you. You need to whitelist it in the software that's actually marking it as spam. Jennifer Wheeler wrote: what am i doing wrong here? I am trying to unblacklist an address getting tagged b

RE: [SAtalk] Help Unblacklisting RBL

2003-09-17 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
>> what am i doing wrong here? I am trying to unblacklist an address >> getting tagged by Infinite-Monkeys. *** >1. "unblacklist_from" is used to de-blacklist a SpamAssassin blacklist > (which is defined using the "blacklist_from" option) I understand this now. Thank you. >2. If you don'

RE: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-17 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks Jim! I don't know how I missed that. --Larry > -Original Message- > From: Jim > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > > I never knew you could use ${user}. I thought only ${sender} and > > ${recipient} were available. Is there a list of allowed > > v

RE: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-17 Thread Larry Gilson
Another way to handle this is to use what you have. For example, my master.cf has the following (excuse the wrap): merlin unix - n n - 5 pipe flags=Rq user=merlin argv=/usr/bin/procmail -m /home/merlin/etc/merlin.rc ${sender} ${recipient} In Procmail, I save

Re: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > I never knew you could use ${user}. I thought only ${sender} and > ${recipient} were available. Is there a list of allowed variables? I never > found one. How did you know to use ${user}? > > Also, how is ${user} different from $

RE: [SAtalk] Help Unblacklisting RBL

2003-09-17 Thread daniel lance herrick
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jennifer Wheeler wrote: > I completely agree with your opinion about the open proxy biz. I'll see > if we can get them to take care of that on their end. In the meantime, > I've been asked to get these particular emails through to us without a > spam tag :) I'm just having

RE: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-17 Thread Larry Gilson
How about piping through sed? USER = `echo $5 | /bin/sed 's/@\S+//g'`; --Larry > -Original Message- > From: Alan Fullmer > alright, one more question is there any way i can remove the > @domain.tld? > > so i just have the email prefix before the @? -

RE: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-17 Thread Larry Gilson
I never knew you could use ${user}. I thought only ${sender} and ${recipient} were available. Is there a list of allowed variables? I never found one. How did you know to use ${user}? Also, how is ${user} different from ${recipient}? --Larry > -Original Message- > From: Alan Fullme

Re: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-16 Thread Jim
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:35:23PM -0600, Alan Fullmer wrote: > i added ${user} on the end of the master.cf command, then used "$5" > > I now understand how it works. thanks! If I'm not mistaken, that is going to cause you to deliver two copies of the message: one to $recipient, the other to $

Re: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-16 Thread Alan Fullmer
i added ${user} on the end of the master.cf command, then used "$5" I now understand how it works. thanks! - Original Message - From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alan Fullmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:14 PM

Re: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-16 Thread Alan Fullmer
alright, one more question is there any way i can remove the @domain.tld? so i just have the email prefix before the @? - Original Message - From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alan Fullmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:14 PM

RE: [SAtalk] Help Unblacklisting RBL

2003-09-16 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
I completely agree with your opinion about the open proxy biz. I'll see if we can get them to take care of that on their end. In the meantime, I've been asked to get these particular emails through to us without a spam tag :) I'm just having trouble accomplishing that. (and have had to fight to

Re: [SAtalk] Help Unblacklisting RBL

2003-09-16 Thread Daniel Quinlan
"Jennifer Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what am i doing wrong here? I am trying to unblacklist an address > getting tagged by Infinite-Monkeys. Monkeys is a DNS blacklist. It is also not used by SpamAssassin by default, so you seem to be confused in one way or another. 1. "unblacklist

Re: [SAtalk] Help Unblacklisting RBL

2003-09-16 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jennifer Wheeler wrote: > what am i doing wrong here? I am trying to unblacklist an address > getting tagged by Infinite-Monkeys. > > using spamassassin 2.55 > > i put the following line in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf with all my > other rules and whitelisted address

RE: [SAtalk] Help, Where are the awards, List of companies using it?

2003-09-10 Thread Brad Tarver
Title: Message RH8 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:40 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SAtalk] Help, Where are the awards, List of companies using it? P.S. Anyone know when spamassassin was i

Re: [SAtalk] help with procmail script

2003-08-26 Thread Chris Barnes
Alan Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I could find the same service from somewhere else that was priced >> the same, I'd move in a heartbeat. If you have suggestions, please >> email them to me (ie. not on this newsgroup). > > www.mydomain.com > > Basically unlimited mail forwarding and w

RE: [SAtalk] help with spam report

2003-08-22 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I use expire_mail.pl I sort spam into users spam folders so they don't have to download via pop They can access with a web interface (or imap) to see the spam folder and then every week I run a cron job to expire mail from every users spam folders It gives a summary of what was erased, showing t

Re: [SAtalk] help with procmail script

2003-08-18 Thread Klaus Johannes Rusch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Wiersdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:47:00PM -0500, Chris Barnes wrote: > > My Question: > > What would the procmail script look like that would look at the subject > > line and strip out the *SPAM* if it exists? My idea is to put

Re: [SAtalk] help with procmail script

2003-08-18 Thread Rich Puhek
Yorkshire Dave wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 18:47, Chris Barnes wrote: Situation: I run my own mailserver on a RH Linux box. *Some* of my email comes in directly to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, while other messages are forwarded from an ISP address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I am running SA on my o

Re: [SAtalk] help with procmail script

2003-08-18 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 18:47, Chris Barnes wrote: > Situation: I run my own mailserver on a RH Linux box. > > *Some* of my email comes in directly to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, > while other messages are forwarded from an ISP address > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > I am running SA on my own box. SA

Re: [SAtalk] Help with BAYES database problem

2003-08-15 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:34:00PM +0300, Bob Mcgregor wrote: > Cannot open bayes_path /usr/exim/.spamassassin/bayes/bayes R/O: Invalid > argument ... > Does anyone have any ideas how we can continue to use the BAYES > database from our old server, or do we have to start afresh. Make sure the new

Re: [SAtalk] Help understanding spamc and bayes

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:13 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Thanks Dan, I have taught it with --spam with a significant number of messages, although I haven't taught it with --ham yet. Is that a problem? If the bayes database doesn't have 200 ham messages in it's learning database, the use of the bayes

Re: [SAtalk] Help understanding spamc and bayes

2003-08-14 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi, In this case, the user nobody does have a valid home, and it also has the .spamassassin directory with the bayes files in it. So again, I'm confused as to why bayes rules are not being accounted for in the SA report headers. - Original Message Follows - > At 07:15 PM 8/14/2003 -0700

Re: [SAtalk] Help understanding spamc and bayes

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:15 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi, Is there a problem running spamc as "nobody"? I'm actually using "nobody" as the user running it, and I have run sa-learn as "nobody" as well. I figured it doesn't matter which user it is, as long as that particular user has the bayes datab

Re: [SAtalk] Help understanding spamc and bayes

2003-08-14 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thanks Dan, I have taught it with --spam with a significant number of messages, although I haven't taught it with --ham yet. Is that a problem? Ricardo - Original Message Follows - > Hi, > > I'm pretty sure that Bayes analysis doesn't kick in until > the program has had a chance to le

Re: [SAtalk] Help understanding spamc and bayes

2003-08-14 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi, Is there a problem running spamc as "nobody"? I'm actually using "nobody" as the user running it, and I have run sa-learn as "nobody" as well. I figured it doesn't matter which user it is, as long as that particular user has the bayes database and tokens setup. Ricardo - Original Messa

Re: [SAtalk] HELP

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:06 PM 8/8/2003 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:54, Matt Kettler wrote: > Do you have a specific kind of help you need, or should we assume it's an > accidental PEBAC? PEBKAC (or PEBCAK), surely? :-) The problem needs to exist between the chair and something else... Ad

Re: [SAtalk] Help understanding spamc and bayes

2003-08-14 Thread Martin Radford
At Thu Aug 14 17:40:19 2003, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > > The output from spamc didn't even show a score for bayes. > Shouldn't it at least show a percentile score for bayes? > Here's what it reported: > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.7 required=5.0 > > tests=MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR,MSGID_HAS_NO_

Re: [SAtalk] Help understanding spamc and bayes

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:23 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: This is a message that has been run through sa-learn with --spam, and yet I get nothing reported back from spamc. I did restart spamd after altering local.cf. I'm running spamc as the same user that ran sa-learn. I'd try running spamd with debugg

Re: [SAtalk] Help understanding spamc and bayes

2003-08-14 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. I added the settings to local.cf as suggested, then ran the message through spamc again, however it reports the exact same thing as before. :-( This is a message that has been run through sa-learn with --spam, and yet I get nothing reported back from spamc. I did r

Re: [SAtalk] HELP

2003-08-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:54, Matt Kettler wrote: > Do you have a specific kind of help you need, or should we assume it's an > accidental PEBAC? PEBKAC (or PEBCAK), surely? :-) The problem needs to exist between the chair and something else... Adam ---

Re: [SAtalk] help on makeing my email scanning gatew ay work

2003-08-09 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:04:00PM +0300, brian wrote: > I am trying to setup a mail sever to use spamassasin > form spam scanning and it works just fine. but only > for locally delivered emails and ones originating from > the server. my current setup is this > > sendmail 8.11.6 > procmail as the

Re: [SAtalk] HELP

2003-08-07 Thread Matt Kettler
Do you have a specific kind of help you need, or should we assume it's an accidental PEBAC? --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download to

Re: [SAtalk] Help getting Bayes and SA Learn going

2003-07-31 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:23 PM 7/31/2003 -0400, Walter Ray wrote: HI I would like to get Bayes and SA Learn going but I have no clue on how to do this. Could someone please point me in the direction of some detailed documentation that tells me what to do??? man sa-learn is a good start. It's actually pretty det

Re: [SAtalk] HELP - SA stopped marking Spam

2003-07-31 Thread Walter Ray
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] HELP - SA stopped marking Spam > Please reply to the list; then the solution is available for someone > else. > > Use reply-all, or reply-to-list; I've set my "reply-to" for this > mes

Re: [SAtalk] Help

2003-07-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
You need to configure either your MTA (e.g. sendmail) or your mail client (e.g. pine, mutt, Mozilla mail) to do something special with emails marked as spam (e.g. send them to a different folder). Here is an example of the relevant portion of the header: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.0 required=

Re: [SAtalk] HELP - SA stopped marking Spam

2003-07-29 Thread Kris Deugau
Please reply to the list; then the solution is available for someone else. Use reply-all, or reply-to-list; I've set my "reply-to" for this message just to make sure. Walter Ray wrote: > No changes that I know of have been made to anything on the server. > Here are the answers to the other ques

Re: [SAtalk] HELP - SA stopped marking Spam

2003-07-29 Thread Kris Deugau
AltGrendel wrote: > A few questions to answer first: > > What OS are you running. > What version of SA are you running. > What do the logs say (maillog and syslog) > Do the SA headers show at all in the email? More importantly, if it useta' work, and don't work no more, is: What changes in your

Re: [SAtalk] HELP - SA stopped marking Spam

2003-07-29 Thread AltGrendel
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 05:12, Walter Ray wrote: > HI Everybody, > > For some reason, SA stopped marking messages. We had it set up to mark all > possible Spam with the *SPAM* marker and for no apparent reason, it > just stopped. I didn't make any changes to anything on it. I tried > stop

Re: [SAtalk] Help. SA is not learning

2003-07-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mike, > > dcarrera ~$ # The following step takes about 1.5 hours. > > dcarrera ~$ sa-learn --spam --showdots --mbox spam_borrowed_10 > > ... > > Learned from 11 messages. > > dcarrera ~$ grep 'Subject: ' spam_borrowed_10 | wc -l > > 6

Re: [SAtalk] Help. SA is not learning

2003-07-23 Thread mikea
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:42:34AM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm trying to teach SA. I just fed it a about 7,000 spam messages and it > claims to have only learned from 11. Here is the output: > > dcarrera ~$ # The following step takes a

Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Someone is using my domain name to send spam

2003-07-04 Thread Greg Cirino
uot;Jim Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Someone is using my domain name to send spam | | >>Not unless the spammer also forges headers to make the email | >>look like it's co

Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Someone is using my domain name to send spam

2003-07-04 Thread Greg Zartman
Not unless the spammer also forges headers to make the email look like it's coming from the IP that corresponds with the email address. RBL blacklisting is done based on the IP info in the headers, not on domain names in the email. Thanks for the reassurance! If it becomes a problem I'll filter

Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Someone is using my domain name to send spam

2003-07-04 Thread Jim Ford
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:15:31AM -0700, Abigail Marshall wrote: > Actually, I think the spam-from-yourself routine is a trick > that is created by the sending software, so that everyone is > getting spam from themselves -- so for those particular > spams, others are probably not getting that. S

Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Someone is using my domain name to send spam

2003-07-04 Thread Jim Ford
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:34:32AM +0100, Jim Ford wrote: > Yes, I've also been getting spam addressed from myself. It's usually caught > by SA, but can it cause problems eg. if others are getting spam with my > address, can I get on a blacklist? Looks like the answer's 'yes' 8^/ -- Spam poison

Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Someone is using my domain name to send spam

2003-07-04 Thread Jim Ford
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:29:16PM -0300, Federico Voges wrote: > Some fscking spammer is sending spam using random email addresses > (@mydomain.com) for the sender & return addres: Yes, I've also been getting spam addressed from myself. It's usually caught by SA, but can it cause problems eg. if

Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Someone is using my domain n ame to send spam

2003-07-04 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:29:00AM +0300, Federico Voges wrote: > Some fscking spammer is sending spam using random email addresses > (@mydomain.com) for the sender & return addres: > > My mail server queue has always about 100 bounce msgs in the delivery > queue. > > Any ideas about how to pro

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