[SAtalk] 8 bit characters

2002-04-21 Thread Klaus Heinz
Hi, I got a spam mail (recognized as such by SA 2.20) but the matching tests lack one which recognizes the body of the mail containing almost only characters > 128. CHARSET_FARAWAY_HEADERS and SUBJ_FULL_OF_8BITS are triggered by this mail but shouldn't there be a matching test for the body of th

[SAtalk] false positive

2002-04-21 Thread Klaus Heinz
Hi, I've been using SA for about 2 months now and have been running with the default threshold of 5 hits. With the new version 2.20 I got a false positive with a newsletter I receive. X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.8 required=5.0 tests=EXCUSE_3, HTTP_WITH_EMAIL_IN_URL version=2.20 X-Spa

Re: [SAtalk] ok_languages addition

2002-04-21 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Duncan Findlay wrote: > SA *is* distributed under both licenses. It's moot now, of course, but the point was that different parts of SA could be distributed under different and non-overlapping licenses if the install procedure was sufficiently clever. _

[SAtalk] Unable to restart spamd as a non-root user

2002-04-21 Thread Kenneth Chen
I edited something in local.cf today and tried to restart spamd, but to no avail. This is what I get on the command line: root@vampire:/var/mail# /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -a -u mail Can't write '/dev/null': Permission denied at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 640. Line 640 in spamd is the part that st

[SAtalk] Updated: Unable to restart spamd as a non-root user

2002-04-21 Thread Kenneth Chen
I decided to run spamd with the -D line and these are its results when I run /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -D -u mail (I left out the -a this time): debug: ignore: test message to precompile patterns and load modules debug: using "/usr/local/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir debug: using "/etc

[SAtalk] Re: Updated: Unable to restart spamd as a non-root user

2002-04-21 Thread sinewave
--- Quoting Kenneth Chen on 2002/04/21 at 12:03 -0700: [ snip ] > Can't write '/dev/null': Permission denied at /usr/local/bin/spamd line > 640. > > Everything seems to look okay except for the very end where it complains > about not being able to write to /dev/null ls -l /dev/null I've had

Re: [SAtalk] false positive

2002-04-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
At 02:56 PM 4/21/2002 +0200, Klaus Heinz wrote: >Or is a threshold of 5 too low ? What do other people use ? I typically use 8 to 9 --- eric ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassi

Re: [SAtalk] false positive

2002-04-21 Thread Craig R Hughes
I think one thing we're learning with each x.y0 release of spamassassin is that rule scores need to be tweaked after the GA runs, and that within a week or so after x.y0 we need to release x.y1, which fixes almost all scoring issues. I agree that 4.1 is probably a little high for that rule; proba

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Updated: Unable to restart spamd as a non-root user

2002-04-21 Thread Craig R Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- Quoting Kenneth Chen on 2002/04/21 at 12:03 -0700: > > [ snip ] > > Can't write '/dev/null': Permission denied at /usr/local/bin/spamd line > > 640. > > > > Everything seems to look okay except for the very end where it complains > > about not being able to write

Re: [SAtalk] bug 227: triplets.txt?

2002-04-21 Thread Matthew Cline
On Saturday 20 April 2002 10:42 pm, Michael Moncur wrote: > As I understand it from reading bug # 227, the 'triplets.txt' file should > be in the rules directory? After running 'make install' on a couple of > different CVS versions, the file hasn't been copied to > /usr/local/share/spamassassin/ w

RE: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I would like to thank Richard, Matt, Charlie, Tony, Rich, and anyone else I may have missed for giving me some stats on spam. Unfortunately, it's not quite what I need. As I said before, I'm working on a complementary antispam technique that should provide extremely high barriers to spam visi

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Kelsey Cummings
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:06:55PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > So, any ideas on: > > number of active spammers per day NFC > number of pieces of Spam sent per day I support ~30k users, I see ~1.5m messages a day, and block ~1m of them as spam > number of people receivi

[SAtalk] Digest of junk mail

2002-04-21 Thread Yan Seiner
I'd like to get my junk mail in a daily digest. Right now it all gets stuffed into a file called ~/Junk. Does anyone have a routine that will take this file and generate a single email in digest form, complete with index? Thanks, --Yan -- Daddy, did all the hair that fell off your head stick

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
At 02:30 PM 4/21/2002 -0700, Kelsey Cummings wrote: >On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:06:55PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > So, any ideas on: > > > > number of active spammers per day > >NFC > > > number of pieces of Spam sent per day > >I support ~30k users, I see ~1.5m messages a day

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Updated: Unable to restart spamd as a non-root user

2002-04-21 Thread Kenneth Chen
Hi guys: lore@vampire:/dev$ ls -al null -rw-r--r-- 1 root root24507 Apr 21 15:04 null This is Slackware; no idea why it happened. I deleted the file and followed my friend's: mknod /dev/null c 1 9 chmod a+w /dev/null and now it works... hmm. Thanks everyone, Kenneth On Sun, 21

[SAtalk] Should spamd use gethostbyaddr?

2002-04-21 Thread Jason Haar
I just noticed that spamd logs incoming spamc calls with resolved hostnames instead of IP addresses. Now I know we should all have caching DNS servers/etc, but wouldn't we get a wee performance improvement if spamd didn't resolve? If you're using SA on a server that isn't a nameserver, then there

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Kelsey Cummings
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 06:00:50PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > At 02:30 PM 4/21/2002 -0700, Kelsey Cummings wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:06:55PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > > So, any ideas on: > > > > > > number of active spammers per day > > > >NFC > > > > > numb

Re: [SAtalk] Digest of junk mail

2002-04-21 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 22:56 21/04/2002, you wrote: >I'd like to get my junk mail in a daily digest. Right now it all gets >stuffed into a file called ~/Junk. > >Does anyone have a routine that will take this file and generate a >single email in digest form, complete with index? I was thinking this. I'm intending t

Re: [SAtalk] Should spamd use gethostbyaddr?

2002-04-21 Thread Craig R Hughes
Yeah, it might help some. Your nameserver is probably smart enough to set a really long TTL on localhost <-> 127.0.0.1 though, and your OS is hopefully smart enough to not look it up again before TTL expires. C Jason Haar wrote: JH> I just noticed that spamd logs incoming spamc calls with reso

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Jim Paris
... > So let's > say it's closer to 8 billion pieces of spam per day. ... > we are still looking at > somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 additional machines necessary for > spammers to be able to deliver their wares. Total. For 8 billion pieces of spam. That's nothing. You said it yoursel

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
At 09:19 PM 4/21/2002 -0400, Jim Paris wrote: >... > > So let's > > say it's closer to 8 billion pieces of spam per day. >... > > we are still looking at > > somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 additional machines necessary for > > spammers to be able to deliver their wares. > >Total. For 8 bill

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Jim Paris
... > so, in contrast to 28,800 possible messages in the day, an unencumbered > spammer could deliver between 147744 and 4060800 pieces of spam. yes, > 28,000 messages is a lot but it's one helluva lot less than 150,000. ... I think you'll find that most spammers are not limited by the fatness

[SAtalk] Win32 port of SA

2002-04-21 Thread Michael Bell
This is draft 4 of the HOWTO-WIN32-SpamAssassin The main changes - lotsa syntax corrections - AutoWhiteList FIXED! - EventLog options for Spamd included The remaining issues (but not so big as before) - Whether the maintainers of SpamAssasin want to integrate this (with appropriate checks for

RE: [SAtalk] false positive

2002-04-21 Thread Michael Moncur
> >Or is a threshold of 5 too low ? What do other people use ? > > I typically use 8 to 9 I keep my threshold at 7.0 for 2.11 and that seems to work as well for the current release. I have about one spam message slip through for every 30-40 that are caught, but only about half of those that slip

[SAtalk] Problem with Razor - undefined Client

2002-04-21 Thread Doug Crompton
Hello - I just joined the list. I looked through the archives about my problem and I saw dialog but no resolution. I too am experiencing the undefined Razor::Client message in my procmail logs. SpamAssassin works fine alone and Razor works fine alone. I ran the checks - files are there. Any

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Craig R Hughes
Jim Paris wrote: JP> Sure, the numbers can be debated (and I'm not really interested in JP> doing so). But you will at least agree, I hope, that your hashcash JP> solution will slow down spammers _only_ if they happen to be sending JP> more than 28,800 per day. (Or 10,000 a day depending on com

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with Razor - undefined Client

2002-04-21 Thread Craig R Hughes
Upgrade SA to 2.20 or downgrade Razor to 1.19 C Doug Crompton wrote: DC> Hello - I just joined the list. DC> DC> I looked through the archives about my problem and I saw dialog but no DC> resolution. DC> DC> I too am experiencing the undefined Razor::Client message in my procmail DC> logs. Sp

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with Razor - undefined Client

2002-04-21 Thread Doug Crompton
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Craig R Hughes wrote: > Upgrade SA to 2.20 or downgrade Razor to 1.19 > Ok I did and the problem went away. BUT my spamassassin headers still say 2.11 Is it possible this was not changed? I am definitely using the 2.20 stuff. Doug * Doug Cro

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with Razor - undefined Client

2002-04-21 Thread Doug Crompton
Header example - using 2.20, no errors but shows 2.11 X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=13.0 required=4.8 tests=DEAR_SOMEBODY,CLICK_BELOW, CLICK_HERE_LINK,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM, X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE version=2.11 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Ver