Re: [SAtalk] How many emails/second does you server handle

2002-05-10 Thread Ben Jackson
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:55:33AM +1200, Simon Lyall wrote: > > Just a query about what sort of throughput people are seeing on their > machines in emails/second? While playing with a bridge configuration I 1) accidentally reported a bug to freebsd-net on a test machines and then 2) orphaned th

Re: [SAtalk] Fetchmail reports "Headerless mail"

2002-05-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Alexander Skwar« sagte am 2002-05-09 um 20:53:06 + : > > Aside from that, are you sure that even without SA in the picture you > > Yes, I am. But I'll double check. I've now disabled SA and I'm not seeing corruption. So it's the fault of SA, or maybe the fault of a bad setup. Alexander S

[SAtalk] X-Spam headers: single line or multiline?

2002-05-10 Thread Marc MERLIN
I (apparently) received this from spamc: (not reformatted by my mail client) - Forwarded message - X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=9.4 required=7.0 tests=X_EM_VER_PRESENT,NO_REAL_NAME,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,KNOWN_BAD_DIALUPS,RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM,RCVD_IN_VADUL version=2.20 X-Spam-Flag

[SAtalk] Lookups on received lines

2002-05-10 Thread Marc MERLIN
I believe I've asked this before, but it's biting me too often and I haven't yet found an answer to this: Let's take the following (complete) Received headers: Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.49]:34177 helo=scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net)

[SAtalk] check out this piece of spam

2002-05-10 Thread dman
This message was _not_ flagged by SA. Who would want to send it anyways? (all intact except for the Received: headers) -D - Forwarded message from Investor Relations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - | Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 00:33:33 + | From: Investor Relations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: [EM

[SAtalk] Adding my own rules and weights

2002-05-10 Thread Kevin G. J. Freels
Greetings! Forgive this newbie question if it's been posted already or documented, but I can seem to find the answer. We are getting slammed with spam lately, and I had to set this up in a hurry. I have set up SA with procmail (testing on only a few accounts for now) and am pretty pleased with t

[SAtalk] spamd 2.20 bad protocol

2002-05-10 Thread Andreas Vogt
Hi, today I searched the list for a special problem. I'm using spamassassin 2.20 on linux / sendmail 8.12.3, sitewide with spamass-milter (0.1.1). Nearly everytime, spamc contacts spamd, I get a logline ... spamd[]: bad protocol: header error: (closed before headers) I also use milter-ama

[SAtalk] 2nd patch to spamproxyd : strict, shared, debug, status, and split bug !

2002-05-10 Thread xavier renaut
Hello, Here is a small patch to spamproxyd. (current cvs version) (i joined the patched spamproxyd as well, as it is small enought) I changed spamproxyd - to correct a call to split which was removing trailing empty lines ( which could induce message with no body, thus bouncing the

Re: [SAtalk] Adding my own rules and weights

2002-05-10 Thread Klaus Heinz
Hi Kevin G. J. Freels, you wrote: > What I'd like to do is set up a rule so that a) I can not > "double-flag" spam, i.e., don't put " SPAM " in the > Subject twice or more, and b) if it sees "[RT #" to down-weight > of the message. > > So how do I do this? You can use 'rewrite_subject 0

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Sitewide SpamAssassin/spamd - Resource Hog?

2002-05-10 Thread Klaus Heinz
Craig R Hughes wrote: > purpose, here's a list of the current (CVS) top 20 most expensive rules > computationally: I was just looking at some of my rule changes and noticed I never thought about using the non-greedy quantifiers like {n,m}?. In the rule set for SA 2.20 I found only 3 rules (ASCII

Re: [SAtalk] Adding my own rules and weights

2002-05-10 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Klaus Heinz wrote: > Hi Kevin G. J. Freels, you wrote: > > > What I'd like to do is set up a rule so that a) I can not > > "double-flag" spam, i.e., don't put " SPAM " in the > > Subject twice or more > > > > So how do I do this? > > You can use 'rewrite_subject 0'

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Sitewide SpamAssassin/spamd - Resource Hog?

2002-05-10 Thread Scott Nelson
At 06:33 PM 5/10/02 +0200, Klaus Heinz wrote: >Craig R Hughes wrote: > >> purpose, here's a list of the current (CVS) top 20 most expensive rules >> computationally: > >I was just looking at some of my rule changes and noticed I never >thought about using the non-greedy quantifiers like {n,m}?. >I

Re: [SAtalk] Fetchmail reports "Headerless mail"

2002-05-10 Thread dman
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 08:53:06PM +, Alexander Skwar wrote: | »Sidney Markowitz« sagte am 2002-05-09 um 11:57:45 -0700 : | > Ok, let's try again without the corruption. It appears you missed the | > later line in which I said how to fix the problem, so I'll start with | > that: | | Thanks! |

[SAtalk] File mail with really high scores?

2002-05-10 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: Anyone know if it's possible to cause SA to treat spam with a really high spam score differently? I'd like to be able to configure a maximum spam score, which would cause SA to flag the message specially or just file it in a different mailbox. Thanks! david ___

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Sitewide SpamAssassin/spamd - Resource Hog?

2002-05-10 Thread Craig R Hughes
Note that spamd is CPU bound, where just about all the other processes there are IO bound, either to disk or network. Does running spamd actually slow down the other processes? That's a different question from asking whether it's taking CPU time... C Morbus Iff wrote: MI> Just as an example o

Re: [SAtalk] Postfix snapshot 1.1.8-20020505 available

2002-05-10 Thread Craig R Hughes
Bart Schaefer wrote: BS> What, so now all Bcc's are spam? Nope, just a sign of spam. That's the beauty of weighted scoring. BS> I don't think the GA can possibly give a valid score to such a rule. How BS> can you have any confidence that there's a representative number of Bcc'd BS> messages i

Re: [SAtalk] malformed utf8

2002-05-10 Thread Craig R Hughes
Time to add this to the FAQ I suppose. C Vaughn Skinner wrote: VS> I'm using SpamAssassin 2.20. I'm using MailScanner and get a few dozen of VS> these each day. Has anyone seem the following message? Any fixes? I didn't VS> see any comments in the list archives. VS> VS> Malformed UTF-8 char

Re: [SAtalk] File mail with really high scores?

2002-05-10 Thread dman
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:36:14PM -0500, David Gibbs wrote: | Folks: | | Anyone know if it's possible to cause SA to treat spam with a really high | spam score differently? | I'd like to be able to configure a maximum spam score, which would cause | SA to flag the message specially or just file

Re: [SAtalk] File mail with really high scores?

2002-05-10 Thread Phydeaux
At 01:36 PM 5/10/2002 -0500, David Gibbs wrote: >Anyone know if it's possible to cause SA to treat spam with a really high >spam score differently? >I'd like to be able to configure a maximum spam score, which would cause >SA to flag the message specially or just file it in a different mailbox. >T

Blind-copy (Re: [SAtalk] Postfix snapshot 1.1.8-20020505 available)

2002-05-10 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Craig R Hughes wrote: > If you are a person who regularly sends all your correspondence That would be "... regularly *receives* ...", wouldn't it? Which is not something over which I necessarily have all that much control ... if I did, I wouldn't need SA :-). > using the B

[SAtalk] Not tagged though HITS > Threshold?

2002-05-10 Thread Henry Kwan
Hi. I recently received this email and though it claims to have 6.5 hits and my threshold was 6.0, it didn't tag it. Which was a good thing since it wasn't spam but I was just curious why it didn't tag it. Thanks. ---snip--- MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Security: MIME headers sanitized on mail.desig

Re: [SAtalk] Not tagged though HITS > Threshold? (one of 100identical replies?)

2002-05-10 Thread Sidney Markowitz
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 16:15, Henry Kwan wrote: > I was just curious why it didn't tag it. [...] > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=6.0 Perhaps because -6.5 really is less than +6.0? -- sidney ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.

[SAtalk] Thinking of performance

2002-05-10 Thread Mail Admin
Hi, I want to use spamassassin on a system where real heavy load exists. I have 540,000 incoming emails daily. I know spamc/spamd do well under moderate load , but this is not enough. Did anybody think of rewriting spammassasin in C , and may be use a high performance threading library like pth

Re: [SAtalk] Not tagged though HITS > Threshold?

2002-05-10 Thread Justin R. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Said Henry Kwan on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:15:55PM -0700: > I recently received this email and though it claims to have 6.5 hits > and my threshold was 6.0, it didn't tag it. Which was a good thing > since it wasn't spam but I was just curious why i

Re: Blind-copy (Re: [SAtalk] Postfix snapshot 1.1.8-20020505available)

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Craig R Hughes wrote: [...] >> using the Bcc field instead of To or CC then you'll want to manually >> adjust the score the GA assigns. But you might also want to >> re-evaluate your email practices -- do you *really* need those >>

[SAtalk] Re: Not tagged though HITS > Threshold?

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Henry Kwan wrote: > I recently received this email and though it claims to have 6.5 hits > and my threshold was 6.0, it didn't tag it. Which was a good thing > since it wasn't spam but I was just curious why it didn't tag it. It claimed to have "-6.5" hits -- *below* zero. :)

[SAtalk] Re: Thinking of performance

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sat, 11 May 2002, Mail Admin wrote: > Hi, I want to use spamassassin on a system where real heavy load > exists. I have 540,000 incoming emails daily. I know spamc/spamd do > well under moderate load , but this is not enough. Did anybody think > of rewriting spammassasin in C, Yup. It's been s