Re: [SAtalk] unnecessary $& and $' in PerMsgStatus.pm

2002-07-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
Pete Hanson wrote: > From PerMsgStatus.pm as distributed with SA 2.31 (line number 1879): > > m/^(()*)/; $_=$&; $leftover=$'; > > This can be replaced with: > > m/^((?:)*)(.*)/ ; $_ = $1 ; $leftover = $2 ; > > and possibly simplified further. As near as I can tell, this is the >

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RaQ3, sitewide and forwarding.

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Leone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30 Jun 2002 at 23:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > | reliable, > > sendmail is, I think, the MTA with the most security holes (in its > lifetime). At least, I have heard of a great many holes in sendmail, > but not nearly as many in exim, p

[SAtalk] problem when compiling spamc

2002-07-01 Thread Marguerite LEBRETON
Hello, I'm trying to install Spamassassin on a Sun workstation (Solaris 5.5). As described in the installation doc, I unzip and untar the archive (Mail-Spamassassin-2.30). But I have problems when compiling spam.c : gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -O spamd/spamc.c \ -o spamd/sp

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RaQ3, sitewide and forwarding.

2002-07-01 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 the voices made Derrick 'dman' Hudson write: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:10:51AM +0200, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: > | > At 06/30/2002 14:25, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: > | > > | > > Sorry for the noice, but even something as simple as finding the > | > > local version of sendmai

[SAtalk] Spam that gets through

2002-07-01 Thread Weyland
I have a few Spams that are *very* obviously porn spams that made it through SA. How can I tell SA to look for the words contaned in it in the future? Thank you, Weyland --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heave

Re: [SAtalk] db working but not?

2002-07-01 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
> Have you tried both -q, and -x? $ ps -wax | grep spamd 24805 ?S 30:21 /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/spamd -x -q -d -L -u nobody -q, -x, -d, -L and -u :-) > The spamd source looks like it wants to do one or the other, but not > both. Weird. It sees that the mail is for ste

[SAtalk] may be a bug in spamphrase scoring?

2002-07-01 Thread jean dupond
Hi, after testing unsuccessfully for the presence of spamphrases in mails, i started looking into the maillog. The problem is reported through sendmail as : mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 1 stderr: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/PhraseFreq s.p

Re: [SAtalk] problem when compiling spamc

2002-07-01 Thread Bill Randle
The problem is spamd/spamc.c uses a rather funky test to determine if in_addr_t is defined in a standard system include file, or if the program should define in_addr_t itself. The test combines a test for the OS type and a check for EX__MAX being defined. The test is broken for some versions of O

[SAtalk] Can't get SPAMD/SPAMC to work

2002-07-01 Thread Howard Johnson
I have been having a lot of trouble getting SPAMD/SPAMC to work on my RedHat 7.2 box. In short, if I use the following in my /etc/procmailrc: :0fw | spamc The mail gets delivered to the local mailbox without any Spamassasin headers added. Putting the SPAMD into debug mode shows that ma

Re: [SAtalk] db working but not?

2002-07-01 Thread Christian Rasmussen
I had a similar problem, and after going through the documentation I noticed that the problem was that I had forgotten to add the following to the beginning of the procmailrc file: DROPPRIVS=yes Best Regards, Christian Rasmussen -- - Original Message - From: "Andrew Kohlsmith" <[EMAIL P

[SAtalk] Odd DOUBLE_CAPSWORD hits

2002-07-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
Using 2.31 installed from CPAN: I just got a message that scored on DOUBLE_CAPSWORD, but I ran it through perl -ne 'print if /\b([A-Z]{3,})\b.{0,50}\b\1\b/' and it that didn't print anything. If I append an 'i' to the pattern to make it case-insensitive, it hits on three lines. Is there

Re: [SAtalk] Odd DOUBLE_CAPSWORD hits

2002-07-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:59:28AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I just got a message that scored on DOUBLE_CAPSWORD, but I ran it through > perl -ne 'print if /\b([A-Z]{3,})\b.{0,50}\b\1\b/' > and it that didn't print anything. If I append an 'i' to the pattern to > make it case-insensitiv

Re: [SAtalk] Odd DOUBLE_CAPSWORD hits

2002-07-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > That's not how SA works though, it's not a per-line thing, it's a per > paragraph thing. Another case of lousy descriptions? describe DOUBLE_CAPSWORD A word in all caps repeated on the line > perl -ne 'BEGIN { $/="" } print if /\b([A-Z]{3,})\b

Re: [SAtalk] Odd DOUBLE_CAPSWORD hits

2002-07-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:12:51AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Another case of lousy descriptions? > > describe DOUBLE_CAPSWORD A word in all caps repeated on the line Yeah. Everyone thinks it's lines, but it's not. This comes up on the list every now and again. -- Randomly Generated

[SAtalk] Probaby and old question, but....

2002-07-01 Thread Mike Kercher
I need to uninstall SA so I can do a clean install of it. The reason is that I am using SA in conjunction with MailScanner and I installed SA before MS. Now my @INC path is hosed and I don't know how to fix it. Here's the error I get when trying to start MS with SA enabled: Can't locate Mail/S

Re: [SAtalk] Corrupt messages.

2002-07-01 Thread Mike Diehl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:50 am, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:01:59AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > Get the 3.23pre snapshot of procmail: > > > > ftp://ftp.procmail.org/pub/procmail/testing/snapshot.tar.gz

Re: [SAtalk] Corrupt messages.

2002-07-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Mike Diehl wrote: > I used to use procmail about 5 years ago and didn't have this problem, > though. The bug got introduced when code was added to procmail to use mmap(), as far as I can tell. So it's only in recent versions. --

Re: [SAtalk] Interview with "Spam King" Scelson

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Stauber
Hi Matthew, > Right, we're dictators, *forcing* our concerns on the masses > *yearning* for email advertisements, and he's a freedom fighter. Or > soemthing. I'm fully with you in the trenches on this one, Matthew. FWIW: I've been fighting Spam for years, but sometimes I'm also pricelessly puz

Re: [SAtalk] Interview with "Spam King" Scelson

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Cline
On Monday 01 July 2002 06:04 pm, Michael Stauber wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > Right, we're dictators, *forcing* our concerns on the masses > > *yearning* for email advertisements, and he's a freedom fighter. Or > > something. > I'm fully with you in the trenches on this one, Matthew. FWIW: I've be

Re: [SAtalk] Spam that gets through

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Cline
On Monday 01 July 2002 07:00 am, Weyland wrote: > I have a few Spams that are *very* obviously > porn spams that made it through SA. > > How can I tell SA to look for the > words contaned in it in the future? You can try to figure out which porn phrases aren't being picked up by SA, then add the

Re: [SAtalk] RaQ3, sitewide and forwarding.

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Stauber
Hi Tony, > Sorry for the noice, but even something as simple as finding the local > version of sendmail.mc nearly drow me nuts, so I thought I'd ask if > anyone's had the displeasure of setting up SA on a RaQ3 so that forwarded > (as set up with the webUI) e-mails are scanned too. I have a Spam

Re: [SAtalk] Interview with "Spam King" Scelson

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Stauber
Hi Mattew, > Being heavy-handed isn't the same thing as being Nazi-ish. No matter how > heavy handed they might be, the real-world equivalent of black-lists are > boycotts, not Fascists and dictators. I'd say taking entire IP-subnets into "Sippenhaft" (collective hostage taking) to catch just

Re: [SAtalk] Interview with "Spam King" Scelson

2002-07-01 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 the voices made Michael Stauber write: > That's no unique event and I've seen that happening a couple of times with > different providers and different blacklists in recent years. Its not exactly > fun. I've been hit by this too, and I can't help but think that these blacklis

[SAtalk] How to produce return codes...

2002-07-01 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, is it possible (and how) to configure spamd/sa-exim that way, that the spammer gets a return code, which says, that my email address is permanently not reachable (was it return code 550 ??? I am not sure...) Or in other words, s/hr should get the same result as my email address isn't e

[SAtalk] Re: How to produce return codes...

2002-07-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:56:48AM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: | Hi, | | is it possible (and how) to configure spamd/sa-exim that way, that | the spammer gets a return code, which says, that my email address is | permanently not reachable (was it return code 550 ??? I am not | sure..

Re: [SAtalk] Need some help getting started.

2002-07-01 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 19:50, Steven W. Orr wrote: > Red Hat linux 7.3 with sendmail-8.12.2-7 > Razor-2.09 > spamassassin-2.20-1 Similar setup, RH7.2, no Razor, SA installed from SRPM. > Then I created my /etc/procmailrc with content: > :0fw > | spamc > > I modified my init.d/spamassassin

[SAtalk] .forward question

2002-07-01 Thread Harold Hallikainen
I had SpamAssassin working great until last week when my ISP changed something. Prior to that, I did not need a .forward file. It seemed to run mail through the .procmailrc on its own. Well, the mail stopped going through SpamAssassin, and the spam started coming in! So, reviewing the RE