Re: [SAtalk] Aliases and SQL configuration

2002-11-27 Thread Kobe Lenjou
This is indeed so, you will need to hack the proram that calls spamd to supply the correct username (or hack spamd). Since there is no way spamd can know the 'real' adress this is delevered too. I did a little hack on qmail-scanner for that purpose (really easy, one SQL-Statement and case is close

Re: [SAtalk] Question on the list of tests

2002-11-27 Thread Matthew Cline
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 11:16 pm, Rob MacGregor wrote: > Some time back I browsed the list of tests so I could tweak the > values to suit my own particular situation. Yesterday I did this > again but noted that while some descriptions are in English, some are > French and some are other langua

RE: [SAtalk] Question on the list of tests

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Moncur
> You probably don't have to worry about them. Any rule definition > begining with "lang xyz" will only be used if one of the language > environmental variables is set to that language. SpamAssassin first > looks in $LC_ALL, then $LANGUAGE, then $LC_MESSAGES, then $LANG, and > assumes a language

RE: [SAtalk] Question on the list of tests

2002-11-27 Thread Rob MacGregor
From: "Michael Moncur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That's true, but he was probably referring to the "tests" page on the Spamassassin web site, which has had some weird multilingual descriptions for a while, not just for non-English rules. Here's a sample: X-Mailer header indicates a non-spam MUA (Outloo

[SAtalk] X-Spam-Status header problem

2002-11-27 Thread Rodos
Hello, Recently I have upgraded Mail-SpamAssassin from version 2.21 to 2.43. Since then I noticed that tests which are marked on a message do not appear in the X-Spam-Status header. This is very important for me. Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance. --

Re: [SAtalk] smtpd+spamd

2002-11-27 Thread Ian MacDougall
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 18:35, Bob Amen wrote: > Ian MacDougall wrote: > > Well the idea came from the Linux Journal article a while back. > > > Which issue was that? Issue 92 see: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4882 > My problem with Perl as a mail server was not so muc

RE: [SAtalk] smtpd+spamd

2002-11-27 Thread Ian MacDougall
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:31, James Braid wrote: > > I've put together a system using the Juniper smtpd+smtpfwdd daemons > and > > > spamd, with a bit of perl glue in between. > > > > On a Juniper box? that *is* cool! That'd be great to write up. > > I think he means this juniper: http://www.ob

Re: [SAtalk] smtpd+spamd

2002-11-27 Thread Ian MacDougall
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:32, Justin Mason wrote: > > James Braid said: > > > > I've put together a system using the Juniper smtpd+smtpfwdd daemons > > > > and > > > spamd, with a bit of perl glue in between. > > > > > > On a Juniper box? that *is* cool! That'd be great to write up. > > > > I t

[SAtalk] I am getting spam with even a setting of 1

2002-11-27 Thread Dark Alchemist
I am getting spam with even a setting of 1 but only on certain types. When I look at them they act like a header and a simple attachment only. Is there anything I can do to stop those or have the spammers found a huge loophole? Thanks. --- Th

RE: [SAtalk] I am getting spam with even a setting of 1

2002-11-27 Thread Steve Thomas
| I am getting spam with even a setting of 1 but only on certain types. | When I look at them they act like a header and a simple | attachment only. Is there anything I can do to stop those or | have the spammers found a huge loophole? Don't know what setting you're referring to, but header

[SAtalk] what's wrong with my SA's math?

2002-11-27 Thread Tilman Kastner
Hello, Today I discovered a tagged e-mail with this SA-result. Obviously, the negative score did not apply to the sum. (It's a custom rule to avoid false positives). What am I doing wrong here? This is SA 2.43 called via MIMEDefang on a Linux Box with Perl 5.6.1 SPAM: Start

[SAtalk] Problems setting up spamc/spamd on different hosts

2002-11-27 Thread Martin Schroeder
Hi, I've got spamc/spamd 2.43 successfully running on one host. However when I try to allow connections to spamd from one machine on the network, it can not connect. Since I get no output from spamd for the tries even with -D, I think the connections are somehow blocked before reaching spamd. Or is

Re: [SAtalk] what's wrong with my SA's math?

2002-11-27 Thread Vivek Khera
> "TK" == Tilman Kastner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TK> Obviously, the negative score did not apply to the TK> sum. (It's a custom rule to avoid false positives). Where did you learn arithmetic? ;-) It adds up fine in my calculation. What score did you expect to get from adding up all thos

Re: [SAtalk] Problems setting up spamc/spamd on different hosts

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:30:03PM +0100, Martin Schroeder wrote: > Hi, > I've got spamc/spamd 2.43 successfully running on one host. > However when I try to allow connections to spamd from one machine > on the network, it can not connect. Since I get no output from > spamd for the tries even with

Re: [SAtalk] what's wrong with my SA's math?

2002-11-27 Thread Tilman Kastner
Well, even in my calculation it was right :-) But why gets a score of 3.6 tagged, if a score of 5 is required? 8.6 would have been... Tilman Am Mittwoch, 27.11.02 um 16:41 Uhr schrieb Vivek Khera: "TK" == Tilman Kastner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TK> Obviously, the negative score did not appl

[SAtalk] Re: Problems setting up spamc/spamd on different hosts

2002-11-27 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2002-11-27 16:30:03 +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > somehow blocked before reaching spamd. Or is there something > wrong with my configuration? Yes. spamd was only listening on 127.0.0.1, not on the network. Now spamc is looking for ~/.spamassasin/ on the host, not on the client... :-( Best r

[SAtalk] using SA on a per user basis with qmail

2002-11-27 Thread Brendan McAlpine
Is it possible to use SA on a per user basis within qmail? I know how to set up SA on a per domain basis, but not all users in the domain I am setting up want spamassassin. Is there a way to call spamc from a .qmail file within an individual user's directory? If so, what is that command? TIA

[SAtalk] Basic System Wide Setup (newbie)

2002-11-27 Thread Carmine DiMascio
Hi guys, I’ve just setup spamassassin on a red hat linux 8.0 box. I currently have sendmail 8.12 and imapd running. I’m able to get mail and send I’ve also started spamd Howeveer I’m pretty clueless on how to set up spamassin to work in this environment I’d like to set up a system wid

[SAtalk] Nigerian scam mutation

2002-11-27 Thread Rich Puhek
Here's the latest in nigerian scam mutations. This one only scored a 3.0 (SA 2.43). Not only is the body quite different, the "plot" of the scam is different as well. Has anyone else seen a similar variation? Thoughts on possible rules to catch this include: /(Maryam|Sani) Abacha/i /transfer o

RE: [SAtalk] Basic System Wide Setup (newbie)

2002-11-27 Thread Steve Thomas
Each user would put recipes in their ~/.procmailrc file to filter through SA. Opting in/out would be as simple as using/not using the recipes. Here's a basic example: ## # SpamAssassin ## :0fw | spamc :0: * X-Spam-Status: Yes $MAILDIR/Spam ###

RE: [SAtalk] Basic System Wide Setup (newbie)

2002-11-27 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I had problems making the SA that came with redhat-8.0 work properly.   I removed the rpm and downloaded the source, followed the instructions like a good little boy and now it works.   I would recommend that as a first step.   I am using sendmail 8.12/imaps   allowing users to opt in and

Re: [SAtalk] what's wrong with my SA's math?

2002-11-27 Thread Matt Kettler
(whoops, forgot to include the list so 2 separate mails, one to Tilman, one here) You aren't using spamassassin -t when calling from mimedefang are you? (note that -t, which is a test mode, always includes the body markup, even in nonspam. You must use the headers to tell the difference in that

RE: [SAtalk] Problems setting up spamc/spamd on different hosts

2002-11-27 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
So now I have a question about this. this poses an interesting solution to the problem Ive been asking about. the ability to run one computer to handle spamd requests and possibly have three or four machines passing the requests... is there a way to make it use local per user prefs then... if

Re: [SAtalk] what's wrong with my SA's math?

2002-11-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:24:05PM +0100, Tilman Kastner wrote: > Obviously, the negative score did not apply to the > sum. (It's a custom rule to avoid false positives). > > What am I doing wrong here? This is SA 2.43 called via MIMEDefang > on a Linux Box with Perl 5.6.1 My theory is that you'r

Re: [SAtalk] Nigerian scam mutation

2002-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
> Here's the latest in nigerian scam mutations. This one only scored a 3.0 > (SA 2.43). And yet another variation. At least it is different than the ones I usually see. Bob From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 27 08:30:48 2002 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin HTML::Parser Error

2002-11-27 Thread Steve Plemmons
I just installed spamassasin and all the suggested/required modules on a box running SPARC Solaris 8 and perl 5.8.0. SpamAssassin is working fine on plain text messages and I get the added headers and can filter them out using procmail, etc. The problem is in using Spam Assassin on a HTML mail m

Re: [SAtalk] Question on the list of tests

2002-11-27 Thread Matt Kettler
I'd advise that you not browse the descs on the website, look at the ones that are in the .cf files themselves. What happens is many rules have alternate descriptions in non-english languages. The parser that crunches through the rules to create that webpage winds up with different languages ba

Re: [SAtalk] X-Spam-Status header problem

2002-11-27 Thread Matt Kettler
They should be there, here's a sample one from spamassassin -t X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=18.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_CAPS_HEADER,DATE_IN_PAST_24_48,DRASTIC_REDUCED, FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS,HOME_EMPLOYMENT,INVALID_DATE, INVALID_MSGID,LINES_OF_YELLING,MSGID_HAS_NO_AT,

Re: [SAtalk] what's wrong with my SA's math?

2002-11-27 Thread Tilman Kastner
Am Mittwoch, 27. November 2002 18:39 schrieb Theo Van Dinter: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:24:05PM +0100, Tilman Kastner wrote: > > Obviously, the negative score did not apply to the > > sum. (It's a custom rule to avoid false positives). > > > > What am I doing wrong here? This is SA 2.43 called v

Re: [SAtalk] Nigerian scam mutation

2002-11-27 Thread Simon Lyall
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Here's the latest in nigerian scam mutations. This one only scored a 3.0 > > (SA 2.43). > > And yet another variation. At least it is different than the ones I > usually see. I got one last week from a women who's father was the former Health Minister of

Re: [SAtalk] Problems setting up spamc/spamd on different hosts

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Burger
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Michael Stenner wrote: > > > > > telnet 196.0.0.38 783 > > Trying 196.0.0.38... > > telnet: connect to address 196.0.0.38: Connection refused > > > > Have you checked your firewall (iptable/ipchains) rules? It could > possibly be tcpwrappers (host.allow, ho

Re: [SAtalk] Problems setting up spamc/spamd on different hosts

2002-11-27 Thread Mike Burger
Did you make sure that you don't have any firewalls blocking access to port 783/tcp? First, make sure that if you're actually running a firewall (ipchains, iptables?) on your spamd system, that you open up that port. Second, on the spamd system, run "netstat -nap | grep 783" and see what IP ad

[SAtalk] make install (may) fail as non-root

2002-11-27 Thread Nicolas Christin
Hi, Just to report that it looks like a parameter is missing in the INSTALL file for single user installation. I don't know if this was mentioned in this mailing-list, but a quick search did not turn up anything. If one runs perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/sausr SYSCONFDIR=~/saetc make install may mi

[SAtalk] Re: using SA on a per user basis with qmail [solved]

2002-11-27 Thread Brendan McAlpine
BTW, I figured I would post this here in order to help anyone else who wanted to do this later on. In order to use spamassassin on a per user basis with qmail and vpopmail, you: 1. install Safecat (http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat.html) 2. edit your mailbox's .qmail file to

[SAtalk] Spam Assassin Header Errors

2002-11-27 Thread Ryan Clark
Hey, In my office there is a new mail server that I'm helping build, we're using spamassassin along with some other virus scanners for server side checks. I've been doing some testing with the new mail server and have been getting a lot of the mail from the server saying it's spam when it's not ev

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin HTML::Parser Error

2002-11-27 Thread Justin Mason
Steve Plemmons said: > I just installed spamassasin and all the suggested/required modules on a > box running SPARC Solaris 8 and perl 5.8.0. SpamAssassin is working > fine on plain text messages and I get the added headers and can filter > them out using procmail, etc. The problem is in using S

Re: [SAtalk] Nigerian scam mutation

2002-11-27 Thread Justin Mason
Simon Lyall said: > I got one last week from a women who's father was the former Health > Minister of Yugoslavia etc. Sorry I didn't save a copy. hey, I saw one supposedly from the head of Barclays Bank in the UK ;) Now I know the economic situation over there isn't great, but it's not *that* bad

Re: [SAtalk] Question on the list of tests

2002-11-27 Thread Justin Mason
Matt Kettler said: > I'd advise that you not browse the descs on the website, look at the ones > that are in the .cf files themselves. > > What happens is many rules have alternate descriptions in non-english > languages. The parser that crunches through the rules to create that > webpage wind

[SAtalk] Sendmail and Procmail

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew
Hiya All, Can somebody please provide me with a how-to, example or URL of a sendmail configuration (.mc file) with procmail support for a site wide SpamAssassin installation. I have a sitewide installation of SpamAssassin using spamd/spamc and a MySQL database for preferences. However when my sen

Re: [SAtalk] what's wrong with my SA's math?

2002-11-27 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:24:05PM +0100, Tilman Kastner wrote: > What am I doing wrong here? This is SA 2.43 called via > MIMEDefang on a Linux Box with Perl 5.6.1 The shell scripts spamc and spamassassin are not run by MIMEDefang. Instead, a function named spam_assassin_check() is called. It is