[SAtalk] Re: DCC incidence

2003-11-30 Thread Bryan Hoover
"Christopher X. Candreva" wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Bryan Hoover wrote: > > > Can anyone please tell me generally how frenquently they're DCC is > > hitting with SA? > > Well I just cleaned out my probably-spam folder a few minutes ago, but out > of 23 in there now, 13 hit DCC_CHECK Ah!

Re: [SAtalk] SA Newbie

2003-11-30 Thread Casper Gasper
You still haven't answered how you're calling SA, but I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and assume you're using amavisd-new. -how reliable the default config files are? Not sure I understand. Reliable in what way? For this sort of setup, you might not need to edit any of the spamassas

[SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Jack Gostl
Well... it happened again. My Bayes files are trashed. No explanation. All values in "sa-learn --dump magic" come back zero. No messages of interest in the debug output of either the --dump or the --rebuild. At least none that I can tell. Lots of "can't get lock" or "unlink failed" messages, but

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Pedro Sam
On November 30, 2003 07:55 am, Jack Gostl wrote: > Well... it happened again. My Bayes files are trashed. No explanation. All > values in "sa-learn --dump magic" come back zero. No messages of interest > in the debug output of either the --dump or the --rebuild. At least none > that I can tell. Lo

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Brook Humphrey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 November 2003 04:55 am, Jack Gostl wrote: > Last time this happened I had to rebuild the databases. This time I > thought I'd wait a bit to hear from people before I "destroyed" the > evidence. > > Really is a very annoying problem with a

[SAtalk] further spamassassin problems.. sigh

2003-11-30 Thread mairhtin
Hi, I also get this error : Cannot open bayes databases /home/mairhtin/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device ARGH! :) Mairhtin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceFor

[SAtalk] suddenly getting errors on Bayes

2003-11-30 Thread mairhtin
Hello, I am suddenly getting errors on SA regarding Bayes of some sort. The error message is : Cannot open bayes databases /home/mairhtin/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: File exists I'm not certain what is causing this, but it's clogging up my procmail.log file. What might have cause

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Jack Gostl
Nope... no such luck. On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Pedro Sam wrote: > On November 30, 2003 07:55 am, Jack Gostl wrote: > > Well... it happened again. My Bayes files are trashed. No explanation. All > > values in "sa-learn --dump magic" come back zero. No messages of interest > > in the debug output of

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Jack Gostl
> > Last time this happened I had to rebuild the databases. This time I > > thought I'd wait a bit to hear from people before I "destroyed" the > > evidence. > > > > Really is a very annoying problem with a first class product. > cant say in your caase but the only time I have ever had this is whe

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Brook Humphrey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 November 2003 02:42 pm, you wrote: > So, yes, I could rebuild, something that takes 30-45 mintues, > but last time it took several tries. Worse is that I wind up with a > significant number of false negatives before I even discover the pro

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Jack Gostl
> On Sunday 30 November 2003 02:42 pm, you wrote: > > So, yes, I could rebuild, something that takes 30-45 mintues, > > but last time it took several tries. Worse is that I wind up with a > > significant number of false negatives before I even discover the problem. > > > > Besides, this SHOULDN'T

[SAtalk] False Positives with sorbs.net

2003-11-30 Thread mwestern
Title: To bounce or not to bounce Hi Guys, How many of you use sorbs.net without too much trouble?   I'm just testing it at the moment and have had excellent results, but have had two complains about FPs.     the two complains we're about softwareobjectives.com.au and bigpond.net.au  

Re: [SAtalk] False Positives with sorbs.net

2003-11-30 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi, > How many of you use sorbs.net without too much trouble? I'm just Been testing with http.dnsbl.sorbs.net, socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net, misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net, smtp.dnsbl.sorbs.net, web.dnsbl.sorbs.net and dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net over the last few days and so far it is all good. I was using only dnsbl

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread jennifer
Hi Jack, My Grandfathers name was Jack... great name :) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamassassin- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Gostl > Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:19 PM > To: Brook Humphrey > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Bayes tra

Re: [SAtalk] suddenly getting errors on Bayes

2003-11-30 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:02:26PM -0800, mairhtin wrote: > Cannot open bayes databases /home/mairhtin/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: > File exists That usually means you have a stale lock file lying around. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Aiee!" - Linux kernel error message pgp0.

[SAtalk] Re: Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Bryan Hoover
Jack Gostl wrote: > > > On Sunday 30 November 2003 02:42 pm, you wrote: > > I do agree with you. Why would you be getting mails in like that though? > > This is an old email address. I've been watching the spams slowly > increase. Too many newsgroup posts, too much online ordering, too much > buy

Re: [SAtalk] Similar anti SPAM like this but, for Windows ?

2003-11-30 Thread Shane Geiger
FYI: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam_1.html?networking Commercial solutions win, spam loses Brightmail, FrontBridge, Postini, and Proofpoint overwhelm open source in accuracy, flexibility, and ease On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:57:13AM +0100, sietze wrote: > > Thanks for your a

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Brook Humphrey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 November 2003 04:19 pm, you wrote: > This is an old email address. I've been watching the spams slowly > increase. Too many newsgroup posts, too much online ordering, too much > buying/selling on ebay. Who knows. Until a few weeks ago, the

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes trashed

2003-11-30 Thread Brook Humphrey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 November 2003 06:34 pm, you wrote: > PS to brook.. webmedic?  Converted street person?  or just a catchy > name? lol well i used to do medical work but no I started a computer store called mobile pc medic and when i started my website ab

RE: [SAtalk] Similar anti SPAM like this but, for Windows ?

2003-11-30 Thread Efren Pedroza
Thanks for everyone that answer this question, I'm really newbie on this mater, I did download SA but I can't figure out how to install on windows environment, I downloaded zip file but there isn't an install; ass soon I can see. Best regards === Ef

Re: [SAtalk] DCC incidence

2003-11-30 Thread Aaron Young
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Bryan Hoover wrote: > Can anyone please tell me generally how frenquently they're DCC is > hitting with SA? DCC is working fine for me. I have three spams out of eight that arrived in the last 30 minutes that have a DCC match. --

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin -r failed to remove SA markup

2003-11-30 Thread Aaron Young
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Pedro Sam wrote: > Can anyone else confirm that "spamassassin -r" fails to remove SA markup when > it invokes bayes learning? How are you passing the message to spamassassin -r? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin -r failed to remove SA markup

2003-11-30 Thread Pedro Sam
On December 01, 2003 12:08 am, Aaron Young wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Pedro Sam wrote: > > > > Can anyone else confirm that "spamassassin -r" fails to remove SA markup > > when it invokes bayes learning? > > > How are you passing the message to spamassassin -r? My messages are in mbox forma

[SAtalk] Penalty for small emails

2003-11-30 Thread Aaron Young
Has anyone experimented with applying a penalty for small emails? With bayes or without I always seem to get a mail or two in my inbox. They're all pretty small, under 1k for the message body. SA finds spammy stuff in them but it's never enough to go above 5.0. They're anywhere from 3.8 to

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes Poison

2003-11-30 Thread Aaron Young
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Gorm Jensen wrote: > Bayes is working very well for me, but I am concerned about poisoning the > database with extraneous, obfuscating words that many spam messages contain. > > A few postings to this list say that there is no problem, but I don't want > to spoil a good thing

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin -r failed to remove SA markup

2003-11-30 Thread Aaron Young
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Pedro Sam wrote: > My messages are in mbox format, so I report/learn spam by: > > "formail -s spamassassin -r < SPAM_MBOX" > > But when I dump the contents of the bayes database, I found many tokens unique > to SA headers and markup. I found some header stuff but no other m