Re: [SAtalk] Fw: Help!!

2004-01-15 Thread JRiley
  in a word... huh? -JR     ---Original Message---   Can someone please help me to remove, unsubscribe or disable the spam assassin? I am a new computer owner and really didn't know what I was

Re: [SAtalk] Another BigEvil FP

2004-01-16 Thread JRiley
They also hire marketing firms (or do it themselves) to send UCE promoting their wares. I, myself have LART'd them 2 or three times. > It would be nice if this site would be removed from BigEvilList_130 or moved > to BigEvilList_X/Y/Z or whatever. > I can then remove pandasoftware.com from my wh

Re: [SAtalk] New User

2004-01-19 Thread JRiley
SpamAssassin doesn't "dump", delete, block, redirect,etc ANY emails. It simply, scans, scores, and stamps the header. It is up to your MTA or email client to determine what is done with messages that receive a score that is at or above your determined spam threshold. -JR - Original Me

Re: [SAtalk] Missing Spam Headers? Why?

2004-01-19 Thread JRiley
Title: Message I've seen that happen on SA servers/mailserver running SA, that are "under-powered" (for lack of a better term), or over-processed. Either processor or memory utization is being drained by either the SA processes or the MTA, or a combination of the two (or other services runni

Re: [SAtalk] SA Rule idea: whois

2004-01-20 Thread JRiley
I'd be interested in seeing that scriptcan you be persuaded to share with the class? -JR > I recently wrote a script to automate spam complaints to the contact > address(es) of the previous hop before my mail servers, using both a > Whois lookup by IP address (see Net-Whois-IP-0.35 Perl modu

Re: [SAtalk] changing the description text of tagged messages

2004-01-20 Thread JRiley
>How can I change the text that is included in tagged > >messages, that includes the servername and also includes my > >email address? If you got a Windows box, Michael Bell (Guinevere), has created a usefull win32 app called SAConf , for configuring your SpamAssassin systems. http://www.openhan

[SAtalk] Automated ruleset download

2004-01-20 Thread JRiley
Just curious, if there is a script (be it perl or otherwise), that anyone has written, that will perform an automated 'download'  of the different SARE (or other) SA rulesets? I wouldn't think this would too difficult to do, and have a scheduled restart of the MTA calling SA to implement it.

Re: [SAtalk] Automated ruleset download

2004-01-20 Thread JRiley
Thanks for all the replies.. I checked the archive, (like i should have before posting, i know i know..).. -JR www.spamfighter.org > RulesDeJour handles updating the add-on rulesets: > > http://www.exit0.us/index.php/RulesDeJour > > There's no good way to auto-update the main ruleset.. upgrading

Re: [SAtalk] UPDATES Tripwire 1.16 and Bigevil 2.06k

2004-01-20 Thread JRiley
You can ALWAYS get to any of the SARE rulesets (As well as many others), from the download section of www.spamfighter.org . These are direct links, with the author's permission, to the updated files on the authors distribution sites. Seriously, I requested permission from the authors, to link to t

Re: [SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread JRiley
> Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 200942 > Number of spams : 91592 ( 45.58%) > Number of clean messages:109350 ( 54.42%) > Average message analysis time : 69.27 seconds > Average spam analysis time :

Re: [SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread JRiley
> Something tells me that most of that time is likely due a couple of network > tests that are timing out for _every_ email. > > > ie: he might have DCC installed, but not allow the UDP packets past the > firewall, which would add 10 seconds to every email (by default, more if he > upped the timeo

[SAtalk] Ping

2004-01-27 Thread JRiley
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[SAtalk] list laggin again?

2004-01-31 Thread JRiley
what is up with the SA list? Seems like its choking a lot more frequently lately. JR --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. Februar

Re: [SAtalk] another spamAssassin ???

2003-12-08 Thread JRiley
The very same. However, I didnt know the name SpamAssassin was trademarked.. -JR - Original Message - From: gentian To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: [SAtalk] another spamAssassin ??? Is this SpamAssassin™ the same as

Re: [SAtalk] another SpamAssassin ???

2003-12-09 Thread JRiley
> > Yep, it was trademarked by Deersoft, and now owned by McAfee following > > their acquisition of Deersoft. > > > Crap! I hope McAfee does not get the idea to start licensing SA. That would > suck! can't license what they don't own... but they could 'try' to piss off the world and make SpamAssas

Re: [SAtalk] filtering spam tagged email before hitting exchange 2000

2003-12-10 Thread JRiley
SA does have the ability to filter (block/discard) if so configured.. basically by just setting SA to delete any incoming scanned msg with a score of 5+ (default score level).   As far as setting up a whitelist, on a win32 implementation of SA,  read the SA docs, and/or visit some sites with

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Bug#223399: spamassassin: not_ok_languages, no way to split Chinese

2003-12-10 Thread JRiley
While gargling concrete, "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed: > However, anything in language [X] is always spam, so let me ban [X] > without having to unban every other possible language. > > Pretty Draconian. Must be nice to be able to do that. My clients/customers tend to whine a little

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Bug#223399: spamassassin: not_ok_languages, no way to split Chinese

2003-12-10 Thread JRiley
> There are a number of providers that are utterly unresponsive until > someone (metaphorically) smacks them upside the head with a paving brick. That works for me. Where do we sign up? -JR --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutor

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.61 and this annoying spammer?

2003-12-13 Thread JRiley
> Anybody who's installed A 2.61 > > Can you tell me what the score for the following email was > > From: Advance in Pay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Need cash in the bank ASAP? > Date: December 12, 2003 4:28:24 PM CST > To: Robert David Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin and SendMail

2003-12-17 Thread JRiley
There is already a very well documented sendmail/SA/MIMEDeFang how-to available. Links to it and other sendmail/procmail/postfix SA articles are available on www.spamfighter.org anyway, heres the sendmail/SA/MIMEDeFang how-to: http://www.rudolphtire.com/mimedefang-howto/ -JR - Original Messa

Re: [SAtalk] Re: checking outgoing mail

2003-12-20 Thread JRiley
Based on your query, I don't think David's suggest was at all 'holier than thou'. And I agree with him , that unless you plan on pushing ALL outbound traffic from all your Webservers utilizing SMTP scripts,pushes,forms,etc to relay off your SA Gateway before being pushed to the Internet, I would su

Re: [SAtalk] Re: False positives

2003-12-29 Thread JRiley
> Yep. I googled him and he's the father of an autistic child who is very > active in promoting awareness and research. Easy to see where the > hyperdrive comes from. Still... mix in a compassion sandwich in other > areas of your life will ya, Len!? ;) I know... not here, quake > server, etc

Re: [SAtalk] Re: False positives

2003-12-29 Thread JRiley
From: "Keith C. Ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John Beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] (I particularly like seeing the "* 0.5 -- BODY: Possible porn - Hot, > > > Nasty, Wild, Young" rating on a children's autism mailing list...) > > > > Ha

Re: [SAtalk] how to make sendmail call spamassassin

2004-01-02 Thread JRiley
relative articles found here: http://www.spamfighter.org/bb/article.php?46.0 or http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html or http://www.amimissingsomething.com/archives/40.html or http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/FilterMailWithSpamAssassin   -JR - Orig

Re: [SAtalk] mailscanner

2004-01-08 Thread JRiley
delete? seriously though, can you be a little more specific in your question and configuration? SA is a scorer of spam - it doesnt delete, move, zap, squash , or block natively.. Depending on your schema, you would use a MTA, maybe even another form of Anti-Spam filtration/gateway, or your end user

Re: [SAtalk] OT: My REALY REALY Crazy idea!! ahahahahahah

2004-01-10 Thread JRiley
Chris has been working on this stuff WAY too hard lately back away from the bigevil Chris... back away remember 'sun light' and 'trees' ? remember how pretty those are? pretty pretty trees - Original Message - From: "Chris Santerre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Spamassassin-Talk

Re: [SAtalk] DNS issues

2004-01-13 Thread JRiley
You stated you setup the DNS server for the test network.. but you didn't say what nameservers your prod servers are using...and if there if you have xfer'd the zones or not so the prod nameservers have the updated information for your testnetwork's zone. -JR - Original Message - From: "