[SAtalk] What is the point of this spam?

2003-08-20 Thread Jim
I've been getting these once in a while, they just seem to have random words in them.. no sales pitch that I can see. And they are always different sets of words. I made a few tiny edits to obfuscate the recipient, but other than that it's intact. Is it some kind of probe? --- Begin Message ---

Re: [SAtalk] What is the point of this spam?

2003-08-20 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:29:53AM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > Maybe the big image with a Viagra ad in the middle of it has something > to do with it. :) Doh! Of course you're right. In my defense, I had looked at the HTML briefly and didn't notice the link, and opened it in a browser (Galeo

[SAtalk] 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-21 Thread Jim
debug: Razor2 is not available debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=2.077 debug: running uri tests; score so far=2.077 debug: uri tests: Done uriRE debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=2.077 debug: Razor2 is not available debug: Current PATH is: /sbin:/bi

Re: [SAtalk] SA & MySQL Setup Question

2003-08-21 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:41:48PM -0500, Eric Ochoa wrote: > I've searched through the lists and haven't found enough information to go > about this on my own so here goes: I have successfully installed SA+Razor > sitewide, I use qmail. I have a MySQL database running and the SASQL > plugin for

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-23 Thread Jim
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 12:39:00AM +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2003 21:26 CET Jim wrote: > > In SA 2.55, it was working fine. DCC still works in this version. > > This might be a symptom of bug 2314 [1]. Please check out if you have an old > versi

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-23 Thread Jim
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 03:31:30PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > FYI: Just because the problem I found was SHA1 doesn't mean all the > problems are SHA1. You have to run that perl commandline to change > "use lib" then try "use"ing the Razor2 modules, and see what it says. Thank you gentlemen v

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-24 Thread Jim
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:00:14PM +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: > The version doesn't really matter, just two versions of SHA1 break the > module. You don't get nay messages like this when you run spamassassin in > debug mode? > razor2 check skipped: Can't locate object method "new" via >

Re: [SAtalk] Envelope sender as part of the SA protocol

2003-08-27 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:31:44AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > We currently support: > > Envelope-Sender - qmail > X-Envelope-From - procmailrc says this may occur > Return-Path - Postfix, sendmail, rfc821 qmail also sets Return-Path. Recent versions of Postfix can add an

Re: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:43:41PM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > And shouldn't the first received line indicate > that the host that sent the message? Not necessarily, for example, I use a single copy of Mutt to send mail from address is several domains. Each outbound message will use the same HE

Re: [SAtalk] Trademark improperly used in deceptive ad?

2003-08-27 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:52:17PM -0400, Chuck Peters wrote: > http://vww.spamcop.com/download.aspx?PID=A22090C and no mention of Note that the "real" SpamCop is spamcop.net, NOT spamcop.com. I may be paranoid, but I suspect malicious fraud.

Re: [SAtalk] Trademark improperly used in deceptive ad?

2003-08-27 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:48:03PM +, Jim wrote: > I may be paranoid, but I suspect malicious fraud. Just out of further curiosity, I Googled for one of their "testimonial" texts on that site. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22An+unobtrusive+s

Re: [SAtalk] Getting slammed with virri and spam

2003-09-09 Thread Jim
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:18:10AM -0400, Debbie D wrote: > 3 times today I noticed the server running very high loads of 4-6 and as > high as 10, normally I run 1% or lower usually closer to .3-.6%. Three days > in a row I have gotten over load notices.. Tonight I got an out of memory > notice and

Re: [SAtalk] spamd performance

2003-09-11 Thread Jim
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:42:02PM -0400, Paul Farber wrote: > New machine... dual 1.2Ghz AMD CPU's, 1 Gb RAM, Ultra-SCSI-3 (160Mbps) drive: Single Duron 1.3GHz CPU, FreeBSD 4.8: some stats for Sept. 11, 2003: Total analyzed :827 Average analysis time :

Re: [SAtalk] Ham and Spam script

2003-09-12 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:53:38AM +0100, James Gardiner wrote: > Has anyone written a script that run sa-learn through an IMAP folder? Here's a couple of cron jobs I use to do it: # Run user-supplied spams through SA's Bayesian learner 31 */2 * * * rootmv /var/mai

[SAtalk] Elusive AWL filename

2003-09-12 Thread Jim
Hi, I just upgraded to 2.60rc4 from 2.60rc2. I changed nothing in my local.cf, and in fact, the AWL path is not specified there (I just use the default) I've noticed though, that the filename is written as "auto-whitelist.db" in this version; in rc2, it was written as "auto-whitelist". So I ren

[SAtalk] 2.60rc4: always_add_headers now defaults to 0?

2003-09-12 Thread Jim
Upgraded from rc2, and now the X-Spam-Level and X-Spam-Status headers do not get added unless I set this variable to 1. In all previous versions I've used, the reverse was true. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek he

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60rc4: always_add_headers now defaults to 0?

2003-09-12 Thread Jim
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:00:35AM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:46:57AM +0000, Jim wrote: > > Upgraded from rc2, and now the X-Spam-Level and X-Spam-Status headers do > > not get added unless I set this variable to 1. > > > > In all previ

Re: [SAtalk] Re: spamd performance

2003-09-12 Thread Jim
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:38:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This might be an issue of scale. Might be. How many simultaneous spamc processes do you usually have at any given time? > I'm probibly 800 messages every few minutes. Do you also use any RBLs to reject anything at the SMTP s

[SAtalk] Re: Load throttling with Procmail/Sendmail. [Was: Getting slammed with virri and spam]

2003-09-12 Thread Jim
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:32:47PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Anybody running spamc from procmail with sendmail is vulnerable to having > their server overloaded because of uncontrolled concurancy of local > deliveries - despite the options mentioned above, sendmail just doesn't > have adequa

Re: [SAtalk] Rule for no reverse DNS

2003-09-13 Thread Jim
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:20:49AM -0400, Covington, Chris wrote: > It can't be that specific. There must be some way such as a header > regexp that searches for "unknown" or the lack of a DNS name: Well, we can already look up Received IPs in RBLs, so it can't be much harder to just do a reverse

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Load throttling with Procmail/Sendmail. [Was: Ge tting slammed with virri and spam]

2003-09-13 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:41:26AM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > What is your rule of thumb for the Postfix max process limit and the number > of spamc max children? I started with 5 and pushed it up from there when it appeared the machine could handle it. 5 was a very cautious number; I set it so

Re: [SAtalk] Getting Some Bayesian Statistics

2003-09-13 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:49:43AM -0500, Bill Polhemus wrote: > Is there a script available to tell me simply how many emails I have > processed through "SA-LEARN?" Do you mean "processed through Bayes?" > I would just like to know how many SPAM and > HAM messages have passed through the data

Re: [SAtalk] X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY - Turn off check?

2003-09-15 Thread Jim
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:48:14AM +0100, Angel Gabriel wrote: > X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY > > How can I turn off the above check? It's adding 2.7 points to my mail, > and making a look of my mail from yahoo groups SPAM. This has been discussed several times over the last couple weeks and is in the arch

Re: [SAtalk] Tests against envelope sender?

2003-09-15 Thread Jim
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:50:12PM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > SA only knows what it sees. Normal headers do not include the envelope > sender. How would you get the envelope sender from your MTA to SA? This was discussed recently, ppl can check the archives to see some ways it can be done. I

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_ORBS

2003-09-16 Thread Jim
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Gary Carr wrote: > SA is flagging 100% of the incoming email with the RCVD_IN_ORBS score. Even > mail from our internal network. None of the ip addresses are listed in > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=3.0 > tests=RCVD_IN_ORBS > version=2.55 > >

Re: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-16 Thread Jim
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:35:23PM -0600, Alan Fullmer wrote: > i added ${user} on the end of the master.cf command, then used "$5" > > I now understand how it works. thanks! If I'm not mistaken, that is going to cause you to deliver two copies of the message: one to $recipient, the other to $

Re: [SAtalk] help with master.cf and filter

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > I never knew you could use ${user}. I thought only ${sender} and > ${recipient} were available. Is there a list of allowed variables? I never > found one. How did you know to use ${user}? > > Also, how is ${user} different from $

Re: [SAtalk] SA and tagging/removing

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:53:03PM +0200, Håkon Nilsen (Exinet AS) wrote: > > And yes - SA should be able to delete the message. No, everyone's been dragged through this before -- RTFA (archives). > It would make the whole > thing a lot easier. "Easier for you" != "easier." > And there shoul

Re: [SAtalk] Logfile of spamrecognized mails

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:39:33PM +0200, Jens Strohschnitter wrote: > is it possible to write a seperate logfile for spamd/spamc > that logs all spam-recognized mails ? The parameterlist of > spamd/spamc showes me no command that I can use for. Use procmail. Fwiw, here's something I am toying wi

Re: [SAtalk] Postfix and spamc - call by shell or Procmail

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:02:11PM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > I have been trying to understand the advantages and disadvantages of using > the shell script method (like that employed by SecuritySage) and the > Procmail method as a content_filter for Postfix. Can someone lend an expert > opinion?

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with erroneous DNS black listing...

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:07:17PM -0700, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: > Do I have to make a rule with a negative score score X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY 0 in a .cf file. > tests=RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY You need to turn off the Osirusoft checks. Look in the archives fo

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with erroneous DNS black listing...

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:07:41PM -0700, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: > Hey Jim - I've seen other lists reporting, depends on the clients source IP > address... Yeah -- actually, sorry I wasn't more clear on that. My intention was to point out that you could do the same thing to disabl

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble getting spamd working with postfix

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:36:52PM +0200, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote: >argv=/usr/bin/spamc -x -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -f $sender $recipient Keep in mind this snippet from the spamc man page wrt '-e': Note that there is a very slight chance mail will be lost here, becau

[SAtalk] [OT] new messages pet-peeve

2003-09-17 Thread Jim
People, if you are posting to this (or any) list to start a new thread, can you please REALLY start a new message from scratch instead of replying to one that's already gone by on the list? For those of us using mail clients that actually work properly, and that thread messages based on Reference

Re: [SAtalk] Webmail system incorporating sa-learn

2003-09-18 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:54:09PM -0700, Jefferson Cowart wrote: > Sorry if this question has already been answered, but I am unable to find an > answer. In any case is there a webmail system that incorporates sa-learn > functionality? I.e. a system that has a button that I can click to say this >

Re: [SAtalk] Amavis-New, PostFix, SA, MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR

2003-09-18 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:12:03PM -0400, John wrote: > I don't really care about people emailing to known spam > addresses (at least that is what I am assuming with the > test MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR). That's not exactly what it is; see 20_uri_tests.cf: describe MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDRIncludes a lin

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble getting spamd working with postfix

2003-09-18 Thread Jim
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:20:18PM +0200, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote: > I'm under the impression that using "-x" takes care of that. Incorrect? I don't think so. "-x" is a counter to "-f" which relates to being (un)able to connect to spamd -- not being (un)able to fork a child process to pipe t

Re: [SAtalk] Question for the FAQ

2003-09-19 Thread Jim
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:00:40PM +0500, Ivar Magne Auestad wrote: > You are writing in the FAQ that you don't focus on viruses, but I have a > suggestion. It would be very easy to add attachment type as a qualifyer. > Very many viruses are attached as .pif-files or double extention > attachmen

Re: [SAtalk] Question for the FAQ

2003-09-19 Thread Jim
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:31:33PM -0400, Bruce Pennypacker wrote: > The problem I'm finding with the latest worm is that sometimes the MIME > attachment for the actual worm isn't included in the e-mail. I've > already set MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE high but I'm still getting a few > e-mails an hour

[SAtalk] Here is a Postfix rule for rejecting executable MS attachments

2003-09-19 Thread Jim
Largely "stolen" from one I'd read on the 'net somewhere, but this works well and has blocked tons of virii: /^(Content-(Type|Disposition):.*|[[:space:]]*(file)?)name=("[^"]*|[^[:space:]]*)\.(exe|s(ys|cr|hm)|pif|bat|lnk|vb[es]|jse?|hta|cmd|vxd)[[:>:]]/ REJECT This message appears to contain an e

Re: [SAtalk] New virus posing as Microsoft

2003-09-19 Thread Jim
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:56:19PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > No. I'm running sendmail with spamass-milter. I don not want to do it in > procmail or postfix. I want to do it in SA. Then you either don't yet understand what SA is for, or you are a troll. --

Re: [SAtalk] New virus posing as Microsoft

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:30:27AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > So what I was asking for was a rule to add to my local.cf which would > recognize the fact that the remaining elements of the virus that're > getting through contain a MIME attachment of type Application/X-MSDOWNLOAD > and the file

Re: [SAtalk] New virus posing as Microsoft

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:03:09AM -0400, Bruce Pennypacker wrote: > also block obvious spam if the SA score is extremely high. It's a > feature of the spamass-milter for sendmail. That's fine, but that wasn't what he asked about explicitly; and he can't expect everyone to run and look up how sp

Re: [SAtalk] New virus posing as Microsoft

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:05:42AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At the risk of being snapped at, I use apamass-milter to block at a certain > spam threshhold. So, doesn't it get that score weight from SA.??? I'm > blocking a huge amount of spams with spamass-milter this way. That stops > them

Re: [SAtalk] New virus posing as Microsoft

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:23:32AM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > However, not everyone > uses Procmail. So for those who do not use an AV product and do not use > Procmail, it is certainly reasonable to try to accomplish this with SA > regardless of your configuration. Posting a request to see if

Re: [SAtalk] How to deal with the learning curve for spamassassin

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:35:45AM -0400, Don Saklad wrote: > b. If spamassassin is already on your providers' system, how does the novice user >configure things not knowing how to write dotfiles?... You might try encouraging them to set up a web interface for it. There are some nice pre-writ

Re: [SAtalk] New virus posing as Microsoft

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:37:09AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > SA does not block mail. It tags mail. Then you can do whatever you want > with that tagging. Precisely. > By using spamass-milter you have the option of rejecting the > message before reception completes. This way, the spammer kn

Re: [SAtalk] Using Procmail with SpamAssassin for redirecting spam email...

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:33:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All email that is tagged/flagged as spam, will be sent to a specific email > account on the mail server, not the mail gateway. Then, I can log in with > the specified account on the mail server, and review the email that has > bee

Re: [SAtalk] New virus posing as Microsoft

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:05:30AM -0400, Bruce Pennypacker wrote: > But the spamass-milter for sendmail DOES let you block e-mail if the SA > score is high enough. Steven may not have been entirely clear about > that, Right. And the problem is that it sounded exactly like all the other times

Re: [SAtalk] Autodeleting spam based on score without deleting all spam

2003-09-20 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:31:39PM -0700, Mike Shkolnik wrote: > Any tips on how to auto-delete spam based on score without deleting all > spam? > > Criteria: > Mark anything scoring 5 or above as Spam. (already doing that) > Delete anything scoring 15 or above FROM THE SERVER. (how?) > Spam scori

Re: [SAtalk] Autodeleting spam based on score without deleting all spam

2003-09-21 Thread Jim
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:55:48AM -0700, Mike Shkolnik wrote: > I'm on a virtual server that has SpamAssassin implemented. I have access > to the user prefs file. I'm not sure what else. I would like to stick > with SpamAssassin. I'm not looking to install a whole new system. One way you could do

Re: [SAtalk] Maintaining a list of IP numbers

2003-09-21 Thread Jim
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:48:14PM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > The sender, meaning the header From does change. However, the envelope > sender is consistent if mail is coming from the same user/machine. However, > the envelope sender may change if it is a multi-user host. The envelope sender ca

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd domain sockets implementation

2003-09-23 Thread Jim
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:45:35PM -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote: > How do I implement this? spamd --socketpath=/path/to/socket/file spamc -U /path/to/socket/file --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thi

Re: [SAtalk] 2 Things

2003-09-23 Thread Jim
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:36:59PM -0600, Daniel Kaliel wrote: > 1) How do you configure spamassassin working with postfix to limit to size > of the emails that spamassassin attempts to process? How are you calling spamassassin? Are you using spamc/spamd? If so, look at the spamc man page, espec

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes upgrade from 2.55 to 2.60?

2003-09-25 Thread Jim
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:53:36PM -0500, Genchev, Sergei wrote: > Since there have been "significant changes in BAYES" for 2.60, when I > upgrade to 2.60 from 2.55: > > - will the upgrade keep my old BAYES database (in DB_file format)? > - would I have to do any rebuilding/reindexing/whatever

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and qmail relay

2003-09-27 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:58:26AM -, Amadou Toure wrote: > I want to install spamassassin as spam filter on a qmail relay server; the users > mailbox is in another netscape messaging server. IS it possible to implement it > without .qmail files on the relay server and how to do it. I hear t

Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:37:17PM +1000, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Learned from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined). Are these messages which have already been "seen" by SpamAssassin and Bayes? Have they _already_ been learned from a previous run?

[SAtalk] taint mode

2004-01-30 Thread Jim Knuth
Hallo und guten Abend SA-List, since I updated 2.61 => 2.63 show me spamassassin -D --lint: --snip debug: running in taint mode? no --snap I think, this run in taint mode now. Why not by me? Thank you for help. -- Viele Grüße, best regards Jim Knuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Zufa

Re: [SAtalk] Postfix set-up

2002-01-16 Thread Jim Holmes
Take a look at the FILTER_README in the postfix distro. Basicly you set "content_filter" to send to spamproxy (smtp:localhost: and in master.cf add an smtp server at the return port for spamproxy and overide the content_filter rule: inet n - y - - smtpd -o

[SAtalk] detecting faked headers pretending to be from Hotmail

2002-01-18 Thread Jim Meyering
]+\] | formail -b -f -A "$trash_header ordinary hotmail invalid no-orig-ip" Is it even possible to do a test like that one from my .spamassassin.cf file? Thanks, Jim ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

[SAtalk] Error with spamproxy

2002-01-27 Thread Jim Holmes
I am getting the following from spamproxyd: Can't locate object method "new" via package "Mail::Audit" at /usr/bin/spamproxyd line 68. server started on port 10025 umm help please. Thanks -jlh ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie question... sorry

2002-02-20 Thread Jim Holmes
--On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 17:34 -0500 Greg Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have heard good things about > postfix. I haven't played much with exim but I've used postfix a lot and it's real easy to setup. -jlh ___ Spamassassin-talk m

Re: [SAtalk] BSD rc.d script and HTML spam

2002-02-27 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:15:00PM +0100, Mark wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 20:51, Mike Loiterman wrote: > Yeah, killall would kill Perl, and all instances of it. Not what you want, > really. How about this? > > kill -TERM `ps ax | grep spamd | egrep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` ps (whatever)|gr

[SAtalk] More complex customizations (MIME, etc)

2002-03-09 Thread Jim Paris
we could pass a callback procedure to check(), and have check() simply invoke our procedure with all of the gory details after determining what's up with the current mail. Still, I'd have to modify /usr/bin/spamd or just rewrite it to actually

[SAtalk] How to install SpamAssassin when not root

2002-03-10 Thread Jim Holthaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can I create a local installation of SpamAssassin when I'm not root? I use services at a site that does not give me root privs, but I want to filter my spam. The site will not install SpamAssassin. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT

Re: [SAtalk] Re: More complex customizations (MIME, etc)

2002-03-13 Thread Jim Paris
ple think of the idea? -jim ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Re: More complex customizations (MIME, etc)

2002-03-14 Thread Jim Paris
ns to be on the same > mailing list as me can send me mail. But that's just my experience. It's a bit different for me; I frequently deal with pretty clueless e-mails for various reasons, and my experience in the past is that a number of them are almost indistinguishable from spam. :)

Re: [SAtalk] Some more rule ideas

2002-03-14 Thread Jim Paris
rule. It matches any hyphenated English phrase > where both are seven or more letters long. With no spaces and on a line by itself. I can't imagine running into that too often (and, in fact, it doesn't match _any_ of the 100k e-mail

Re: [SAtalk] Re: More complex customizations (MIME, etc)

2002-03-14 Thread Jim Paris
o get that info out. Oops. I'm still probably going to add an option to spamc (and corresponding functionality to spamd), but yes, that would do the trick. -jim ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Messed emails

2002-03-14 Thread Jim Paris
Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 > tests=NO_REAL_NAME,IN_REP_TO,MAILTO_TO_REMOVE version=2.11 Were these line breaks there or did you add them when sending the message? -jim ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.source

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin on Postfix Relay

2002-03-15 Thread Jim Holmes
--On Friday, March 15, 2002 7:12 PM +0800 Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use Spamassassin on our Postfix bastion mail host to filter > all mail before it's relayed to our MAILSweeper (which then forwards to > Exchange). Jason, Take a look at spamproxyd in the spamas

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin on Postfix Relay

2002-03-15 Thread Jim Holmes
It works that way for me too. I'm not sure why. The hack that I did they showed up in the body of the message, but it was an ugly hack job. -jlh --On Friday, March 15, 2002 9:16 AM -0600 Dennis Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried this the other night, but the SPAM: reporting lines alw

Re: [SAtalk] Let battle commence

2002-03-30 Thread Jim Holmes
--On Saturday, March 30, 2002 1:55 PM -0500 Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to avoid bringing up how your country still can run a decent > election... even after 225 years. Hey, at least we were able to provide the world with so entertainment :) -jlh ___

Re: [SAtalk] Let battle commence

2002-03-30 Thread Jim Holmes
--On Saturday, March 30, 2002 3:49 PM -0600 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think they also > use that as an informal poll A poll that has been dead on every year for the 30+ years -jlh ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https:/

Re: [SAtalk] spamproxyd issue with 'spamaddr@example.com' ...

2002-04-02 Thread Jim Holmes
--On Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:21 AM -0400 "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just curious, but in 2.11, spamproxyd requires '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to > be set, or it won't run ... with it set, all messages triggered as SPAM go > to a central address, which, IMHO, is "A Bad Thing" ..

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Jim Paris
t's nothing. You said it yourself -- at 3 seconds per hashcode, a single computer can send 28,800 spams per day. That's a single spammer, with a single computer. That's still a LOT. -jim ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-21 Thread Jim Paris
at about legitimate mailing lists? And autoresponders? And..) -jim ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

[SAtalk] Redhat SPAMD Startup Script

2002-05-07 Thread Jim Scott
Setup my cobalt raq4 with redhat 6.2 and newest release of spamassassin. Everything works great. Except the startup script. It starts the application fine. However stopping it does not work. I modified it to just kill the process dead but that is not ideal. Anyone have any insight? The original s

Re: [SAtalk] Installing on a Raq; failed--compilation aborted

2002-05-07 Thread Jim Scott
where it put everything. Then decide if you want to use spamassassin.pl or spamd which is how I use it. Jim ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email

Re: [SAtalk] Installing on a Raq; failed--compilation aborted

2002-05-07 Thread Jim Scott
le it is looking for and move it to one of the locations in your path that it is looking in below. locate SpamAssassin.pm Jim - Original Message - From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk]

Re: [SAtalk] Installing on a Raq; failed--compilation aborted

2002-05-07 Thread Jim Scott
Could you forward that to me as well. Also any insight on the rc script for stopping and starting the service? Jim - Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [SAtal

[SAtalk] Viewing users whitelist

2002-05-11 Thread Jim Scott
How does one go about viewing the email addresses in the users whitelist? Is there a utility to view this? Jim ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition

[SAtalk] Reporting spam question

2002-05-12 Thread Jim Scott
nly concerned with the body content? Just trying to figure out how to do it properly and hopefully be a contributer. Does submitting these messages make a big difference? What about spam messages that are not caught by spamassassin? Should those be reported someplace else? Thanks

[SAtalk] Spam that got through

2002-05-13 Thread Jim Scott
Perhaps there would be a way to detect this message better as spam? Jim --- Begin Message --- Title: notepad.gif You are receiving this email from Blue Chip Brands. If you would prefer not to receive messages of this sort in the future, please see the unsubscribe instructions at the

[SAtalk] One detected as -67 points??

2002-05-15 Thread Jim Scott
Definately something wrong with this one. Jim --- Begin Message --- Title: Is your laser printer costing you more than you thought Is your laser printer, copier, fax, or Inkjet printer costing you more than you thought?  Perhaps we can help !!We can save you up to 70% on toner

[SAtalk] Getting Started

2002-05-21 Thread Jim Hale
eople to go in and modify their own filters? I saw the Document regarding the SQL, but want to make sure that everything works with Postfix before I start getting really involved. Thanks! Jim Hale --- Jim & Kathy's Website Collection http://h

[SAtalk] One Last Question Before I Start Installing SpamAssassin...

2002-05-21 Thread Jim Hale
es to a mailing list and snagging them before they go out? I know that it will catch the copy of the message sent to ME, but can it catch the message before it gets shipped off to 100+ people? Thanks! Jim Hale --- Jim & Kathy's Website Coll

[SAtalk] RULES File For rpm version

2002-05-21 Thread Jim Hale
I installed the i386.rpm version of Spam Assassin and thanks to the help from everybody, I got it up and running - question is, where's the rules file so that I can alter the percentages and such? Thanks! Jim Hale --- Jim & Kathy's Website Collection http://h

RE: [SAtalk] RULES File For rpm version

2002-05-22 Thread Jim Hale
Found it! Thanks! :) Jim Hale --- Jim & Kathy's Website Collection http://hale.dyndns.org > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Ron Carter > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:05 PM > To: Jim Hale > Cc

[SAtalk] White List Question

2002-05-23 Thread Jim Hale
particular messages and SA is grabbing them and throwing them into the Spam Pile. Thanks! Jim Hale --- Jim & Kathy's Website Collection http://hale.dyndns.org ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's C

[SAtalk] Options to automate updating rulebase?

2002-05-28 Thread Jim Howard
I was hoping SA had the same functionality, and maybe it does, but I haven't figured out how yet. Since the spammers are constantly changing their tactics, it seems that using the latest and greatest rules all the time would be the best way to keep them at bay

[SAtalk] Where's the Blacklist?

2002-05-31 Thread Jim Hale
I found the whitelist and have entries in there so that I can receive mail from certain places regardless of what they send, but where's the blacklist so that I can explicitly block addresses? Thanks! Jim Hale --- Jim & Kathy's Website Collection http://h

[SAtalk] Not detected as spam Fw: Does Size Really MatterWGXP

2002-06-10 Thread Jim Scott
  - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: Fw: Does Size Really MatterWGXP In a recent survey conducted by Durex condoms, 67% of women said thatthey are unhappy with the size of their lovers. Proof that size doe

[SAtalk] DCC and Razor usage

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Scott
wanted to disable one or the other? Is there a configuration file in SpamAssassin that I can use to turn on features like this? Would be nice if something could be specified even a user by user basis so some users may want to use these extra features and others not? Thanks Jim

Re: [SAtalk] DCC and Razor usage

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Scott
completly if needed. I am guessing I could move razor-check or rename it and it would probably not get invoked then? Just curious to know in case I need to in the future. Thanks for you help Theo Jim - Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[E

[SAtalk] MySQL/PHP Interface to SpamAssassin

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Scott
? Jim ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink ___ Spamass

Re: [SAtalk] SA with .forward files

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Scott
file for. Jim - Original Message - From: "Pete Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debbie Doerrlamm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SA with .forward files At 06/12/2002 06:17, D

Re: [SAtalk] A couple questions regarding spamassassin

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Scott
o work. It is built into spamassassin to call it if it is installed. Hope that helps Jim > > ___ > > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > ___ > Spamass

Re: [SAtalk] Fw: [Razor-users] Announce: Vipul's Razor v2

2002-06-13 Thread Jim Scott
Signature: 9b974aaf58f9b783c37cd88ca9c2b36dc8ed4866 debug: Server version: 1.11, protocol version 2 debug: Server response: Negative 9b974aaf58f9b783c37cd88ca9c2b36dc8ed4866 debug: Message 1 NOT found in the catalogue. Jim ___ Don'

Re: [SAtalk] Fw: [Razor-users] Announce: Vipul's Razor v2

2002-06-13 Thread Jim Scott
PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Fw: [Razor-users] Announce: Vipul's Razor v2 On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:55:07PM -0700, Jim Scott wrote: > debug: Razor is available > debug: Razor Agents 1.20, protocol version 2. As I just posted (crossed in the ether), SA is using

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