[SAtalk]

2003-11-17 Thread M.
Folks:   Has anybody created rule to "score" the obscuration technique that is "tunneling" through bayes? What were your results (more false positives for SPAM)?   Mark M.

[SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-18 Thread Olivier M.
Hello and thanks for spamassassin! :) I discovered your package yesterday on the vmailmgr mailing list, and I'm now using it with qmail+qmail-scanner: works great! Now a little suggestion (but maybe it's already corrected): I have messages which are travelling twice on the server, and it's then

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-18 Thread Olivier M.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:53:09PM -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:42:30PM +0100, Olivier M. wrote: > > three *SPAM* in their Subject. Shouldn't SA check if > > there is already a "X-Spam-Flag" line in the headers, and >

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-19 Thread Olivier M.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > As others have mentioned: It's hard to reliably be sure that a message > has((n't)?) been scanned before. My system might scan the message before > forwarding on to your system, for instance. > > What I'd recommend is -NOT- using th

Re: [SAtalk] false negative

2002-01-19 Thread Olivier M.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:13:05PM -0500, dman wrote: > bodyDEAR_SIR_MADAM_b/Dear Sir\/Madam:/ > describeDEAR_SIR_MADAM_bMessage contains "Dear Sir/Madam:" > score DEAR_SIR_MADAM_b2.0 Mmm, it would catch many of my "non-spam" mails... So ok, but with a score of 0.5 m

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-19 Thread Olivier M.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:44:44AM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > > couldn't hurt, don't you think? But that was just an idea :) > > You using procmail for delivery? Just include that logic there - don't > pass it through spamassassin again if that header exists. nope, using qmail-scanner, which

[SAtalk] make test fails (install Mail::Spamassassin)

2002-01-21 Thread Olivier M.
Hi, FYI, install Mail::Spamassassin (via cpan) never worked on the systems I'm using (Suse linux-7.3 based): it always finish this way: t/forged_rcvd...ok t/nonspam...ok t/re

Re: [SAtalk] how to use spamassassin with qmail+qmailscanner+sophos antivirus

2002-01-30 Thread Olivier M.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:38:12AM -0500, Chin, Nelson wrote: > I currently have a qmail+qmailscanner+sophos antivirus setup on redhat. How > do I integrate spamassassin? Their website doesn't have any docs with that > combination. it's pretty easy: use this patch for spamassassin, and start the

[SAtalk] spamc request : option -r for required score

2002-02-07 Thread Olivier M.
Hello, Would it be possible to add an option to spamc, for example -r, which would set/overwrite the required score (defaults 5.0) to make a mail defined as spam? I'd like to call spamc from a program which already know this information, and would not like to create an unix user per mailbox o

Re: [SAtalk] spamc request : option -r for required score

2002-02-07 Thread Olivier M.
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:01:30AM -0800, Craig Hughes wrote: > Probably the best way would be to use sql, or write another well, using sql is exactely the thing I'd like to avoid... :) Olivier -- _ Olivier Mueller - [EMAIL PROTECT

Fwd: [SAtalk] SA + procmail are blocking non-spam mail

2002-05-07 Thread M. Brownsworth
From the lack of response to my posting I'm guessing the list is as perplexed as I am about the problem I've described. .\\ichelle >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Michelle Brownsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [SAtalk] SA + procmail are blocking non-spam mail >Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:03:41

Fwd: [SAtalk] SA + procmail are blocking non-spam mail

2002-05-07 Thread M. Brownsworth
Is the following line from the non-spam procmail log entry a clue? procmail: Bypassed locking "/var/mail/mdb.lock" Should it be able to lock my mailbox file? And what are the implications if it can't? .\\ichelle >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Michelle Brownsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subj

Re: [SAtalk] New Announcements Mailing List

2002-05-11 Thread Olivier M.
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:01:32AM -0700, Craig R Hughes wrote: > I just created a new moderated mailing list on SourceForge for project good idea :) maybe you can add infos about this new ML on the spamassassin.org page... > announcements. I think I configured it right. Anyway, go ahead and s

[SAtalk] Preventing interception of a redelivery

2002-06-04 Thread M. Brownsworth
Suppose a recipient wanted a message that had been marked as spam by mistake, intercepted, and archived. Is there a way to deliver this specific message to the recipient, preventing it from being intercepted again? It would involve circumventing spamd's scanning this message so that it can b

Re: [SAtalk] Preventing interception of a redelivery

2002-06-04 Thread M. Brownsworth
>On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:54:55AM -0700, M. Brownsworth wrote: >> Suppose a recipient wanted a message that had been marked as spam by >> mistake, intercepted, and archived. Is there a way to deliver this >> specific message to the recipient, preventing it from being

Re: [SAtalk] Preventing interception of a redelivery

2002-06-04 Thread M. Brownsworth
>Michelle -- > >...and then M. Brownsworth said... >% >% Suppose a recipient wanted a message that had been marked as spam by >% mistake, intercepted, and archived. Is there a way to deliver this >% specific message to the recipient, preventing it from being > >Al

Re: [SAtalk] Preventing interception of a redelivery

2002-06-04 Thread M. Brownsworth
David T-G spaketh: >% Some good info and suggestions in your reply. What do you think of > >Happy to help! > >% this brute-force approach? > >Hrmmm... > >% $cf = '/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf'; >% system("cp -p $cf ${cf}.tmp"); # Preserve original >% open(CF, ">>$cf") || die "Can't open $cf

Re: [SAtalk] Preventing interception of a redelivery

2002-06-04 Thread M. Brownsworth
>On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, M. Brownsworth wrote: > >> Suppose a recipient wanted a message that had been marked as spam by >> mistake, intercepted, and archived. Is there a way to deliver this >> specific message to the recipient, preventing it from being >> int

[SAtalk] Errorcode 74 from spamassassin?

2003-10-07 Thread Andrew M
When spamassissin gets invoked by procmail, I get the following in the procmail log file: . . procmail: Locking "/home/footoo/spamassassin.lock" procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/local/perl/bin/spamassassin" procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data failed procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data faile

[SAtalk] AWL not being generated

2003-10-09 Thread Andrew M
All the documentation for version 2.60 says that autowhitelist is turned on by default and that by default the autowhitelist is stored in each users config directory (e.g. ~/.spamassassin/autowhitelist) When I installed spamassissin, it installed with no problem and is doing a great job of filt

[SAtalk] auto_learn without "sa-learn"-feeding ?

2003-06-13 Thread M . Muenz
Title: auto_learn without "sa-learn"-feeding ? Dear List, I'm new to Spamassassin and it's great. But I've got a little understanding problem, where the doc's and FAQ doesn't help. I want to implement Spamassassin with Bayes on a Postfix machine with amavisd-new. Since it's only a Gat

[SAtalk] Need some help with per user settings

2003-06-13 Thread Karthik M
Hi everyone, I am a newbie to spamassassin but managed to install it and am successfully running it right now. At my work place we have multiple servers on which we would like to install spamassassin to filter out SPAM. We do not have a centralised mail server where filtering is done. Right now i

Re: [SAtalk] Need some help with per user settings

2003-06-13 Thread Karthik M
y not to get rid of the headers for the specific user ? TIA karthik --- "Christopher M. Iarocci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am a newbie to spamassassin but managed to > install > > it and am successfully runni

AW: [SAtalk] auto_learn without "sa-learn"-feeding ?

2003-06-13 Thread M . Muenz
>It is completely automatic, you may want to change the threshholds, spam is ok but >you dont get much ham by default. >An easier way to seed the bayes is to whitelist some of your clients. sounds good ... and where is all information stored ? in "bayes_path" ? when i don't use the sa-learn comm

[SAtalk] auto_learn with manual blacklist ?

2003-06-18 Thread M . Muenz
Hi ML, I always read about AWL and auto_learn. But will SA auto_learn from the manual blacklist settings in local.cf ? THX - Michael --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hostin

[SAtalk] bayes_path & bayes_file_mode with SA + sql mode enabled ?

2003-07-03 Thread Olivier M.
'bonjour, I'm using SA with a mysql database for a few months, and I wanted to test the bayes system. Unfortunately, the spamd is reporting that: Jul 3 01:24:30 omega spamd[21676]: debug: retrieving prefs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from SQL server Jul 3 01:24:30 omega spamd[21676]: debug: Failed

[SAtalk] bayes_path & bayes_file_mode with SA + sql mode enabled ?

2003-07-13 Thread Olivier M.
hello, I'm using SA with a mysql database for a few months, and I wanted to test the bayes system. Unfortunately, the spamd is reporting that: Jul 3 01:24:30 omega spamd[21676]: debug: retrieving prefs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from SQL server Jul 3 01:24:30 omega spamd[21676]: debug: Failed to

Re: [SAdev] Re: [SAtalk] bayes_path & bayes_file_mode with SA + sql mode enabled ?

2003-07-13 Thread Olivier M.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:37:38PM -0400, Greg Cirino wrote: > bayes is only system wide when using a database you mean it would be possible already now, if I use a DB instead of the bayes_ files ? Sounds good, would also be fine... I'll have a look and try to find some more docs about that, th

[SAtalk] Debugging switch

2002-06-20 Thread M. Brownsworth
If spamd is started with the -D switch, i.e.: /usr/bin/spamd -d -D -F 1 ...where will the debugging info be written -- to the syslog, console, message headers, or a file somewhere? .\\ichelle - Michelle Brownsworth System Administrator PrimeLogic Corporation http://www.p

[SAtalk] spamd ignoring local.cf

2002-06-20 Thread M. Brownsworth
I'm running spamd 2.20 as root on a FreeBSD 4.5 server, with system-wide filtering. It seems to be disregarding anything in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. Yesterday, I added my address as "all_spam_to [EMAIL PROTECTED]," but spamd/procmail then subsequently filtered and intercepted numerou

Re: [SAtalk] spamd woes (was: spamd ignoring local.cf)

2002-06-23 Thread M. Brownsworth
Theo Van Dinter writes: >HUPping spamd won't do anything for you, you have to fully stop/start it. >In fact, sending it a HUP causes it to die because there's no handler >for it. That's too bad. It would be useful to be able to force spamd to reread its configuration file without having to k

Re: [SAtalk] spamd woes (was: spamd ignoring local.cf)

2002-06-26 Thread M. Brownsworth
> > Has the possibility of >> using the envelope headers instead been suggested to Craig Hughes? > >Not all mail system tells you what is the enveloppe. Unless your mail >system has a way to include the enveloppe inside the message headers, >then SA will not know about it. > >But if your goal is

Re: [SAtalk] make test fails with SA v2.31

2002-07-04 Thread Olivier M.
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:25:49PM +0300, Marko Asplund wrote: > i'm trying to install SpamAssasin v2.31 on a Red Hat 6.2 machine. make > succeeds but make test fails with lots of error messages saying: > t/db_based_whitelist.Can't locate Pod/Usage.pm in @INC > any ideas on what's going wrong? i u

[SAtalk] Distribute the load

2002-11-20 Thread Mark M
  Is there a way to round robin, using spamc/spamd   to have it use more then 1 spamd server

[SAtalk] whitelist entries in local.cf being ignored

2003-01-10 Thread M. Brownsworth
Folks, I have an odd one to report. I've been using SpamAssassin 2.20 (running as spamd) for months now without a problem. Last week, I added a few whitelist_to and whitelist_from entries to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, in this format: whitelist_to *@todomain.com Spamassassin seems to b

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist entries in local.cf being ignored

2003-01-10 Thread M. Brownsworth
Theo Van Dinter says: On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:41:43PM -0800, M. Brownsworth wrote: > Note that it does report "USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO," but it still doesn't add -100 to keep the score below the 5.0 threshold. Experimenting, I Of course not, the score for USER_IN_WHITELI

[SAtalk] Fwd: whitelist entries in local.cf being ignored

2003-01-11 Thread M. Brownsworth
Turns out "all_spam_to" was my friend. I'd still like to know why "whitelist_to" had absolutely no effect whatsoever. .\\ichelle Folks, I have an odd one to report. I've been using SpamAssassin 2.20 (running as spamd) for months now without a problem. Last week, I added a few whitelist_to

[SAtalk] spamc & custom white/black lists ?

2003-01-11 Thread Olivier M.
Hello, I'd like to use spamc with mail users administred by vmailmgr: only one unix user for a whole domain. Problem: I need separate white/blacklists for each mail account: how could this be solved ? Maybe using an sql backend and more parameters ? Thanks for any hint :) Olivier --

[SAtalk] spamassassin + vmailmgr (serverwide) ?

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier M.
Good morning, I see there is good vpopmail support in spamassassin, and would need something similar for vmailmgr (qmail addon like vpopmail): is there already somebody working on this "case", or some code available ? Found nothing searching with google, but maybe there is devel in progress somew

[SAtalk] spamc -c -> more output?

2003-01-12 Thread Olivier M.
Now with spamc -c, only 2 int are returned. What about returning the whole details, like: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=14.4 required=5.0 tests=CLICK_BELOW,DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12,EXCUSE_3,EXCUSE_FUTURE, FROM_AND_TO_SAME_5,HTTP_USERNAME_USED, INVALID_DATE_TZ_ABSUR

Re: [SAtalk] responder

2003-01-15 Thread Olivier M.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:10:15PM -0500, David Gladstone wrote: > i am a user of spamassassin and would like to have spamassassin send a > response to the spammer and the recivere of the spam when it recives spam. and to which address would you send the response ? The reply-to and from: addresse

[SAtalk] Ignore_user setting ?

2003-11-06 Thread Paul M
We have spam assassin running, some users didnt get spam before hand and I wanted to know if there is a ignore_usr option to completely ignore specified email addresses? Thanks

[SAtalk] regarding spamassassin configuration

2003-12-12 Thread Hanumantharaju M
/mail/mbox so that i can process. thanks and regards M H Raju --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything fro

Re: [SAtalk] Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets

2004-01-18 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
I ussuaky will download the file to another file name in the SA config directory, than cat them all together and run lint on them *just in case*. If lint fails I do not switch to the new file. Steve Chris Petersen wrote: MAN, that's a lot of code for such a simple task. mine is just: #!/bin

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin checks on Received headers (and RBL's such as RCVD_IN_SORBS)

2004-01-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
en if trusting the IP of the relaying server works I'd still have to track all of them down - yes? Or am I missing something? m/ Please don't top post. No, you're not missing anything. This is a known bug in SA 2.6X. People saying to add your IP to trusted_networks are not

[SAtalk] SA with locale-enabled tests

2004-01-21 Thread Eugene M. Zheganin
Hi. I started using SA a year ago. I use it in a site-wide confuguration- spamd + milter + sendmail. Now I noticed that the amount of spam written in russian increased, and from this time I need to filter it. Since 90% of the mail on my relay is in russian (cp1251/koi8-r) I can't simply say in

[SAtalk] Help with spamd/spamc and "failed sanity check"?

2004-01-27 Thread Chris M. Miller
Good morning, I have just upgraded my mail server from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9, and am using spamd/spamc v2.63 with default compile (only PREFIX=/usr/local). spamd is set to communicate over a socket, /var/run/spamd.socket. Since my upgrade this morning, ALL mail sent to spamd from spamc re

[SAtalk] Re: spamproxyd with postfix ... not actually processing ...

2002-02-20 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
Hello, The setup I used was for spamassassin was easier to setup but will not scale for more than a medium sized business: in /etc/postfix/aliases setup the email like so: user: "| /usr/bin/spamassassin -P -F1 >/path/to/local/mailbox" user1: "| /usr/bin/spamassassin -P -F0 | /usr/sbin/sendmail

[SAtalk] I am so happy, I could kiss you...

2002-04-03 Thread Dannie M. Stanley
oohoo! I would be happy to send gifts (money gift certificates, pizza, etc) to the primary people responsible for this product, just give me addresses. Thanks! Dannie -- Dannie M Stanley SpinWeb Net Designs, Inc. http://www.spinweb.net "If you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite

[SAtalk] finding where the mail is

2002-05-07 Thread Brian M Dial
Hello, I'm installing spamassassin and am having a little problem with the final installation. The testing of the sample spam and non-spam files included in the distribution went fine. However, I am trying to implement it on a test account first to see if it works. The lines I put in my pr

[SAtalk] /root/.spamassassin

2002-05-22 Thread Stanier, Alan M
I am trying to run SpamAssassin with MailScanner and Exim, which must be a common scenario When I start it up, I get the error message mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 614 This is presumably because MailScanner is set to run

[SAtalk] Exim 4.22 and SA 2.55

2003-08-19 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Anybody have Exim and SA running as a SPAM filtering/blocking gateway that would want to share their configs with me, and knowledge for that matter? I'm a qmail person myself, but this latest server I'm building requires blocking of email, not just filtering, and I was advised that EXIM was the rig

Re: [SAtalk] Exim 4.22 and SA 2.55

2003-08-19 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Will Postfix block email at the SMTP level if the email reaches a score I specify, or at least block it from being delivered to the POP server that sits behind it? Chris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.507 / Viru

Re: [SAtalk] Exim 4.22 and SA 2.55

2003-08-19 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Chris, Will Postfix block email at the SMTP level if the email reaches a score I specify, or at least block it from being delivered to the POP server that sits behind it? Chris - Original Message - From: "Covington, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christophe

[SAtalk] "This mail is probably spam." (-105 points)

2003-08-20 Thread Richard M. Myers
think that it would only attach the above text only if it was likely that the email was spam. Thanks for listening, Dick -- Richard M. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice

Re: [SAtalk] Exim 4.22 and SA 2.55

2003-08-20 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> >>this latest server I'm building > >>requires blocking of email, not just filtering > > > >I used [1] for exim3 but there is also a help for exim4 [2]. > > > >[1] http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html > >[2] http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim4_spamassassin.htm

RE: [SAtalk] help with spam report

2003-08-22 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I use expire_mail.pl I sort spam into users spam folders so they don't have to download via pop They can access with a web interface (or imap) to see the spam folder and then every week I run a cron job to expire mail from every users spam folders It gives a summary of what was erased, showing t

RE: [SAtalk] osirusoft gone mad?

2003-09-03 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
> > Martin Radford schrieb: > [...] > >>4) I am new to spamassassin. What parameter should I use in my > >>configuration to cause spamassassin to stop using osirusoft open relay? > > > > See the news article at http://news.spamassassin.org/ > > The instructions given there can't work, IMHO, be

RE: [SAtalk] spamd performance

2003-09-15 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
> > If performance is an issue, how about an option like... > > > > HIT_AND_RUN 1 > > > > ...that would cause spamd to stop processing once your threshhold had > > been met? IOW why keep scanning text once the message has been > > identified as spam? I'm sure that I'm missing something here but I'

[SAtalk] HTML has images with 600-800 bytes of words

2003-09-22 Thread Tory M Blue
First post, tried to find the answer I had a rich text document come thru and was flagged with "HTML has images with 600-800 bytes of words" The document had no images. What is being picked up? Thanks Tory <|[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This

[SAtalk] Timelog in 2.60 or lack thereof

2003-09-24 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I tried to check time timelog to look at performance and check hit rates for dcc, pyzor, razor, etc. Only to find it has disappeared on me since I last used it. It is still in the man page though And the config options page was broken at SA.org debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin confi

[SAtalk] Bayesian auto-learning? (and a test idea)

2003-09-25 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
test ideas: Presently the uppercase and HTML-tag percentage of a message is checked, but has anyone tried a rule to detect the HTML comment percentage? And how about an HTML_FONT_COLOR_WHITE? I've seen a lot of spams hiding non-spammy words in a block. Please be so kind as to Cc me on any r

[SAtalk] Procmail/Spamc Problem

2003-09-25 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I know this is probably more of a procmail issue but I'll ask anyway as it involves Spamassassin. This is how I call it from my main server for system wide use DROPPRIVS=yes :0 * ! ? test -f $HOME/.sabypass { :0fw * < 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc -f -U /var/spool/spamassassin/spamd.sock :0: * ^X-S

[SAtalk] Ignoring first hop in RBL lookups

2003-10-02 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
need to use the "eval:check_rbl_txt" option instead for this particular RBL? I'm a little confused, any help would be appreciated, thanks. Christopher M. Iarocci --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.5

Re: [SAtalk] Ignoring first hop in RBL lookups

2003-10-03 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> At 12:42 AM 10/3/03 -0400, Christopher M. Iarocci wrote: > >Hi, I'm using SpamAssassin 2.60 being called through Amavisd-new. Dynablock > >(along with a few others) is scoring on lots of messages that it shouldn't > >because the first hop is a dial up. I put t

[SAtalk] Does it Work?

2003-10-04 Thread David M. Carney
Hello all. I just installed spamassassin. I used the sample ~/.procmailrc file. I see the lines spamassassin adds to each received email header. Si I thought I'd give it a little test and turn off the spam filters on one of the pop3 servers I use to get my email. This server usually gets a medio

[SAtalk] Forgot the script

2003-10-04 Thread David M. Carney
Ooops. I got interrupted and forgot the script in my last post. Here it is: # SpamAssassin sample procmailrc # # Pipe the mail through spamassassin (replace 'spamassassin' with 'spamc' # if you use the spamc/spamd combination) # # The condition line ensures that only messages smaller than 250 kB #

[SAtalk] sa-learn

2003-10-05 Thread David M. Carney
Hello all. I'm a real spamassassin newbie. I'm using spamassassin version 2.60. My mail is stored in /var/mail/david. I recently received three non-spams. So I thought I give sa-learn a tryout. This is what I did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sa-learn --ham --mbox /var/mail/david Learned from 0 message

[SAtalk] 50% Spam Reduction Rate

2003-10-06 Thread David M. Carney
I've only had spamassassin installed and operating for about 2 days. I don't normally get a lot of spam, but it only seems to be stopping about half of all the spams that hit my mailbox. My ~/.procmailrc file is pretty much the sample that comes with the docs. I am doing sa-learn on all the spam

[SAtalk] Good for 50%??

2003-10-06 Thread David M. Carney
I installed Spamassassin version 2.60 a few days ago. I don't get a lot of spam, but I do get some. So far, Spamassassin has only caught half the spam hitting my mailbox. I have saved the spam that has gotten through and did a "sa-learn --spam " on the saved spam. Is 50% normal, or is there somet

[SAtalk] Re: [Razor-users] Problem with Spamassassin using Razor (razor-check and razor-report)

2003-10-06 Thread Aurangzeb M. Agha
Hi Scott -- When going through the SpamAssassin installation instructions here: http://au.spamassassin.org/full/2.6x/dist/INSTALL Are you absolutely sure you installed all the necessary CPAN packages mentioned? AMA On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Scott Kennedy wrote: :For some reason razo

Re: [SAtalk] Good for 50%??

2003-10-07 Thread David M. Carney
el Quinlan wrote: > David M. Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I installed Spamassassin version 2.60 a few days ago. I don't get a lot of > > spam, but I do get some. > > > > So far, Spamassassin has only caught half the spam hitting my mailbox. I

[SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-17 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
On 2003-10-16, Brian Sneddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you check the rule itself in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf you'll notice the > -notfirsthop part of the argument to check_rbl_txt(). This tells > SpamAssassin to check all hops except the first one for this match. As a I wasn't even aware that thi

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-18 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
> At 03:10 PM 10/16/2003, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: > >I wasn't even aware that this notfirsthop argument existed; as far as > >I can tell in a few minutes of testing, the argument has no effect. > >I've had to disable all dynamic-IP RBLs because of this proble

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> On 2003-10-16, Brian Sneddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you check the rule itself in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf you'll notice the > > -notfirsthop part of the argument to check_rbl_txt(). This tells > > SpamAssassin to check all hops except the first one for this match. As a > > I wasn't even

[SAtalk] Re: Swap Space

2003-10-18 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
> Yes, the situation I'm talking about is lots of spamd processes running at > once using lots of memory. (Not to mention the local delivery processes > running at the same time as well) > > Spamd using 800MB of ram is a bug, and one which I've never encountered > yet in months of using spamd, so i

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
>> I wasn't even aware that this notfirsthop argument existed; as far as I can >> tell in a few minutes of testing, the argument has no effect. >> I've had to disable all dynamic-IP RBLs because of this problem... > Out of curiosity, what method do you use to feed your email into > SpamAssassin? D

[SAtalk] child spamds sitting around forever

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
(Running 2.60) I'm having a problem where sometimes I end up with dozens of spamds taking 100% CPU, driving my load average up to 50 or so. Anyone else see this? -- Daniel Drucker / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enter

[SAtalk] Re: Swap Space

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
> Have you tried starting spamd with the "-m" flag to limit > the number of copies? Yes, I have -m 10. It doesn't seem to have any effect. > How much RAM are you using? Unfortunately, I wasn't keeping track. Now I am: http://3e.org/perf/ I'm hoping this'

[SAtalk] Bayesian autolearning not following thresholds

2003-10-25 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
to occasionally intervene (something as simple as a hot-key in their MUA) to move and relearn anything SA got wrong. Any info on the behavior I'm seeing would be appreciated. -- Jeremy M. Dolan <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jmd.us/> PGP: 1024D/3C

[SAtalk] File of mail for sa-learn

2003-10-30 Thread Stanier, Alan M
Title: Message What is the format of the files of ham/spam fed to sa-learn? Can I use Outlook .pst files?   Thanks   Alan Stanier Essex University Computing Service  

[SAtalk] false positive for MS Remote Assisstance invites

2003-11-01 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
Microsoft Windows XP's "Remote Assistance" invitations trigger a false positive for me. Relevant headers: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: YOU HAVE RECEIVED A REMOTE ASSISTANCE INVITATION FROM: Nikki MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_NextPart_000_000

[SAtalk] Feature request

2003-02-19 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I would like to request a feature in the next development cycle, that feature being support for multi-hosting in SQL prefs, ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are different users and need different prefs. thanks --- This SF.net email

RE: [SAtalk] Virtual Users for SQL Prefs

2003-03-04 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
there is a php interface for sql prefs the devel directory has an older version i have tried to contact the author to get the official dl site dont know what it is I have a copy of 0.6.2 which he emailed me at one time.. let me know if you want it... ill email it to you. > -Original Mess

Re: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-27 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
- Original Message - From: "Mike Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:54 PM Subject: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin > Why not let > us have control of what happens at the PC level as opposed to the > network level? Probably because you'd co

RE: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-27 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
>Because of you I am changing ISP's. There is no such thing as a >whitelist that works. Even if I receive valid mail and you have >targeted it as spam I cannot read it because you control freaks have >altered the e-mail. Anyone else having similar problems? Why not let >us have control of what happ

Re: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-27 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:49:55PM -0500, Ben M. VanWagner wrote: > > What amazes me is that everytime some idiot does this.. everyone agrees > > that the information in the email needs to be changed and then it never is. > > Here's an idea. What about changing th

RE: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-29 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
Stop smoking Crack :-), I was being figurative. I don't literally mean that everyone should send an apology email to every moron in this world. Obviously that would take to long. A simple change once and for all to the SA report that places the blame on the ISP and does not refer them to SA w

[SAtalk] Sitewide minus whiners

2003-05-29 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
For those people wanting to implement side wide SA but allow elective removal in an ISP situation you can make a very very simple change to your /etc/procmailrc :0 * ! ? test -f $HOME/.sabypass { :0fw * < 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc -f } then to bypass a user from SA just touch /home/bubba/.saby

Re: [SAtalk] Need some help with per user settings

2003-06-13 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> Hi everyone, > > I am a newbie to spamassassin but managed to install > it and am successfully running it right now. At my > work place we have multiple servers on which we would > like to install spamassassin to filter out SPAM. We do > not have a centralised mail server where filtering is >

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> Jack, > > based on what you wrote, I added a "-m 2" option to my call of spamd, to > limit the number of children to 2. > This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was > "unlimited". If that's wrong, could one of the devel

[SAtalk] Bayes learning error

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
I'm running a Mandrake 9.0 machine, with qmail (as installed by LWQ.org) and SA 2.55 site wide, using Bayes with auto learning enabled. The server is just a gateway server, which then routes it's filtered email (Thank you VERY much SpamAssassin!) to a POP server sitting behind it. The server behi

Re: [SAtalk] Spam profiting from auto_whitelist -- how to avoid?

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> I've been using Bayes and auto whitelisting for several weeks > only, but on a site wide basis (i.e. spamc/spamd triggered from > procmail from sendmail). > > I've been very happy with the bayes learner, but today got a > pretty bad spam into one of the mailing lists I manage, here are > some

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes + Autolearn Question

2003-06-21 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> I need help figuring something out. > > I'm managing email on a server in an inhouse, company > environment. Many users on system, but all are using the > system for company business, so basically we will have very > similar spam vs. ham issues. > > I was frustrated because the autolearn Bayes

[SAtalk] Bayes Learning Error

2003-06-21 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
I'm running a Mandrake 9.0 machine, with qmail (as installed by LWQ.org) and SA 2.55 site wide, using Bayes with auto learning enabled. The server is just a gateway server, which then routes it's filtered email (Thank you VERY much SpamAssassin!) to a POP server sitting behind it. The server behi

Re: [SAtalk] Blocking a Domain

2003-06-21 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> Hi, > I am using the sam module in Horde/IMP CVS version for spamassasin > to work with the webinterface. > > It works great > > I just wanted to ask , can I blacklist an entire domain for a particular > user in his spam settings (Web iterface) > blacklist_f

RE: [SAtalk] OT- "greylisting" - opinions from the SA community?

2003-06-23 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
> > > This method proposes to delay EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE until a > database match > > is found for sending IP, FROM, and TO. > > > > So...we punish everyone in the world, and hope that a delay > of one or more > > hours is considered "acceptable"? > > I have to agree. I know for a fact tha

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin server

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> > In my work, we have a lot of mail servers. My idea is put a spamassassin > server where any mail server in my domain can connect to the server to > analize spams. > > It is posible?? > > Bye! Yes. Chris --- This SF.Net email is spon

[SAtalk] Why was this marked as SPAM?

2003-06-27 Thread Stanier, Alan M
I sent myself a number of  innocuous test messages, each containing just the text   1 2 3 4 5 7 8   Ones from my hotmail account were marked as SPAM.  The full header set of one such is below.     Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0Received: from serlinux14.essex.ac.uk ([155.245.48

[SAtalk] Reloading SpamAssassin's Preferences?

2003-06-30 Thread Daniel M. Zimmerman
Perl 5.6.1, it varies a bit by platform and Perl version) every time I try to get rid of the old Mail::SpamAssassin and create a new one. Anybody have any suggestions? -Dan -- Daniel M. Zimmerman

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