[SAtalk] Stable 2.0 vs. fixes

2002-01-24 Thread Shane Williams
stion Don Greer asked. Will the 2.0 code continue to get bug fixes with the 2.1 series focusing on enhancements, or should I follow the 2.1 code to get the latest fixes? -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mi

[SAtalk] Whitelist problem

2002-01-24 Thread Shane Williams
amAssassin 2.0 (devel $Id: SpamAssassin.pm,v 1.54 2002 /01/14 01:56:34 jmason Exp $) X-Spam-Prev-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+

[SAtalk] dallase@nmgi.com

2002-01-24 Thread Shane Williams
is a >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... line. I'm not sure if this is the new version of SA doing it, some misconfiguration on my part, or something about his setup. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http:

[SAtalk] Re: More spam phrase problems

2002-02-05 Thread Shane Williams
t rename it so it could be easily put back when the code handles short messages better? -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain

[SAtalk] Porn scoring

2002-02-07 Thread Shane Williams
strings in proximity would score slightly lower than 3 in proximity. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain three lines |

[SAtalk] Re: Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Shane Williams
know a very few individuals who use this sort of system and I've never responded to them. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms conta

[SAtalk] RE: forward alaises not working?

2002-02-27 Thread Shane Williams
gt; Using sendmail BTW > > Ugh...its just one thing after another! If the process is failing when you run newaliases, then this is a sendmail problem, not an SA problem. You might take alook at http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/lfaq.html#NONLOCAL - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at |

[SAtalk] RE: Troubling new scores in 2.1 release

2002-02-28 Thread Shane Williams
7;s spam and non-spam may be vastly different. Obviously, the more sources the corpus is drawn from the less this will be an issue, but until then the GA will be craeting scores tuned more accurately for the types of users who submit to the corpus. - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at |

[SAtalk] RE: Why am I having so many problems..spamc not working

2002-02-28 Thread Shane Williams
t;From: Craig Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > >Is procmail actually looking for its rc file in /usr/local/etc? - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+

[SAtalk] Re: LINE_OF_YELLING

2002-02-28 Thread Shane Williams
n caps because they don't > know any better? I hate to jump on the bandwagon, but since switching to 2.1, I've had three mails marked as spam, two of them falsely, and both the falses were pushed over the 5 limit by LINE_OF_YELLING alone. - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at |

[SAtalk] Re: Good thing I live in CA (or TX)

2002-03-02 Thread Shane Williams
ow if they forged headers like Jones' campaign). And, unlike Jones, Sanchez is running neck and neck with his opponent in the primaries. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+---

[SAtalk] Re: 2.11 released

2002-03-04 Thread Shane Williams
e as two-point-eleven which begs the question of where point-two through point-ten went). - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain thr

[SAtalk] EXCUSE_16

2002-03-06 Thread Shane Williams
| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain three lines | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.gslis.utexas.edu/~shanew -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

[SAtalk] Return of Pine-related formatting error

2002-03-07 Thread Shane Williams
C68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain three lines | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.gslis.utexas.edu/~s

[SAtalk] Re: false positives since upgrading to 2.11 (1/7)

2002-03-07 Thread Shane Williams
5.0, which again may allow mor real spam to slip through. - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain three lines |

[SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI

2002-03-12 Thread Shane Williams
rase goes on to contain a variety of other spammy words and phrases, where the message I got didn't. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+---

[SAtalk] Re: Continuing to help the ignorant

2002-03-13 Thread Shane Williams
t; >> > >> Perl 5.6.0 appears to be not entirely backward compatible. Perl > >> 5.005_03 has been out for a while, is reliable and good, and is > >> known to work with our software. We recommend that customers who > >> are having trouble an

[SAtalk] Re: whitelist_from not working

2002-03-18 Thread Shane Williams
ist and blacklist entries do not accept regular expression, only simple wildcards. Try *@simplex.net.au instead. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--

[SAtalk] Interesting obfuscation was: [Snort-users] Subliminal html in spam?(fwd)

2002-04-06 Thread Shane Williams
. Is anyone working on code that would properly reassemble the "main" text in such an email? - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams htt

[SAtalk] Re: Newbie white list question

2002-04-19 Thread Shane Williams
epc.com The multiple line version is easier when your whitelist gets longer, but whitelist_from *@my-cast.com *@elitepc.com will work as well. Black and white-list entries shouldn't have commas or quotes, though. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at |

[SAtalk] Re: How do I avoid this being spam?

2002-04-24 Thread Shane Williams
kes sense as well, but if this is the only person whose email causes problems, that's what the whitelist is for. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+-

[SAtalk] Re: Rules analysis

2002-05-02 Thread Shane Williams
re's a Received header in 100% of spam doesn't mean it's a good rule to filter spam on. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+-

[SAtalk] Re: Klez virus (and Snowhite), yet again

2002-05-17 Thread Shane Williams
the SirCam signature :0 B * daeLRCQEM9KJEIN8JAwAdBmLRCQEi1QkCIkQi0QkDCtEJAiLVCQEiUIEg8QUXV9eW8NTVldV $VIRUSTRAP ----- -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/|

[SAtalk] Re: Klez

2002-05-20 Thread Shane Williams
re available to you before "it gets downloaded," but I posted a procmail recipe on May 17 that is very effective against Klez. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shan

[SAtalk] Re: Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-10 Thread Shane Williams
different Spam dish (Spam a L'orange, Spam Fettucine Primavera, Spam Cheese Torte, etc.) Hormel provides a recipe index at http://www.spam.com/es.htm so we'd never run out of new version names. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at

[SAtalk] Re: reasons for these false positives

2003-08-14 Thread Shane Williams
ves, you might consider upping your required threshold. The default is 5 so cranking it down to 3 is likely to net you a good number of false positives. > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=3.2 required=3.0 -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/

[SAtalk] Re: spam assassin helps make spam

2003-08-23 Thread Shane Williams
rest of the SA community, what can we do to make SpamAssassin more understood? Perhaps something on the very first page of the website? Something else? I'm just tired of so many people I meet thinking this wonderful piece of software does things that it doesn't do. -- Public key #7BBC

[SAtalk] Re: Proposal for X-Spam-Status

2003-09-22 Thread Shane Williams
r message. > > > > --- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ___ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

[SAtalk] Re: how to tell x-Spam-Status to include scores

2003-10-14 Thread Shane Williams
n spam getting in below the > threshold. To help me track this down, I would like to add the > scores to the X-Spam-Status header. I have seen examples online in > the dev archives that show: -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams htt

[SAtalk] Re: AWL not running... Or is it?? Please help.

2003-10-18 Thread Shane Williams
e Linux Forum Conference & Expo > The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise > Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room > http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com

[SAtalk] Re: [OT] duplicate messages

2003-10-27 Thread Shane Williams
ntribution, and help us add new > features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > ___ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > -- Public key #7B

[SAtalk] Re: FAQ incomplete/inadequate

2003-03-12 Thread Shane Williams
sin. Perhaps you should consider Amavisd or Procmail Sanitizer for these uses. That said, I believe there is agreement from others that the FAQ needs updating. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| System Admin - UT iSchoo

[SAtalk] Re: --single to sa-learn not working

2003-03-03 Thread Shane Williams
Well, I did a little more searching and found bug #1578, which includes a patch. BUT, the patch didn't apply cleanly on CmdLearn.pm in 2.50. Once I made the edits by hand, it works as advertised, at least through a pipe. On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, David McNett wrote: > On 02-Mar-2003, Shane

[SAtalk] Re: SPAM rule for big@boss.com

2003-07-22 Thread Shane Williams
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > just wondering-- > > does anyone know what virus causes that one? Sobig.c, and it seems like you'd be better off putting a rule in your MTA so SA doesn't have to waste any cycles. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at|

[SAtalk] Re: [RD] 0.00 rule values? why bother?

2003-07-31 Thread Shane Williams
e this one score a 5.1. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| System Admin - UT iSchool =--+--- All syllogisms contain three lines | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore this

[SAtalk] RE: [RD] 0.00 rule values? why bother?

2003-07-31 Thread Shane Williams
ally calculated average of a sender's subsequent scores. It's more complicated than that, but that's the jist of it. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| System Admin - UT iSchool =---

[SAtalk] Re: spamassassin -r -w = mailloop?

2002-06-21 Thread Shane Williams
"|/usr/bin/spamassassin -r -w spamtrap" > > The result was an error that spamassassin dosn't work with Sendmail. - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =---

[SAtalk] SA 2.31 problems with razor and/or DNS

2002-07-02 Thread Shane Williams
? Should I just remake SA and turn off razor checking for the time being? Is anyone else running v1.xx of razor successfully right now? -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at |

[SAtalk] Re: SA 2.31 problems with razor and/or DNS

2002-07-02 Thread Shane Williams
n Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Shane Williams wrote: > I finally grabbed 2.31 (since it looked from the list like it had > settled down), and I'm having some problems. From what I can tell > it's either something wrong with Razor (I'm using v1.20) or the Dns.pm > in SpamAssassin. Ju

[SAtalk] testing system-wide filtering/question

2002-07-15 Thread Shane Williams
s normal TESTBOX=/var/log/SA-test :0c: | spamc -f >> $TESTBOX #-- - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+---

[SAtalk] Two rule suggestions

2002-07-18 Thread Shane Williams
just round it off to 0 and not have the test run at all? -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain three lines

[SAtalk] Re: "Spam Doesn't Work?" [slashdot]

2002-07-22 Thread Shane Williams
wrote: > > http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/22/1516234.shtml?tid=111 > > > Discussing the article/page at: > > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2557 > > > > /Tony > -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at|

[SAtalk] spamd skipping (small) emails

2002-07-23 Thread Shane Williams
ppens again. Any other ideas on why spamd might be skipping messages under the size limit? - -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+

[SAtalk] Re: spamd skipping (small) emails

2002-07-23 Thread Shane Williams
ever, that this failure is not logged even with the -D option to spamd. Further, it looks like spamd bails on such a failure and returns the email unchanged. Maybe something to look at for the current CVS code? On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Shane Williams wrote: > I know we've discussed spamc/sp

[SAtalk] Re: user_prefs ignored

2002-09-25 Thread Shane Williams
the user receiving the e-mail. > > And when I change my /etc/procmailrc file to use "spamassassin -P" instead > of spamc, then it works fine and uses my user_prefs file. I guess > something is strange with spamc/spamd. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at|

[SAtalk] 2.42 make problem - HTML::Parser

2002-10-05 Thread Shane Williams
ght trip some people up. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain three lines | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SAtalk] Re: 2.42 make problem - HTML::Parser

2002-10-05 Thread Shane Williams
retz wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 18:39 CET Shane Williams wrote: > > Trying to test 2.42 since I'm still at 2.31. > > > > I run perl Makefile.PL and everything looks good. > > This step should have been told you: > "Warning: prerequisite HTML::Parser

[SAtalk] Script to automate reporting?

2002-10-06 Thread Shane Williams
someone already invented this wheel? -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| =--+--- All syllogisms contain three lines | [

[SAtalk] Re: Duplicate "X-Spam-Level" (and possibly others?) Flag

2002-10-09 Thread Shane Williams
- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ___ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

[SAtalk] Re: Razor freeze, possible explaination

2002-10-12 Thread Shane Williams
mail is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ___ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at

[SAtalk] RE: Re: BIG HUGE EVIL RULE NEWS!!!!

2003-12-05 Thread Shane Williams
particularly given that if the site is removed, the spam that are already out there lose their value. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at| Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/| System Admin - UT iSchool =--+---