[SAtalk] help installing spamassasins

2003-06-06 Thread Simon
Hi,   I can't install spam assassins.   i have perl v5.8.0 and redhat 9   i got this error: ~~~ ./configuremake: ./configure: Command not foundmake: *** [binaries.mk] Error 127~~~     What should I do?   Thanks    

Re: [SAtalk] help installing spamassasins

2003-06-06 Thread Simon
> Don't call ./configure.. read the INSTALL file which will tell you to: > > 1)perl Makefile.PL > 2)make > 3)make install > > Note there's no ./configure in there :) I did that. I got this error when i tried to do the "make" command ~~ Makefile:92: *** missing separator. S

[SAtalk] Problem installing Spamm assasins

2003-06-05 Thread Simon
I tried to install SA but get this error: -- Makefile:92: *** missing separator.  Stop.   when i tried to type this command before i type perl Makefile.PL "export LANG=en_US"   i get this error: -- ./configuremake: ./configure: Command not foundmake: *** [binaries.mk] Error 127--   Any Idea

[SAtalk] Can't locate Crypt/OpenSSL/DSA.pm

2003-06-12 Thread Simon
HI,   Is there a way I can tell SA not to use OPENSSL?   I get this error when I test SA.   Apparently its in DNS/RR/SIG.pm line 12   thanks

[SAtalk] Razor server timeout problems ?

2004-01-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
uldn't see anything about it over on the razor homepage or mailing list archives Regards, Simon --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of E

Re: [SAtalk] Razor server timeout problems ?

2004-01-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 04:33 29/01/2004, Matt Kettler wrote: At 02:00 AM 1/28/2004, Simon Byrnand wrote: Has anyone else noticed frequent timeouts with Razor2 ? I disabled it Friday due to timeouts. Ah... Yes I just disabled it myself last night after about half an hour of debugging to make sure it wasn't a sof

[SAtalk] spamd dying on syslog restart

2002-03-28 Thread Lindsey Simon
I'm running a base debian stable box and just installed the spamassassin yesterday via source. for some reason when I perform an /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart on the box the spamd process dies about 30 seconds later. Is that normal? I've tried running the daemon in the foreground, watching the proc

[SAtalk] spamd Process out of memory / Spam Bomb

2002-04-17 Thread Lindsey Simon
Our mail server machine (i586 debian gnu/linux 128 MB RAM) crashed the other day. Looking over the logs it appears we were spambombed.. 12AM 4/15/02 - 12AM 4/16/02 - 7126 Messages received (about average) 12AM 4/16/02 - 9AM 4/16/02 - 28,084 Messages received in a console before a slow-taking re

[SAtalk] German translation in 2.20

2002-04-23 Thread Simon Brenzinger
Hi there, how can I activate/setup the german translation with comes with the new 2.20 release? It seems that the translation is only covered by the CVS ... Regards, Simon ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

[SAtalk] how to use localisations?

2002-05-07 Thread Simon Brenzinger
hi there! how can i use localised config files? i've put them in the config dir but they won't be read by SA. do i have to set a locale?? thanks advance. regards, simon ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking fo

[SAtalk] Lots of stuff gets tagged as positive, regardless of score!

2002-05-15 Thread Simon Detheridge
t;this mail is probably spam" even though it scored -2.8!! Er, anyone have any ideas? Simon -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ Have big pipe

[SAtalk] RBL+ rules.

2002-05-15 Thread Simon Lyall
S_DUL Received via RBLed relay, see http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/ header X_RBL_RSS_DULeval:check_rbl_results_for('rblplus', '127.0.0.7') describe X_RBL_RSS_DUL Received via RBLed relay, see http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/ score RCVD_IN_RBL_PLUS 0.01 score X_RBL 4 sco

Re: [SAtalk] about how scoring works

2002-05-29 Thread Simon Lyall
contains bad words testDOMAIN_BADWORD ok [EMAIL PROTECTED] maybe? Someone want to throw it at the GA? -- Simon Lyall.| Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ihug, Auckland, NZ | A

Re: [SAtalk] Wish list? dynamic required_hits

2002-05-30 Thread Simon Lyall
t's own header which is easy to parse. We then have a backend program on the final delivery stage that looks at the header, does a LDAP query for the users spam threshold and then puts the email whereever. -- Simon Lyall.| Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Net

Re: [SAtalk] Average Spam Size?

2002-06-06 Thread Simon Lyall
sent from blackholed (RBL etc) sites. -- Simon Lyall.| Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz

[SAtalk] corrupt emails to list?

2002-06-10 Thread Simon Lyall
> Subject: Re: [SAtalk] C version Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:34:54 +0200 -- Simon Lyall.| Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www

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

2002-06-14 Thread Simon Lyall
intending to install a local razor server without connecting it to the main razor network. -- Simon Lyall.| Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkme

Re: [SAtalk] country code blacklists

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Byrnand
ssin is here to help avoid. Each message should be judged on its own merits, and shouldn't be rejected simply because the *first* octet of the ip address is the samegeeze... Of course, you'll only receive my reply through the list and not directly, since you're already blocking m

[SAtalk] Nigerian type spam that only got 0.9 :(

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Byrnand
Hi Everyone, I don't normally forward spams onto the list, but this particular one caught my attention because it only scored 0.9, and I have *ALL* network tests on (RBL, Razor, DCC, Pyzor) as well as Bayes :-( Regards, Simon Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from

Re: [SAtalk] spam filtering friendly fire

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 22:43 11/08/2003 -0400, Ryan Bingham wrote: Oh the Irony! Oh bugger... you beat me to it :) (word for word) Regards, Simon - Original Message - From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: [

Re: [SAtalk] Razor+Spamd problem

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Byrnand
user for testing. :-( Hi, Add -H to the end of your spamd options linealso, if you use -u on the spamd options line, make sure the user it switches to has a valid home directory. Regards, Simon --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Simon Byrnand
positives, and there was talk of taking the test out altogether, so from the point of view of SpamAssassin using SPEWS, I think its pretty much case closed. Arguing about whether SPEWS are doing the right thing or not in general should be taken to private email or to some other list/group w

Re: [SAtalk] FORGED_MUA_OIMO: Why me?

2003-08-15 Thread Simon Byrnand
e included into 2.60 :-( Also broken is MSGID_OE_SPAM_4ZERO which triggers on netfolders updates.. Regards, Simon --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available

Re: [SAtalk] FORGED_MUA_OIMO: Why me?

2003-08-16 Thread Simon Byrnand
> At Fri Aug 15 22:36:30 2003, Simon Byrnand wrote: > >> Exactly what version of Outlook or Outlook Express are you using ? >> >> As far as I can see the FORGED_MUA_OIMO rule is significantly broken and >> falsely detects recent versions of Outlook/Outlook Express as

Re: [SAtalk] FORGED_MUA_OIMO: Why me?

2003-08-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
age-ids? You suddenly get significant problems with spammers forging X-Mailer headers again (a la 2.5[0123]). We'll have to see what happens Well I don't think we can dictate subtle behavioural requirements to people like Microsoft, we just basically have to go with whatever they do

Re: [SAtalk] `HTML::Parser' not found.

2003-08-19 Thread Simon Byrnand
shell install HTML::Parser quit It will either say its already up to date, or it will get and install the latest version for you. Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs

Re: [SAtalk] someone fake my from address

2003-08-20 Thread Simon Byrnand
any case, the practice of spammers using your email address as the from address in their spam to make it look like you're sending spam is commonly referred to as a "joe job" and there is nothing much you can do about it. Regards, Simon -

Re: [SAtalk] DNS check doesn't work

2003-08-20 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 17:20 19/08/2003 -0400, Fred I-IS.COM wrote: Wow, that was a 5 hour delay from when I sent that message. Only 5 hours ? Thats pretty good for this list, sometimes I don't see my own posts the same day :) (And no, I'm only slightly exagerating..) Rega

RE: [SAtalk] Configure to delete messages

2003-08-21 Thread Simon Byrnand
more advanced features. (All a neophyte has to do is enable the quarantine option) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linu

Re: **SPAM RATING 12.50** [SAtalk] I've got a couple more I want to go after

2003-08-22 Thread Simon Byrnand
don't see whats special about those particular spams over and above the millions of others that are circulating around Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a singl

[SAtalk] Rewrite Subject in FreeBSD & Clam AV Installation

2003-08-22 Thread Simon Rycroft
Hi, The tech support team who look ofter my dedicated machine have just installed SpamAssassin and Clam AV, which seems to be working extremely well. There's just one thing that has me a bit stumped... According to the SpamAssassin docs any mail tagged as spam should have the subject rewritten

Re: [SAtalk] SA and razor not playing nice

2003-08-22 Thread Simon Byrnand
esn't call the razor binaries, it directly loads the Razor perl modules... Regards, Simon > > On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 08:02 PM, Dale LaFountain wrote: > >>> On 05.06.2003 16:48 Uhr, Chris Balay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> AARGHH! I am

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc 1 released

2003-08-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
ozled by a Precedence header, then maybe you need to look at why and fix it. (It should have no effect either positive or negative on spam filtering.) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run m

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
.. (which I suspect doesn't get as much testing as report_safe 1 :) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 10:38:35PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> Ok, I'll probably get thumped by someone for not RTFM but I'm just >> trying >> out 2.60-rc2 on a test machine, and for whatever reason it is not adding >> the X-Spam-Report header on message

[SAtalk] This mailing list triggering CLICK_BELOW and FREE_TRIAL

2003-08-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
se of this ? Just curious... Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time.

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:26:49AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> But the report doesn't look anything like the old full reports... (which >> I > > As I said, no more full reports in the header. :( > >> You suggested using _REPORT_ (which I will try instea

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
n=2.60-rc2 Mucked up by email client wrapping of course - but anyhow the first \n actually did give a new line in the header, but the following ones are just showing up in the report. I tried putting spaces around them but it didn't help, so it seems to simply not process any \n'

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:24:03AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> Well I tried both _REPORT_ and _SUMMARY_ in the header, and they both >> look >> the same ?? And they're quite badly formatted too: > > Are you using one of the rc releases? The default header is

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:24:03AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > I suspect there could be a bug in the header folding, perhaps if some of > the report lines are very long, because I've definately seen the > occasional lines in the report where the line is wrapped right in

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:13:41PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> Mucked up by email client wrapping of course - but anyhow the first \n >> actually did give a new line in the header, but the following ones are >> just showing up in the report. I tried putting spaces around

[SAtalk] bug in header display ?

2003-08-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
being wrapped. This is a copy of the message I forwared to the Squirrelmail devel list Regards, Simon --8<- I'm not sure how far away 1.4.2 is but I think I've found a bug in header display/wrapping in "View all Headers" (1.4.1) that is tri

[SAtalk] Re: bug in header display ?

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 01:16 25/08/2003 +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 00:30 CET Simon Byrnand wrote: > This is directed partly at Theo, partly at the list Hope you forgive me for answering :o) Of course :) > It seems to be caused by using tabs for folded header lines instead of

[SAtalk] Re: bug in header display ?

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 21:03 24/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:36:02AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Ok, that clears that up. I'm pretty sure the problem is with Squirrelmail, > either the tabs or the long lines, I was mainly posting a copy in this list > to find

Re: [SAtalk] Maildir, procmail, and SA

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
is using a fairly old version, it may not be supported... Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Nove

[SAtalk] Some questions about 2.60-rc2

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
ocmail script relied on seeing 80 stars or more to be able to detect blacklisted email (only)... and it will be quite difficult to rearrange that along with the user preferences frontend I have...is that 50 star limit staying in ? Regards, Simon --

[SAtalk] Re: bug in header display ?

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 22:56 24/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:14:12PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > I don't know whether this is fixed by Theo's patch or not, as I havn't > tried it...I suspect not. Nope. > In any case there seems to be some bad i

[SAtalk] Re: bug in header display ?

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 03:56 25/08/2003 +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 03:18 CET Simon Byrnand wrote: > At 21:03 24/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > >X-Spam-Status (and all the X-Spam-* headers actually) is wrapped unless > >you set the "fold_headers" option to

[SAtalk] Re: Some questions about 2.60-rc2

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 23:22 24/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:59:42PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > already using on 2.55 I'm curious to know if the new values were chosen > empirically or whether some kind of stats were involved to check the lowest > scores of spam a

[SAtalk] Re: bug in header display ?

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 21:03 24/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:36:02AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Ok, that clears that up. I'm pretty sure the problem is with Squirrelmail, > either the tabs or the long lines, I was mainly posting a copy in this list > to find

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and Firewall?

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
ups :) As for the others: DCC Outgoing Port 6277 UDP Pyzor Outgoing Port 24441 UDP Razor Outgoing Ports 7 and 2703 TCP Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems o

[SAtalk] Re: Some questions about 2.60-rc2

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 23:40 24/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:36:50PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Ok. Did the statistics file give any suggestion of what kind of balance > between spam and ham would get autolearnt with those thresholds ? Is the Have you looked at the STAT

[SAtalk] Re: bug in header display ?

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 03:56 25/08/2003 +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 03:18 CET Simon Byrnand wrote: > At 21:03 24/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > >X-Spam-Status (and all the X-Spam-* headers actually) is wrapped unless > >you set the "fold_headers" option to

Re: [SAtalk] Weird behavior with SA 2.60 rc1

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
and the headers indeed showed no SA checks. I too reverted back to 2.55. Try rc2, thats probably the DNS lookup error that caused the scanning of the whole message to fail if an RBL check timed out Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is spon

Re: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd

2003-08-26 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 00:05 26/08/2003 -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: I have not had much call to create custom rules. I just started experimenting with rules and I noticed that the rules were not checked unless I first restarted spamd. Is this normal? Yep. Regards, Simon

[SAtalk] Question about the GA...

2003-08-26 Thread Simon Byrnand
pam is above 6 as much as possible". Or am I missing something ? Just an idea :) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft RBL's are TOAST......

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
st after a new SpamAssassin release, or just after the GA run for a new release has been completed ;-) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

[SAtalk] Question about the GA...(part 2)

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
s for, I think there would be a defintate improvement in FN/FP rate of an independant corpus using the 6/4 threshold instead of 5/5. Anybody able to blow holes in my theory or suggest a way of proving it ? Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is spon

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft RBL's are TOAST......

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
ore X_OSIRU_DUL 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH 0 score X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY 0 score X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE 0 score X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC 0 (Hope I didn't miss any) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkG

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
Good reason to get 2.60rc3 out ASAP ;) So are the scores just zero'ed out for rc3 then ? I suppose its not worth the effort and time of another GA run...:) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome

Re: [SAtalk] Question about the GA...

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
> > Simon Byrnand writes: >> I was just thinking about the GA process and although I havn't looked at >> it to see exactly how it works, I was wondering the following >> >> Presumably it starts with a certain scoreset, runs the spam through, >> sees &g

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
> By all means do it! :) ... but it won't help that there are still > servers > that use the rbl directly from sendmail or postfix and the like.. :( And they will soon discover that they've been rejecting nearlly all mail because of it, and remove relays.osirusoft.com.

Re: [SAtalk] Weird behavior with SA 2.60 rc1

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
d showed > no SA checks. I too reverted back to 2.55. Have you tried rc2 ? I read that it was a bug in the DNS lookups that caused the message to fail to be scanned if one of the DNS requests timed out... Aparently fixed in rc2. (I havn't seen that problem o

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin pretending to be a virus scanner ;-)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
razor and DCC :) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourc

[SAtalk] Anyone head of these guys ? (Death2Spam)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
s... Oh yeah, it claims to be written in Java too.. :) I don't think I'll be switching away from SpamAssassin any time soon... Comments anyone ? Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored

Re: [SAtalk] different notification emails depending on domain

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
should ignore it. Well duh! Spam anyone ? :) (And yes, their bogus virus reports are detected by both DCC and Razor now) Regards Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

Re: [SAtalk] Anyone head of these guys ? (Death2Spam)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 20:51 27/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:40:12PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > I don't think I'll be switching away from SpamAssassin any time soon... > > Comments anyone ? 98% of all statistics are lies. :) Heheheh... I don't think I

Re: [SAtalk] Anyone head of these guys ? (Death2Spam)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 18:41 27/08/2003 -0700, Justin Mason wrote: Simon Byrnand writes: >Just got a sales pitch today by phone followed up by email from these guys: > >http://www.death2spam.net.nz/ > >Anybody else heard of them ? Their system claims to be based on Bayesian >filtering and claim

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
tm) adds a whole host of new RBL checks. Unless you have a specific RBL you're interested in that isn't currently supported by SpamAssassin, then it is *already* using a selection of RBL lists... Regards, Simon Selon Bob Apthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 27 Aug 200

Re: [SAtalk] Anyone head of these guys ? (Death2Spam)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 18:41 27/08/2003 -0700, Justin Mason wrote: Simon Byrnand writes: >Just got a sales pitch today by phone followed up by email from these guys: > >http://www.death2spam.net.nz/ > >Anybody else heard of them ? Their system claims to be based on Bayesian >filtering and claim

Re: [SAtalk] heads-up: 2.60 will drop support for bayes dbs in non-DB_File formats

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
ll be a bit of short term pain (for some people) for longterm gain :) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Sp

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
rusoft tests for 2.60-rc3, so by the time 2.60 comes out the tests will be gone. It's also on the news page of the website how to disable the tests for 2.55, and its been discussed at least 4 or 5 times already in the mailing list, so theres not much more that can be done... Regards, Simon

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
is through CPAN. perl -MCPAN -e shell install Net::DNS quit After that you want to try running a message through SpamAssassin manually from the command prompt in debugging mode and look at the debugging output for mention of DNS and RBL che

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:31:50PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> RBL checks are on by default, but you have to have the Net::DNS perl >> module installed for them to work. > > Woah! > > I DON'T have that installed! And I never got a warning anywhere?! >

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
iling when they shouldn't... Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
ables automatic header folding causing long lines... Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 22:38 28/08/2003 -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote: Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Although I don't have the answer to your question, I suggest you look at > using the following options to reduce the various timeouts to minimize the > chance of a "train wreck&qu

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So umm, how does the rbl_timeout setting work in 2.60 then ? I didn't >> quite >> follow the logic of what you said :) I would have previously assumed >> that >> it was just a cutoff where if an ind

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
l/etc to > /etc). > See also bug 2374 [1]. Argh, more traps... So what is the behaviour when running perl Makefile.PL with no command line arguments ? Will it be looking for /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf ?? Regards, Simon --- This sf.net

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
sin or /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin), and use that > one. Or, ask, like it does for Razor2. > > Simply switching between versions however is a bad idea. I agree wholeheartedly... There are enough surprises for the unwary between 2.55 and 2.60 alr

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Installed fine, upgraded fine from cvs of three weeks ago or so. Can't > comment on effectiveness yet. One thing I note is that it again needs more > RAM, it's now at almost 25 MB. Not for me it size, Size of 19996, and RSS of 17M after running for a while... the same as 2.

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Friday 29 August 2003 04:34 CET Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:57:27PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> > Fixed now, but the second part of Theo's fix (assuming he did it :) >> > doesn't seem to be in there - using any \n's to add

Re: [SAtalk] Min Score

2003-08-31 Thread Simon Byrnand
otherwise it won't learn ham. > > --Luke Hi, Did you actually check what the default is for 2.60 ? In rc2 and rc3 the default is 0.1 for ham and 12 for spam... (we should give the developers some credit ;-) Regards, Simon > > > As >"Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Documentation: autolearn cutoff values in 2.60-rc3

2003-09-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
la ticket in about it just in case it gets forgotten :) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing li

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
s with tflags set to 'userconf' (user white/black-listing rules, etc) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamass

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 17:50 1/09/2003 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:31:34PM +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > whitelisted mails should not be auto learned. > > That is just what Simon said and SA does. Oh... sorry. He said S> Please check the docs, Bayes auto_learn does not t

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-02 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 02:24 2/09/2003 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:56:54AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > On the other hand, there is nothing to stop the message being autolearnt if > its score before the whitelisting value is added, so for example if a spam > would normally score

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-02 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 06:02 2/09/2003 +0100, Justin Mason wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:02:47PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > At 02:24 2/09/2003 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:56:54AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > I don't whitelist this mailing list and I know at

Re: [SAtalk] spamassasing consuming lot of memory

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
te normal for example for spamd to use close to 20MB of ram. Also, how are you calling spamassassin. (spamc, spamassassin, or a direct filter plugin etc) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven

RE: [SAtalk] bayes feedback

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
What you say is true of course...(as well as funny) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing l

Re: [SAtalk] System goes down

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
a limit on concurant scanning, however it will also cause connections to be rejected when this limit is reached. (As well as that, 24 simultaneous spamassassin processes is enough to bring most machines to their knees) Regards, Simon --- This sf.ne

Re: [SAtalk] System goes down

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
ay to find this out from spamd directly rather than using ps ?) and if its over a set limit, exit with EX_TEMPFAIL. A workaround like that could be used by anyone calling spamc from procmail... I might have a tutu around later and see if I can work out a procmail recipie to d

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 14:20 2/09/2003 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:02:47PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Well don't forget that the auto_learn_spam threshold is 15 in 2.55 and 12 > in 2.60, and its very rare that a spam pasted into the *body* of a message > will be autolearnt,

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Documentation: autolearn cutoff values in 2.60-rc3

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
es not to be learnt. There are quite a number of reason for autolearning not to learn something, its not just a matter of if its greater than 15 learn it Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-04 Thread Simon Byrnand
the score of an RBL check to zero *does* disable the test itself, and has be confirmed by the developers on previous occasions Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-05 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Simon Byrnand wrote: > >> At 20:43 4/09/2003 +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >> >>> Jim Porter wrote: >>> >>>> score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 >>>> score X_OSIRU_DUL 0 >>>> score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH0

Re: [SAtalk] Performance optimization for bigger setups

2003-09-05 Thread Simon Byrnand
is reduce the initial communication setup latency between spamc and spamd, and also allow large messages to be transfered through to spamd and back again faster, but the actual scanning of the message would be the same as before. As this is likely to be the bulk of the scanning time I

Re: [SAtalk] Spam with score of 0.0

2003-09-07 Thread Simon Byrnand
unctioning properly, and that it could be an integration problem... Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk ma

Re: [SAtalk] Performance optimization for bigger setups

2003-09-07 Thread Simon Byrnand
Essentially this would be off-by-default extra information/debugging information. Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___

Re: [SAtalk] Rbl checks

2003-09-08 Thread Simon Byrnand
without making a donation. Spamcop can be turned on just by setting the score to something that's not 0. Which brings up a good question that I've been meaning to ask. If spamcop is not free to use, why does 2.60-rc3 enable it by default ? score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 0 2.

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