RE: [SAtalk] RE: Outlook FN --> sa-learn-spam

2003-02-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
#x27;s great mysteries ;) I'm happy with things as they are: spamassassin -t < porn.txt and MM's SA-Exim 2.2 + SA 2.50. Thanks anyway. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw When you rob a person of his illusions, you are robbing him of his happiness e-p

Re: [SAtalk] Sample spam not found in Pyzor or DCC?

2003-02-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ngs piped to spamc just does not work, whereas spamassassin -t always works - one way or the other.. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw When you rob a person of his illusions, you are robbing him of his happiness e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: [SAtalk] RE: Outlook FN --> sa-learn-spam

2003-02-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
content - two separate rules.. Testing it with spamassassin -t < porn.txt now scores 12.9, fine by me. Testing it with 'cat porn.text | spamc' still gives 3.5. Even running spamc as the spamd user. Why would this be? Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw When you rob a person of

Re: [SAtalk] "make test" in today's CVS fails

2003-02-18 Thread Tony Earnshaw
sed the .tar.gz install. So I had the nouse to do a CVS login and a co of the Sourceforge spamassassin directory, instead. 'make test' works fine :-) Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw When you rob a person of his illusions, you are robbing him of his happiness e-post: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [SAtalk] installation errors

2003-02-25 Thread Tony Earnshaw
tir, 2003-02-25 kl. 12:07 skrev Tony Earnshaw: > > Found it (1.3.3), downloaded it (and lots of extra writeups, html manual > > etc), funny-sort-of-made it, installed it, started reading the writeups, > > looks sensible for normal Unix-minded people. > > Hmmm ... now

Re: [SAtalk] Auto-whitelist dumb questions

2003-02-20 Thread Tony Earnshaw
tor, 2003-02-20 kl. 08:38 skrev John Rudd: > *taps on the microphone again* Did I forget to shower or something? Well did you? Or might one question at a time work better? Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw When you rob a person of his illusions, you are robbing him of his happiness e-p

Re: [SAtalk] Exim -SA -Virtual Setup.

2003-03-02 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ou'll probably get asked what Exim version you're using. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw All the world is mad, exceptin thee and me and even thee's a little queer e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:http://www.billy.demon.nl -

[SAtalk] bayes_msgcount question

2003-03-02 Thread Tony Earnshaw
? Otherwise, I'm now running spamd with the -D option and "lessing" maillog for the first time, which is teaching me a lot about what's happening. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw All the world is mad, exceptin thee and me and even thee's a little queer e-post: [

Re: [SAtalk] bayes_msgcount question

2003-03-02 Thread Tony Earnshaw
. This happened many times. > > I believe that's normal. It means Bayes has decided it was time to do > an expire run. That's great to know. I'll keep an eye on it. In the mean time, I'll chase y'all (jullie in Dutch) up. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw All the

Re: [SAtalk] fighting against "Say GOOD BY to spam"

2003-02-06 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ghter' in my spam corpus of ~30k msgs. > > > Lucky you, Theo. :P I got about 20 yesterday alone.. ;) Isn't it enough just to blacklist junkfighter.com? And rm-rf.info, and hostresolver.com, since they're all in on the act. Anyway, that's what I'm trying (haven&#x

Re: [SAtalk] Zero hits on a 2kB "Philippine Dog Meat" Spam??

2003-03-07 Thread Tony Earnshaw
n my IMAP mboxes, but don't keep spam for the most part, so after chucking out my old database (DB_File install) I'm having to begin over. If dsn.server4host.net proves annoying in the long run, it'd be easy to setup a regex rule for it - but I doubt it. Thanks for sending it! It

Re: Fw: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-03-12 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ood grace. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw 247,035 lemmings can't be wrong ... Ask the man from Framfjord e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:http://www.billy.demon.nl --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is

Re: [SAtalk] Postmaster Mail being marked as spam

2003-03-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
bsolute exceptions on my system(s). Any site misusing them will get guillotined (ashes to ashes, dust to dust). Bayes would never even get the chance. Good grief. You're probably using some rule you shouldn't be. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw 247,035 lemmings can't b

Re: [SAtalk] MIMEdefang and autowhitelist

2003-03-21 Thread Tony Earnshaw
y getting penalties against normal standard SA rules. Brownie points, in fact. How the bias works is another matter - I've no idea. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw 247,035 lemmings can't be wrong ... Ask the man from Framfjord e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: [SAtalk] Blacklist from Brazil

2003-03-21 Thread Tony Earnshaw
BRAZIL10.0 Giuliano Gavazzi on the Exim mail list would say "try it out young man, pappa fata." Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:http://www.billy.demon.nl --- This SF.net email is sp

RE: [SAtalk] Bounce spam to bayes classifier with Outlook

2003-02-11 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ers, it wouldn't get scanned again. I could forward it to my account outside the domain (in another country) that forwards back to me, but that wouldn't be "resending." it. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw "Can anyone define 'modern enclitic mediocrity' in terms o

Re: [SAtalk] CVS question

2003-03-22 Thread Tony Earnshaw
S install. I have a much better and quicker (command-line CVS) method now than on the website; I just invented hot water. Who should I tell? Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:http://www.billy.demon.nl --

Re: [SAtalk] Rule for Juno/Netzero

2003-01-28 Thread Tony Earnshaw
tir, 2003-01-28 kl. 19:44 skrev Debbie D: > So I believe that a rule needs to be added that reduces the score on a legit > Juno mail.. Can someone help me out here?? Isn't that what whitelist_from/whitelist_from_rcvd is for? That's what I use it for, at any rate. Best, Tony --

Re: [SAtalk] Comments on 2.50

2003-02-25 Thread Tony Earnshaw
t attack when he was only 28. He was balding at the time, his teeth were suspect and his wife despised him, so it was just as well. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw When you rob a person of his illusions, you are robbing him of his happiness e-p

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Spamassassin-talk@lists.sourceforge.net , SwissGroup Switzerland !!! Earn up to 2 daily in the Swish Stock Exchange !

2003-03-28 Thread Tony Earnshaw
e of the mess the fellow made of it all, and once I'd vi'ed out the SA-Talk whitelist stuff and run spamassassin -t etc. on it. I whitelist SA-Talk with -100.0. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:http://www.billy.demon.nl -

Re: [SAtalk] .spammassin

2003-06-06 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Marek Dohojda wrote: I just figured out what I did.. And I am a bozo (for all the world to know). Better a bozo than a mish man, some might say. We've all been / will be bozos at some time or another (ever done 'rm -r' in a directory where you shouldn't?) Best, Tony -- T

Re: [SAtalk] .spammassin

2003-06-06 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Ed Kasky wrote: Curious minds have to know What is a "mish man"? Some rapper on the list tell him? Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [

Re: [SAtalk] SA not catching spam obscured with character codes andtags

2003-06-06 Thread Tony Earnshaw
two single FP instances by a colleague on other mailing lists who insists on using DNSBL-blocked relays (that mailing list has since been regex-whitelisted, since the colleague has no choice - his ISP is of the great unwashed.) Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn

Re: [SAtalk] RE:

2003-05-27 Thread Tony Earnshaw
27;ve never seen anything like that. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relat

Re: [SAtalk] Best way to process the log?

2003-05-29 Thread Tony Earnshaw
anything? Line and row numbers? 3rd and 4th are *always* consecutive, whether you like it or not. What's the following supposed to mean? > What I'd like to be able to do is to search for "identified spam" and, > using the

Re: [SAtalk] Converting away from site-wide

2003-05-29 Thread Tony Earnshaw
had enough experience with Postfix 2.1 yet, but from what I've seen up to now, it could deal with this as well - as a matter of course (see the postmaster argument above.) Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

RE: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-29 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ons, 28.05.2003 kl. 09.46 skrev Tony Earnshaw: > Is changed in 2.50-CVS, last night's version (wasn't a couple of days > ago.). 2.60-CVS. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This SF.net email is sponsor

RE: [SAtalk] Best way to process the log?

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
t far with Postfix, yet. With Exim's logs, I use short self-written Korn shell scripts to do that sort of thing. Exim writes logs which have completely different - far simpler to parse - and more straightforward syntax than Postfix. Unless one's running Exim in some degree of debug mode. To

RE: [SAtalk] Best way to process the log?

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
gt; I guess it means he wants to parse logs and extract who at his domain > gets spammed. Which requires to cross informations from both spamd and > postfix. It seemed pretty clear to me at first reading :-) Ah. Great minds think alike, obviously. > Sorry for the quoting. Since you wer

Re: [SAtalk] whitelisting not working

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
the old versions not work properly ? I've no idea. I started with Postfix 2.0.9 (updated to 2.0.10) and the above Amavis version. I've never used older versions. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SAtalk] On filtering out invalid tags, decode %-characters,canoncial input

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
things that don't work from time to time and only comment on things that are in fact relevant. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sp

Re: [SAtalk] PerMsgStatus

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
and delete them. When you've done that, delete /usr/share/spamassassin too, since the new SA install will be using /usr/local/share/spamassassin instead. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Th

RE: [SAtalk] Best way to whitelist mailing list msgs?

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
scribe: > Mailing-List: > X-Mailing-List: > X-Topica-Id: > Precedence: List This kind of thing is what I use. By using metas (combinations of headers for a given mailing list) you should be able to avoid most forgeries. I've never had an attempt at forgery since I started using

Re: [SAtalk] Untrested relays?

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
SA that this relay is trusted? 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' will give details of the 2.60-specific additions/modifications. Including this one :) Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [SAtalk] Untrested relays?

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
king all necessary precautions and testing it first.) The latest days' 2.60-CVS has been improved and modified enormously over April versions - either keep it up to date, or go back to 2.55. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [SAtalk] Update on debugging external test problems...

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
d never seen this > before under normal usage. Looks like I need to work on the dns servers... Did you report OS and DNS server distro/versions? I didn't see. It would be interesting to know what DNS software was used. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.bil

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd running after spamc exit

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
t? Is the spamd processes > notified that it should quit, or is it just left running? >From what I've seen reported, horrible things happen with unconstrained combinations of spamc/spamd. There is no provision for timeouts or throttling. Best, Tony -- Tony Ea

RE: [SAtalk] Untrusted relays?

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
fre, 30.05.2003 kl. 09.21 skrev Gary Funck: > As for picking up a stale copy of the CVS version --- I got that by going > to the "downloads" page: > http://eu.spamassassin.org/downloads.html > > And under this heading, "Latest bleeding-edge code, 2.60: > NOTE: these are built nightly from CVS. Th

Re: [SAtalk] subject line not be rewritten

2003-05-30 Thread Tony Earnshaw
r/bin - then it should work without having to specify /usr/local. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adf

Re: [SAtalk] running sa + amavisd as diff user then root

2003-05-31 Thread Tony Earnshaw
00:00:00 amavisd (child) /etc/amavisd.conf? Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfar

Re: [SAtalk] New doc: Postfix + site-wide SpamAssassin + Procmailfor individual 'spam' mailboxes

2003-06-02 Thread Tony Earnshaw
d main.cf - most annotations stripped. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http:/

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and LDAP

2003-06-03 Thread Tony Earnshaw
happens when you do 'id ' or 'getent passwd '? Does an su or a login for that user occur normally? (i.e., is pam configured correctly?) Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and LDAP

2003-06-04 Thread Tony Earnshaw
dap.conf and nsswitch.conf.). Since you refuse to give sofware versions, I'm afraid that I can't offer any further advice. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and LDAP

2003-06-04 Thread Tony Earnshaw
If he can't, you're all set to step into his shoes, aren't you :P Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and LDAP

2003-06-04 Thread Tony Earnshaw
it is filtering fine at the moment. Yerrrs. But this has nothing to do with login or su. Or any of the other PAM stuff - remember that when next you need it. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.d

Re: [SAtalk] I hate Mandatory Mail Filtering!!!! - speakeasy.netbites the dust. (was "I hate SpamAsssassin")

2003-06-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
down their customers' throats, most customers don't seem to care. BTW, does S-A insert timing statistics that it took to process an email? Might be an interesting datum to add spamd does that already (at least, all recent versions), and the logs record it too. Best, Tony -- Tony Ea

Re: [SAtalk] Sugarplum spam poison?

2003-06-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ar pitting using an appropriate MTA such as Exim 4, SA-Exim 3.0, Postfix 2.0 or suchlike. I settle for smtp 550 refusals of spam topping a reasonably high SA score - after checking with my ISP that his having to put up with no-bounce-address messages was o.k. with him. Best, Tony -- Tony Ea

Re: [SAtalk] errors in the logs and RBL not working

2003-06-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
for the record: It's /unreadable/ in Mozilla 1.4rc1/Gnome 1.4 (not my choice of MUA, but it's o.k - Evo 1.2.4 doesn't work for me any longer) with 'view message body' as text, but /admirably readable/ if html is chosen. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft a

Re: [SAtalk] CVS usage questions

2003-06-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ld schedule the cvs retrieval? vm in your script, whatever that is? I don't think you ought to automate CVS for this, unless your crontab outputs a complete list of what it's done, e-mails to root, so you can see what's gone wrong, if it has. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There'

Re: [SAtalk] On trying out CVS'ed spam assassin

2003-06-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
idn't install it. If you just download the tar file, which will have been made with the faulty rule, you might simply install that without doing 'make test' (it's incredible how naive some users are) and be none the wiser. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft

Re: [SAtalk] Invalid Account

2003-06-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
I wathn't uthing an existing email address bearing the "thevsp.com" extension I wath *tho* worried. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.d

Re: [SAtalk] Sugarplum spam poison?

2003-06-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
to put through it, and what reserve does it have? I'd say that the whole idea was misconceived in the first place. Kill spam one way or another, don't try to punish the perpetrators - the latter idea is useless. Leave that to the legislators, given time it will come. Best, Tony -- T

[SAtalk] Re: Sugarplum spam poison?

2003-06-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
s philosophy in this respect is *good*, since total blocking is never employed; points across the scale contribute to a whole. With total BL blocking such as Exim 4's ACLs or Postfix's UCE blocks, the mailadmin is shooting himself in the foot - every time. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There'

RE: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-28 Thread Tony Earnshaw
asn't a couple of days ago.). For obvious reasons it can't be changed in current software ;) Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flatteni

Re: [SAtalk] whitelisting not working

2003-05-28 Thread Tony Earnshaw
r rules up. Chances are that that's an old version too - grab the newest release. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Ja

Re: [SAtalk] kinda OT - amavis & spamd logging

2003-06-10 Thread Tony Earnshaw
SA Perl (3) modules and other clearly documented (in both Perl source code and installation) Perl modules. Logging is to whatever one sets up in /etc/amavisd.conf and confirms in /etc/syslog.conf. Reading up on software that one uses is mandatory for *everyone*. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There&#x

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-10 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Simon Crowther wrote: I wish to start feeding some of these low scoring spams using SA Learn. Don't. Have patience; trust me. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Where is spamc?

2003-06-10 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Mike Vanecek wrote: ?? Mine's in /usr/local - not /usr; has been since 2.4+ Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Where is spamc?

2003-06-11 Thread Tony Earnshaw
, Berkeley BDB 4.1 and many more. Exceptions are Postfix 2.0 and Exim 4. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [SAtalk] Kinda OT maybe. SA install/update...

2003-06-11 Thread Tony Earnshaw
yourself goals, learn to set up policies and implement them; in short, learn to think the Unix way. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [SAtalk] LDAP Storage instead of SQL Storage

2003-06-12 Thread Tony Earnshaw
l eDirectory, MS Active directory, IBM etc.) HTH, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw There's none so daft as them as will not learn http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET e

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-13 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ng to contradict yourself? It's not me that made up the above, it's in the documentation and the list archives and what I kept to myself when I first started teaching Bayes. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr um dauða

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist file?

2003-06-13 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ead rights, etc. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr um dauðan hvern. From Hávamál - the voice of the gods. http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [

Re: [SAtalk] a few suggestions

2003-06-13 Thread Tony Earnshaw
configuration options, don't deserve answers. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr um dauðan hvern. From Hávamál - the voice of the gods. http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
nder the level that one has defined as being spam - even if it is spam - amounts to defeating one's own purpose. One can start doing that *after* one's got one's initial biased database, but at least give the whole thing a reasonable base on which to begin. Best, Tony -- Tony Ea

Re: [SAtalk] a few suggestions

2003-06-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
re you using? What model and what year is your Ford? Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr um dauðan hvern. From Hávamál - the voice of the gods. http://j-walk.com/blo

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist file?

2003-06-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
y different and come back the next day. That way, most computer stuff, at least, sorts itself out. Especially complex things. Quite surprising, really Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr um dauðan hvern. From Hávamál - the vo

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
fter 1,000 spams that's o.k., but under 200 it's critical. So really we're saying the same thing, only you didn't notice my proviso of a minimum number of spams/non-spams (the latter are far more numerous on my system) before treating the thing as an adult. Best, Tony --

Re: [SAtalk] a few suggestions

2003-06-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
;2003-03-20" doesn't look like "the latest" to me. *Anybody else know what Dan is talking about?* Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr um dauðan hvern. From Hávamál - what gods have said http://j-walk

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelist using LDAP server

2003-06-14 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ed, I could do that my way too. So, suppose you explain why you have to. A good reason, for example, would be that you don't want external ldap users (Netscape, Bigfoot, you name it) to be vetted for spam. That wouldn't work with my method. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, d

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist file?

2003-06-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
x27;,though. It's probably in the code in the Perl Mail/SpamAssassin hierarchy. Questions like the OP's, mine and the high volume on this list indicates that we badly need a comprehensive HOWTO. I'd like to nominate Tony Earnshaw and Theo Van Dinter for the job ;^} Why me? O

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
iged to take part in the "war" against Irak? Well, that's how I feel about this particular thing. Some balmy institute once forced "statistics" down my throat. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr u

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelist using LDAP server

2003-06-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ways of solving it, but we're happy now! My only worry would be at the developers feeling they would have to modify SA code to do such a thing. As I pointed out, I have no idea how Sendmail works; for that matter Qmail or Smail neither. Maybe code changes would be necessary for the latter t

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist file?

2003-06-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
g it at all, is to separate things, subdivisions, that would normally come in a single global local.cf - e.g. to make each separate file easier to read. Many utilities (e.g. Postfix, Privoxy, Openldap 2.1.x) have this possibility. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálf

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelist using LDAP server

2003-06-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ode to do it. Mind you, there's still Qmail and Smail left - those people would have to do the same. After all: > sendmail can do anything. Never believe anyone > who tells you there's something sendmail can't do. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ing could help jog my memory. It's a huge list, and I can't find the bit you're talking about here. Anyway, my excuses if I made you feel you had to write this. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr um dau

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
could help jog my memory. It's a huge list, and I can't find the bit you're talking about here. Anyway, my excuses if I made you feel you had to write this. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw - Deyr fé, deyr frendr deyr sjálfr 'it sama - ek veit ein aldrigi deyr - dómr um dauðan h

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelist using LDAP server

2003-06-15 Thread Tony Earnshaw
here you learn a lot of unexpected things along the way. I'd never have dreamed I'd be pushed painlessly into learning the ins and outs of Sendmail by Simon and David. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.d

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-16 Thread Tony Earnshaw
e saying about murdering the Bayes database before it had even reached maturity made me feel like Gerhard Schröder. Have a nice week! :-) You the same Best, Tonni -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.bi

Re: [SAtalk] Removing headers etc.. to feed Bayes correctly

2003-06-16 Thread Tony Earnshaw
;t know. I hate math. But I've done enough chi squared and other analyses to now that. Best - and I really appreciate your involvement, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [SAtalk] Help needed blocking HTML_IMAGE_ONLY emails

2003-06-16 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Fox Flanders wrote: I have a problem And your SA version is ... ? Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by

Re: [SAtalk] OK, this Nigerian takes the cake, hands down!

2003-06-16 Thread Tony Earnshaw
link below? I'll tell you, we're doing all right. Greetings from Mariam, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Ne

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin backed up after weekend

2003-06-16 Thread Tony Earnshaw
(/var/log/postfix for me) are going to be rotated (logrotate,) just that that will be "weekly" or when the log file size exceeds 1M (/etc/logrotate.d/postfix.) Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.bi

Re: [SAtalk] Quick question - re: filtering

2003-06-16 Thread Tony Earnshaw
quot;Never believe those who tell you that there's anything Sendmail cannot do" - wrote another contributor to this list. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Ma

Re: [SAtalk] a few suggestions

2003-06-17 Thread Tony Earnshaw
someone about the version number. Non-tagged releases CVS check-outs append "-cvs" to the version number. It wasn't my intention to attack anyone. I'll obviously have to gen up on SAProxy. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life h

Re: [SAtalk] Install spamassasin on free hosting.

2003-06-17 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Tony Earnshaw wrote: thot the SpamAssassin list. Huh? Tht should be: "not the SpamAssassin list." Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Install spamassasin on free hosting.

2003-06-17 Thread Tony Earnshaw
-2006. Record created on 13-May-2002. Database last updated on 17-Jun-2003 18:22:25 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.NETFIRMS.COM 209.171.43.30 NS2.NETFIRMS.COM 66.48.76.92 Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog

Re: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-17 Thread Tony Earnshaw
er is open SMTP relay [68.38.45.102 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 0.0 CLICK_BELOWAsks you to click below 0.6 PRIORITY_NO_NAME Message has priority setting, but no X-Mailer -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl M

Re: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-17 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Tony Earnshaw wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) SA Developers: PLEASE provide some method whereby end-users like me can implement header, body, and uri rules in user_prefs. 2) Can anyone run the spam below against a vanilla ruleset, 2.5[45] and/or 2.6, and let me know if this spam should have

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn (auto-learn)

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
local.cf? Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Beco

Re: [SAtalk] SA CVS mirror

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Andrew A. Vasilyev wrote: Just a suggestion - posters on this list have suggested that Sourceforge is becoming less dependable. Though I haven't found so myself, I do find that the best time for me for SA CVS updates is around 06:00 CEST local time (UTC/GMT +2). Best, Tony -- Tony Ear

Re: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was WeTEACH you how to ...)

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
l. Software costs are ridiculously low, even with full Windows and win4lin licensing. Just as a reminder that it *is* possible to thwart idiot and childishly petulant users. Don't imagine I haven't experienced your problems myself; they were the reason for the above. Best, Tony

Re: [SAtalk] unlearning a lot of ham

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
have in the database and the daily volume of mail, the bias for 75 false spam messages shouldn't take too long to decrease. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [SAtalk] Base-64 encoded HTML and text spam

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
ion. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: B

[SAtalk] Adding an RBL check to those already in SA

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
find out how. But perhaps someone here has already added custom RBLs and could give me a pointer? Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [SAtalk] Sneaky Spam: Your PC's Hard Drive (fwd)

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
: 2.60 official is about to be released. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention

Re: [SAtalk] how much work to install and maintain

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
quot;, and is measured in multiples of 6 months. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention

Re: [SAtalk] As seen on ...

2003-06-19 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Pierre Bacquet wrote: I am receiving a lot of SPAM for HGH for whatever including the following recurring sentences : Software versions :-) -- Antoine Le Belge Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[SAtalk] To the SA developers

2003-06-20 Thread Tony Earnshaw
etc. would then have nothing left to do - or earn. So what's the future for spam - or virus - fighting? Anybody any ideas? And what's the future for SA? In a year's time, 5 year's time ...? Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/doc

Re: [SAtalk] rules not working

2003-06-22 Thread Tony Earnshaw
thing else that isn't standard Exim. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Working to get a life http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web

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