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

2003-06-01 Thread greg
Sorry, I know absolutely nothing about cyrus. Greg > could you describe an alternative scenario using cyrus > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Greg Webster wrote: > >> Hello, SpamAssassin mailing list :) >> >> Some new documentation I've created. I'll be placing

[SAtalk] sa-learn on hand-sorted mailboxes

2003-12-12 Thread greg
(s) examined). Why would it show that it 'Learned from 0 message(s)'? I told it that these were verified as spam and ham, shouldn't it try to learn them? Greg --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an

[SAtalk] HABEAS_SWE abuse from spammers

2004-01-12 Thread greg
They've noted that we give HABEAS_SWE a score of -4.6 I think. I'm adjusted it for my machines to zero. Here's the headers: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from beefcake.intouch.ca (beefcake.intouch.ca [64.69.91.201]) by intouch.ca (Postfix) with ESMT

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-28 Thread Greg Ennis
; repository but I have no clue where that is, how to browse it, etc. :/ So what is the current "official" site for this? --- I would be interested in the official site (download site) as well. I have been using spamstats.pl written by Vincent Deffont

[SAtalk] SA 2.0 flags sample-nonspam.txt

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
ts - Anyone else seen anything like this? Note again that SA 2.0 seems to handle sample-spam.txt just fine, even with my unusual installation and explicit "-c ~/share/spamassassin" stuff. Greg -- Greg Ward - Linux geek [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.0 flags sample-nonspam.txt

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
t place; this maildir started life as an mbox, and I just converted it so I could access one message at a time more easily.) Perhaps SpamAssassin should munge the Content-Length and/or Lines headers when it adds a header or footer? Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix nerd

[SAtalk] Questionable "To" headers

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
e positives, eg. you'd have to populate your recipient whitelist before using SA, and if you are a hotmail/msn/yahoo user you might not want to add a point to every message addressed to you. Greg -- Greg Ward - just another Python hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.0 flags sample-nonspam.txt

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
ouched. No -- I ran a loop like this: for msg in greg-spam.mdir/cur/* ; do echo $msg out=greg-spam-out.mdir/cur/`basename $msg` spamassassin -c ~/share/spamassassin -t < $msg> $out done The only console output from this was the 68 filenames in greg-spam.mdir/cur. When I l

Re: [SAtalk] Questionable "To" headers

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
gt; where you put known recipients, including mailing lists you're o [Charlie Watts reacts] > How does spamassassin know your address? This is a nice test, but how do > you get your addresses into spamassassin? Well, I've whipped up a very ad-hoc version already: header TO_UNKNO

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.0 flags sample-nonspam.txt

2002-01-24 Thread Greg Ward
[me, explaining my test run of SA] > No -- I ran a loop like this: > > for msg in greg-spam.mdir/cur/* ; do > echo $msg > out=greg-spam-out.mdir/cur/`basename $msg` > spamassassin -c ~/share/spamassassin -t < $msg> $out > done [dman responded] > Ho

Re: [SAtalk] Version Numbering

2002-01-24 Thread Greg Ward
introduce a new type especially for version numbers? Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Some rule bugs and improvements needed

2002-01-28 Thread Greg Ward
have to be coded as an "eval"? Here's a slightly subtler variation: /^[A-Z0-9\$\.,\'\!\?\s]+$/ && /\b[A-Z]+\b/ Same as above except the line must contain a complete uppercase word. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exc

Re: [SAtalk] Some rule bugs and improvements needed

2002-01-28 Thread Greg Ward
east two adjacent words of four letters each. Anyways, I'm just pottering around. Hopefully someone who can do something has noticed that LINE_OF_YELLING is too picky in 2.0... > Or keep the previous rule's minimum length of 40 characters? Easy enough, just change the + in my first regex to

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic way to report spam

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Ward
ut should be automatic. If you want multiple reports, you'd probably have to write a custom script. Something like: if SA's RAZOR_CHECK didn't match: pipe through spamassassin -r if SA didn't flag it as spam: send to spamassassing-sightings ... etc ... Doesn&#x

Re: [SAtalk] auto whitelist behavior with spamassassin -t

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Ward
nor implementation oversight. I think his suggestion was right on: don't update the auto-whitelist in testing mode. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org __

[SAtalk] spamproxyd

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Blakely
t can be found in the SpamAssassin source directory. I can't find it, though. So, I'm at a loss. With no patch in the source directory, has the Mail::Audit module been fixed? If so, why am I getting this error? Sorry if this is a

Re: [SAtalk] Updating ponderations given by the GA

2002-01-30 Thread Greg Ward
s and come up with our own score sets. But why bother? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL P

[SAtalk] Proposed rule: many recipients with the same local-part

2002-01-31 Thread Greg Ward
recipient headers. Seems like a good spam flag to me, but I don't recall seeing a rule like this when browsing SA's current ruleset. Is it there? If not, should it be added? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] missed Spam in v2.01

2002-01-31 Thread Greg Ward
m line, the line has to be >= 45 characters long, and there has to be a YELLING word >= 5 chars long >= 20 chars from either end. I proposed a couple of lame replacements, most of which were promptly (and rightly) shot down. Greg ___ Sp

Re: [SAtalk] missed Spam in v2.01

2002-01-31 Thread Greg Ward
ontract bars me from recommending that. But Perl's not so bad, really... ;-) Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

[SAtalk] Okay. No Response on SpamProxy Question.... Now another

2002-01-31 Thread Greg Blakely
Hi folks. I'm the one who wrote the other day to ask if anyone had heard of the error I mentioned regarding SpamProxy, and the silence was deafening. So, I wrote to the author, and he'd not heard of anything like it. So, I'm left to ask a very BASIC question: I actually DO have spamassassin wo

Re: [SAtalk] Okay. No Response on SpamProxy Question.... Now another

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Ward
On 31 January 2002, Greg Blakely said: > I actually DO have spamassassin working with procmail, quite nicely, > thank you. > > But I have a situation where not all my received mail is for users homed > on that machine. Nor, for that matter, are they able to reach it via > NFS.

Re: [SAtalk] Okay. No Response on SpamProxy Question.... Now another

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Blakely
ponse on SpamProxy Question Now another > On 31 Jan 2002 at 23:04, Greg Blakely wrote: > > > I actually DO have spamassassin working with procmail, quite nicely, > > thank you. > > > > But I have a situation where not all my received mail is for users homed >

[SAtalk] SpamProxy fix

2002-02-03 Thread Greg Blakely
Hi, folks. I've made a lot of noise here, and received a lot of useful information from many of you. So, I thought that it would be a good time to give a little bit back. I finally got the "spamproxyd" smtp filter going with Postfix, and it was all just one little thing that was missing. In /

RE: [SAtalk] Suggestion for CALL_888

2002-02-04 Thread Greg Blakely
866 is. 855 and 844 are planned to be. I work for a long distance company, and have had to hold the hands of many of our customers as they reprogrammed their PBXes to realize that 866 shouldn't be restricted as if it actually cost them something... -Original Message- From: Craig Hughes

[SAtalk] Variations on To/From headers

2002-02-12 Thread Greg Ward
hat 1) there's no real name in "From", but SA doesn't catch this because of the quoting 2) the real name in "To" is the same as the address, but SA doesn't catch this because of the quoting Anyone notice a consistent theme here? ;-) I'll post

Re: [SAtalk] Installation breaks

2002-02-12 Thread Greg Ward
ne in my life... Hmmm, everyone's going on about libndbm, but nobody's asking about Perl. It might be Perl's fault that -lndbm is included in the link command for spamc. Which Perl version are you using? Is it the Debian package, or did you build it yourself? What does "pe

Re: [SAtalk] Installation breaks

2002-02-13 Thread Greg Ward
:26:31 2002 @@ -110,4 +110,3 @@ spamd/spamc: spamd/spamc.c - $(CFCC) $(CFCCFLAGS) $(CFOPTIMIZE) spamd/spamc.c \ - -o $@ $(CFLDFLAGS) $(CFLIBS) + $(CFCC) $(CFCCFLAGS) $(CFOPTIMIZE) spamd/spamc.c -o $@ Craig, if you haven't already changed Makefile.PL like this, you mig

RE: [SAtalk] Partial analysis of FreeBSD/spamass-milter hang ...

2002-02-13 Thread Greg Blakely
It probably doesn't apply, but then again... anything to help narrow it down, right? I successfully have the proxyfilter working on a FreeBSD box, using Postfix. So, it'd probably point towards milter rather than FreeBSD. ( Just in case someone was thinking that FreeBSD was what one should avo

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.01 low scores

2002-02-14 Thread Greg Ward
higher most of my false negatives would have been caught. I second that suggestion. I have bumped up several of the 0.01 scores in my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file after some fairly obvious spam leaked through. Would have been nice not to have to do th

RE: [SAtalk] Re: Spammer's new ideas ...

2002-02-14 Thread Greg Blakely
When I find something that SpamAssassin can't filter, I'll just add it to the filter tables of my MTA (Postfix). It can filter based on IP address, "HELO" host, words in the subject line, etc. Spam Assassin does a better job than doing it yourself, but, in my case, since I know nobody in mainlan

[SAtalk] New variation on Nigeria scam?

2002-02-18 Thread Greg Ward
gards. Barrister Anthony Dozie PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com - End forwarded message - -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

RE: [SAtalk] Postfix and SpamAssassin 2.01 - spamproxyd/Mail::Audit problems

2002-02-18 Thread Greg Blakely
me, I have a copy of Ian's newest script here. Unless he objects, I can provide a copy of it for you. -Original Message- From: Stewart, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:32 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Greg Bla

RE: [SAtalk] Postfix and SpamAssassin 2.01 - spamproxyd/Mail::Audit problems

2002-02-18 Thread Greg Blakely
/SpamAssassin/SMTP/SmartHost.pm Coulda been hazardous mixing my apples with my oranges, but, in this case, it worked. -Original Message- From: Stewart, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:33 PM To: 'Craig Hughes'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[E

Re: [SAtalk] Tagged messages sent to specific mailbox...

2002-02-19 Thread Greg Ward
ing procmail, it will look *something* like this: # send spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :0 * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] # save everything else to ~/Maildir :0 Maildir/ (I might be missing some vital piece of punctuation here; I am not a procmail expert and do not ever want to be on

Re: [SAtalk] New AWL implementation now done

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Ward
} > } [...] > And this was also in the auto-whitelist.db file: > > l2tp115 L2TP# Layer Two Tunneling Protocol > ddx 116 DDX # D-II Data Exchange [...] That Perl code looks like the output of sys2ph, ie. a C header file translated to Perl. And

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie question... sorry

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Ward
OS it happens to be running * plunk down the money for Philip Hazel's Exim book -- I have to admit I have't actually looked at it myself, but I bet it's a good way to learn how to run a Unix mail server Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAI

Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] slooooow rules

2002-02-21 Thread Greg Ward
"&&" should be recognized by the rule parser instead.) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAI

Re: Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] slooooow rules

2002-02-21 Thread Greg Ward
when it's not needed. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourc

Re: [SAtalk] testing spam

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Ward
easant surprise, it worked! IMHO this ought to be a configuable option for /etc/spamassassin/local_prefs -- on some systems, it's perfectly reasonable to let users write their own rules. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] Another newbie

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Ward
might be doable, even easy, but it's scope creep. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [SAtalk] testing spam

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Ward
On 22 February 2002, Craig R Hughes said: > Were you using spamassassin or spamc/spamd greg? I believe > spamassassin allows you to have user rules, spamd does not. I was using spamassassin; you are correct, user-defined rules are obeyed by spamassassin but not spamc/spamd. I just fil

Re: [SAtalk] One big graphic?

2002-02-25 Thread Greg Ward
e right tool to use here. SA has stretched regex usage to impressive extremes, but it's *not* a Turing-complete language! This should be implemented as an eval test. Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lis

Re: [SAtalk] Blacklist on return-path ?

2002-02-25 Thread Greg Ward
rely on the MTA supplying. Some MTAs put the envelope sender in an environment variable, sometimes "Return-path" has it, but there's nothing standard. So I think you'll probably have to write your own test that looks at "Return-path" for this one (assuming you can

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Terse Header Report with Evolution

2002-02-25 Thread Greg Ward
efeeds vs carriage > returns, and is there anyway to fix it? Unlikely, since mutt is -- for the first time ever -- in the same camp as Outhouse Express, and displays the terse header report just fine. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS E

Re: [SAtalk] problems with SpamAssassin's Razor-integration

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
if Razor is there when you build/install SA. You might try rebuilding/ reinstalling SA. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassass

Re: [SAtalk] forward alaises not working?

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
your MTA. I know Exim (in its conventional configuration) and qmail both do alias processing long before local delivery, so switching MDAs shouldn't be an issue. Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists

Re: [SAtalk] Latest SUBJ_ALL_CAPS rule in CVS

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
rkstations. I'm currently maintaining SA on two Linux machines, soon to be three; two are running Red Hat 6.x and one is Debian 2.2 -- all of which have Perl 5.005 installed. I know Perl 5.6 has been out for quite a while now, but I would like to see SA maintain compatibility with 5.005.

Re: [SAtalk] SA doesn't see everything in local.cf

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
what user does spamd run as? Perhaps it's a permissions problem. Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Help: getpwuid function is unimplemented?

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
IOW, it sounds as if SA is Unix-specific, until proven otherwise. Why on earth would you trust Windows to process your email, anyways? >duck< Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: GA coming up with wacky scores? was Re: [SAtalk] Announcing 2.1 release

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
spamware to send out regular email? Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

[SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
nsitive and handle RFC 822 address quoting, of course. Here's a quick and dirty attempt: header TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPARTTo =~ /\"?(\w+)\"?\s+<\1\@[^<>]+>/i describe TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART Real name in "To:" equals local part score TO_REALNAME_

[SAtalk] Experiments with SA 2.1

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
s to which scores are spam markers and which are not, so it can keep spam markers out of negative territory. Maybe it should warn about spam-marker tests that want to be negative: that indicates that there's something wrong either with the test or with the corpus. Greg -- Greg

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
to think that you're the unusual case here. Most people's names are different from their email addresses. > BTW, You would also have to handle headers formatted as > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gward) S'pose so, but I don't recall seeing much spam that looks l

Re: [SAtalk] Administrivia: list organization question

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
it figures out what the list reply address (this is how mutt works, AFAICT). Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spama

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
e appropriate than \w+ is used, or so it doesn't match when there are mismatched quotes? Or do you want to take over from here? I'm not really clear on how strict SA's regexes should be -- ie. is the goal to follow the grammar in the RFC, or to just do a good enough job that most

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: preventing spamers from Masquerading private domains.

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
t way. Be thankful your domain name is not as popular as, say, hotmail.com for spammers. Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
On 28 February 2002, Craig Hughes said: > Greg, I think I'm going to be busy for a few days just with scoring > refinements. If you could solidify the regex I'd appreciate it. OK, here's a patch relative to CVS: --- rules/20_head_tests.cf 26 Feb 2002 12:04:21 -000

Re: [SAtalk] Nigerian scam filter improvements

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
: I have seen several "Nigerian" scams that are actually about Zimbabwe or Sierra Leone or some other African country. (They sound like the same scam, though.) Does this collection include any of those? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [SAtalk] Filter idea: non-spammish mail agents

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
t;non-spam" MUAs, because as soon as the smart spammers notice that rule, guess what they'll add to their headers... Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangeht

Re: [SAtalk] rule SUBJ_ALL_CAPS not working right

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
Perl 5.005, this rule is broken. It uses regex features added in Perl 5.6. I changed it to header SUBJ_ALL_CAPSSubject =~ /^[^a-z]{6,}$/ which is clearly biased against non-English languages, but at least it works with Perl 5.005. Craig, this hasn't been fixed in CVS. Is it goin

Re: [SAtalk] rule SUBJ_ALL_CAPS not working right

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
"ALL CAPS" subject does.) How 'bout this: header SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject =~ /^[^a-z]{3,}$/ (for some value of 3)? Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
ought to be worth a point or so. But I don't see a good way to do *that* with a regex. That sort of thing really should be done by fully parsing the message header, pulling out the local-part of the "To" address, and then looking in the body for that. Greg -- Greg

Re: [SAtalk] Idea: ignore self for auto-whitelist and identifcal to/from

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
r specifies his address; if you don't have it, you can't use your special code. Greg [1] OK, OK, I thought of an idea: send a message to a special cooked address that you (the programmer) control; for SA, it might be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". A script behind this a

Re: [SAtalk] Wierd Spam Message

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
yone > else has seen this. All the time. 3 years ago, 99+% of spam had a completely bogus "To" header. Nowadays it's maybe 50%. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchan

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
obably these are the ones spamming thousands-to-tens-of- thousands of people, not millions-to-hundreds-of-millions. Anyways, if you're going to go to the trouble to put "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in spam for me, you might as well add "Dear: gward". It just seems like som

Re: [SAtalk] Sightings Problem

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
ct mail based on bogus "From:" headers. Apparently, the preferred way to use spamassassin-sightings now is to submit the spam as an attachment. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

[SAtalk] A signed message

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Leffler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's a signed message for your tests. - -- Greg Leffler| GPG Key Fingerprint (ID 0x5C49D3CA) http://greg.louisville.ky.us| 2845 598C 879C 8B73 0EAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 8DA1 7579 C1B6 5C49 D3CA GPG Key available a

Re: [SAtalk] Conf.pm RFC

2002-03-05 Thread Greg Ward
n't see an easy way to do this. If I could specify the exact config file to use for checking any particular piece of email, then SA doesn't need to get much more complex -- I can put my config files wherever I please, and update them however I like. Greg -- Greg Ward - s

Re: [SAtalk] alternate configs through spamc

2002-03-06 Thread Greg Ward
hon script that launches spamc) will figure out which config file to use, and tell spamc. Presumably, spamc will then tell spamc to use that config file instead of ~user/.spamassassin/user_prefs, which will be irrelevant most of the time. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

[SAtalk] "make install" clobbers user_prefs

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
Ooh, this is bad: it looks like "make install" in SA 2.11 clobbers your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. *Very* annoying -- I had a lot of stuff in mine! Waahhh!! Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

[SAtalk] Malformed address?

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
I just got a spam with this "To" header: To: ...is that malformed? (No, I still haven't memorized RFC 2822, sorry.) The TO_MALFORMED test does *not* catch it. (In fact, *no* tests caught this spam -- not a single one! But that's another issue...) Greg --

Re: [SAtalk] Killing spamc

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
ust crashed and that's that [1]. I don't see why it would have consumed one character of my message and not the rest. Greg [1] although it would be nice if it didn't crash on a syntax error in local.cf ... ;-) -- G

[SAtalk] FROM_AND_TO_SAME case sensitive

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
Just got this in a spam: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The FROM_AND_TO_SAME rule didn't match because it doesn't normalize case. Perhaps the last line of the function should be changed to (lc($from) eq lc($to)); ? Greg -- Greg Ward - software

Re: [SAtalk] Killing spamc

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
On 07 March 2002, Bart Schaefer said: > What version of procmail? The procmail-3.21-0.62 RPM from Red Hat 6.2. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.

Re: [SAtalk] Killing spamc

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Ward
On 07 March 2002, Bart Schaefer said: > Got this reply from the procmail list. Are you (Greg and/or Daniel) sure > that you're using the proper procmailrc lockfile syntax on recipes that > deliver to mailboxes? I don't think locks are relevant in my case, since the bogus me

Re: [SAtalk] Razor settings

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Ward
; just submit a message (spam, please!) using spamassassin -Dr. Wait a minute or so, then run the message through spamassassin -P, and the Razor test should score. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] "make install" clobbers user_prefs

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Ward
clobbered my user_prefs? confused-and-slightly-embarassed, Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] alternate configs through spamc

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Ward
e the same as user > nobody or something, and then just use the standard user_prefs location. That sounds like almost as much fun as selecting, installing, maintaining, and updating a relational database. No thanks. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEM

Re: [SAtalk] FWD: SPAM: 213.50 [!CrackMonkey!] SpamAssassin this, MOFO!!! ADV: Your Membership Exchange order -- Question to eBay seller g.r.a.p.e?

2002-03-11 Thread Greg Ward
). Was that gem manually crafted, or has someone fed a zillion spams into Dissociated Press (or something similar)? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.m

Re: [SAtalk] Misc. rule ideas

2002-03-11 Thread Greg Ward
st of email addresses there as "your addresses", and use them to look for things like Subject: kerry_nice or, my pet peeve: To: gward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is also a pretty sure spam marker for me. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Matching on attribution lines (was Re: Misc. rule ideas)

2002-03-11 Thread Greg Ward
ced by setting the group score for the anti-false-positive rule group to -1. Hmmm: putting a rule into two groups, one with a group score < 0 and another with a group score > 0, could be confusing. Should probably warn about that case. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [SAtalk] Help the ignorant

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
izing the scores, under SA 2.0 and later you need to edit ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassass

Re: [SAtalk] Messages with empty bodies?

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
the last header, there's a blank line and then nothing? No MIME cruft? Ummm, where's the spam then? Do they just put their 800 number or URL in the subject? Greg PS. wow, a message where every sentence is a question -- new record! ___

Re: [SAtalk] Freebsd build problem

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
ot find -liconv > *** Error code 1 Did you build your own Perl, or did it come with the OS? If you built it, did you build it on this version of the OS, or an older version? Have you ever successfully built any Perl extensions on this machine, with the current Perl build and OS installation? Wha

Re: [SAtalk] Spamc Not Tagging E-mail

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
sed to go through spamc, and again watch spamd's output. Any help? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassas

Re: [SAtalk] Error during SpamAssassin build - ld: fatal: library -ldb: not found

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
extensions, even though spamc is a standalone C program and not a Perl extension. It should be safe to edit your Makefile and remove the "-ldb" reference, although this is a kludge. There's something wrong either with your Perl build or with SA's Makefile.PL. Greg -

Re: [SAtalk] Messages with empty bodies?

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
t long time ago to check that users > entered a valid email address in a Web from. Not true. Testing as far as RCPT TO can determine if an email address is sure to fail, but it cannot determine that it's sure to succeed. Greg ___ Spamass

Re: [SAtalk] facility for reporting false matches

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
lize this, but that's not (yet) a priority for me. I'll probably put these scripts on my web page at some point. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org _

Re: [SAtalk] Continuing to help the ignorant

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
ome control. Pipe your message through "spamassassin -t" to see a full report regardless of how spammy it is. If you're using spamc/spamd (and you should be, for efficiency reasons!), note that spamd doesn't always see your user_prefs file. It usually boils down to a permissi

Re: [SAtalk] using SA in /etc/aliases

2002-03-13 Thread Greg Ward
u do with that stdout is up to you and your MTA configuration to decide. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk ma

Re: [SAtalk] Help the ignorant

2002-03-13 Thread Greg Ward
On 13 March 2002, Rob McMillin said: > -p only reads user scores. Did you try > > :0fw: > | spamassassin -P -c https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

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

2002-03-14 Thread Greg Ward
uoted too much spammy material. *None* of my false positives have been mail that would be worth responding to so that some stranger who happens to be on the same mailing list as me can send me mail. But that's just my experience. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [SAtalk] Some more rule ideas

2002-03-14 Thread Greg Ward
-)+)[\w\d]{7,}$/ ^^^^ The \d's there are unnecessary, as \w includes digits. That means a character class is not needed, so the regex simplifies to rawbody UNIQUE_BODY_ID/^(?:(?:\w{7,}-)+)\w{7,}$/ Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk ma

Re: [SAtalk] Messed emails

2002-03-14 Thread Greg Ward
t; is seeing this on occasion? Or is this a known problem with 2.11? It seems > to be a random event and not neccessarily from the same sender. Might conceivably be a locking problem. How are you delivering messages, and to what sort of message store (mbox, maildir, etc.)? Gre

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Messed emails

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
;s locking syntax. Like everything procmail, it's cryptic and non-obvious. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-t

Re: [SAtalk] spamc

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
ject "libgdbm.so.2" not found Rebuild spamc without linking in that library. It probably came from Perl's standard-set-of-libraries-for-building-Perl-extensions, which isn't relevant for spamc. (You can either edit the Makefile, or run some variation on cc -o spamc spamc.c man

Re: [SAtalk] What header to add to disable SA

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
structions so that messages that match some signature -- eg. subject line, maybe last Received header -- are delivered directly, not piped through SA. Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/lis

Re: [SAtalk] Can anyone help with this?

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
rint socket.gethostname()" or this (requires a relatively recent Python -- 2.0 or later, maybe?): python -c "import socket; print socket.getfqdn()" ? Also, you haven't said which version of which OS you're using. Greg -- Greg Ward - software devel

Re: [SAtalk] Installation breaks

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
be built with "-lgdbm", and 2) SpamAssassin uses Perl's idea of how to build Perl extensions to build spamc, which is a standalone C program that has nothing to do with Perl. That does it -- I'm filing a bug report on this one. Sick of typing the same thing again and again and

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