Re: What's changed since 2.61?

2004-09-05 Thread Michele Neylon : Blacknight Solutions
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 17:50 -0500, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been out of the loop for a while and I was wondering if any > signficant changes have happened since 2.61 and whether I would likely > be introducing any incompatibility issues by upgrading. I'm not 100% sure about 2.61, b

Re: Ping for primary MX

2004-09-05 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, September 05, 2004 2:15 PM -0700 Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's also not just enough to ping the higher priority MX peers because the spam checker might be running on the primary MX only so it would only receive delayed mail from the backup MXes once it was back up. P

Re: What's changed since 2.61?

2004-09-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 05:50:34PM -0500, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Because I'm using Mail::Audit I often have to construct NoMailAudit's > from SA and visa versa. Yeah... Mail::Audit support really was deprecated a while ago, and it's actually completely removed in 3.0.0. There were too many is

What's changed since 2.61?

2004-09-05 Thread Robert Nicholson
Hi, I've been out of the loop for a while and I was wondering if any signficant changes have happened since 2.61 and whether I would likely be introducing any incompatibility issues by upgrading. Currently I'm programatically invoke Spamassassin from within a perlscript that processes my incomi

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Ham corpora needed

2004-09-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, September 5, 2004, 2:56:04 PM, Ryan Thompson wrote: > FWIW, the mass-check I did on that 75K corpus took about 1.75h, on a > beefy machine with rbldnsd running on localhost, with 20 concurrent > jobs. (mass-check is slower than molasses for anything that blocks if > you don't let it run

Re: Ping for primary MX

2004-09-05 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, but by my quick test here it would help a bit. 0.22% of my spam and > 9% of my missed spam was sent via my secondary MX. Oops, that 0.22% is the number of _missed_ spam messages that hit the rule out of all of my spam. It's about 8% of my spam ov

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Ham corpora needed

2004-09-05 Thread Ryan Thompson
Jeff Chan wrote to SURBL Discuss and SpamAssassin Users: In order to reduce false positives in the SURBL data, we would like to have access to ham corpora. Does anyone know of any public ham copora, including just the URI domain names from the hams? Or is there anyone who would be willing to run

Re: Ping for primary MX

2004-09-05 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Quinlan writes: > Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Has anyone written a plugin for SA3 that pings the higher-priority MX > > peers for a domain and boosts the spam score if they're up? > > No, but by my quick test here it woul

Ham corpora needed

2004-09-05 Thread Jeff Chan
In order to reduce false positives in the SURBL data, we would like to have access to ham corpora. Does anyone know of any public ham copora, including just the URI domain names from the hams? Or is there anyone who would be willing to run our URI domain lists against their ham? Does anyone know

Re: Ping for primary MX

2004-09-05 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone written a plugin for SA3 that pings the higher-priority MX > peers for a domain and boosts the spam score if they're up? No, but by my quick test here it would help a bit. 0.22% of my spam and 9% of my missed spam was sent via my secondary

Ping for primary MX

2004-09-05 Thread Kenneth Porter
Has anyone written a plugin for SA3 that pings the higher-priority MX peers for a domain and boosts the spam score if they're up?

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Setting SpamAssassin scores for SURBL lists

2004-09-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, September 5, 2004, 10:32:57 AM, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Jeff Chan wrote to SURBL Discuss and SpamAssassin Users: >> Basically the higher the FP rate, the less useful a list is. > ... or, rather, the lower it ought to be scored. Yes, but please remember that not everyone has the ability

Cannot write to journal and others

2004-09-05 Thread John Fleming
I have three questions regarding mail log excerpt at end of post. 1. Can't write to bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored - My Bayes stuff is in /var/.spamassassin as shown below. Here's the pertinent portion of local.cf: use_bayes 1 bayes_path /var/.spamassassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 0777 bay

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Setting SpamAssassin scores for SURBL lists

2004-09-05 Thread Ryan Thompson
Jeff Chan wrote to SURBL Discuss and SpamAssassin Users: Basically the higher the FP rate, the less useful a list is. ... or, rather, the lower it ought to be scored. Does anyone have other corpus stats to share, in particular FP rates? Sure. All of these messages were received in the past 10 days

Re: spamd eating up CPU

2004-09-05 Thread Predrag Lezaic
I've forgotten which version you said you are running, 2.63? Yes, Ensim 4.0.1 comes with 2.63. There are some known problems with 2.6x that can cause, or seem to cause, things like this. 1.You might have bigevil.cf. This will crash almost any machine these days. If so, get rid of it. How do I

RE: spamd eating up CPU

2004-09-05 Thread Predrag Lezaic
Did you take a look at MaliScanner.conf that I sent you? Thanks, Predrag From: "David J. Duffner - NWCWEB.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Loren Wilton'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: spamd eating up CPU Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:39:31 -04

Re: Bayes scoring question

2004-09-05 Thread Tom Meunier
Theodore Heise wrote: This seems counterintuitive to me, based on my understanding of probability and statistics (which is admitedly just enough to be dangerous). Is this a result of some interaction? For example a message that meets BAYES_99 is also more likely to trigger some network tests, so

Bayes scoring question

2004-09-05 Thread Theodore Heise
Hi all, This may have been addressed previously, but I couldn't find it in the list archives. I was looking over scores of my newly installed 3.0.0-rc2 and noticed that for fourth column[1] the BAYES_95 score is higher than BAYES_99. score BAYES_00 0 0 -1.665 -2.599 score BAYES_

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Setting SpamAssassin scores for SURBL lists

2004-09-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, September 5, 2004, 3:30:49 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > Seeing those data it would be very interesting if we could test a seperate > list. Is that possible? I would like to test the Prolo and Joe's list > combined, without the rest of the WS list. I can generate the data for a > tes

Setting SpamAssassin scores for SURBL lists

2004-09-05 Thread Jeff Chan
Eric Kolve and I were looking at how to best set the default SpamCopURI scores for the various SURBL lists and at first we tried looking at the SpamAssassin 3.0 perceptron-generated scores as a possible guide: > http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/rules/50_scores.cf > > # The followi

Re: shifting the midpoint between the average spam and average ham

2004-09-05 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Flowers writes: > > You make a valid point in that, if graphed separately, ham and spam > should show up as two separate curves on a graph. > > > However, there *is* overlap, > > Yes, I expect overlap or SA would be perfect with no FPs or FNs

Re: How many rules do we need for Hight Priority Mail?

2004-09-05 Thread Daniel Quinlan
"Cirelle Enterprises" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You would think one would suffice. > > 0.5 X_MSMAIL_PRIORITY_HIGH Sent with 'X-Msmail-Priority' set to high > 1.3 X_PRIORITY_HIGH Sent with 'X-Priority' set to high They're different headers and only sum to 1.8. The scores will in

RE: spamd eating up CPU

2004-09-05 Thread David J. Duffner - NWCWEB.com
>-Original Message- >From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:54 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: spamd eating up CPU > > >I've forgotten which version you said you are running, 2.63? > >There are some known problems with 2.6x that can cause