Whitelist_from_rcvd and multiple DNS resolvers causing problems?

2004-09-23 Thread Joe Smith
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I'm using SpamAssassin 3.0 when I use whitelist_from_rcvd with domain names that reverse to only one possible domain it works just as it should. When the domain name is one that has multiple possibilities that it can reve

Re: ALL_TRUSTED

2004-09-23 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray writes: > I see this is already in bugzilla. Should we just depreciate that rule for > now? It is really screwing up my scores. As the bz bug says -- it's a symptom as much as anything else. so adding support for the Received header format it

ALL_TRUSTED

2004-09-23 Thread Ray
I see this is already in bugzilla. Should we just depreciate that rule for now? It is really screwing up my scores. Ray Dzek Network Operations Supervisor Specialized Bicycle Components PH: 408-782-5420 FX: 408-782-5421

Re: Auto Training Filtering Gateway

2004-09-23 Thread Kelson
David Brodbeck wrote: Kelson wrote: Mail sent from <> to a few addresses that we never use for outgoing mail is rejected with an "Invalid bounce" explanation. (Don't do this with postmaster or abuse, or you'll probably end up listed on RFC-ignorant.) AFAIK you won't unless someone decides to rep

Re: Auto Training Filtering Gateway

2004-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
Kelson wrote: Mail sent from <> to a few addresses that we never use for outgoing mail is rejected with an "Invalid bounce" explanation. (Don't do this with postmaster or abuse, or you'll probably end up listed on RFC-ignorant.) AFAIK you won't unless someone decides to report you. RFC-ignorant

Re: Auto Training Filtering Gateway

2004-09-23 Thread Kelson
David Brodbeck wrote: You may want to restrict outside addresses from sending to those accounts...well, at least the notspam one. It's occurred to me, after getting a bunch of spam to web-scraped email addresses, that if I published the spam@ address in hidden text on our website the filter might

[Semi OT]: Spam OPT-OUT link distributes DragDrop JS exploit

2004-09-23 Thread Kang , Joseph S.
I can't recall if this article from The Register got mentioned here or not: Click here to become infected By John Leyden Published Wednesday 22nd September 2004 09:15 GMT Users should be wary of pressing the 'click here to remove' link on spam messages because it serves to confirm to spammers tha

Re: [sa-list] Re: DSPAM-plugin for SpamAssassin 3.* ?

2004-09-23 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not sure -- as far as I can see MIMEDefang is a C program and as such can use the XS apis to create a perl interpreter object from C, which seems to be what the embedded perl is. We're pure-perl, and as such it shouldn't help us at all ;) - --j.

temp file in /tmp

2004-09-23 Thread Szathmary Laszlo
Hi, I am new to the list. I installed SA 3.0.0 today, and it works fine. At the moment I only have one question concerning the temp file. In default it is written to the /tmp directory with rights 666. It is quite dangerous, anyone can modify it! How to change the rights to 600 automatically? In m

Re: t/prefs_include fails

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:27 PM 9/23/2004, Ray wrote: Hi all, Trying to install from CPAN and get the following message on make test. t/prefs_include.Not found: qp-encoded-desc = Invalid Date: header =ae =af =b0 foo # Failed test 1 in t/SATest.pm at line 530 t/prefs_include.FAILED test 1

Re: SA 3.0 bugs ?

2004-09-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:21:43PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote: > I got only clean messages with -1.1 > and in /var/log/messages from spamd: > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm line 184. > Use of

t/prefs_include fails

2004-09-23 Thread Ray
Hi all, Trying to install from CPAN and get the following message on make test. t/prefs_include.Not found: qp-encoded-desc = Invalid Date: header =ae =af =b0 foo # Failed test 1 in t/SATest.pm at line 530 t/prefs_include.FAILED test 1 Failed 1/2 tests, 50.00%

SA 3.0 upgrade bug and fix (spamd reporting to log, but not tagging messages)

2004-09-23 Thread Brian L . Gentry
Following our upgrade to SA 3.0 today we experienced a very odd problem. When checking messages with spamc, spamd would report the status to syslog (putting it into my mail log files) but it would *not* add X-Spam headers, nor would it modify the subject line as my rules file directed it to. I

Re: Mail::Audit and Mail::SpamAssassin no longer getting along?

2004-09-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:27:25AM -0400, Phil Thompson wrote: > Command output: Can't locate > auto/Mail/Audit/MailInternet/extract_mes.al in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3 > etc etc etc > > Has anyone seen this error? Know how to fix it?

Re: spamassassin --lint fails on OS X using SA 3.0.0

2004-09-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:35:39AM -0400, Rob Kudyba wrote: > Here is the debug output...has this been reported? not an SA issue. > /etc/mail/spamassassin root# /usr/bin/spamassassin --lint -D > debug: config: read file //etc/mail/spamassassin/70_sare_html.cf > debug: config: read file //etc/mail

Re: Redhat / Fedora RPMs?

2004-09-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:47:34PM -0500, jenni baier wrote: > Does anyone have 3.0 in RPM form? I can't find any links to RPM versions > on the site... Grab the tar ball, run "rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0.tar.gz", it'll build for you. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: A writer thinks

Re: Redhat / Fedora RPMs?

2004-09-23 Thread Christof Damian
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, jenni baier wrote: > Does anyone have 3.0 in RPM form? I can't find any links to RPM versions > on the site... there is one in their development directory. I had to remove rewrite_subject and subject_tag from /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf though.

Re: Auto Training Filtering Gateway

2004-09-23 Thread Robert LeBlanc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Buckmaster wrote: | I have set up a spam/virus filtering gateway using the very popular | combination of ClamAV+Spamassassin+Amavisd-new+Postfix. As its still | in development, I'd like to do a slow roll-out to the users and have | them help train

Re: [sa-list] Re: DSPAM-plugin for SpamAssassin 3.* ?

2004-09-23 Thread Lucas Albers
Could you use the embedded perl? Mimedefang uses that for better memory sharing between processes, appears to work on most platforms running 5.6 or later of perl. Justin Mason said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Sounds like we need to figure out how to get more of our stuff

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:05:30AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > Kenneth Porter writes: > > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the SlashDot > > effect could be used for good by getting everyone to visit the > > spammer's site and take it to its knees, while driving up the > > spa

Re: Re: Mail::Audit and Mail::SpamAssassin no longer getting along?

2004-09-23 Thread Phil Thompson
File this under both: - too late - my own damn fault but those of us who just do: $cpan cpan> install Mail::SpamAssassin never get to *see* the UPGRADE file I'm just saying it would have been nice if a question popped up under cpan's installation that asked "are you using Mail::Audit to fil

Re: Auto Training Filtering Gateway

2004-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:51:36 -0500, Gary Buckmaster wrote > considered setting up spam@ and notspam@ accounts on the gateway > itself, and having local users send appropriate samples to these > accounts, then running sa-learn against these. Does this approach > make a great deal of sense? Has an

Re: Auto Training Filtering Gateway

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:51 PM 9/23/2004, Gary Buckmaster wrote: To this end, I've considered setting up spam@ and notspam@ accounts on the gateway itself, and having local users send appropriate samples to these accounts, then running sa-learn against these. Does this approach make a great deal of sense? Only if y

Re: Possible Suggestion for remote machines

2004-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:29:49 -0400 (EDT), Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote > While I'm thinking about this, let me offer up a suggestion... > > For those of us that prefer user_prefs in text files but because > SpamAssassin with the preforking is getting much bigger have decided > we need a separ

Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Ulysses Cruz
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:54:14PM -0500, Sandy S whispered: > Apparently the lookups timed out. I assume that's something to do with the > fact that it's checking for tvuu.wneiis-MUNGEDplanet.info instead of just > wneiis-MUNGEDplanet.info, but I don't know enough about how the URI RBLs > work t

Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Sandy S
- Original Message - From: "Ulysses Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:21 PM Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0? > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:10:40PM -0500, Sandy S whispered: > > Ulysses - > > Thanks for your advice. I

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Steve Bertrand wrote: >>>Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with >>>valid-looking purchase data, might work better. >> >> >> As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I >> disagree >> firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very >> e

Auto Training Filtering Gateway

2004-09-23 Thread Gary Buckmaster
Hi All, I have set up a spam/virus filtering gateway using the very popular combination of ClamAV+Spamassassin+Amavisd-new+Postfix. As its still in development, I'd like to do a slow roll-out to the users and have them help train the database against spam. To this end, I've considered setting up

Re: Mail::Audit and Mail::SpamAssassin no longer getting along?

2004-09-23 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Thompson writes: > disclaimer: I posted this to comp.lang.perl.modules (no reply yet), but since > this list is the FIRST place I looked, I'll send here as well. > > Hello, > > Until yesterday, I was happily using a combination of Mail::Audit

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Mike Hogsett
Steve Bertrand wrote: Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with valid-looking purchase data, might work better. As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I disagree firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very entertaining and I was LMA

Re: [sa-list] Re: DSPAM-plugin for SpamAssassin 3.* ?

2004-09-23 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 snowjack writes: > David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:26:12 -0700, snowjack wrote > >>Yeah, and it is true that SpamAssassin uses lots of RAM (20M per > >>process?) So what, RAM is cheap! > > > > If I'm not mistaken, some of that 20M i

users-subscribe -at- spamassassin.apache.org

2004-09-23 Thread romeshn
users-subscribe -at- spamassassin.apache.org This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other informat

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with > valid-looking purchase data, might work better. As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I disagree firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very entertaining and I was LMAO when I read it..

Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Ulysses Cruz
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:10:40PM -0500, Sandy S whispered: > Ulysses - > Thanks for your advice. I'm pretty sure we have all the needed perl > modules, since 99% of the time the URIBL rules are working just as they're > supposed to. It's only on those one or two .info domains that they don't >

RE: Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Ken Goods
Sandy S scribbled on Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:05 AM: > > Ken - > I quoted the missed URI in my original message, and it > appears that's what > triggered the URI_RBL rules on yours and Ulysses' systems. (Just not > on mine!) :-( > > I did double-check our domain and it's not listed, but t

Re: Output 'body' and 'rawbody' text in the Debug data for SA 3.0.0

2004-09-23 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shane Metler writes: > Answering my own question ... > > Well I was able to find a BUG report that (at present) says 'body' and > 'rawbody' debug output has been removed from 3.0.0. I don't think it was in there in the first place ;) However if I

Request for custom rule to imitate whitelist_from_rcvd

2004-09-23 Thread John Schneider
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need to create a custom rule to imitate the action of whitelist_from_rcvd. The reason I need to do this is because I have several networks where mail originates for the same domain before it is received at our internal mail server. Originally, I

Redhat / Fedora RPMs?

2004-09-23 Thread jenni baier
Does anyone have 3.0 in RPM form? I can't find any links to RPM versions on the site... Thanks in advance...

Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Sandy S
- Original Message - From: "Ulysses Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:03 PM Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0? > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:44:39PM -0500, Sandy S. whispered: > > Thanks for your response - that's very

Re: [sa-list] Re: DSPAM-plugin for SpamAssassin 3.* ?

2004-09-23 Thread snowjack
David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:26:12 -0700, snowjack wrote Yeah, and it is true that SpamAssassin uses lots of RAM (20M per process?) So what, RAM is cheap! If I'm not mistaken, some of that 20M is actually shared amongst all the spamd processes, so it's not as much memory usage as

Re: {Spam?} Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Sandy S
- Original Message - From: "Ken Goods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Sandy S'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:37 PM Subject: RE: {Spam?} Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0? > Sandy S scribbled on Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:52 AM: > > > I'm in the p

Re: Low scores for Bayes

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:43 PM 9/23/2004, German Staltari wrote: Hi, I would like to know why the Bayes rules has so low scores. Read the FAQ, this explains how most rule scores are assigned, including bayes: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned Basically, it's the result of a real-world statisti

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Porter writes: > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the SlashDot effect > could be used for good by getting everyone to visit the spammer's site and > take it to its knees, while driving up the spammer's bandwidth bill. Ch

Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Ulysses Cruz
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:44:39PM -0500, Sandy S. whispered: > Thanks for your response - that's very interesting! We're running > Spamassassin 3.0 on FreeBSD 4.9, using spamd/spamc called via procmail. I > do have a bunch of custom rulesets, mostly pulled from the SARE site: > 70_sare_uri.cf, 9

Low scores for Bayes

2004-09-23 Thread German Staltari
Hi, I would like to know why the Bayes rules has so low scores. TIA German

Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Sandy S.
- Original Message - From: "Ulysses Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:22 PM Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0? > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:52:03AM -0500, Sandy S whispered: > > I'm in the process of upgrading to Spa

RE: {Spam?} Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Ken Goods
Sandy S scribbled on Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:52 AM: > I'm in the process of upgrading to Spamassassin 3.0 and am > currently running > my email through the new version of Spamassassin. I just had > an email slip > through that should have been caught by the URIDNSBL lookups - it's > listed

Optimal amount of RAM?

2004-09-23 Thread Paul Hutchings
I suppose this is a "piece of string" question, but I have a box configured to receive mail using Suse, Postfix, pass it through Spamassassin 3.0 and then relay it to an internal server. Spamassassin is always invoked under a "filter" user account, so there is a single shared bayes d/b. Setting

RE: Output 'body' and 'rawbody' text in the Debug data for SA 3.0.0

2004-09-23 Thread Shane Metler
Answering my own question ... Well I was able to find a BUG report that (at present) says 'body' and 'rawbody' debug output has been removed from 3.0.0. This was bad news ... I really like to see exactly what SA sees. So I had to add a little code to the package Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus,

Subject Line Modification

2004-09-23 Thread Scott George
Greetings all!   I have just put my Postfix/Spamassassin/Solaris9 server into production an hour ago, and I am loving the results.  I have one issue where SpamAssassin is not modifying my subject line.  This is important because rules on the client detect the modification to put the spam of

Re: RBL tests

2004-09-23 Thread Jerry Gaiser
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 07:56, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 09:36 AM 9/23/2004, Jerry Gaiser wrote: > >Ok, I know I'm probably missing something, but since upgrading to 3.0 > >RBL tests don't seem to being executed. > > > >I use nothing but Bayes and RBL and have had good results through the > >2.6x seri

Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Ulysses Cruz
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:52:03AM -0500, Sandy S whispered: > I'm in the process of upgrading to Spamassassin 3.0 and am currently running > my email through the new version of Spamassassin. I just had an email slip > through that should have been caught by the URIDNSBL lookups - it's listed > in

Re: timeout www.spamassasin.org ?

2004-09-23 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:40:16 -0400 Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the > spamassassin.apache.org site as well. > > Anyone else? > > Chris Santerre Maybe it's *you* having a problem? -- Raquel ===

SpamAssassin 3.0 gives high scores!

2004-09-23 Thread Danie Marais
I just want to mention that since using SA 3 my average spam score went up from 20 to 35 with some spam scoring over 80! Way cool - well done guys. Check out this one... :) Content analysis details: (87.6 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---

SA-Learn script

2004-09-23 Thread Rubin Bennett
Hello all... I figure I've asked enough questions of this list that it's about time I gave something back... You may not want it,but here it is anyway :) I've written a bash script that takes will run sa-learn against the administrator specified False-Postive and False-Negative folders. Run this

RE: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:31 AM -0400 Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Reisstinnng urge to crack joke..feeling rising..so .so difficult to not.arghhh.p.. *pop* I think there's a pill for that. And even if there's not, someone should soo

Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?

2004-09-23 Thread Sandy S
I'm in the process of upgrading to Spamassassin 3.0 and am currently running my email through the new version of Spamassassin. I just had an email slip through that should have been caught by the URIDNSBL lookups - it's listed in all of the URI blacklists. Here's a snippet from my debug output on

RE: timeout www.spamassasin.org ?

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Martin Huber >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:49 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: timeout www.spamassasin.org ? > > >Chris Santerre wrote: > >> I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the >>

RE: timeout www.spamassasin.org ?

2004-09-23 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Chris Santerre wrote: > >> I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the >> spamassassin.apache.org site as well. >> >> Anyone else? > > Keep trying. You'll get in eventually. SA is a victim of its own > success

Re: SA site?

2004-09-23 Thread Alex S Moore
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:57, Chris Santerre wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble getting to the SA website? Not here, Chris. Typing www.spamassassin.org takes me to spamassassin.apache.org quickly. Alex

Re: timeout www.spamassasin.org ?

2004-09-23 Thread Martin Huber
Chris Santerre wrote: I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the spamassassin.apache.org site as well. Anyone else? It gave me timeouts as well a few minutes ago, but now it seems to work again. Looks like they redesigned the page. -- Martin -- The From: and Reply-To: addre

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Chris Santerre wrote: On a related note, is anyone seeing the main spamassassin site down now? -Dan List Whore -- "One...plus two...plus one...plus one." -Tim Curry, Clue Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: La

Re: timeout www.spamassasin.org ?

2004-09-23 Thread Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Chris Santerre wrote: I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the spamassassin.apache.org site as well. Anyone else? Keep trying. You'll get in eventually. SA is a victim of its own success =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: timeout www.spamassasin.org ?

2004-09-23 Thread Andy Jezierski
Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/23/2004 10:40:16 AM: > I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the > spamassassin.apache.org site as well. > > Anyone else? > > Chris Santerre > System Admin and SARE Ninja > http://www.rulesemporium.com > http://www.surbl.org

RE: timeout www.spamassasin.org ?

2004-09-23 Thread Kang , Joseph S.
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:40 AM > To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > Subject: timeout www.spamassasin.org ? > > > I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And > the spamassassin.apache.org s

Re: Whitelisting question

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:20 AM 9/23/2004, Andy Norris wrote: I am adding those listings on the new server to the file /usr/share/spamassassin/60_whitelist.cf. I forgot a few: 4) do not edit files in /usr/share/spamassassin unless you REALLY know what you are doing. These files are considered to be a part of spamass

Re: Whitelisting question

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:20 AM 9/23/2004, Andy Norris wrote: We're migrating from one server to another. Both now have the same versions of SpamAssassin (2.64) and MailScanner running. We had all our whitelisting on the old server going on in /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules. Those listed in that file

spamc/spamd for MIMEDefang

2004-09-23 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
There's some debate on the MIMEDefang list on a performance issue and I wanted to get the SpamAssassin users' take on this. Is there any potential performance benefit to have MIMEDefang call out to spamd using spamc? Suppose I'm running MIMEDefang and SpamAssassin on a relay server. I might a

RE: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Dan Mahoney, System Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:06 PM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: 'Jim Maul'; users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: SlashDotting spammers > > >On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Chris Santerre wrote: > >On a relate

timeout www.spamassasin.org ?

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Santerre
I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the spamassassin.apache.org site as well. Anyone else? Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.surbl.org 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but th

SA site?

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Santerre
Is anyone else having trouble getting to the SA website? --chris

Re: Migrating Configs/Bayes into SQL

2004-09-23 Thread Mike Jackson
2) I seem to notice that spamd is the thing that creates the user files, rather than spamc -- if I still wanted these config files generated, for backwards compatibility (my plan is I would date-parse them on a cronjob and insert any modified ones into the SQL db with a setuid perl script), can a s

Output 'body' and 'rawbody' text in the Debug data for SA 3.0.0

2004-09-23 Thread Shane Metler
Title: Message Hi there,   I have been trying to find a debug option to output the 'body' and 'rawbody' text used when SpamAssassin does it's RegEx tests.   There was a clever RegEx rule that worked in SA 2.6.X   body  PRINTBODY   /(^.*$)(?{ print "Body: $1\n" })/is     But this kind of ru

Mail::Audit and Mail::SpamAssassin no longer getting along?

2004-09-23 Thread Phil Thompson
disclaimer: I posted this to comp.lang.perl.modules (no reply yet), but since this list is the FIRST place I looked, I'll send here as well. Hello, Until yesterday, I was happily using a combination of Mail::Audit and Mail::SpamAssassin to filter my mail. Yesterday I upgraded SpamAssassin to ve

Re: Migrating Configs/Bayes into SQL

2004-09-23 Thread Michael Parker
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:17:31AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > 1) Is there a supported way of migrating all the existing bayes databases > and user configs into SQL? I understand the userconfig format is fairly > straightforward, but I have no idea about the bayes system. > sql/R

Possible Suggestion for remote machines

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
While I'm thinking about this, let me offer up a suggestion... For those of us that prefer user_prefs in text files but because SpamAssassin with the preforking is getting much bigger have decided we need a separate box, does it make sense to run a "spamd-helper" on the machine with the home dir

Whitelisting question

2004-09-23 Thread Andy Norris
We're migrating from one server to another. Both now have the same versions of SpamAssassin (2.64) and MailScanner running. We had all our whitelisting on the old server going on in /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules. Those listed in that file on our new server are not being recognized

Migrating Configs/Bayes into SQL

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all... My users have previously used the normal text-based config files, however due to the load involved with SA-3, I am thinking of forking off a new box to do my scanning (400 domains or so -- it's a pain). The obvious problem is the concept of user configs -- unless I were to mount my e

Re: procedure for AWL pruning

2004-09-23 Thread Michael Parker
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:03:27AM -0500, Michael Parker wrote: > See tool/check_whitelist in the 3.0.0 tarball. Opps, tools/check_whitelist Michael

Re: procedure for AWL pruning

2004-09-23 Thread Michael Parker
See tool/check_whitelist in the 3.0.0 tarball. Michael

Re: Amavis-new and SpamAssassin 3.0 - any issues?

2004-09-23 Thread Vivek Khera
On Sep 22, 2004, at 7:15 PM, Ken Versteeg wrote: How will these changes affect the way the functions are called from amavisd-new? Has anyone successfully upgraded SpamAssassin to 3.0? Is my current version of Amavisd-new sufficient? make sure you have version of amavisd-new that understands SA

Re: RBL tests

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:36 AM 9/23/2004, Jerry Gaiser wrote: Ok, I know I'm probably missing something, but since upgrading to 3.0 RBL tests don't seem to being executed. I use nothing but Bayes and RBL and have had good results through the 2.6x series, but no reports since the upgrade. I have made to changes to loc

Re: procedure for AWL pruning

2004-09-23 Thread Kris Deugau
Jeff Koch wrote: > Our auto-whitelist file on our server has grown to 700MB. Is there a > procedure for pruning it? It seems to be growing indefinitely. There's no formal procedure I know of, but I found a similar issue (in my case, per-user AWL files were growing large enough to seriously warp th

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:21:24 -0400 Jim Maul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the > >> > SlashDot

RE: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:21 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: SlashDotting spammers > > >Quoting Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kenneth Porter wrote: > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the > SlashDot effect could be used for good by getting everyone to > visit the spammer's site and take it to its knee

Re: [sa-list] Re: DSPAM-plugin for SpamAssassin 3.* ?

2004-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:26:12 -0700, snowjack wrote > Yeah, and it is true that SpamAssassin uses lots of RAM (20M per > process?) So what, RAM is cheap! If I'm not mistaken, some of that 20M is actually shared amongst all the spamd processes, so it's not as much memory usage as you'd think. Five

Re: SA3 using _lots_ more memory than SA2

2004-09-23 Thread Rick Macdougall
Matt Mansfield wrote: Hi guys SA3 is working great for me - I've only had one false negative since installing and it's caught over 170 spam messages so far on my account. But I noticed that memory usage has been a lot more since installing it, see http://matt.gresleyrovers.com/pictures/mem-sa3.png

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, 6:42:21 AM, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMO the best way to combat spam is not to buy the advertised >> product. > That seems like a no-brainer. What do I need a penis extender for? I'm not touching th

SA3 using _lots_ more memory than SA2

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Mansfield
Hi guys SA3 is working great for me - I've only had one false negative since installing and it's caught over 170 spam messages so far on my account. But I noticed that memory usage has been a lot more since installing it, see http://matt.gresleyrovers.com/pictures/mem-sa3.png I'm only using the

Re: SlashDotting spammers

2004-09-23 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the > > SlashDot effect could be used for good by getting everyone to > > visit the spammer's site and take it to its knees, while driving > > up the spam

spamassassin --lint fails on OS X using SA 3.0.0

2004-09-23 Thread Rob Kudyba
Here is the debug output...has this been reported? /etc/mail/spamassassin root# /usr/bin/spamassassin --lint -D debug: SpamAssassin version 3.0.0 debug: Score set 0 chosen. debug: running in taint mode? yes debug: Running in taint mode, removing unsafe env vars, and resetting PATH debug: PATH inclu

RBL tests

2004-09-23 Thread Jerry Gaiser
Ok, I know I'm probably missing something, but since upgrading to 3.0 RBL tests don't seem to being executed. I use nothing but Bayes and RBL and have had good results through the 2.6x series, but no reports since the upgrade. I have made to changes to local.cf and, yes, I have dug through the wi

Re: SA 3.0 bugs ?

2004-09-23 Thread Anthony Edwards
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:51:54PM +0100, Anthony Edwards wrote: > I have also been unable to persuade spamd to add spamassassin headers, > as per my posting of last night to the list. Running spamassassin, in > contrast, seems to work properly (which seems to rule out it being a > local configur

Re: SA 3.0 bugs ?

2004-09-23 Thread Anthony Edwards
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:21:43PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote: > hi, > I got only clean messages with -1.1 > and in /var/log/messages from spamd: > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm line 184. > U

Re: SA 3.0 bayes db version 2

2004-09-23 Thread Michael Parker
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:01:11PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote: > Hi, > after installing over CPAN I got: > shodan:~ # sa-learn --sync > > bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! > at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line > 160. > > What to

SA 3.0 bugs ?

2004-09-23 Thread Thomas Richter
hi, I got only clean messages with -1.1 and in /var/log/messages from spamd: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm line 184. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/lib/perl5/site

Re: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input

2004-09-23 Thread Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Mike Loiterman wrote: I periodically get these errors in my log and when I do the messages are not scanned. What's going on and how do I stop it? This isn't an SA issue. It has to do with how your MTA deals with your LDA (probably procmail) Make sure that the LDA doesn't genera

Re: SA 3.0 bayes db version 2

2004-09-23 Thread Alex S Moore
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 06:01, Thomas Richter wrote: > bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! > at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line > 160. > > What to do? Be patient and do not cancel the process? I got the same message and saw that a c

SA 3.0 bayes db version 2

2004-09-23 Thread Thomas Richter
Hi, after installing over CPAN I got: shodan:~ # sa-learn --sync bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 160. What to do? wkr Thomas Richter -- dss1://49.431.801306 Wot're we going to do tonigh

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