Bug in SA 2.30?

2004-10-03 Thread Asif Iqbal
I am not sure if it is a bug. Here is what I am experiencing. The /etc/mail/spamassassin folder is 775 mode and spamd process owner is in the part of the group of the spamassassin folder But I had to change the owner of the bayes_* to the owner of the spamd process to get rid of the bayes db R/O

Build problems on RH9

2004-10-03 Thread Stuart Gall
>> >> >> PS >> perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::SpamAssassin' >> gives the same error. >If you try: >Export LANG=C >before installing using either method, what do you get? It BUILDS OK , TVM. Sorry, looking at the INSTALL file ISTM that I should set LANG before executing SA and not before building

Re: Build problems on RH9

2004-10-03 Thread Michele Neylon : Blacknight Solutions
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 00:12 +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: > Hello > I dont seem to be able to build 3.0.0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0]$ perl Makefile.PL > What email address or URL should be used in the suspected-spam report > text for users who want more information on your filter i

Re: Memory usage spikes ...

2004-10-03 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Potato Chip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 2:00 PM Subject: RE: Memory usage spikes ... > I've been calling this the Email Scud problem. I've been hoping for a > patriot missle for a long time. I have noticed the same problem with >

Build problems on RH9

2004-10-03 Thread Stuart Gall
Hello I dont seem to be able to build 3.0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0]$ perl Makefile.PL What email address or URL should be used in the suspected-spam report text for users who want more information on your filter installation? (In particular, ISPs should change this to a local Pos

Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, jdow wrote: How often do you "cc" yourself for your own records? Whenever I reply all. -Dan {^_^} - Original Message - From: "JamesDR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would personally block messages that are a loop from me to me. I don't foresee any real reason to have this loop

Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread jdow
How often do you "cc" yourself for your own records? {^_^} - Original Message - From: "JamesDR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would personally block messages that are a loop from me to me. I don't > foresee any real reason to have this loop enabled. On my mail server > this probably blocks 10

Warnings after SA 2.63 to SA 3.0

2004-10-03 Thread Asif Iqbal
Hi I am getting 169 warnings in my spamassassin --lint report after upgrading the SA from 2.63 to 3.0 These warnings are compiled of the following type of messages warning: description for SARE_HEAD_XLIB_INDY2 is over 50 chars (159 of this type) warning: description exists for non-existent rul

RE: Memory usage spikes ...

2004-10-03 Thread Potato Chip
I've been calling this the Email Scud problem. I've been hoping for a patriot missle for a long time. I have noticed the same problem with v2.63 and v2.64. I upgraded to v3.0 hoping that the problem would go away but it's still there. It's happened to me about 3 times, where an email will be sent

Re: how to force a Subject line?

2004-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Daniel M. Drucker wrote: > Is there a way to force a subject line to be inserted if there isn't > one already? Procmail will do it. Here is a rule to add one if none exist already. :0 fhw * ^To: *$ | formail -I "To: undisclosed-recipients" Bob

Re: [sa-list] Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > JamesDR wrote: > >I would personally block messages that are a loop from me to me. I don't > >foresee any real reason to have this loop enabled. On my mail server this > >probably blocks 10% at the mail server. > > Hrmmm, no I actually find this happens when I

SA 3.0 doesn't work after upgrade

2004-10-03 Thread Szabo Gabor
Hi! I have an Mandrake system which had to be upgrade from 10.0 Official to 10.1 Community. The upgrade was not full correct, the spamassassin package was 3.0 the spamassassin-tool was 2.63 after upgrading. Now spamassassin, spamassassin-tools and perl-Mail-SpamAssassin packages are all 3.0.0,

RE: how to force a Subject line?

2004-10-03 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> > Is there a way to force a subject line to be inserted if > there isn't one already? > Search bugzilla.. I sent a quick patch for SA3.0 to add a empty Subject: header when the subject header was missing from an email. I'd send you the bug #, but I'm too lazy to look it up :) d -- Dallas

Re: [sa-list] Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, JamesDR wrote: I would personally block messages that are a loop from me to me. I don't foresee any real reason to have this loop enabled. On my mail server this probably blocks 10% at the mail server. Hrmmm, no I actually find this happens when I reply-all and was included

Re: how to force a Subject line?

2004-10-03 Thread Joe Croft
I solved this problem by having folks use IMAP. This way I can just filter it at the server and stuff the email into their spam folder. The benefits of this is that they don't have to download all of the spam to their machine. They can just glean through the subjects and such to check it then de

how to force a Subject line?

2004-10-03 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
A lot of my users are having problems with spam not getting filtered out of their mailboxes due to those spams not having subject lines. If there's no subject line, the subject line doesn't get rewritten with rewrite_header. Many or most of them are using email software that doesn't have much in

Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread JamesDR
I would personally block messages that are a loop from me to me. I don't foresee any real reason to have this loop enabled. On my mail server this probably blocks 10% at the mail server. Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin writes: Wanted t

Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread JamesDR
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin writes: Wanted to share a recent email that I got, that SpamAssassin didn't pick up on as being spam. I have one crucial question afterwards. I've been seeing more and more of these -- and the %MAKE_TEXT

Re: SPF not working

2004-10-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Bill Landry wrote on Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:03:56 -0700: > If there is no SPF result, because the domain has not > published SPF records, then no SPF header or log entry will appear. > Which means it won't appear for most mail. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Intern

print runtime config

2004-10-03 Thread Marco Supino
Hi, I want to print , while spamassassin is running (spamd) the configuration of whitelist and whitelist, becuase i have several inputs for each (local.cf, SQL global and user-specific), and i want to see, while checking an email, what is the content of them, Anyone knows where they are stored,

Looking for quick code review of Text::SpamAssassin

2004-10-03 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, I wrote a wrapper around Mail::SpamAssassin to analyze arbitrary text & metadata as a defense against blog comment and wiki spam. I'm getting ready to submit it to CPAN so I'm looking for some quick sanity checking so I don't embarrass myself too badly. The code is at http://www.austinimpro

Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin writes: > Wanted to share a recent email that I got, that SpamAssassin didn't pick > up on as being spam. I have one crucial question afterwards. I've been seeing more and more of these -- and the %MAKE_TEXT[5] ones too.

Re: Bayes R/O tie failed with SA 3.0

2004-10-03 Thread Asif Iqbal
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:43:31PM, Alex S Moore wrote: > On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 21:40 -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:10:56PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > qmailq is the owner of spamd processses and has read/write permission on > > bayes_* files through the spam group > > > > (ro

RE: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread Mike Kercher
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Wanted to share a recent email that I got, that SpamAssassin didn't > pick up on as being spam. I have one crucial question afterwards. > > Begin Email: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 2 23:51:48 2004 > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from pri

What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Wanted to share a recent email that I got, that SpamAssassin didn't pick up on as being spam. I have one crucial question afterwards. Begin Email: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 2 23:51:48 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from prime.gushi.org ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by prime.

RE: Bayes R/O tie failed with SA 3.0

2004-10-03 Thread Ray
I had the exact same problem. I ran the sa-learn --sync as root instead of the user I have in the spamd startup script. In my case I have spamd -u spamduser So I just simply went to the bayes folder as root and did a chown to make spamduser the owner of all the bayes files again, and restarted

Re: Bayes R/O tie failed with SA 3.0

2004-10-03 Thread Alex S Moore
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 21:40 -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:10:56PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > qmailq is the owner of spamd processses and has read/write permission on > bayes_* files through the spam group > > (root)@qmail:/etc/mail/spamassassin# ls -al bayes_* > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ro

Re: Bayes R/O tie failed with SA 3.0

2004-10-03 Thread Asif Iqbal
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:10:56PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Asif Iqbal wrote: > > I just upgraded my SA from 2.63 to 3.0. I did the sa-learn --sync after > > the upgrade and the restarted spamd. Now I am seeing this error in the > > log > > > > @4000415f15ec35d6286c Cannot open bayes databases >