Error building RPM on AMD64

2004-10-11 Thread Thomas Cameron
All - I am trying to build packages using the spamassassin.spec file included with the SA .bz2 file. I get the error at the bottom of this message though, and I am not sure how to fix it. I *think* I need to modify the line that looks like: CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"; export CFLAGS But I am not

Re: sa-learn sql with username ?

2004-10-11 Thread Michael Parker
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:02:04PM -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: > > that's sufficient... It would be *REALLY* nice if sa-learn accepted > > the username as an argument, but for now, this will do > > It appears that spamd will soon allow a username parameter. > I'd suggest a Bugzilla NFS to add

Re: sa-learn sql with username ?

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
> that's sufficient... It would be *REALLY* nice if sa-learn accepted > the username as an argument, but for now, this will do It appears that spamd will soon allow a username parameter. I'd suggest a Bugzilla NFS to add the same parameter to sa-learn. Might get both at once. Loren

Re: X-message-flag question

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
> So the initial rule will concentrate on the syntax format instead of just > checking for the existence of the header: > > X-message-flag: Authentic Sender, Hash: TrVfLjGp This one appears to me to be bogus as well, it comes from the same guy: > X-message-flag: Encrypted 128 bit message, authe

Re: X-message-flag question

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
BTW, all of these *claim* to be from X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 However, they also happen to all be from a particular spammer in Brasil, and most of them also claim to have been scanned by SA 2.60 and got a score of -5.1. So I don't know that I necessarily believe the X-

RE: Public SA Corpus

2004-10-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Gerry Doris wrote: > I managed to destroy my bayes database...don't ask. > > Since I only run a home system and don't receive a heavy flow of spam I > really like to skip the wait for bayes to get up to speed. Is it > recommended to use the public corpus on the SA website or is it too old > for p

Re: X-message-flag question

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
> > Has anyone seen these headers? Perhaps AOL? > \\It\wilton\train\TestSpam(6797):X-message-flag: Authentic Sender, Hash: RdDyHlGm \\It\wilton\train\TestSpam(11091):X-message-flag: Authentic Sender, Hash: VuIkTsDi \\It\wilton\train\TestSpam(18445):X-message-flag: Encrypted 128 bit message, authe

Public SA Corpus

2004-10-11 Thread Gerry Doris
I managed to destroy my bayes database...don't ask. Since I only run a home system and don't receive a heavy flow of spam I really like to skip the wait for bayes to get up to speed. Is it recommended to use the public corpus on the SA website or is it too old for proper training? Is there a bet

Re: bayes training

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
> My users use OE or Netscape mail client to check their mails. Can I ask > I am scared that if they *forward* their mails to that account bayes Forwarding from OE will screw the mail over badly, you DO NOT want to do that. Probably the same from NS or most any other mail client, for that matter

Re: Configuration Problem

2004-10-11 Thread Michele Neylon : Blacknight Solutions
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 18:07 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:01:44PM -0500, J Thomas Hancock wrote: > > What is the easiest/best way to accomplish this? Would I need to add a > > record to each username in the userpref tables something like > > required_hits_to_delete? O

Re: downgrading

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
> Is there an easy way to downgrade spamassassin? Make a backup copy of the Bayes database files before the upgrade. The database will upgrade to 3.0, but it is then NOT backward compatable. So save the old version to reload, or you will have to start from scratch. Wouldn't hurt to save your lo

Re: Configuration Problem

2004-10-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:01:44PM -0500, J Thomas Hancock wrote: > What is the easiest/best way to accomplish this? Would I need to add a > record to each username in the userpref tables something like > required_hits_to_delete? Once defined I could then do something like: There is no way to d

Configuration Problem

2004-10-11 Thread J Thomas Hancock
I am currently using a postfix/spamassassin mail gateway.  I have spamassassin getting individual required_hits from a MySQL data base.  I would like to be able to add to the header X-Spam-Deleteable YES of the socre is above 15 other wise add X-Spam-Deleteable NO.  The score is 10 or highe

Re: sa-learn sql with username ?

2004-10-11 Thread Jason Frisvold
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:38:32 -0400, Jason Frisvold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But therein lies the problem... I don't have a local.cf file for each > user because the users are virtual. I was hoping to avoid using > local.cf files because I'm using SQL to allow shared use of the bayes > and spa

Re: Antidrug.cf

2004-10-11 Thread snowjack
My apologies to any twelve-year-olds on this list who have managed to absorb more than the most fundamental principles of politeness. snowjack wrote: How completely rude. What are you, twelve years old? jdow wrote: It seems anabolic steroids are flat out missed by antidrug.cf. Of course, I observ

Re: Antidrug.cf

2004-10-11 Thread snowjack
How completely rude. What are you, twelve years old? jdow wrote: It seems anabolic steroids are flat out missed by antidrug.cf. Of course, I observe the idiot Apache spam trap on the spamassassin list does catch the message sample when I attach it. Somebody needs to apply a clue bat to the Apache m

Re: feeding frenzy for ws.surbl.org!!!

2004-10-11 Thread Keith Hackworth
It was sent directly to me. My email address shows up on the whois for about 10,000 domains as the tech contact - they probably swiped my address from there. Keith > Keith, that looks like a valid list if IDs from a more or less targeted > legitimate mailing list for building contractors and pe

Re: feeding frenzy for ws.surbl.org!!!

2004-10-11 Thread jdow
Keith, that looks like a valid list if IDs from a more or less targeted legitimate mailing list for building contractors and people who use their services. How did this come to your attention? Did a user of your ISP decide that complaining about it being spam was a good way to get off the list when

Antidrug.cf

2004-10-11 Thread jdow
It seems anabolic steroids are flat out missed by antidrug.cf. Of course, I observe the idiot Apache spam trap on the spamassassin list does catch the message sample when I attach it. Somebody needs to apply a clue bat to the Apache mail manager to get "it" to have this and the dev lists bypass his

Re: *SPAM* feeding frenzy for ws.surbl.org!!!

2004-10-11 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Keith Hackworth wrote: I just got a gold-mine for surbl canidates "wanna-bes" in a single spam message. There's WAY too many domains listed below to add to SURBL through the web pages. Is there a "bulk add" option to add to the ws.surbl.org database? I need to add these 59 domains to the SURBL l

Charset rules?

2004-10-11 Thread Kenneth Andresen
Hello all, I have just started doing some procmail charset rule testing, and noticed that there are no such spamassassin rules. Here is an example of my current procmail_illegal_charsets.rc test rules: :0 c * ^Subject.*\?UTF-8\? zzfilterS_utf-8 :0 c * ^Subject.*\?koi8-r\? zzfilterS_koi8-r :0 c

Re: Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3

2004-10-11 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Mike Brodbelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bill Landry wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Mike Brodbelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Did you happen to check the INSTALL document that comes with the > > distribution?: > > > > - Net::DNS(fr

Re: Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3

2004-10-11 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Bill Landry wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Mike Brodbelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Did you happen to check the INSTALL document that comes with the > distribution?: > > - Net::DNS(from CPAN) Aha. Whoever put together the package on backports.org omitted that file from

Re: Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3

2004-10-11 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Mike Brodbelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:08:01PM +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > > > >>network tests. It would be nice if it logged a message to this effect > >>via syslog at startup - would certainly have saved m

Re: bondedsender.com

2004-10-11 Thread tBB
On 11.10.2004 at 11:45 Keith Hackworth wrote: >Is bondedsender turned on in SA 3.0.0? Is it turned on, and if so, what's >the score for it? > >Thanks in advanced, >Keith -4.3 RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTEDRBL: Sender is in Bonded Sender Program (trusted relay) [IronPort Bonded S

Re: Memory footprint of spamd 3.0

2004-10-11 Thread Jon Trulson
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Michael Parker wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:25:45PM -0500, Michael Parker wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:22:42AM -0700, Morris Jones wrote: I watched a spamd child grow to 250MB yesterday on a single message. I have a suspicion that the memory usage growth is happening

Re: Memory footprint of spamd 3.0

2004-10-11 Thread Jon Trulson
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Jon Trulson wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Michael Parker wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:53:30AM -0600, Jon Trulson wrote: FWIW, in our case a child would go to 320MB and just stay there until the child was terminated (even after finishing a message). We do use AWL and bayes

Re: X-message-flag question

2004-10-11 Thread Jeremy Rumpf
On Monday 11 October 2004 12:43 pm, Justin Mason wrote: > Jeremy Rumpf writes: > > I've seen a few messages recently that contained the header > > > > X-message-flag: Authentic Sender, Hash: PoHgCaAr > > > > My questions are, are they trying to simulate something like hash cash? > > Does anyone kno

Re: Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3

2004-10-11 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:08:01PM +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > >>network tests. It would be nice if it logged a message to this effect >>via syslog at startup - would certainly have saved me a few hours of > > > We can't log a message everytime people don't read the do

Re: X-message-flag question

2004-10-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Rumpf writes: > I've seen a few messages recently that contained the header > > X-message-flag: Authentic Sender, Hash: PoHgCaAr > > My questions are, are they trying to simulate something like hash cash? Does > anyone know of a MUA that ins

a way to view all AWL data?

2004-10-11 Thread Jordan Peterson
SA 2.63 on OpenBSD 3.5, invoked via amavisd-new. Is there a way to get a list of all the senders in the AWL and their current averages? I believe my AWL has given favor to several spam senders (too many to list) and I'd like to clean them out. -Jordan

X-message-flag question

2004-10-11 Thread Jeremy Rumpf
I've seen a few messages recently that contained the header X-message-flag: Authentic Sender, Hash: PoHgCaAr My questions are, are they trying to simulate something like hash cash? Does anyone know of a MUA that inserts/utilizes this header? I would like to insert a local rule to score on this

feeding frenzy for ws.surbl.org!!!

2004-10-11 Thread Keith Hackworth
I just got a gold-mine for surbl canidates "wanna-bes" in a single spam message. There's WAY too many domains listed below to add to SURBL through the web pages. Is there a "bulk add" option to add to the ws.surbl.org database? I need to add these 59 domains to the SURBL list: acudor.com ahrexp

Re: Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3

2004-10-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:08:01PM +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote: > network tests. It would be nice if it logged a message to this effect > via syslog at startup - would certainly have saved me a few hours of We can't log a message everytime people don't read the documentation. ;) -- Randomly Gener

Re: Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3

2004-10-11 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Candee Vaglica wrote: > Make sure Net::DNS is installed and available > Thanks for the suggestion. Sod's law being what it is, I found the problem shortly after sending the original message. I'll post the details here in case anyone has the same issue... I used the SA 3 bacport from http://www.b

Re: [2.64] Bayes journal: gibberish entry found

2004-10-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:20:21PM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: > Oct 11 17:10:07 hostname spamd[16864]: Bayes journal: gibberish entry found: > hdu4+AdBAHUFuOwHQQBQV+h8bQAAaOAHQQBX6HFtAACDxBCF23QuahnoozQAAFmFwHQiagTopzQA > > Is this anything to worry about? I'd find out why you have random (w

RE: bondedsender.com

2004-10-11 Thread Matt Linzbach
> -Original Message- > From: Keith Hackworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: bondedsender.com > > > Is bondedsender turned on in SA 3.0.0? Is it turned on, and > if so, what's > the score for it? > > Thanks in advanced, > Keith > > I don't know if its turned on by default since

bondedsender.com

2004-10-11 Thread Keith Hackworth
Is bondedsender turned on in SA 3.0.0? Is it turned on, and if so, what's the score for it? Thanks in advanced, Keith

SAQuarantine on Sourceforge

2004-10-11 Thread Rikhardur.EGILSSON
At last I have filled out the Sourceforge page for SAQuarantine. http://sourceforge.net/projects/saq SAQuarantine is a plugin for Postfix that picks potential Spam emails out of the mailstream and puts them in a Quarantine. Instead of being delivered straight to user´s inboxes, potential Spam

RE: Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3

2004-10-11 Thread Candee Vaglica
Make sure Net::DNS is installed and available -Original Message- From: Mike Brodbelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 5:17 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3 Hi, I've been happily running SpamAssassin on

[2.64] Bayes journal: gibberish entry found

2004-10-11 Thread Martin Schröder
This just appeared in the SA-logs: -- Oct 11 17:10:06 hostname spamd[16864]: info: setuid to user succeeded Oct 11 17:10:06 hostname spamd[16864]: processing message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for user:531. Oct 11 17:10:07 hostname spamd[16864]: Bayes journal: gibberish entry found: Oct 11

Re: logs/stats

2004-10-11 Thread Andy Jezierski
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/11/2004 08:22:04 AM: > Thanks to all who helped get my logging going! > > Here is what actually logs in the maillog: > Oct 11 09:18:13 mail spamd[22851]: info: setuid to myuser succeeded > Oct 11 09:18:13 mail spamd[22851]: processing message

Re: downgrading

2004-10-11 Thread Keith Hackworth
Strange question, but are your drives mirrored? There's an easy way to downgrade software if you have mirrored drives ;+). Keith > Is there an easy way to downgrade spamassassin? > we currently run 2.6 on our mailhubs and i want to upgrade to 3.0. > mailhubs are solaris 8 sparc sunblade 100s. (

Re: Oh the temptation......

2004-10-11 Thread Andy Jezierski
"jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/10/2004 10:04:45 PM: > Someone used my address with the name Daniel Hofer. So about 10% of the > spam I get is instantly filterable with that name and variants. > > Well, a new variant of 419 has hit my mailbox. Someone named Allan Hofer > died in Nigeria

RE: Argument "4.O" isn't numeric in addition

2004-10-11 Thread Philipp Snizek
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 03:40:24PM +0200, Philipp Snizek wrote: > > Also, I'm getting this into /var/log/maillog, when starting > > spamassassin: > > Argument "4.O" isn't numeric in addition (+) at > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 238. > > > > What's wrong here?

Re: Argument "4.O" isn't numeric in addition

2004-10-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 03:40:24PM +0200, Philipp Snizek wrote: > Also, I'm getting this into /var/log/maillog, when starting > spamassassin: > Argument "4.O" isn't numeric in addition (+) at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 238. > > What's wrong here? Note your con

Argument "4.O" isn't numeric in addition

2004-10-11 Thread Philipp Snizek
Hi I run a Slack 10 system with kernel 2.4.22 and SpamAssassin 3.0.0. when I run `sa-learn --dump all', I'm getting this: Argument "4.O" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 238. Argument "4.O" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /usr/lib/pe

Re: sa-learn sql with username ?

2004-10-11 Thread Jason Frisvold
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:15:20 -0400 (EDT), Keith Hackworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran into the same problem. All I had to do was set the > bayes_sql_override_username value in my local.cf and it took care of it > for me. When I do a sa-learn [spam|ham], it loads in as the user I > specifie

Re: bug? 'bayes_path ~user/something' doesn't work?

2004-10-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 09:16:13AM -0400, Keith Hackworth wrote: > What OS do you run on? There are no ~ directories on my solaris > system (I get ~: does not exist). Although, it works fine on my > susi system. Folks, ~user is a shell short-hand for "the home directory of 'user'", which SA doe

logs/stats

2004-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to all who helped get my logging going! Here is what actually logs in the maillog: Oct 11 09:18:13 mail spamd[22851]: info: setuid to myuser succeeded Oct 11 09:18:13 mail spamd[22851]: processing message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for myuser:1661. Oct 11 09:18:17 mail spamd[22851]: identified spa

Re: bug? 'bayes_path ~user/something' doesn't work?

2004-10-11 Thread Keith Hackworth
What OS do you run on? There are no ~ directories on my solaris system (I get ~: does not exist). Although, it works fine on my susi system. One thing to check - even though the bayes files are in the ~user home directories, are they owned/writable by the user that runs spamd? Keith > Keith H

Re: sa-learn sql with username ?

2004-10-11 Thread Keith Hackworth
I ran into the same problem. All I had to do was set the bayes_sql_override_username value in my local.cf and it took care of it for me. When I do a sa-learn [spam|ham], it loads in as the user I specified in my local.cf. Keith > Hi all, > > I'm trying to implement SQL Bayes and I need a littl

Re: spamd process

2004-10-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:35:31AM +0400, Khalid Waheed wrote: > Is there any option to set min and max child process of spamd? It's in the spamd man page: "-m #" sets the max # of child processes > Is spamd-child process is multi threaded, or it handles single message > at a time?? spamd is pr

bayes training

2004-10-11 Thread Payal Rathod
Hi, My users use OE or Netscape mail client to check their mails. Can I ask the users to forward their mails to an account say "spam" to teach SA? I am scared that if they *forward* their mails to that account bayes might learn wrongly learn their addresses as that of spammers. Can someone clear

RE: downgrading

2004-10-11 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions
Ronan wrote: > Is there an easy way to downgrade spamassassin? > we currently run 2.6 on our mailhubs and i want to upgrade to 3.0. > mailhubs are solaris 8 sparc sunblade 100s. (3) We use sophie > and the daemonised version of spamassassin with SAV. > I want the option of downgrading back to 'work

downgrading

2004-10-11 Thread Ronan
Is there an easy way to downgrade spamassassin? we currently run 2.6 on our mailhubs and i want to upgrade to 3.0. mailhubs are solaris 8 sparc sunblade 100s. (3) We use sophie and the daemonised version of spamassassin with SAV. I want the option of downgrading back to 'working' version should an

Network tests not working after upgrade to SA 3

2004-10-11 Thread Mike Brodbelt
Hi, I've been happily running SpamAssassin on a sitewide basis for some time. I use a sendmail milter to call out to spamd, and simply add headers to all mail that passes through the system, which users can then filter on (or not) as they choose. I've recently upgraded from SA 2.63 to SA 3.0, and

spamd process

2004-10-11 Thread Khalid Waheed
Is there any option to set min and max child process of spamd? Is spamd-child process is multi threaded, or it handles single message at a time?? how spamd-parent process allocate message to its child, I mean scheduling? Kh

Re: Oh the temptation......

2004-10-11 Thread jdow
From: "Bob Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robin Lynn Frank wrote: > > "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am SORELY tempted to > > > reply something like, "Oh My God, Cousin Allan is dead? He was such a > > > friend to me when we were little. > > > > Your Allen's cousin?!?! Wow, that means w

Re: A black list suggestion

2004-10-11 Thread jdow
From: "Bob Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > jdow wrote: > > I am getting heartily tired of idiots who bounce emails that contain > > or supposedly contain viruses and are assuredly Joe-jobs. I propose a > > black list for these idiots. That MIGHT be enough to convince me that > > black lists drawbacks

Re: Changing log output in SA 3.0.0 ?

2004-10-11 Thread Niek
On 10/11/2004 8:31 AM +0200, Loren Wilton wrote: Can SA be configured not to write timestamps to log output ? Not curretnly without a patch. There is a bug or enhancement request open on this exact subject in bugzilla, and I believe it includes a user-submitted patch to add an option. The patch

Re: score changes in local.cf not recognized.

2004-10-11 Thread Sahil Tandon
Keith Hackworth wrote: I have the same configuration and I had the same problem with 2.64. I did a spamassassin --lint and it showed me all sorts of problems in my local.cf. It was so bad, it just ignored anything beyond x lines in the file. spamassassin --lint created a "sample" user_prefs file

Re: low scoring spam

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
Well, first off I'd send a note to Geocities letting them know they are being used as a spam host. That may not appreciate that, and take appropriate action. Second I'd look to some of the SARE rules. The OEM rules *might* have added a point or two to this spam. However, it only mentions a sing

Re: Isn't this strange to see in a header?

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
Did this message also include the X-Spam-Status: No header from 2.60? I see that in a lot of spams from a particular hunk of ratware. Loren > X-Note: http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=66.194.124.208

Re: Changing log output in SA 3.0.0 ?

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
> Can SA be configured not to write timestamps to log output ? Not curretnly without a patch. There is a bug or enhancement request open on this exact subject in bugzilla, and I believe it includes a user-submitted patch to add an option. The patch will probably change form (if it is applied at

Re: Re[2]: after upgrade

2004-10-11 Thread Loren Wilton
I'm not sure what is going on there, but it really looks like you were running two different configurations, which would imply either different local.cf values, or you have user rules enabled and got differerent user rules. Following is the rules from those two messages. Note that the indented ru

Re: statistics help needed

2004-10-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott A Crosby writes: > On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:49:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes: > > > However, that doesn't take in account the situation where multiple rules > > are hitting mostly the same mail; for example, like this: > > > >

low scoring spam

2004-10-11 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
Hi List. I have been receiving some very low scoring spam messages lately. Any ideas on how to increase the scores a bit. Here are the results: @:ö0 Start SpamAssassin results -- This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered so you ca

Re: Oh the temptation......

2004-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Robin Lynn Frank wrote: > "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am SORELY tempted to > > reply something like, "Oh My God, Cousin Allan is dead? He was such a > > friend to me when we were little. > > Your Allen's cousin?!?! Wow, that means we're related!!! ;-) Me too! What a coincidence. I

OT: Isn't this strange to see in a header?

2004-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
I just received some spam for some internet gambling site. But I find this very strange to see in the header. And of course my address is encoded in base64 there too. The entire message was base64 encoded html. X-Note: X-Note: recetasparati.com.ar (Network Version 2.0) X-Note: How are we

Re: A black list suggestion

2004-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
jdow wrote: > I am getting heartily tired of idiots who bounce emails that contain > or supposedly contain viruses and are assuredly Joe-jobs. I propose a > black list for these idiots. That MIGHT be enough to convince me that > black lists drawbacks do not out weigh their benefits. I have rules a

Re: Oh the temptation......

2004-10-11 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:04:45 -0700 "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am SORELY tempted to > reply something like, "Oh My God, Cousin Allan is dead? He was such a > friend to me when we were little. Your Allen's cousin?!?! Wow, that means we're related!!! ;-) -- Robin Lynn Frank Director of

Oh the temptation......

2004-10-11 Thread jdow
Someone used my address with the name Daniel Hofer. So about 10% of the spam I get is instantly filterable with that name and variants. Well, a new variant of 419 has hit my mailbox. Someone named Allan Hofer died in Nigeria. And he left a big estate. The "barrister" wants to take 70%, reserve 5%

Re: SA 3.0 - USER_IN_BLACKLIST false positive?

2004-10-11 Thread jdow
From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mike Zanker wrote on Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:52:36 +0100: > > > Yes, I am using that, but I thought USER_IN_BLACKLIST related to > > personal blacklists, not SURBL stuff. > > > > It does not relate to SURBL. It relates to rules, no matter in which *.cf > file

A black list suggestion

2004-10-11 Thread jdow
I am getting heartily tired of idiots who bounce emails that contain or supposedly contain viruses and are assuredly Joe-jobs. I propose a black list for these idiots. That MIGHT be enough to convince me that black lists drawbacks do not out weigh their benefits. {+_+}

Re: statistics help needed

2004-10-11 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:49:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes: > However, that doesn't take in account the situation where multiple rules > are hitting mostly the same mail; for example, like this: > > S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 > RULE1: x x x x

Re: Plesk / SA3 + General setup?

2004-10-11 Thread JamesDR
I don't personally use Plesk (nor have I ever heard of it :-D ), but as for accuracy of SpamAssassin, I can attest to it. Really if you think of the way SpamAssassin works, bayes is an intergral part of it, it isn't a Bayes filter per se, but it is one of the techniques that SpamAssassin uses