I'm a newbie to spamassassin

2004-10-16 Thread Xavi Montero
Hello to everybody. I've been trying to get Spamassassin + razor working but I'm a bit lost at linking spamassassin to the MTA. I've tried the documentation on the website, but it is a bit confusing for me. Perhaps too much information? I've tried the FAQ but I'm not able to find my answer. SITU

Re: Blacklist or badmailfrom

2004-10-16 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:44 AM 10/16/2004 -0700, you wrote: When you want to block an email address which one would be more effective? To black list the email address in the local.cf file for SA? Or the badmailfrom for qmail? Or do you suggest putting them in both? badmailfrom. If you're going to block an address out

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-16 Thread Sahil Tandon
Laurent Luyckx wrote: Are you sure you're using a recent version of Net::DNS module (>= 0.34)? Indeed. #pkg_info | grep p5-Net-DNS p5-Net-DNS-0.48 Perl5 interface to the DNS resolver, and dynamic updates I'm still baffled as to why this still doesn't work. -- Sahil Tandon

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-16 Thread Laurent Luyckx
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 19:35, Sahil Tandon wrote: > Everything else (i.e. my rules) seem to be working fine. However, I had > two problems. > > Not so bad: check_mx_attempts and one other variable which now slips my > mind kept spitting out an 'unable to parse' error. I don't get that - > it w

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:53:21PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote: > This file does not exist on my box. Without the loadplugin line, --lint It should exist in /etc/mail/spamassassin, or wherever your local.cf file lives. If not, your installation is incomplete. > >As usual, run with -D and see wha

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-16 Thread Sahil Tandon
Theo Van Dinter wrote: loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL this should already be in the default init.pre file. This file does not exist on my box. Without the loadplugin line, --lint spits out errors; with it, it exits quietly. My machine is FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE and I'm using t

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:35:38PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote: > Very bad: SURBLs don't work. I have the following in local.cf: > > loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL this should already be in the default init.pre file. > http://surbl-org-permanent-test-point-MUNGED.com/ (obvio

SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-16 Thread Sahil Tandon
Everything else (i.e. my rules) seem to be working fine. However, I had two problems. Not so bad: check_mx_attempts and one other variable which now slips my mind kept spitting out an 'unable to parse' error. I don't get that - it was EXACTLY the same as with 2.64, with which --lint didn't co

Blacklist or badmailfrom

2004-10-16 Thread Robert Bartlett
When you want to block an email address which one would be more effective? To black list the email address in the local.cf file for SA? Or the badmailfrom for qmail? Or do you suggest putting them in both? Thanks Robert

Re: Manually learnt HAM as SPAM. Can I undo?

2004-10-16 Thread Nicolas
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 07:56:51AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 09:46 AM 10/16/2004 +0200, Nicolas wrote: > >This morning I made a mistake with spamassassin. I manually learnt > >(/usr/bin/sa-learn --spam) an IMPORTANT message as SPAM. I immediately > >learnt it as HAM, but is that sufficient? >

Re: Manually learnt HAM as SPAM. Can I undo?

2004-10-16 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:46 AM 10/16/2004 +0200, Nicolas wrote: This morning I made a mistake with spamassassin. I manually learnt (/usr/bin/sa-learn --spam) an IMPORTANT message as SPAM. I immediately learnt it as HAM, but is that sufficient? Yes.. SA uses the bayes_seen database to understand it needs to flip comp

Re: Manually learnt HAM as SPAM. Can I undo?

2004-10-16 Thread Tobias von Koch
Hey, On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:46:36 +0200, Nicolas wrote: N> This morning I made a mistake with spamassassin. I manually learnt N> (/usr/bin/sa-learn --spam) an IMPORTANT message as SPAM. I N> immediately learnt it as HAM, but is that sufficient? N> Do I have to delete all of the bayes tokens I acc

Re: Strange mail causing 2.64 to not scan or scan really long?

2004-10-16 Thread Loren Wilton
> Normally spamassassin works great.. but this one e-mail seems to cause > it to take forever (600 seconds?) and then get passed through with a > score of (?/?) <-- I assume that is because something timedout and It isn't claer to me if you included the whole email or just the headers. In any case

Re: second call on sa doesn't add x-spam-flag

2004-10-16 Thread Johannes Rumpf
At 02:22 PM 10/15/2004, Johannes Rumpf wrote: i'm runing xfilter "spamassassin" in my procmail rules. Thats the second time the server runs spamassassin. First with spamd with an other points and bayes filter, second via xfilter. The mails are detected correctly as spam, but there are no x-spam*

Re: CPU usage very high (spamd) (was Re: relocating tmp files?)

2004-10-16 Thread Loren Wilton
> Thanks so much. Unfortunately, I don't see much change in my CPU usage by spamd. I am > at a loss, as I've spent almost an entire day reading old mailing list threads and the > wiki, but no one has seemed to post anything concrete as to why spamd would eat so much > CPU (in my case, it spikes t

Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-16 Thread Daniel Olmedilla
Hi to all again, please read till the end. There I show some of the results I get from the autowhitelist. Just for you to which kind of information I get from it :-). > >In fact he is right in the fact that the autowhitelist is kept in memory. > >However, it keeps only the e-mail addres and two

Manually learnt HAM as SPAM. Can I undo?

2004-10-16 Thread Nicolas
Hello, This morning I made a mistake with spamassassin. I manually learnt (/usr/bin/sa-learn --spam) an IMPORTANT message as SPAM. I immediately learnt it as HAM, but is that sufficient? Do I have to delete all of the bayes tokens I accumulated for over 1 year? Thanks. Nicolas.

Re: Oh the temptation......

2004-10-16 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Roger Taranto wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 20:04, jdow wrote: > > > 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% for expenses, and give me 25%. I am S