Re: [SURBL-Discuss] RFC: consensus list?

2004-11-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, November 13, 2004, 9:23:34 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote: > Jeff Chan wrote: > That's probably too KISS for you, and if you'd add the not > yet used 7th multi bit it would result in 7 over 3 (any 3 > out of 7) combinations, 99 result codes if I got it right. > (35 + 35 + 21 + 7 + 1 = 99,

Re: Sensible way to use SpamCop reporting?

2004-11-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Nix wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Larry stipulated: > > You could comment out the "spamcop_to_address" in your configuration > > file. Then SA will report to the "generic" spamcop address. Your > > reports won't be given as much weight (whatever that means) but you > > won't get the confirmation

Re: Sensible way to use SpamCop reporting?

2004-11-13 Thread Nix
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Larry stipulated: > You could comment out the "spamcop_to_address" in your configuration > file. Then SA will report to the "generic" spamcop address. Your > reports won't be given as much weight (whatever that means) but you > won't get the confirmation emails either. ... a

RE: spamassassin and web based mail !

2004-11-13 Thread Peter P. Benac
You could stand over their shoulders? I really doubt that any real spammer will use a cybercafé to send spam. These idiots use software that generate messages and send them thru any open relay they can find. Just because the reply to address says hotmail.com or yahoo.com doesn't necessarily me

Re: spamassassin and web based mail !

2004-11-13 Thread Cigan Segun
Thank you everybody.   My office runs a cybercafe. Customers are only allowed to use web based mail like yahoo, hotmail, excite, etc and NOT outlook express or any other mail clients.   The problem: what can I do to check all their mails in order to stop the ones that are spams?   Thank you all, on

body_test redefined at /usr/local/share/spamassassin/20_phrases.cf

2004-11-13 Thread Vicki Brown
I'm getting this error in the spamd logfile: 2004-11-13 18:33:43 [54661] i: Subroutine COPY_ACCURATELY_body_test redefined at /usr/local/share/spamassassin/20_phrases.cf, rule COPY_ACCURATELY, line 10, line 85. I have upgraded to SA 3.0.1 spamd is running as spamd -d -c /etc/mail/spama

Insecure dependency in eval while running setuid

2004-11-13 Thread Vicki Brown
I'm getting this error in the spamd logfile: 2004-11-13 17:32:05 [54661] i: processing message <3698158.1100366389516.JavaMai [EMAIL PROTECTED]> for vlb:1001. 2004-11-13 17:32:05 [54661] i: error: Insecure dependency in eval while running setuid at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAss

Message is checked but not marked

2004-11-13 Thread Vicki Brown
I have upgraded to SA 3.0.1 spamd is running as spamd -d -c /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf contains allow_user_rules 1 my user prefs file contains use_terse_report1 ok_languagesen report_safe 0 According to my Procmail log

bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting!

2004-11-13 Thread Vicki Brown
I have upgraded to SA 3.0.1 I read the upgrading document I built the new SA, ran the tests, turned off the old spamd, the (old) sa-learn --rebuild installed SA 3.0.1, ran the (new) sa-learn --sync and got this: Argument "RBL" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/

Re: Spamd going nuts - spawning heaps of children

2004-11-13 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 there's been a few reports of this, but we're really mystified. A test case would help, but it doesn't seem easily reproducable for anyone :( - --j. You could add a fragment like this to spamd (introducing a dependency on Proc::P

Re: {02.8} Re:spamassassin and web based mails !

2004-11-13 Thread NM Public
On 12 Nov 2004 Cigan Segun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To be specific on my question, I want to be able to scan all messages or mails sent to & fro using yahoo or hotmail or any of these known web based addresses! I do not have a mail server in my local network yet. We all use web based mails. Can

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] RFC: consensus list?

2004-11-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, November 13, 2004, 12:14:24 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > And I have another technique I can use here: Take the lists > and permutations of lists then see what percentage of each of > those hit DNS queries matching blocklists in general. Recall > that we now have statistics about whitelist,

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] RFC: consensus list?

2004-11-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, November 12, 2004, 7:07:29 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote: > See Ryan's answer, it's easy to do interesting stuff > with the multi bits, multi was a good idea. If you > want to simplify it set bit 1 if 3 or more other bits > are set, examples: 127.0.0.6 =>> 127.0.0.6 (2 or less bits unc

RE: spamassassin and web based mails !

2004-11-13 Thread Peter P. Benac
Cigan, What you want is what was mentioned here before. WebSense or SurfControl will and can prevent people from using Web Based mail products like Hotmail, or Yahoo. Filtering their mail is not going to work. If they are using Yahoo or Hotmail for business then they need to directed to

Merging bayes files

2004-11-13 Thread Edesio Costa e Silva
Hi! Sorry if thist is FAQ. I checked but I may missed it. I have two machines, each one running spamassassin on a different e-mail. One of them is now pretty trained. Is it possible to merge the bayes files from both machines? Thanks, Edésio

Re[2]: spamassassin and web based mails !

2004-11-13 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Cigan, Friday, November 12, 2004, 1:15:57 PM, you wrote: CS> To be specific on my question, I want to be able to scan all CS> messages or mails sent to & fro using yahoo or hotmail or any of CS> these known web based addresses! CS> What are the tools? CS> Can spamassasin do that? How c

Re: despamassassining

2004-11-13 Thread David Brodbeck
Matt Kettler wrote: At 04:45 AM 11/12/2004, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > Besides adjusting your administrator with a clue-by-four, you can run it > through spamassassin --remove-markup I don't know what you mean by 'clue-by-four'. I try to contact the admin. But he might have some reason for his setti

Re: [SURBL-Announce] fraud.rhs.mailpolice.com phishing data added to ph SURBL

2004-11-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, November 11, 2004, 10:35:02 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > As of 12 November 2004, we have added data from > fraud.rhs.mailpolice.com into ph, joining our exiting phishing > data from mailsecurity.net.au. I should add, this means if you were testing fraud.rhs.mailpolice.com as a separate list

RE: spamassassin and web based mails !

2004-11-13 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Yang Xiao wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:52:17 -1200, Kevin W. Gagel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I haven't even bothered to read the article on the link. >> Why? Because I am not going to chase after a spammer that is >> sending spam to a free email account who's log files I do >> not have acc

Re: spamassassin and web based mails !

2004-11-13 Thread Yang Xiao
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:52:17 -1200, Kevin W. Gagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't even bothered to read the article on the link. > Why? Because I am not going to chase after a spammer that is > sending spam to a free email account who's log files I do > not have access to. I don't have a le