> Two months ago when we tried upgrading one of our production
mailservers
> to
> SA v3 we had a complete disaster - numerous processes spawning, heavy
load
> factors, high memory usage. I was wondering whether now that SA 3.02
has
> been released whether it is now time to try the upgrade again.
> -Original Message-
> From: Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:53:14 -0500
> Subject: Re: Bayes lock failed
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], users@spamassassin.apache.org
>
>
> At 08:02 PM 12/6/2004, Tim A wrote:
> >I've read a number of people having problems with an err
Stuart Johnston wrote:
Matt Kettler wrote:
auto_learn has NEVER been valid. It's bayes_auto_learn. It also should
only contain a 1 or a 0 after it. No $
I've seen a lot of people with auto_learn in their configs. Where'd
you get that? did you use some config auto generator?
http://www.yrex.com/
Two months ago when we tried upgrading one of our production mailservers to
SA v3 we had a complete disaster - numerous processes spawning, heavy load
factors, high memory usage. I was wondering whether now that SA 3.02 has
been released whether it is now time to try the upgrade again.
What are
At 03:18 PM 12/16/2004, Stuart Johnston wrote:
Matt Kettler wrote:
> auto_learn has NEVER been valid. It's bayes_auto_learn. It also should
only contain a 1 or a 0 after it. No $
> I've seen a lot of people with auto_learn in their configs. Where'd you
get that? did you use some config auto gener
At 03:40 PM 12/16/2004, Warren Robinson wrote:
How can I correct this problem of not allowing a non-trusted IP
('218.153.91.6') through this check:-
debug: MX lookup of yahoo.com succeeded => Dns available (set dns_available
to hardcode)
debug: is DNS available? 1
debug: looking up PTR record for '
How can I correct this problem of not allowing a non-trusted IP
('218.153.91.6') through this check:-
debug: MX lookup of yahoo.com succeeded => Dns available (set dns_available
to hardcode)
debug: is DNS available? 1
debug: looking up PTR record for '218.153.91.6'
debug: PTR for '218.153.91.6':
>-Original Message-
>From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:32 PM
>To: Chris Santerre; users@spamassassin.apache.org
>Subject: RE: can any body help me understand this
>
>
>At 02:55 PM 12/16/2004, Chris Santerre wrote:
>>YAMPTSBOTW!
>>
>>Yet
>-Original Message-
>From: Rob Blomquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:46 PM
>
>Hallujah! For the first time in months, I batted 1000!
:)
>
>Thanks to all that helped. I will also be putting it all on
>Mandrake's Wiki,
>as there are many who dislike S
Matt Kettler wrote:
auto_learn has NEVER been valid. It's bayes_auto_learn. It also should
only contain a 1 or a 0 after it. No $
I've seen a lot of people with auto_learn in their configs. Where'd you
get that? did you use some config auto generator?
http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php - ge
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David Brodbeck writes:
> This is kind of an odd problem and I'm not sure what to do.
>
> For quite a while I had apparent Perl signal-handling problems -- in
> particular, I couldn't kill spamd, I had to use kill -9. Recently I
> recompiled Perl in
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Chris Santerre writes:
> >As for the dump output..
>
> YAMPTSBOTW!
>
> Yet Another Matt Post That Should Be On The Wiki!!
>
> ;)
I know, the man's a one-man FAQ ;)
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At 02:55 PM 12/16/2004, Chris Santerre wrote:
YAMPTSBOTW!
Yet Another Matt Post That Should Be On The Wiki!!
Not really... as of SA 3.0 you can't read the tokens anymore.. they are
SHA1 hashed before dumping into the database. Higher privacy, and faster
searching, but less useful for debuggin
Forgive me, I completely misread your post. You're right, you should be
getting bayes tests. I wonder if it's picking up the wrong bayes
database ...
Mojo
Morris Jones wrote:
[ the wrong answer ]
--
Morris Jones
Monrovia, CA
http://www.whiteoaks.com
Old Town Astronomers: http://www.otastro.org
Maarten de Boer wrote:
And what is very strange as well is that is says both:
debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 0 spam(s) in Bayes DB < 200
Maarten, it appears that you trained your bayes database with a corpus
of email and told it that it was all "ham", that it, not spam.
Assuming y
>-Original Message-
>From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:33 AM
>To: Rakesh; users@spamassassin.apache.org
>Subject: Re: can any body help me understand this
>
>
>At 04:29 PM 12/16/2004 +0530, Rakesh wrote:
>> did a sa-learn --dump data and g
This is kind of an odd problem and I'm not sure what to do.
For quite a while I had apparent Perl signal-handling problems -- in
particular, I couldn't kill spamd, I had to use kill -9. Recently I
recompiled Perl in an effort to fix this. I'm using the same Perl version
(5.6.1), however I believ
I went ahead and filed a bugzilla report and there Theo made the
comment:
"At first glance, it looks like you have a bad configuration."
This was probably and off-handed remark, but for me it provided a good
clue. I renamed my old /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf to .old and
copied the local.c
Gareth wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 02:48, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
If Postfix can be made to add, or already does add, RFC 3848 header
'with' tokens, new versions of SA (3.0.2 and on) will fix your problem.
Until then you can use this patch:
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/attachment.cgi
SpamAssassin 3.0.2 is released! 3.0.2 contains some important
bugfixes, and is recommended.
Highlights:
- Detect legitimate SMTP AUTH submission, to avoid false positives on
Dynablock-style rules
- Fix URIDNSBL plugin to honor uridnsbl_max_domains config option
- Various documentation and
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:42:29AM -0600, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > IOW, sa-learn still fails? What about SA itself? Does it work against
> > the sample messages?
>
> Nope.
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2]# spamassassin
> sample-nonspam.
Kang, Joseph S. wrote:
As for the dump output..
0.000 0108 1103190407 N:H*i:sk:NNfNNNc
[snipped for brevity]
The fourth is the token itself. SA uses some "prefix" characters for
encoding things, but without any prefix, a token is a word in
the body of
the message.
I think you
Hello,
(I repost this message because I have not been able to solve
the problem, and it is becoming very noticable that more SPAM
is entering our Inboxes...)
I have been running SA succesfully for quite some time now, but
lately I am experiencing a strange problem: only every second
mail that is
Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IOW, sa-learn still fails? What about SA itself? Does it work against
> the sample messages?
Nope.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2]# spamassassin
sample-nonspam.txt
Created user preferences file: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
Use of uniniti
--On Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:19 AM -0600 Chris Barnes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just for grins, I downloaded the CPAN version (which shows to be 3.0.2)
and used the instructions there. The install went off without any error
messages, but I get the same results as before.
IOW, sa-learn st
Chris Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So how do I go about resurrecting SA so that it runs now?
Just for grins, I downloaded the CPAN version (which shows to be 3.0.2)
and used the instructions there. The install went off without any error
messages, but I get the same results as before.
Fw
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, David B Funk wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> >
> > Depoly SPF, use the submission port to talk to your own mail server, problem
> > solved.
Although that allows you to support roaming users, SPF still breaks mail
forwarding. It's usable as a Spam
> I don't think there's a way to avoid the perllocal.pod bit (if
> there is, somebody tell me!) The real lesson here is: don't build
> RPMs as root if you want to make sure nothing on the system will be
> modified by the build.
So how do I go about resurrecting SA so that it runs now?
--
+ + +
--On Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:16 AM -0500 Theo Van Dinter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think there's a way to avoid the perllocal.pod bit (if there is,
somebody tell me!) The real lesson here is: don't build RPMs as root if
you want to make sure nothing on the system will be modified
Hi I have a situation where some of the time some messages get through
without being scanned at all, and some other get through but without
specific headers... eg
X-Spam-Score-Int: 174
X-Spam-Report: Start SpamAssassin results
...
but not
X-Spam-Score: + (17.4)or whatever it
It looks like your port had a 2.x local.cf file. To fix this, comment
out rewrite_subject, comment out subject_tag, comment out
use_terse_report, and change auto_learn to bayes_auto_learn
Also be sure you have something like the following section... (replace
amavis with whatever you prefer or
At 06:17 AM 12/16/2004 -0800, David Newman wrote:
The docs cover some of these but not all. Neither the USAGE nor the
UPGRADE files describe what to use in place of use_terse_report in 3.0.
Yes, it's not in there because it's been dead for a long time. It wasn't
something that was dropped in 3.0,
When SA 3.0 became available, I upgraded from the Redhat RPM's, and had
various problems with versions and functionality. I removed the RPM and
upgraded via CPAN with absolutely no issues.
Ben Hanson
I.S. MGR
Transprint USA Inc.
At 08:50 PM 12/15/2004 -0800, David Newman wrote:
Dec 15 00:42:53 mailman spamd[2224]: Cannot write to
/nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_ prefs: No such file or directory
There's no such user as "nonexistent" on this system.
Where do you get the idea there might be a user "nonexistent"? That's the
> As for the dump output..
> >0.000 0108 1103190407 N:H*i:sk:NNfNNNc
>
[snipped for brevity]
> The fourth is the token itself. SA uses some "prefix" characters for
> encoding things, but without any prefix, a token is a word in
> the body of
> the message.
I think you meant t
At 04:29 PM 12/16/2004 +0530, Rakesh wrote:
did a sa-learn --dump data and got an output of the following kind. Can
any one please help me understand the output.
The dump output is pretty simple.. The token format gets a bit complicated,
but even that isn't too bad.
As for the dump output..
0.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hello Rakesh,
Thursday, December 16, 2004, 2:59:52 AM, you wrote:
R> These days my bayesian engine is giving me a lots of false
R> positive, ...
R> However now i am trying to investigate whether my Bayes is really
R> poisoned or not. ...
R> Also i
virus-warnings.cf
/etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/bogus-virus-warnings.cf.2; mv -f
/etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/bogus-virus-warnings.cf.20041216-0300
/etc/mail/spamassassin/bogus-virus-warnings.cf;
Lint output: warning: description for VIRUS_WARNING428 is over 50 chars
lint: 1 issues detected. p
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:49:01AM -0600, Chris Barnes wrote:
> >> warning: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
> >>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod
> >
> > I'm guessing the "make install" step in the RPM spec file did this. It
> > shouldn't touch the live system
Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:27 PM -0600 Chris Barnes
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> warning: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod
>
> I'm guessing the "make install" step in
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Loren Wilton wrote:
interested in particular in four parse errors:
debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping:
rewrite_subject 1
debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag $
*SPAM*
debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse
I have just upgraded to 3.01 from 2.53 (on an SGI IRIX machine) and after
getting all of that completed nicely I decided to retrain the bayesian
engine, so I first gave sa-learn about a thousand spam messages and the
only complaint from sa-learn was about 10 lines of:
Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 wi
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, David B Funk wrote:
> Total agreement with this, but try to actually deploy it, client issues
> galore.
> Eudora will not let you set any port other than 25 for outgoing SMTP.
Technically you can, but effectively you are right since they make you jump
through hoops to do so.
another list user, david baines helped me out on this one...
its very simply that your version of getopt::long is not recent enough
get the latest from cpan and install and it works perfectly from then on
ronan
Stephan Paukner wrote:
On Wed, December 15, 2004 9:53, Ronan said:
I actually never knew
--On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:27 PM -0600 Chris Barnes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No dice - downloaded and when I ran the:
rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.1.tar.gz
I got:
warning: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod
--On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:27 PM -0600 Chris Barnes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
warning: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod
I'm guessing the "make install" step in the RPM spec file did this. It
shouldn't touch the live
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 20:46, Matt Kettler wrote:
> At 02:05 PM 12/15/2004, BCC wrote:
> >The file size of the bayes database on a server is becoming large :
> >bayes_seen is 160 MB and bayes_toks is 8 MB. This mail server processes
> >around 3 mails a day, as a relay.
>
>
>
> >Is it normal t
On Wed, December 15, 2004 9:53, Ronan said:
>> I actually never knew about this until i was having a hoke around...
>> anyway cant get it to run..
>>
>> ./sa-stats.pl -l /var/log/syslog -H -T 5 -u
>> Error in option spec: "top|T:25"
>> Error in option spec: "SCALAR(0x4c9a68)"
>> bash-2.03$
>>
>> i
Hello list,
I noticed there's a possible bug in SA when running with vpopmail config (-v
flag). I did spend some time googling but couldn't find any solution (yet).
My spamd runs with flags "-d -v -u vpopmail", when invoking spamc in
maildrop, I use "spamc -u [EMAIL PROTECTED]". If the email addres
These days my bayesian engine is giving me a lots of false positive,
although i keep on having a periodic expiry of my bayes database, still
my bayes_seen is growing large (about which i read in Matt's post in th
forum some time back). However now i am trying to investigate whether my
Bayes is
Brett Cove wrote:
I've noticed much of the spam containing geocities urls contain a
query string at the end. Example:
www.geocities.com/giovanni_campos_42/?s=lexi&m=ZVQcj.RhhQfY,hVX
Is this something that occurs often in 'non-spam' geocities links?
I have even recieved spam without the querystri
> interested in particular in four parse errors:
>
> debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping:
> rewrite_subject 1
> debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag $
> *SPAM*
> debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping:
> use_terse
> I suspect that its my setup the system passes any message it recieves
> through and SA and passes it onto
> the next mailserver. I think the way im running child processes is part
> of the problem, I'm running 50 and
> having to get the system to restart each child after processes 2
> messages to
> I now use SA 2.64 with lots of custom rules, most of them from SARE.
> I've read in a post here (can't find the posting) that in SA 3.x some of
> the custom rules are included. Whcih rules are included and which should
> I continue using i SA 3.x?
The simple answer is look at the SARE rules page
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 02:48, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
> Gareth wrote:
>
> >I use Suse Openexchange as our mail server and I have amavis installed
> >for virus scanning and spamassassin.
> >
> >I have a problem where when people send mail using SMTP Auth
> >spamassassin penalises them because they
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Well, a quick perl script solved it for me:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mail::SPF::Query;
if ($Mail::SPF::Query::VERSION < 1.996) {
print "version is lower";
}
elsif ($Mail::SPF::Query::VERSION > 1.996) {
print "version $Mail::SPF::Query::VERSION is hig
Tweak it down to something like -m 6 and see what happens. There was a
thread about this about 6 weeks ago. Search for "SA 3.01 memory" in the
archives.
After tweaking it, watch the processes to see if any grow. Tweak it up
from there. My spamd processes take about 45mb each. For you that
wou
Greetings. I'm seeing two problems with SA 3.0.1_2 on a FreeBSD 5.2.1
system running Postfix 2.1.5,1 and procmail 3.22_5. All are installed via
ports.
Problem 1:
The mail log has lots of entries like this:
Dec 15 00:42:53 mailman spamd[2224]: Cannot write to
/nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_ pre
Chris Santerre wrote:
[snip]
I've been given a small corpa of this kind of spam. I'm trugging thru it
slowly. But I think I might be able to come up with a SA rule for it. Not
sure yet.
I've noticed much of the spam containing geocities urls contain a query
string at the end. Example:
www.geocit
Gareth wrote:
I use Suse Openexchange as our mail server and I have amavis installed
for virus scanning and spamassassin.
I have a problem where when people send mail using SMTP Auth
spamassassin penalises them because they are sending from a dynamic IP
address etc...
Currently I am having to white
On Monday 13 December 2004 10:25 pm, Robert Menschel wrote:
> If you're running 3.0.x, and SpamAssassin can access the 'net via DNS,
> then SURBL should be running. You should be getting an occasional
> SURBL rule flagged in the spam you're catching. Others can tell you
> better than I how to dete
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 02:53 am, Ronan wrote:
> Ronan wrote:
> > I actually never knew about this until i was having a hoke around...
> > anyway cant get it to run..
> >
> > ./sa-stats.pl -l /var/log/syslog -H -T 5 -u
> > Error in option spec: "top|T:25"
> > Error in option spec: "SCALAR(0x4
Sorry, but this is not true. Eudora uses also 465.
On Dec 15, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Morris Jones wrote:
David B Funk wrote:
Eudora will not let you set any port other than 25 for outgoing SMTP.
Hopefully these will be fixed soon. I just guessed at the
configuration for my wife's Mac running Eudora, a
I like to think of SPF as my 'license' to use my domain or the domains
that I host to send email as though it is from one of my users. If I
have SPF records, I WANT other mail servers to respect that it is my
wish that ONLY MY authenticated users send email marked as such with my
permission.
I
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