Re: Spamassassin help

2004-12-22 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, 8:38:04 AM, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 10:42 AM 12/22/2004, Ray Anderson wrote: >>Greetings, I've been using spamassassin 2.55 for a while now on Mandrake 9.2. >> >>I have a list of URL's that are grouped to form a pretty big meta tag, and >>this has worked great for

AWL not working on 3.02

2004-12-22 Thread Alan Munday
I have a couple new installs of SA3 (on RH9 from rpm) where I knew AWL did not run and today I decided to see why. The output from -D --lint is: debug: lock: 31719 created /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.mx1.domain.com.31719 debug: lock: 31719 trying to get lock on /var/spool/spamassa

Re: spam tagging

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:30 AM 12/22/2004, shane mullins wrote: I have a simple tagging question. I searched around, but didn't find a solid answer. We have our mail set to be discarded at a score of 5.0, and it works great. But, we would like to have spam above 3.0 tagged, and looking at the message source, it is

Re: Error after upgrading from 2.6 to 3.0.2

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:58 PM 12/22/2004, SAtalk Mail User wrote: I have a question, I have just recently upgraded my spamassassin from 2.6 to 3.0.2, and I notice that I get the following error; ERROR "SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: user_scores_sql_table___userpref" the user_scores_sql_table c

Error after upgrading from 2.6 to 3.0.2

2004-12-22 Thread SAtalk Mail User
Hello all, I have a question, I have just recently upgraded my spamassassin from 2.6 to 3.0.2, and I notice that I get the following error; ERROR "SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: user_scores_sql_table___userpref" I was wondering if any of you might be able to assist me with

Trouble installing 3.0.2 (failed t/body_mod and t/utf8)

2004-12-22 Thread Parker Morse
I tried a CPAN installation of SA 3.0.2 and both those tests (t/body_mod and t/utf8) failed all sub-tests. `make test' otherwise ran OK. The failure, in both cases, started with "Modification of a read-only value attempted at..." and then a series of "compilation aborted" notes. Am I OK forcin

Re: Odd error when -x is used

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 18:14 schrieb Ryan Pavely: > Well your email did bring me to an interesting observation. > I am using SpamC for SA 3.0, and had upgraded from SA 2.63 > > Notice the layout of my error message.. although ALL machines tha

Re: Odd error when -x is used

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:14 PM 12/22/2004, Ryan Pavely wrote: Well your email did bring me to an interesting observation. I am using SpamC for SA 3.0, and had upgraded from SA 2.63 Notice the layout of my error message.. although ALL machines that run spamc (/usr/local/bin/spamc) are 3.0 somehow my error is displ

Re: Odd error when -x is used

2004-12-22 Thread Ryan Pavely
Well your email did bring me to an interesting observation. I am using SpamC for SA 3.0, and had upgraded from SA 2.63 Notice the layout of my error message.. although ALL machines that run spamc (/usr/local/bin/spamc) are 3.0 somehow my error is displaying the SA 2.63 help message! That's pretty

Re: {Spam?} spam with (rolex) watches gets trough

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Brooks
this ruleset works well for me: http://www.violetdreams.com/sa/rolex.cf maybe "ninjaz -at- webexpress.com" can be welcomed to the sare dojo? ;-) Chris Santerre wrote: -Original Message- From: Thomas Arend [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:56 AM To: users@spamass

Re: Odd error when -x is used

2004-12-22 Thread Evan Platt
At 08:55 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: -H Randomize IP addresses for the looked-up hostname. My bad, sorry. Worth a try though. Sometimes you miss the obvious. :)

Re: {Spam?} spam with (rolex) watches gets trough

2004-12-22 Thread Fred
Chris Santerre wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 12:42 schrieb Martin Hepworth: >>> Thomas >>> >>> what extra rules above the standard SA ones have you got? Any from >>> www.rulesemporium.com ? >> > None of these have been tested yet. Use at your own risk. Do not > operate while under heav

Re: Odd error when -x is used

2004-12-22 Thread Ryan Pavely
-H Randomize IP addresses for the looked-up hostname. Ryan Pavely Director Research And Development Net Access Corporation Evan Platt wrote: At 08:32 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: Since my upgrade to SA 3.0 I have a few more timeouts on occasion. Therefore I

Re: Odd error when -x is used

2004-12-22 Thread Evan Platt
At 08:32 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: Since my upgrade to SA 3.0 I have a few more timeouts on occasion. Therefore I decided to test adding -x to my .qmail spamc line. eg. |/usr/local/bin/spamc -x -H -d spamd.nac.net -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] On occasion I get a message here and there that looks like this.

Re: Spamassassin help

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:42 AM 12/22/2004, Ray Anderson wrote: Greetings, I've been using spamassassin 2.55 for a while now on Mandrake 9.2. I have a list of URL's that are grouped to form a pretty big meta tag, and this has worked great for years now. Recently, one dirtbag message has found a way through the defen

Odd error when -x is used

2004-12-22 Thread Ryan Pavely
Since my upgrade to SA 3.0 I have a few more timeouts on occasion. Therefore I decided to test adding -x to my .qmail spamc line. eg. |/usr/local/bin/spamc -x -H -d spamd.nac.net -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] On occasion I get a message here and there that looks like this... Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Spamassassin help

2004-12-22 Thread Ray Anderson
Second attempt: Greetings, I've been using spamassassin 2.55 for a while now on Mandrake 9.2. I have a list of URL's that are grouped to form a pretty big meta tag, and this has worked great for years now. Recently, one dirtbag message has found a way through the defenses and I can't figure out

Re: How to use new-inject

2004-12-22 Thread Michael Parker
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:50:33PM +, Mário Gamito wrote: > > 2. new-inject is part of SA, isn't it ? > No, suggest you try the qmail lists. Michael pgpZsF7g4vaHp.pgp Description: PGP signature

How to use new-inject

2004-12-22 Thread Mário Gamito
Hi, 1. Does anyone knows how to use qmail new-inject instead of qmail inject ? 2. new-inject is part of SA, isn't it ? Any help would be apreciated. Warm Regards. -- Mário Gamito Administração de sistemas e desenvolvimento Netual - Multimédia e Telecomunicações, Lda. Rua João Afonso, Nº1 3800-198 A

Re: SA does bayes every 1 of 2 mails only

2004-12-22 Thread Maarten de Boer
Hello, I just solved the problem by doing a sa-learn --backup, deleting the bayes_ db files, and a sa-learn --restore. I guess somehow the db got corrupted. maarten > Hello, > > (I repost this message because I have not been able to solve > the problem, and it is becoming very noticable that m

Re: spam tagging

2004-12-22 Thread shane mullins
Thanks Chris, Those instructions are excellent. Thanks very much. We simply had to discard spam above 5.0. We we were getting over 5000 spam emails a day. The volume was simply too much to handle. Shane - Original Message - From: "Chris Santerre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'shane

RE: spam tagging

2004-12-22 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: shane mullins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:30 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: spam tagging > > >I have a simple tagging question. I searched around, but didn't find a >solid answer. We have our mail set to be

spam tagging

2004-12-22 Thread shane mullins
I have a simple tagging question. I searched around, but didn't find a solid answer. We have our mail set to be discarded at a score of 5.0, and it works great. But, we would like to have spam above 3.0 tagged, and looking at the message source, it is, along with the tests that flagged it. Woul

RE: {Spam?} spam with (rolex) watches gets trough

2004-12-22 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Thomas Arend [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:56 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: {Spam?} spam with (rolex) watches gets trough > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 200

Re: {Spam?} spam with (rolex) watches gets trough

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 12:42 schrieb Martin Hepworth: > Thomas > > what extra rules above the standard SA ones have you got? Any from > www.rulesemporium.com ? I have only the standard rules from SA 3.0.2 > > also have you got the URI rbl's t

Re: {Spam?} spam with (rolex) watches gets trough

2004-12-22 Thread Jim Barry
On Wed, December 22, 2004 6:42 am, Martin Hepworth said: > also have you got the URI rbl's turned on? This helps quite alot for this > sort of spam. Indeed. That forwarded message ended up tagged as spam the URI checks are what caught it... even the AWL wasn't enough to save it. :) SpamAssassin

Re: {Spam?} spam with (rolex) watches gets trough

2004-12-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Thomas what extra rules above the standard SA ones have you got? Any from www.rulesemporium.com ? also have you got the URI rbl's turned on? This helps quite alot for this sort of spam. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Thomas Arend wrote: --

spam with (rolex) watches gets trough

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm geting a lot of spam messages about rolex watches (see example below), which were not scored as spam. Only the bayes test applies, which gives only a score of 4.1 Thomas Example Message: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [..] X-Origin

Re: spamc not working, but spamassassin is

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2004 10:44 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello, I just installed the latest 3.0.2 and when testing found that spamc > doesnt do anything to the message but just process it through as text and > does not format it. It:s the same

Re: spamc not working, but spamassassin is

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, I just installed the latest 3.0.2 and when testing found that spamc > doesnt do anything to the message but just process it through as text and > does not format it. It:s the same on the command line just passing a > message to it. If I go into .procmailrc and re

spamc not working, but spamassassin is

2004-12-22 Thread corley
Hello, I just installed the latest 3.0.2 and when testing found that spamc doesnt do anything to the message but just process it through as text and does not format it. It:s the same on the command line just passing a message to it. If I go into .procmailrc and replace '| spamc' with '|spamassassin

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > It works for awhile. Then usually within a very few minutes it's back to > > the old tricks. Restarting spamd seems to fix the spamc->spamd link. I am > > exploring generating a series of spam messages to see when it quits.

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It works for awhile. Then usually within a very few minutes it's back to > the old tricks. Restarting spamd seems to fix the spamc->spamd link. I am > exploring generating a series of spam messages to see when it quits. It > MIGHT be the Greek characters. But why

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
[] vs () - thanks. (It affects ALL rules, though.) {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: 2004 December, 21, Tuesday 20:11 Subject: Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 07:36 PM 12/21/2004 -0800, jdow wrote: > >score JD_MY_NAME 0.1 > > > > 1.0 JD_MY_NAME To my ids at Earthlink. > > > > >The rule names are not duplicated anywhere. I have NO idea how the 0.1 > >score turned into a 1. No matt

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
- Original Message - From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: 2004 December, 21, Tuesday 20:06 Subject: Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores > From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have a postfix->procmail->spamc->spamd configuration with postfix not > > working in its privat

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:06:15PM -0800, jdow wrote: > > header JD_MY_NAME ToCc =~ > > /[jdow|jdowjunkmail|[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i BTW, [] encloses character classes, whereas I think you wanted (). (jdow|jdowjunkmail|wizardess) means "jdow", "jdowjunkmail", or "wizardess". [jdow|jdowj

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a postfix->procmail->spamc->spamd configuration with postfix not > working in its private little jail. > > Most of that is immaterial since the problem exists within the spamc-> > spamd connection or with a "spamassassin "allow_user_rules 1" in the local.

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:36 PM 12/21/2004 -0800, jdow wrote: score JD_MY_NAME 0.1 1.0 JD_MY_NAME To my ids at Earthlink. The rule names are not duplicated anywhere. I have NO idea how the 0.1 score turned into a 1. No matter what score I place on the two private rules that were hit I stil

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread Michael Parker
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:36:15PM -0800, jdow wrote: > > The rule names are not duplicated anywhere. I have NO idea how the 0.1 > score turned into a 1. No matter what score I place on the two private > rules that were hit I still get a score of +1. (I even tried -100.) > > Does anybody have any

Re: SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 09:36 pm, jdow wrote: > I have a postfix->procmail->spamc->spamd configuration with postfix not > working in its private little jail. > > header JD_MY_NAME ToCc =~ > /[jdow|jdowjunkmail|[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i > describe JD_MY_NAME To my ids at Ear

Re: [OT] Making two machines talk to one another

2004-12-22 Thread email builder
> > I am attempting to offload SA to a machine that is not my main MX > server. > > I have two machines, two NIC cards and a crossover cable, but after that > I > > get very lost. I believe there should be a way to make them aware of one > > another using this direct connection w/out the need fo

SpamAssassin not giving correct scores

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
I have a postfix->procmail->spamc->spamd configuration with postfix not working in its private little jail. Most of that is immaterial since the problem exists within the spamc-> spamd connection or with a "spamassassin http://dsbl.org/listing?195.167.65.249>] 1.4 RCVD_IN_NJABL_RELAYRBL: NJAB

Re: Interesting NW article

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
Too bad Open Sores licensing cannot allow for a requirement on products that embed the Open Source in a commercial product pour some support back into the Open Source project. (I note smart companies like RedHat, Mandrake, IBM, and perhaps now even McAfee do that anyway. This is a good thing.) {^_

Re: Interesting NW article

2004-12-22 Thread James Lees Vodanovich
The magazines real masters are its advertisers and its potential Advertisers, who dont want to be compared to a free product, so any attempt at contacting SA people would have been done in away to avoid a real response. Also the mag is aimed at the bigger end of the market where the money is, w

Re: 70_sare_spoof.cf vis a vis paypal

2004-12-22 Thread jdow
From: "Kelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > jdow wrote: > > PayPal seems to have started using PostDirect for their email service. > > So the PayPal spoof test is breaking, rather dramatically. > > It looks like this has already been taken care of at PostDirect's end. > Reverse DNS for 206.165.246.85 n

Re: whitelist_to parametr question

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:25 PM 12/21/2004, David B Funk wrote: > However, beware... SA cannot always determine who the recipient of a > message is. It does not get a copy of the envelope, thus it must try to > decipher the recipient from the headers alone. If the message is Bcc'ed and > your MTA doesn't insert a "for

Re: Problem with ClamAV plugin.

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:09 PM 12/21/2004, Cameron Bales wrote: I'm running CGPSA 1.4f4 under Communigate 4.2.7 and SpamAssassin 3.0.1. I've installed ClamAV 0.8 and the SpamAssassin ClamAV plugin as described here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin I get the following error in my mail headers: X-Spa

Re: whitelist_to parametr question

2004-12-22 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: [snip..] > However, beware... SA cannot always determine who the recipient of a > message is. It does not get a copy of the envelope, thus it must try to > decipher the recipient from the headers alone. If the message is Bcc'ed and > your MTA doesn't insert

Re: OT Boincing Spam

2004-12-22 Thread ChupaCabra
Exactly. I can show him excerpets of emails (which I already did) and it helps some. An article on the internet , a howto I don't know about or an example of someone who did this and got blacklisted over the net would be best. Maybe, like me, y'all have looked and not found anything suitable

Re: Unsubscribe?

2004-12-22 Thread Joe Zitnik
I've been told by my boss that I can't use anything BUT spamassassin, because it is open source. ;-) >>> Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/21/04 7:47 PM >>> On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 4:40:56 PM, Peter Benac wrote: > And that makes it right because? No, it makes it wrong. :-( Jeff C. __ > F

Re: Unsubscribe?

2004-12-22 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 4:40:56 PM, Peter Benac wrote: > And that makes it right because? No, it makes it wrong. :-( Jeff C. __ > From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 12:32:41 PM, Peter Benac wrote: >> If I understand you Mail Address correct aren't

Re: OT Boincing Spam

2004-12-22 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 2:52:35 AM, Michele Solutions wrote: >> If you're not already, consider using the RBL >> sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org at the MTA level. It's quite safe and >> rejects a lot of spam before it's even seen by SpamAssassin, etc. > I'd have to disagree with you Jeff. > A lot of

RE: Unsubscribe?

2004-12-22 Thread Peter P. Benac
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Re: spamass-milter vs user_prefs

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:30 PM 12/21/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get spamass-milter with user_prefs to work, the only solution what i found yet is to use a global user_prefs with the spamd virtual-config-dir option. Is there a configuration possible which allows individual user_prefs with spamass-mil

Re: Unsubscribe?

2004-12-22 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, 12:32:41 PM, Peter Benac wrote: > If I understand you Mail Address correct aren't the Tax Payers the ones > paying the bills. While I don't live in your County or State I would have > to wonder why the people you work for NEED to spend the taxpayers money on > someth