Re: --lint tells me I need 0.34 dns

> There doesn't seem > to be a way to say "if perl(Net::DNS) is installed, require version 0.34 or > higher". Which begins to make me wonder - why NOT require net::dns for SA, at least as far as the install goes? Is it that huge a package? If the user isn't going to use it, how much have they lo

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

From: "Jon Dossey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Menno van Bennekom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: David Velásquez Restrepo > Subject: Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this > question) > > > Q) With spamassassin (and all the above info) you need about 20 to 30 > > seconds per

What is a caching name server?

Hello list, in several posts I have noticed people refer to a "caching nameserver". What exactly is that? Would BIND 9.3.1 qualify? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Devin

Re: --lint tells me I need 0.34 dns

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:35:01PM -0400, Eric Wood wrote: > Your correct. It's the only spamassassin-3x rpm I could find on the net at: > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ I'd just build it yourself. Docs are on the wiki/download page (iirc). > doesn't really check for specific perl modules

Re: --lint tells me I need 0.34 dns

- Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" If you installed the RPM as provided by a distribution, they should have included the proper versions of the other modules as well. If they didn't, you should let them know to update their packages. Your correct. It's the only spamassassin-3x

Re: --lint tells me I need 0.34 dns

- Original Message - From: "Ed Kasky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Have you ever tried using the cpan shell to install perl modules? Try the following as root: perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf prerequisites_policy ask install Net::DNS I have found it much easier for perl modules. HTH Cool. That did get

Re: --lint tells me I need 0.34 dns

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:38:58PM -0400, Eric Wood wrote: > I'm not a perl guru so my natural fear is that I'm going to be trapped > doing any endless amount of perl updates just for this one problem. > Hopefully only this rpm is needed. Here I go The INSTALL doc in the tarball has a list

Re: --lint tells me I need 0.34 dns

- Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" Yes. 0.34 is necessary for SpamAssassin 3.0. Great. Okay, I think the specific package is: # rpm -q perl-Net-DNS perl-Net-DNS-0.31-3.2 I'm not a perl guru so my natural fear is that I'm going to be trapped doing any endless amount of perl upda

Re: --lint tells me I need 0.34 dns

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:26:52PM -0400, Eric Wood wrote: > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > Net::DNS version is 0.31, but need 0.34dnsavailable-1 at > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 1230. > > Does this mean I should update my perl packa

--lint tells me I need 0.34 dns

On Fedora Core 1, I have: # rpm -q spamassassin spamassassin-3.0.3-1.1.fc1.rf # rpm -q perl perl-5.8.3-16 Should I be concerned with the following warnings: # spamassassin --lint perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset),

Re: SA Being Bypassed?

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:57:33AM -0400, Jake Colman wrote: > Am I missing some obvious SA configuration that would address this? Is what > I am seeing impossible to be true - which means that something else is going > on and I am misstating this? It's an issue for however you have your filterin

SA Being Bypassed?

Under normal circumstances all my incoming email is filtered, via spamc/spamd, through SA. If my sendmail is down all my email is delivered to a backup MX that is hosted elsewhere in a different domain. When my sendmail comes back up, the backup MX dumps me all of my email. All of that incoming

Re: Feeding bayes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jimsheffer wrote: [snip] | | Next, I tried the following, but it didn't like it. Heres what I did, and | the response I received: | | Root# sa-learn --spam -C /etc/mail/spamassassin --showdots --dir | /var/CommuniGate/Accounts/spam.macnt/INBOX.mbox | |

Re: bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam not working?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:43, Ingo Reinhart wrote: > Hello! > > I am a little confused with the bayes. I have set > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam = 6. > > Why is the following mail not autolearn as spam? No user.prefs or else is > set. Sorry to snip your data Ingo, but I am in the process of w

rulesdujour and old copies of rule files

Hi, I've noticed there is a buildup of old rules in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour directory like this 109543 May 10 19:07 bogus-virus-warnings.cf 92609 Aug 10 2004 bogus-virus-warnings.cf.20040819-0402 93896 Aug 19 2004 bogus-virus-warnings.cf.20040823-0423 94241 Aug 23 2004 bogus-v

Re: OT: Perl IMAP client

Hi, I am using the netxap package in a similar context. There was an ages old version on cpan which needed a few patches to work (at least with cyrus) but the version that came with suse linux was up to date Wolfgang Hamann >> I'd like to knock together a utility for invoking SA against messag

RE: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

>> I have a mailserver here that has a 1Ghz CPU and 512MB RAM and SA on that >> server usually takes 2 or 3 seconds per message. >> Like already posted, some of your rulesets are unnecessary because they >> are included in SA (standard rulesets or SURBL). >> Did you check 'cat messages | spamassass

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

Jon Dossey wrote: > > Please don't take this as me doubting you - but how in the world are you able > to scan a message in 2-3 seconds? I assume you're running some of the > network tests, like other people that have posted 2-3 second message > processing times, is that correct? > > My Dl360

Re: sa-learn and big messages

Jim Maul wrote: > Ingo Reinhart wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> If I commit a big mail (32 MB) to sa-learn it need long time. I must >> wait 50 sec. and the sa-learn process need 332 MB RAM. >> >> What can I do for faster proceed? >> >> Ingo >> >> >> >> > > um..since messages over 250k (default) wont be

Re: Perl IMAP client

On May 19, 2005, at 15:34, Bret Miller wrote: I'd like to knock together a utility for invoking SA against messages in an IMAP store, and it seems logical to build it as a Perl program using an IMAP package and Mail::SpamAssassin. Can anyone recommend a good Perl IMAP package? I have used Mail::IMA

Re: bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam not working?

Ingo Reinhart wrote: Hello! I am a little confused with the bayes. I have set bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam = 6. Why is the following mail not autolearn as spam? No user.prefs or else is set. May 19 10:25:16 mail spamd[6531]: result: Y 14 - BIZ_TLD,DATE_IN_PAST_06_12,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,LOCAL

RE: Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 743.

>> Yes, the Conf.pm looks correct. But that's not what you >> should be looking at. It's not even the right file. >> As per Theo's suggestion, look for a report_safe statement >> in your local.cf or user_prefs (or any other config file). >> Or something similar. Report_safe *MUST* be followed b

RE: Perl IMAP client

> I'd like to knock together a utility for invoking SA against > messages in an > IMAP store, and it seems logical to build it as a Perl > program using an > IMAP package and Mail::SpamAssassin. Can anyone recommend a > good Perl IMAP package? > > Server will be Dovecot on Fedora. My utility will t

Re: sa-learn and big messages

Ingo Reinhart wrote: Hello! If I commit a big mail (32 MB) to sa-learn it need long time. I must wait 50 sec. and the sa-learn process need 332 MB RAM. What can I do for faster proceed? Ingo um..since messages over 250k (default) wont be scanned by SA, why bother sa-learning anything over this

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

Jon Dossey wrote: > Please don't take this as me doubting you - but how in the world are > you able to scan a message in 2-3 seconds? I assume you're running > some of the network tests, like other people that have posted 2-3 > second message processing times, is that correct? > > My Dl360 with

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

On Thu, 19 May 2005 16:33:36 -0500 "Jon Dossey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Menno van Bennekom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: David Velásquez Restrepo > > Subject: Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer > > this question) > > > > > Q) With spamassassin (and all the abo

Re: SA Sometimes Being Bypassed?

Jake Colman wrote: > If my sendmail server is down, a backup MX in a different domain catches all > my email. When my sendmail server comes back up, the backup MX dumps all the > mail it's been holding for me. It seems that all the email sent to me in > this manner bypasses my SA filtering. Why

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

Justin Mason wrote: > > jdow writes: > >>>You are using larger chunks of VIRT than I am. I use about 60M where >>>you are using 98M. I run with "--max-conn-per-child=15". You win a >>>little if you either add RAM or cut down to "-m2" or "-m3". You do >>>have a fair amount of cache in use. Once th

RE: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

> Please don't take this as me doubting you - but how in the world are you > able to scan a message in 2-3 seconds? I assume you're running some of Personally, I rarely have any processing times over 1 second. Most of mine are between 0.3 and 0.9 seconds per message. I do not run any network t

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

> Software: > -- > A perl script wich takes some file and test it using Mail::SpamAssassin to Which version of SA? > Using: Net test, Bayes, Razor2, DCC, Phyzor, SPF Test (and everything else > suggested by spamassassin) > Rules: >

Re: Feeding bayes

Ryan (and others)- Thanks- I've now read the manual on that part- I guess I missed it, been reading so much :) That did the trick! I fed the machine spam, and it shows it when I run lint -D BUT, I received over 200 spam messages into a new box that I had redirected to a mailbox if they reached t

Bayes_journal and locking

on our mailcluster we have spamassassin running with bayes turned on, but auto learning turned off, we then hand train the bayesdb and push it out to all the machines. However weven with bayes_auto_learn turned off, spamd is still creating the bayes_journal files, which isn't a problem until spamd

Re: Test Posting

At 11:06 AM Thursday, 5/19/2005, Jake Colman wrote -=> Does this work? My last two posts did not seem to make it to the list.. No... }B->) Ed Kasky ~ Randomly Generated Quote (31 of 477): "Be gentle to all and stern with yourself." - St. Teresa of Avila

RE: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

> From: Menno van Bennekom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: David Velásquez Restrepo > Subject: Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this > question) > > > Q) With spamassassin (and all the above info) you need about 20 to 30 > > seconds per email message and LOTS of RAM and CPU:

Re: Two uris hit uribl, should count double ?

Niek wrote: > Hi, > > I got a spam today, and it had two spamvertised websites in them. > Both uris hit uribl.com's black list: > > * 3.0 URIBL_BLACK Contains an URL listed in the URIBL blacklist > * [URIs: ridofallthebad dot com noveltyrenewed dot com] > > Shouldn't the score be 6

Test Posting

Does this work? My last two posts did not seem to make it to the list... -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside Financial Center 1001 Plaza Two Jersey City, NJ 07311 (201) 209-2467 www.principiapartners.com

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcel Veldhuizen writes: > At 06:00 19-5-2005, Justin Mason wrote: > > > > Memory usage can be quite huge if you have many custom rulesets, > > because SA > > > 3.0.x forks into several processes which all insist on making their own > > > copy of t

SA Sometimes Being Bypassed?

If my sendmail server is down, a backup MX in a different domain catches all my email. When my sendmail server comes back up, the backup MX dumps all the mail it's been holding for me. It seems that all the email sent to me in this manner bypasses my SA filtering. Why should this be? I beleive

Re: German Spam local.conf

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to be removed from this distrubtion list, anyone have an idea > how to do that? Read the message headers for *ANY* post on the list: list-unsubscribe: Note: if your mail reader won't show you these headers, it's broken. This h

RE: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

> > Q) With spamassassin (and all the above info) you need > about 20 to 30 > > seconds per email message and LOTS of RAM and CPU: > > a) TRUE > > b) FALSE > My answer is b), False. > I have a mailserver here that has a 1Ghz CPU and 512MB RAM > and SA on that server usually takes 2 or

OT: Perl IMAP client

I'd like to knock together a utility for invoking SA against messages in an IMAP store, and it seems logical to build it as a Perl program using an IMAP package and Mail::SpamAssassin. Can anyone recommend a good Perl IMAP package? Server will be Dovecot on Fedora. My utility will take all mess

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE

> David Velásquez Restrepo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm user of spamassassin to reviw a lot (a lot!) of > > incoming mails with spamassassin lot time ago. Today i > > have a machine just running spamassassin, due the high > > CPU and MEM requirements. Just to be clear (may be i > have something

Re: Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 743.

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:44:34AM -0700, John Schneider wrote: > Secondly, I installed this version of SpamAssassin from the FreeBSD port of > 3.03. I built the port again and checked the Conf.pm file inside the port > folder against the installed Conf.pm file and there are no differences. > >> --

Re: Rather too refreshing: bayes.lock

On 5/19/05, Ben Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > debug: refresh: 3392 refresh F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock [...] > debug: expired old Bayes database entries in 1533 seconds: 485101 entries No real help here, but another data point: I've been seeing occasional problems on my Linux

Two uris hit uribl, should count double ?

Hi, I got a spam today, and it had two spamvertised websites in them. Both uris hit uribl.com's black list: * 3.0 URIBL_BLACK Contains an URL listed in the URIBL blacklist * [URIs: ridofallthebad dot com noveltyrenewed dot com] Shouldn't the score be 6, because it caught two u

Re: Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 743.

John Schneider wrote: > First of all - I double-posted this Q to the list by mistake and I > apologize. > > Secondly, I installed this version of SpamAssassin from the FreeBSD port of > 3.03. I built the port again and checked the Conf.pm file inside the port > folder against the installed Conf.pm

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE

David Velásquez Restrepo wrote: Hi, I'm user of spamassassin to reviw a lot (a lot!) of incoming mails with spamassassin lot time ago. Today i have a machine just running spamassassin, due the high CPU and MEM requirements. Just to be clear (may be i have something bad) The question is: Q)

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

David Velásquez Restrepo wrote: > Software: > -- > A perl script wich takes some file and test it using Mail::SpamAssassin > to get it´s spam score level If your script isn't persistent, I'd ditch it and use spamc/spamd as Justin Mason su

Re: Problemes => not the same score into spamassassin 3.0.3

Phibee Network operation Center wrote: > Hi > > i have a small problems and dont see where is my errors .. Have you tried spamassassin --lint on the second box? At casual glance it looks like the second box is missing a lot of the standard ruleset, as GTUBE failed to fire.

Re: sa-learn and big messages

Ingo Reinhart wrote: > Hello! > > If I commit a big mail (32 MB) to sa-learn it need long time. I must > wait 50 sec. and the sa-learn process need 332 MB RAM. > > What can I do for faster proceed? > Don't commit such a large message to sa-learn? Seriously, sa-learn isn't designed to handle su

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdow writes: > You are using larger chunks of VIRT than I am. I use about 60M where > you are using 98M. I run with "--max-conn-per-child=15". You win a > little if you either add RAM or cut down to "-m2" or "-m3". You do > have a fair amount of cache

RE: German Spam local.conf

I would like to be removed from this distrubtion list, anyone have an idea how to do that? -Original Message- From: Kris Deugau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 6:16 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: German Spam local.conf Alan Premselaar wrote: >

Re: bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam not working?

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:43:39AM +0200, Ingo Reinhart wrote: > Why is the following mail not autolearn as spam? No user.prefs or else is > set. As usual, run with -D. It will tell you. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffer

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

> Q) With spamassassin (and all the above info) you need about 20 to 30 > seconds per email message and LOTS of RAM and CPU: > a) TRUE > b) FALSE My answer is b), False. I have a mailserver here that has a 1Ghz CPU and 512MB RAM and SA on that server usually takes 2 or 3 seconds per message

RE: Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm line 743.

First of all - I double-posted this Q to the list by mistake and I apologize. Secondly, I installed this version of SpamAssassin from the FreeBSD port of 3.03. I built the port again and checked the Conf.pm file inside the port folder against the installed Conf.pm file and there are no differences

Re: bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam not working?

At 05:43 AM 5/19/2005, Ingo Reinhart wrote: I am a little confused with the bayes. I have set bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam = 6. Why is the following mail not autolearn as spam? No user.prefs or else is set. May 19 10:25:16 mail spamd[6531]: result: Y 14 - BIZ_TLD,DATE_IN_PAST_06_12,FROM_EN

Re: Exim Mail Server

On Wed, 18 May 2005 16:23:48 -0500 "Jeffrey N. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Spamassassin with Sendmail and I am thinking about going to > Exim. Does it make a difference to Spamassassin with mimedefang? I'm not fully sure of all the capabilities and implications of mimedefang, but

Re: Gee i wish....

From: "Bob Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > jdow wrote: > > Gee, I wish there was a way I could tell spamassassin I want a 0.2 > > score on a given test for each time it is hit within a message. I > > have some spams I could drive up over 20 points with such a rule > > that might hit in half the hams

Re: sa-learn and big messages

From: "Ingo Reinhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello! > > If I commit a big mail (32 MB) to sa-learn it need long time. I must wait 50 > sec. and the sa-learn process need 332 MB RAM. > > What can I do for faster proceed? In procmail the incantation is something like: :0 fw: spamassassin.lock * < 2

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

From: "David Velásquez Restrepo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Software: > -- > A perl script wich takes some file and test it using Mail::SpamAssassin to > get it´s spam score level > OS: gentoo 2005.0 > MTA: postfix > > SpamAssassin: >

Re: German Spam local.conf

Alan Premselaar wrote: > first, make sure your file is named local.cf and not local.conf. > also, you don't appear to have any scores assigned to these rules. > I'm not a rules writing expert, but these rules may not actually do > anything for you without scores assigned. ALL rules receive a def

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE

David Velásquez Restrepo wrote: Hi, I'm user of spamassassin to reviw a lot (a lot!) of incoming mails with spamassassin lot time ago. Today i have a machine just running spamassassin, due the high CPU and MEM requirements. Just to be clear (may be i have something bad) The question is: Q)

Re: Exim with Spamassassin and mimedefang

Jeffrey N. Miller wrote: I want to setup a SMTP relay filtering SPAM and viruses. The relay will relay the mail to my Exchange server. Is there well documented HOWTOs on setting this up using Exim, Spamassassin, Mimedefang and a good virus scanning software? I see HOWTOs using sendmail but I

Rather too refreshing: bayes.lock

I've just had an issue with SpamAssassin and Bayes. I am running SpamAssassin 3.02 on Windows. Basically it stopped working, and no SA checks were completeing. I tried to see what was happening with Spamassassin -D --lint And it started ok, and decided it needed to do an expiry, which took quite

Re: Problemes => not the same score into spamassassin 3.0.3

At 10:32 19-5-2005, Phibee Network operation Center wrote: The GTUBE rule is defined in the (standard) 20_body_tests.cf rule file. So I'd say for some reason it must not be processing the rules in that file. Try "spamassassin -D --lint" and see if 20_body_tests.cf is being loaded? Then there is

Re: Exim with Spamassassin and mimedefang

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jeffrey N. Miller wrote: > I want to setup a SMTP relay filtering SPAM and viruses. The relay will > relay the mail to my Exchange server. Is there well documented HOWTOs > on setting this up using Exim, Spamassassin, Mimedefang and a good virus > scanning software? I see H

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE

David depends on what you call lots or RAM, CPU etc. my old scanner took about 5 seconds to scan email with SA (URI_RBL's, bayes two normal RBL's, lots of extra SARE rules etc), Sophos, ClamAV, the extra checks MailScanner does and dump the email into a mysql DB for reports. Given emails would

Re: Spam Percentages

Hamie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Hepworth wrote: Fred wrote: Ben Hanson wrote: Shortly after the first of the year, I noticed the percentage of spam messages for our organization dropped consistently by 10-15%. Ben I see between 83-85% spam. We use SARE rules +

Re: Exim Mail Server

Jeffrey N. Miller wrote: I use Spamassassin with Sendmail and I am thinking about going to Exim. Does it make a difference to Spamassassin with mimedefang? I'm about to go the same way. I believe mimedefang only works in sendmail, but exim will do all the mimedefang things with a small bit of p

bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam not working?

Hello! I am a little confused with the bayes. I have set bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam = 6. Why is the following mail not autolearn as spam? No user.prefs or else is set. May 19 10:25:16 mail spamd[6531]: result: Y 14 - BIZ_TLD,DATE_IN_PAST_06_12,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,LOCAL_OBFU_DUNG_BIZ,LOCAL_

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE

At 06:00 19-5-2005, Justin Mason wrote: > Memory usage can be quite huge if you have many custom rulesets, because SA > 3.0.x forks into several processes which all insist on making their own > copy of the ruleset in memory :( When I still used the RDJ bigevil list > (amongst others), it would use

Problemes => not the same score into spamassassin 3.0.3

Hi i have a small problems and dont see where is my errors .. On my first spamassassin, a email sort: May 19 10:15:49 gw spamd[16048]: connection from srv1.ophelys.org [127.0.0.1] at port 45692 May 19 10:15:49 gw spamd[16048]: info: setuid to root succeeded May 19 10:15:49 gw spamd[16048]: Still r

Re: spamc and spamd in different servers

The problem is corrected. By default, spamd listen only in 127.0.0.1 The corrects options for my purpose are: /usr/sbin/spamd -m 10 -i -A 172.19.3.1 -A 172.19.3.2 -A 127.0.0.1 -d Where: -A is used for permit connections from 3.1 and 3.2 (plus localhost) and -i make spamd listen on all their i

Re: German Spam local.conf

In an older episode (Thursday 19 May 2005 08:20), Patrick Steiner wrote: > hello, > > i am totally unskilled in config spamassisn, but i found this url: > > http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=GermanSoberSpamBounceRules That file will only detect Non Delivery Notifications that have been sent