Passing a user to spamc with DROP_PRIVS=YES (fwd)

2005-06-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all... The subject says it all. Basically, what I am looking to do is rework my SQL preferences so that instead of being $username they are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so that multiple machines can have different policies). Right now I don't pass any arguments to spamc (except the hostname and -S

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre2 PRERELEASE available! (migrating Bayes from DB_File)

2005-06-29 Thread Loren Wilton
> The page starts with "There are now multiple backend storage modules" > What is "now"? With what version did this become available? I think the first interchangable backends were at 3.0, but that there are more of them now. Loren

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre2 PRERELEASE available! (migrating Bayes from DB_File)

2005-06-29 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:31 AM -0500 Michael Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sure, here is a basic procedure: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesMigration Great, that looks very helpful. The page starts with "There are now multiple backend storage modules" What is "now"?

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Loren Wilton
> A simple cron job running a wget for the rules. Not pretty, but works. :) Remember to NOT do it more than about once a day, or rulesemporium won't like you! Loren

Re: On the subject of training ( ie frequency)...

2005-06-29 Thread Loren Wilton
> I have a system where the previous person trained the Bayes stats once > about 1-2 yrs ago, has used only the "default" rules, and has "auto > learn" on. > I'm trying to determine what one "should" do. First, you should probably upgrade to a recent version of SA. 2 years ago would probably be

Re: [sa-list] Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre2 PRERELEASE available! (migrating Bayes

2005-06-29 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:48 AM -0400 "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, in trying to migrate thousands of per-user bayes into SQL, I found that it a) took forever and b) consumed so much memory that I just found it an easier approach to say "screw it" and

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre2 PRERELEASE available! (migrating Bayes from DB_File)

2005-06-29 Thread Michael Parker
Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:45 PM -0700 Justin Mason > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - added PostgreSQL, MySQL 4.1+, and local SDBM file Bayes storage >> modules. SQL storage is now recommended for Bayes, instead of DB_File. >> NDBM_File support has been dropped d

testing

2005-06-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I'm not seeing some of my messages come through to the list. Could someone tell me if they get this? -Dan -- Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Thielen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: On 06/29/05 20:19, Evan Platt wrote: wget -N URL only downloads a file if the copy on the server is newer than your local one. Presumably, by adding an HTTP If-Modified-Since header with a value corresponding to the modified-time

Re: Is rules_du_jour working?

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Thielen
Dr Robert Young wrote: Interactively, there are a lot of messages saying "no such file or directory" and "command not found". Is this normal? I am uncertain as to how I can tell the update is actually occurring (or not) . Hi Robert, No, this is not normal. Feel free to email me the

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Thielen
Regarding RDJ and windows, I did put together a short HOWTO for setting up RDJ on cygwin: http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=InstallRdjOnCygwin Evan Platt wrote: At 02:04 AM 6/29/2005, you wrote: RulesDuJour. Loren doesn't do French well. (Erm, neither do I for that matter.) Oui.

Re: [sa-list] Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre2 PRERELEASE available! (migrating Bayes

2005-06-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Kenneth Porter wrote: Personally, in trying to migrate thousands of per-user bayes into SQL, I found that it a) took forever and b) consumed so much memory that I just found it an easier approach to say "screw it" and retrain. YMMV, of course. I believe SA does include a

Is rules_du_jour working?

2005-06-29 Thread Dr Robert Young
I pulled the rules_du_jour script down and ran it. I get exec: wget -N http://sandgnat.com/rdj/rules_du_jour > /home/rcyoung/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63/RulesDuJour/wget.log 2>&1 wget_output: --20:38:10-- http://sandgnat.com/rdj/rules_du_jour => `rules_du_jour' Resolving sandgnat.com...

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre2 PRERELEASE available! (migrating Bayes from DB_File)

2005-06-29 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:45 PM -0700 Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - added PostgreSQL, MySQL 4.1+, and local SDBM file Bayes storage modules. SQL storage is now recommended for Bayes, instead of DB_File. NDBM_File support has been dropped due to a major bug in that module.

How can I get the spam score to appear alone in the header

2005-06-29 Thread Erwin Zavala
like X-Spam-Score = 5.3

NOTICE: 3.1.0 rescoring mass-checks

2005-06-29 Thread Justin Mason
OK, if you're planning to send us mass-check logs for the 3.1.0 rescoring, now's the time! http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RescoreDetails has all the details. cheers! --j.

SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre2 PRERELEASE available!

2005-06-29 Thread Justin Mason
*** THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE ONLY, NOT THE FINAL 3.1.0 RELEASE *** SpamAssassin 3.1.0-pre2 is released! SpamAssassin 3.1.0 is a major update and includes a number of new email and anti-spam technologies. SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and heuristic tests to identify s

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread jdow
This is what I use. And I note that I do rather overdo it with rules. This is a simple bash script. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Evan Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 02:04 AM 6/29/2005, you wrote: > >RulesDuJour. Loren doesn't do French well. (Erm, neither do I for that > >matter.)

Re: help with spamd

2005-06-29 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael wrote: > Every time i try to start spamassassin it says > that spamd failed to start and -a has been removed.Look in > use_auto_whitlist option configuration. Can you help me with that ?? Your script that starts spamd calls spamd with the -a command line parameter. This parameter used to

help with spamd

2005-06-29 Thread Michael
Every time i try to start spamassassin it says that spamd failed to start and -a has been removed.Look in use_auto_whitlist option configuration. Can you help me with that ??

Re: multiple "To:'s" with whitelist

2005-06-29 Thread Matt Kettler
Thomas Deaton wrote: > I've got a lady who wants to get everything that comes into the county, > so I put her in the whitelist. > Problem is now other people in the county are being put on the "To:" > line along with her, but they don't want everything. > Is there a solution to my dilemma? How do

multiple "To:'s" with whitelist

2005-06-29 Thread Thomas Deaton
I've got a lady who wants to get everything that comes into the county, so I put her in the whitelist. Problem is now other people in the county are being put on the "To:" line along with her, but they don't want everything. Is there a solution to my dilemma?   thanks! E-mail corresponden

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread tbb
Original Message From: Evan Platt To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: A Central 'Rules' site? Date: 20:19 Do you or anyone else have a more *doze friendly script? I have wget, cron and perl, so a lot of the other stuff in the rdj isn't needed - chmod, etc.

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:36 AM 6/29/2005, you wrote: wget -N URL only downloads a file if the copy on the server is newer than your local one. Thats it, thanks. :) A simple cron job running a wget for the rules. Not pretty, but works. :)

RE: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: > On 06/29/05 20:19, Evan Platt wrote: > >> Do you or anyone else have a more *doze friendly script? I have wget, >> cron and perl, so a lot of the other stuff in the rdj isn't needed - >> chmod, etc. Maybe a simple batch file that wget's the files? > > wget -N URL only dow

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
On 06/29/05 20:19, Evan Platt wrote: Do you or anyone else have a more *doze friendly script? I have wget, cron and perl, so a lot of the other stuff in the rdj isn't needed - chmod, etc. Maybe a simple batch file that wget's the files? wget -N URL only downloads a file if the copy on the s

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Evan Platt
At 02:04 AM 6/29/2005, you wrote: RulesDuJour. Loren doesn't do French well. (Erm, neither do I for that matter.) Oui. Me neither. http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour That is a way of pulling rules down. I can't give any opinion about it. Before it was up and running I was alr

Re: Block messages with "null" sender

2005-06-29 Thread David B Funk
Do not do that, it is a direct violation of internet standard RFC-2821 (sections 3.7, 4.5.5, 6.1). That particular address is the one that mail systems -SHOULD- use when sending back DSN messages. So if you block it your users will no longer get reports of delivery status (failures, wrong address,

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:32:24PM -0400, JamesDR wrote: I thought that may be a possibility, however, there are others that I know that are having the same issue, their conf. is similar, but different in how the subject is tagged (they use the default.) Anyway, I have

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:44:14PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > Please open a bugzilla ticket about this. Thanks. :) BTW: I committed r202405 to fix this for 3.1, the ticket would be for a possible 3.0.5 release to fix the same issue. (it's a 3-byte change) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: I'

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:32:24PM -0400, JamesDR wrote: > I thought that may be a possibility, however, there are others that I > know that are having the same issue, their conf. is similar, but > different in how the subject is tagged (they use the default.) Anyway, I > have provided the test

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:06:11PM -0400, JamesDR wrote: So if I understand correctly. I need to de-encapsulate the message, not try and pass it through spamassassin -d with sa-learn? Should the spam message be de-encapsulated as well before running sa-learn on any spam

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:06:11PM -0400, JamesDR wrote: > So if I understand correctly. I need to de-encapsulate the message, not > try and pass it through spamassassin -d with sa-learn? Should the spam message be de-encapsulated as well before > running sa-learn on any spam messages? -d works

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:12:05PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: Hey, I'm just quoting Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf.. It doesn't make much sense to me either, but that's what the docs say. /me makes commit Well now the documentation says the right thing. ;) Perhaps it's a

Re: On the subject of training ( ie frequency)...

2005-06-29 Thread Andy Jezierski
Dr Robert Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/29/2005 11:39:48 AM: [snip] > > I have a system where the previous person trained the Bayes stats once > about 1-2 yrs ago, has used only the "default" rules, and has "auto > learn" on. Reports are it has been losing its effectiveness slowly over

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:12:05PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > Hey, I'm just quoting Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf.. > It doesn't make much sense to me either, but that's what the docs say. /me makes commit Well now the documentation says the right thing. ;) > Perhaps it's a typo and they mean IF re

On the subject of training ( ie frequency)...

2005-06-29 Thread Dr Robert Young
Being new to SA, I thought I would inquire as to the frequency of training/rules updates required for SA. I know the spammers are an industrious lot, so existing rules and stats would eventually loose their effectiveness. However, what have people found to be a good training/update schedule in

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread Matt Kettler
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:59:26AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > >>Since you're adding the HITS to the subject header, and using report_safe 1, >>you >>won't be able to use spamassassin -d, as per the docs. > > > ??? > > With "report_safe 1", it doesn't matter what head

Help with Stock and Drug Spam

2005-06-29 Thread Brian Wong
Hi list, My site is getting hit hard with with those 'Emerging Growth Alert' stock spams which has the blue banner. Also I have been getting drug html spams which change the font colors and have nonsense at the footer to change it up. Does anyone have any tips for me?

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:59:26AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > Since you're adding the HITS to the subject header, and using report_safe 1, > you > won't be able to use spamassassin -d, as per the docs. ??? With "report_safe 1", it doesn't matter what headers get "rewritten". The message is de

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread Matt Kettler
JamesDR wrote: > It seems, at least from here, that -d doesn't remove markup. 0 > rewrite_header Subject [Spam Software Has Detected > This As Spam-Hits:_HITS_ Req:_REQD_] > report_safe 1 As per the docs: rewrite_header { subject | from | to } STRING

Re: special chars in subject + .procmailrc

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Thielen
Pál László (Sq.) wrote: It looks this entry has been skipped somehow. Other rule moving spam police messages to /dev/nul works fine. SA invoked by amavisd L: Hi, Sorry, I don't know anything about amavisd... I assume SA is being called BEFORE procmail kicks in for delivery?

RE: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Dr Robert Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:46 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: A Central 'Rules' site? > > >Has anyone set up a database/clearing house of "rules" etc that are >associated with Spamassassin? Somet

Re: how do train SpamAssassin

2005-06-29 Thread Andy Jezierski
liyas_m m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/29/2005 09:19:50 AM: > I just installed SpamAssassin,  but it does not catcht any spam.. > Does SA need to be trained? If it does, how do u do that? How are you invoking SA?  Are you seeing any X_Spam_ headers in any of your messages? More info is requir

how do train SpamAssassin

2005-06-29 Thread liyas_m m
I just installed SpamAssassin, but it does not catcht any spam.. Does SA need to be trained? If it does, how do u do that?

Re: uridnsbl

2005-06-29 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:45 AM 6/29/2005, Kern, Tom wrote: i'm running SA 3.0.4. How do I use the uridnsbl? You should be already Do i just download it from CPAN? No need, it comes with SA 3.0.0 and higher. Do i need to do anything to configure it? You do need a fairly recent version of Net::DNS, and you

Re: uridnsbl

2005-06-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:45:15AM -0400, Kern, Tom wrote: > i'm running SA 3.0.4. > How do I use the uridnsbl? It'll just work if you have Net::DNS and the network tests enabled (default). Run with -D to see what's going on. > Do i just download it from CPAN? Download what from CPAN? > I'm ru

uridnsbl

2005-06-29 Thread Kern, Tom
i'm running SA 3.0.4. How do I use the uridnsbl? Do i just download it from CPAN? Do i need to do anything to configure it? I'm running SA with amavis-new and postfix also, any tips on what to put in local.cf? Its pretty empty be default. do i need to add stuff in there or just use the rules at

-d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
It seems, at least from here, that -d doesn't remove markup. I run: spamassassin -d and what's given back is exactly the mail put into it. man spamassassin says that this should remove any spamassassin markup and return the message to it's almost org. state. spamassassin -d [ < mailmessag

Re: User Blacklist Spamassassin Behavior

2005-06-29 Thread Tim Jackson
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:38:39 -0600 "Paul R. Ganci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Premselaar wrote: > > >> perhaps all I am really asking is if there is a way to allow > >> spamassassin to just stop processing a message that is in a > >> blacklist to save the cycles? I am not asking for spama

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread jdow
RulesDuJour. Loren doesn't do French well. (Erm, neither do I for that matter.) http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour That is a way of pulling rules down. I can't give any opinion about it. Before it was up and running I was already pulling rules with my own little script. {^_-} ---

Re: RBL lists

2005-06-29 Thread Robert Brooks
Jack Gostl wrote: Some how my domain has gotten itself blacklisted. Can anyone suggest how I can find out where the blacklisting occurred and how to get it undone? this looks like it http://dsbl.org/message?27311885 -- Robert Brooks, Network Manager, Cable & Wireless UK <[

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Evan Platt
At 12:23 AM 6/29/2005, you wrote: Several. Look at exit0.us and rulesemporium.com, as well as the spamassassin wiki. Also look at RulesDeJure (RDJ) for a script to automatically maintain updates to the extra rule files you select. Sorry if this has been covered, and I didn't see a reference

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread Loren Wilton
Several. Look at exit0.us and rulesemporium.com, as well as the spamassassin wiki. Also look at RulesDeJure (RDJ) for a script to automatically maintain updates to the extra rule files you select. Loren

Re: A Central 'Rules' site?

2005-06-29 Thread jdow
From: "Dr Robert Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Has anyone set up a database/clearing house of "rules" etc that are > associated with Spamassassin? Something like Perl's CPAN? http://www.rulesemporium.com/ is the home for the "SARE" or "SpamAssassin Rules Emporium" ninjas' collection. It is not ex