How to customize reports

2005-08-22 Thread Muhammad Farooq Bhatti
Hi ,   I am using spamassassin with sendmail and spamassassin-milter. I want to know how I can customize the message rapports which can be sent to the sender of the spam generator.   I am getting the following error:   “reason: 550 5.7.1 Blocked by SpamAssassin.   even if email was

Re: How to discard spam mails

2005-08-22 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Depending upon what MTA you're using, I have used the Spamass-Milter successfully to block emails that rate at or above the required_hits level (now named required_score). Though I'm having some trouble with SA as per my last post ;-) jdow wrote: From: "suresh kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to discard spam mails

2005-08-22 Thread jdow
From: "suresh kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hi, Thanks for the response for my earlier question. I don't want the spam mails to be delivered to my mailbox and to block from the mailclient using the filters . I want to discard those spam mails when they are identified as spam by spamassassi

Re: Does this uridnsbl debug output indicate problems?

2005-08-22 Thread jdow
That is the same thing I observed here after adding that plugin. I am not sure if it is in the dnsbl code or the way ClamAV-plugin uses the dnsbl code. Regardless it would be nifty were it to be fixed. {^_-} - Original Message - From: "Steve Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, in fact an

Re: Does this uridnsbl debug output indicate problems?

2005-08-22 Thread Steve Martin
Yes, in fact and that is part of it. But, in the process of investigating, I do think I found a bug (or at least an "issue") in the uridnsbl code. There is a check inside an inner loop there to see if any progress has been made reading the results of lookups and if nothing changes for 2

How to discard spam mails

2005-08-22 Thread suresh kumar
hi, Thanks for the response for my earlier question. I don't want the spam mails to be delivered to my mailbox and to block from the mailclient using the filters . I want to discard those spam mails when they are identified as spam by spamassassin or to move them to a common place other t

Re: Does this uridnsbl debug output indicate problems?

2005-08-22 Thread jdow
You added ClamAV plugin? {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Steve Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SA seems unusually slow today and I'm trying to figure out if I've done something to my configuration that is causing the problem or if it is just slow rbl lookups or something. I ran spa

New 3.0.4 installation not blocking SPAM

2005-08-22 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I just moved over to a new system, FreeBSD-6.0, and am using a fresh install of SpamAssassin-3.0.4, but the same configuration. I also use Spamass-Milter to interface into sendmail. Its not blocking any SPAM, and I can't seem to figure out why. I took an accumilated "corpus" of spam messages (

Searchable Mailing List Archives (fwd)

2005-08-22 Thread Justin Mason
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Does this uridnsbl debug output indicate problems?

2005-08-22 Thread Steve Martin
SA seems unusually slow today and I'm trying to figure out if I've done something to my configuration that is causing the problem or if it is just slow rbl lookups or something. I ran spamassassin with -t and -D and this output looks like it may be problematic, but I'm not sure what to look

Re: Keeping old spam around

2005-08-22 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Burton, Monday, August 22, 2005, 1:29:48 PM, you wrote: BW> Once a piece of spam has been shown to sa-learn as spam, is there any real BW> use in the user keeping it around? I know that sa-learn will skip over it BW> if shown it again, so I'm thinking "no" (unless you lose your bayes db and

Re: question on meta rules

2005-08-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:39:40PM -0700, Anthony McCarthy wrote: > meta TOO_MANY_URIBLS URIBL_OB_SURBL && URIBL_JP_SURBL > describe TOO_MANY_URIBLS On too many URIBLs > score TOO MANY_URIBLS2 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3 ^ ^-- not the same as the rulename above

question on meta rules

2005-08-22 Thread Anthony McCarthy
Is there something special about meta rules? Could someone explain what appear to be anomolies between the assigned score and the actual score? 1. I tried the following rule on some test emails: meta TOO_MANY_URIBLS URIBL_OB_SURBL && URIBL_JP_SURBL describe TOO_MANY_URIBLS On too many URIBLs

Re: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 8/22/2005 4:14 PM, Dallas L. Engelken wrote: >>IP::Country use Whois lookups instead though > Hrmm? Where does it say it uses Real-Time Whois lookups? The docu for IP::Country::Fast is empty and refers to IP::Country, which describes the use of whois. See my follow-up post though -- Eric

Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 8/22/2005 3:50 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > IP::Country use Whois lookups instead though, and UDP/DNS lookups are > going to be faster than chained TCP/Whois queries. > I'll play with the plugin and see what kind of times and load I get Some poking around, IP::Country::Fast uses a pre-built map

Re: Keeping old spam around

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Kettler
Burton Windle wrote: > Once a piece of spam has been shown to sa-learn as spam, is there any > real use in the user keeping it around? I know that sa-learn will skip > over it if shown it again, so I'm thinking "no" (unless you lose your > bayes db and want to train it again quickly, but that's wha

Keeping old spam around

2005-08-22 Thread Burton Windle
Once a piece of spam has been shown to sa-learn as spam, is there any real use in the user keeping it around? I know that sa-learn will skip over it if shown it again, so I'm thinking "no" (unless you lose your bayes db and want to train it again quickly, but that's what backups are for). -- B

RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Eric A. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 2:50 PM > To: Derek Harding > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam > > > On 8/22/2005 3:34 PM, Derek Harding wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-21 a

Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 8/22/2005 3:34 PM, Derek Harding wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 20:05 -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: > >>What's the benefit of using this instead of the uridnsbl plugin? The code >>below will look for the IP address behind a URI and then query the >>cn-kr.blackholes.us RBL to see if that addr is i

Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Derek Harding
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 20:05 -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: > What's the benefit of using this instead of the uridnsbl plugin? The code > below will look for the IP address behind a URI and then query the > cn-kr.blackholes.us RBL to see if that addr is in China: This one doesn't require a DNS lookup w

Re: Error in starting spamd

2005-08-22 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:16:28AM -0700, jdow wrote: > From: "suresh kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >hi, > > I have installed spamassassin and when I tried to > >start the spamd it says the following error message. > > > >Starting spamd: The -a option has been removed. > >Please look at the us

mailwatch

2005-08-22 Thread Thomas Deaton
Can anyone tell me if this product is any good and how difficult is it to you?   thanks E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized county official. If you have received this comm

Re: spurious __alarm__ messages in spamd log

2005-08-22 Thread Andy Jezierski
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/20/2005 12:42:44 AM: > Sat Aug 20 00:28:36 2005 [16014] info: spamd: processing message   > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for filter:88 > Sat Aug 20 00:28:42 2005 [16014] error: __alarm__ > Sat Aug 20 00:28:42 2005 [16014] error: __alarm__ > Sat Aug 20 00:28:49

Re: MailScanner/spamassassin problem

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Kettler
Jason Humphrey wrote: > Hey guys > Thanks for your responses. I have spoken to afew guys on mailscanner mailing > list and the said to run mailscanner in debug mode and got this error and > the mailscanner dies. > Can't locate object method "new" via package > "Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit" ( pe

RE: MailScanner/spamassassin problem

2005-08-22 Thread Jason Humphrey
Hey guys Thanks for your responses. I have spoken to afew guys on mailscanner mailing list and the said to run mailscanner in debug mode and got this error and the mailscanner dies. Can't locate object method "new" via package "Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit" ( perhaps you forgot to load "Mail::Sp

Re: MailScanner/spamassassin problem

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:07 AM 8/22/2005, Jason Humphrey wrote: This showing that mailscanner just seems to stop after a few seconds.I have tested spamassassin with non-spam.txt and spam.txt and it works fine. Anybody know where I need to look next to find where its going wrong? That log looks somewhat normal t

Re: MailScanner/spamassassin problem

2005-08-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Jason Humphrey wrote: Hi, I've put mailscanner and spamassassin on a raq350 today and run into a little problem Mailscanner can deliver mail fine on its own with spamassassin disabled but when I enable spamassassin no mail is processed the output from "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart; tail -f

MailScanner/spamassassin problem

2005-08-22 Thread Jason Humphrey
Hi, I've put mailscanner and spamassassin on a raq350 today and run into a little problem Mailscanner can deliver mail fine on its own with spamassassin disabled but when I enable spamassassin no mail is processed the output from "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart; tail -f /var/log/maillog" is: Au

Re: 3.0.4 hotmail FP's?

2005-08-22 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Warren Togami wrote: Is anyone else seeing consistent hits of DNS_FROM_RFC_POST from legitimate hotmail mail? Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] most of us do since thats the correct behaviour.. check http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=hotmail.com they've been listed in rfc_pos

3.0.4 hotmail FP's?

2005-08-22 Thread Warren Togami
Is anyone else seeing consistent hits of DNS_FROM_RFC_POST from legitimate hotmail mail? Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error in starting spamd

2005-08-22 Thread jdow
From: "suresh kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hi, I have installed spamassassin and when I tried to start the spamd it says the following error message. Starting spamd: The -a option has been removed. Please look at the use_auto_whitelist config option instead. I could not understand and

Re: Error in starting spamd

2005-08-22 Thread Loren Wilton
> Starting spamd: The -a option has been removed. > Please look at the use_auto_whitelist config option > instead. > > I could not understand and I don't know where > and how to enable this option .If any body knows > kindly help me. Thanks in advance >Suresh This inf

Error in starting spamd

2005-08-22 Thread suresh kumar
hi, I have installed spamassassin and when I tried to start the spamd it says the following error message. Starting spamd: The -a option has been removed. Please look at the use_auto_whitelist config option instead. I could not understand and I don't know where and how to enable this o