Re: The New SpamAssassin sa-update

2006-05-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 5/10/2006 3:13 PM, David Baron wrote: 2. Fails after several time outs with: http: request failed: 500 read timeout: 500 read timeout error: no mirror data available for channel updates.spamassassin.org channel: MIRRORED.BY contents were missing, channel failed This can occur if you've got

Re: Big Idiot Needs Instructions

2006-05-11 Thread Timothy Burt
I ran sendmail for a dozen years. I finally took the plunge and switched to Postfix. I will not go back. I am running Postfix - amavisd-new w/ clamav and spamassassin on a Linux box. I used to run Solaris.. I am not 100% sure, but I cannot think why the Postfix combo wouldn't run on Solari

Re: Big Idiot Needs Instructions

2006-05-11 Thread Steven Stern
Chris Edwards wrote: > Hola, > > I have spent two days trying to figure out how to get the following to > work. I have set up Spamassassin and ClamAV, I am running sendmail on > the Solaris 10 platform. I would like to be able to scan for all spam > and virus (in, out and relayed email). Can so

Re: Big Idiot Needs Instructions

2006-05-11 Thread aaron
"jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/05/2006 06:52:06 AM: > From: "Chris Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hola, > > I have spent two days trying to figure out how to get the following to > work. I have set up Spamassassin and ClamAV, I am running sendmail on > the Solaris 10 platform. I would

Pyzor on Windows Works, yet doesn't

2006-05-11 Thread Bret Miller
First, I know it's widely known that Pyzor "doesn't work on Windows". But, you've probably seen enough of my postings to know I'm not always satisfied with that reponse. So... I put a little effort into it this week and it does work on Windows if you run SA from the command line, but not if you use

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Monnerie wrote: > OK, learning is quick anyway, so no problem here. The expire will > definitely run much longer, as you say. But what happens when SA wants > to auto-learn another message while expire runs? Will it wait and > timeout or just skip autolearning? Skipping would be no probl

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 Not Tagging Anything As Spam Anymore

2006-05-11 Thread David Minard
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly... You're right about me not showing stuff coming in from the outside world The previous build of the server, MailScanner, SpamAssassin did have some, but I lost them when I neuked the server. I'll get the server in live again to see what h

That saudihub bounces are annoying

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
Could somebody please remote that guy from the list? mfg zmi -- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem: -- Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details Date: Freitag, 12. Mai 2006 00:40 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The or

Re: Spam auto-learning by "message resending"

2006-05-11 Thread Stuart Johnston
Jerome Delamarche wrote: Hi, I'm configuring SA and I'm looking for an easy way for the end users to improve their own Bayesian filters. Users do not have interactive account on the Linux servers. They cannot use "sa-learn" or any other Linux tools. It could be fine if they could automatically

Re: Spam auto-learning by "message resending"

2006-05-11 Thread Stuart Johnston
Jerome Delamarche wrote: Hi, I'm configuring SA and I'm looking for an easy way for the end users to improve their own Bayesian filters. Users do not have interactive account on the Linux servers. They cannot use "sa-learn" or any other Linux tools. It could be fine if they could automatically

Spam auto-learning by "message resending"

2006-05-11 Thread Jerome Delamarche
Hi, I'm configuring SA and I'm looking for an easy way for the end users to improve their own Bayesian filters. Users do not have interactive account on the Linux servers. They cannot use "sa-learn" or any other Linux tools. It could be fine if they could automatically resend to their own mailbox

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2006 22:22 Theo Van Dinter wrote: > It depends what "timeout" means in this context.  What's going on is > that anytime a process needs to get a write lock on the db, there's > contention if other processes already have it locked.  By default, > processes can wait either 300s

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:10:39PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > OK, learning is quick anyway, so no problem here. The expire will > definitely run much longer, as you say. But what happens when SA wants > to auto-learn another message while expire runs? Will it wait and > timeout or just ski

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2006 20:06 Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > On http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesForceExpire is says you > > should stop SA before --force-expire, is that a must or a > > recommendation? The man page doesn't ask for it. > > It's completely unnecessary to stop SA (that'd be a

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2006 20:00 Matt Kettler wrote: > First, adding --sync is redundant. --force-expire implies --sync > because it would be foolish for SA to attempt expiry without syncing > first. I found that in the documentation after I sent the mail. > Your expiry will take much longer. On

Re: limit child process

2006-05-11 Thread Lyle Evans
At 12:04 PM 05/10/2006, you wrote: Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > spamd -m > > and what would be an ideal number to set it ? > > I came in this morning , got a bunch of those swap message , and my VM is at > 86% right now As Chris S already said, there's no hard-fast rule here. However, here

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 06:17:14PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > > > bayes: synced databases from journal in 11 seconds: 1968 unique > > > entries (3059 total entries) > > That's the journal sync, not the expiry part. The expiry part takes > > much longer. > > It comes from "sa-learn --force-ex

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2006 08:06 Matt Kettler wrote: >>> And tonights expiry for server #1: >>> bayes: synced databases from journal in 11 seconds: 1968 unique >>> entries (3059 total entries) >> That's the journal sync, not the expiry part. The expiry part takes >> much

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also First Hop. Why?

2006-05-11 Thread Christian Reiter
Hi Daryl! > Since those headers are munged pretty badly, I'll have to just say you > probably need to manually configure your trusted_networks. > > Does "mail.gmx.net" eq "mail.external-domain.com"? Yes, mail.gmx.net is the same as mail.external-domain.com. I changed the names of the users and s

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Fred T
Hello Michael, Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 5:21:14 PM, you wrote: > And why was SARE_FORGED_EBAY set down to 4? It was so nice at 100+... Originally it was set to 104 to over-ride user driven whitelists, but I felt that was somewhat out of standard practices to have a single rule flag a message as

Re: Scoring for rule SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS

2006-05-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:47:15PM +0200, Keith Dunnett wrote: > I've recently had a couple of false positives caused by this rule, and think > it may be scored too highly for a single check. The e-mails in question were > in Spanish, and the Spanish word for linguistics has two accented characters

Scoring for rule SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS

2006-05-11 Thread Keith Dunnett
I've recently had a couple of false positives caused by this rule, and think it may be scored too highly for a single check. The e-mails in question were in Spanish, and the Spanish word for linguistics has two accented characters which is enough to trigger this rule. Admittedly, the blacklists a

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also First Hop. Why?

2006-05-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Christian Reiter wrote: Hi! I have a problem with my Spamassassin 3.1.1 installation here. I have Postfix as MTA and Amavids-new 2.3.3 The Rule RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also the first hop of the received Headers. If i understand correctly the first hop should not be matched as a user could u

Re: Spamd Children

2006-05-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
The Help Guy wrote: hello all: You've been very helpful in the past, so let me say thank you to start. Im currently using SA 3.1.0 on Linux with procmail. I have a problem that is pretty much exactly described in this bug report: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4410 Afte

Re: Spamassassin + Kaspersky SMTP-Scanner

2006-05-11 Thread Jim Maul
Rick Macdougall wrote: Thomas Gross wrote: Hi List! I'm runing a debian mailserver with qmail 1.03, vpopmail and kaspersky anti-virus smtp-scanner 5.5.3. Now i wanted to add the latest spamassassin to filter the spam which grows up to 500 mails per day. I searched the whole intern

Re: Bayes advanced questions

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2006 08:06 Matt Kettler wrote: > > And tonights expiry for server #1: > > bayes: synced databases from journal in 11 seconds: 1968 unique > > entries (3059 total entries) > That's the journal sync, not the expiry part. The expiry part takes > much longer. It comes from "sa-l

Re: The New SpamAssassin sa-update

2006-05-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:57:44PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > The updates site has had to be taken down temporarily, due > to hardware issues at the ASF :( Give it a day or two. Unless something else happened with that machine that I don't know about, the updates site hasn't been down (httpd wa

Spamd Children

2006-05-11 Thread The Help Guy
hello all: You've been very helpful in the past, so let me say thank you to start. Im currently using SA 3.1.0 on Linux with procmail. I have a problem that is pretty much exactly described in this bug report: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4410 After a period of heavy sp

Re: The New SpamAssassin sa-update

2006-05-11 Thread David Baron
> David Baron wrote: > > 1. Depends on some PERL packages: libarchive-tar-perl, libio-zlib-perl. > > Debian > > also should depend on libwww-perl > > Did you file a bug report? No, I did not. If Debian maintainers are responsible for this, I will. Easy enough. Poster says that this is no longer a

Re: The New SpamAssassin sa-update

2006-05-11 Thread Justin Mason
The updates site has had to be taken down temporarily, due to hardware issues at the ASF :( Give it a day or two. --j. David Baron writes: > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 23:04, Matt Kettler wrote: > > David Baron wrote: > > > 1. Depends on some PERL packages: libarchive-tar-perl, libio-zlib-perl. >

RE: ALL_TRUSTED causing false negatives?

2006-05-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
Philip Mak wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:47:40PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > > Philip Mak wrote: > > > Why does ALL_TRUSTED have a score of -3.3? Doesn't this mean that > > > any spammer who connects directly to my mail server has a good > > > chance of getting past SpamAssassin? > > > > Th

Re: The New SpamAssassin sa-update

2006-05-11 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 23:04, Matt Kettler wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > 1. Depends on some PERL packages: libarchive-tar-perl, libio-zlib-perl. > > Debian packages did not enforce this dependency. I installed them > > manually. > > > > 2. Fails after several time outs with: > > http: request f

Re: Wiki wrong: SqlReadmeBayes

2006-05-11 Thread Spam Assassin Mailingliste
Hi, Michael Monnerie schrieb: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SqlReadmeBayes I guess somebody made a mistake on that page, some content is there twice, and possible something overwritten. mfg zmi I have tested it. I've no problem with the wiki (browser: Mozilla Fir

Wiki wrong: SqlReadmeBayes

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SqlReadmeBayes I guess somebody made a mistake on that page, some content is there twice, and possible something overwritten. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660/4156531

RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also First Hop. Why?

2006-05-11 Thread Christian Reiter
Hi! I have a problem with my Spamassassin 3.1.1 installation here. I have Postfix as MTA and Amavids-new 2.3.3 The Rule RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also the first hop of the received Headers. If i understand correctly the first hop should not be matched as a user could use a dynamic/dialup IP-Addr

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 Not Tagging Anything As Spam Anymore

2006-05-11 Thread jdow
From: "David Minard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> G'day All, I'm hoping for enlightenment with a peculiar problem I'm having with SpamAssassin 3.1.1, on a fresh install of Fedora Core 4, fully patched. I'm using sendmail and the latest MailScanner. I'm having trouble with SpamAssassin. When I fi

SpamAssassin 3.1.1 Not Tagging Anything As Spam Anymore

2006-05-11 Thread David Minard
G'day All, I'm hoping for enlightenment with a peculiar problem I'm having with SpamAssassin 3.1.1, on a fresh install of Fedora Core 4, fully patched. I'm using sendmail and the latest MailScanner. I'm having trouble with SpamAssassin. When I first install it and test it, things seem