Re: Even More Sa-update Problems

2006-05-14 Thread Andrew
David Baron wrote: On Sunday 14 May 2006 21:24, Andrew wrote: I have this working fine. However, once that 0300011 directory exists, all my custom rules (i.e. bayes, regex tests, etc) are no longer working and most all spams get through! Took it off once again. Something needs be modi

Re: urgent problem, spamd does NOT read user_prefs!

2006-05-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Igor Chudov wrote: > I have a sitewide config where I run spamc from /etc/procmailrc. > > Since some of my users want to disable spamassassin, I edited their > file ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs and set required_hits to a high > value. > > That does not seem to have any effect! > Can you show us

Re: Even More Sa-update Problems

2006-05-14 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 14 May 2006 21:24, Andrew wrote: > > I have this working fine. However, once that 0300011 directory > > exists, all my custom rules (i.e. bayes, regex tests, etc) are no longer > > working and most all spams get through! > > > > Took it off once again. Something needs be modified

Re: Even More Sa-update Problems

2006-05-14 Thread David Baron
> > > > I have this working fine. However, once that 0300011 > > > > directory exists, all my custom rules (i.e. bayes, regex tests, etc) > > > > are no longer working and most all spams get through! > > > > > > Your custom rules are all located in /etc/mail/spamassassin and not > > > /usr/

Re: Even More Sa-update Problems

2006-05-14 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 08:55:13PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > > I have this working fine. However, once that 0300011 directory > > > exists, all my custom rules (i.e. bayes, regex tests, etc) are no longer > > > working and most all spams get through! > > Your custom rules are all locate

Re: A few more sa-update questions

2006-05-14 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 07:38:09PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > > Nope, at least not wrt sa-update. The files are supposed to be processed > > during SA installation, but sa-update doesn't do that and simply installs > > the files. We should probably change that at some point. > > interesting --

Re: A few more sa-update questions

2006-05-14 Thread Justin Mason
Theo Van Dinter writes: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 06:17:37PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > This immediately jumped out at me: > > > > -report_contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > +report_contact @@CONTACT_ADDRESS@@ > > > > Obviously the LOCAL_RULES_DIR reference in the comment is of little > > conseq

Re: Even More Sa-update Problems

2006-05-14 Thread Andrew
David Baron wrote: I have this working fine. However, once that 0300011 directory exists, all my custom rules (i.e. bayes, regex tests, etc) are no longer working and most all spams get through! Took it off once again. Something needs be modified before this can be used. I just set

Re: Even More Sa-update Problems

2006-05-14 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 14 May 2006 20:15, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > I have this working fine. However, once that 0300011 directory > > exists, all my custom rules (i.e. bayes, regex tests, etc) are no longer > > working and most all spams get through! > > Your custom rules are all located in /etc/mail/

Re: Even More Sa-update Problems

2006-05-14 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:01:20PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > I have this working fine. However, once that 0300011 directory > exists, > all my custom rules (i.e. bayes, regex tests, etc) are no longer working and > most all spams get through! Your custom rules are all located in /etc/

Re: Suing Spammers

2006-05-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Nigel Frankcom wrote: One gets the idea that many in this thread have had little experience of litigation. I don't know about the US, but in the UK, you're talking *many* months and much paperwork. That being said. I'm so up for suing the SOB's ... hit em where it hurts. A small addendum, onc

Re: Re: Suing Spammers

2006-05-14 Thread Nigel Frankcom
One gets the idea that many in this thread have had little experience of litigation. I don't know about the US, but in the UK, you're talking *many* months and much paperwork. That being said. I'm so up for suing the SOB's ... hit em where it hurts. A small addendum, once a private prosecution is

Re: Fast WHOIS lookup

2006-05-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Jeff Chan wrote: On Saturday, May 13, 2006, 12:18:42 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm doing some research using WHOIS to find the owners of domains in the URI blocklists and finding that many of them have the same owners. I thing that a database of owners of the URIs that spam links

Re: Suing Spammers

2006-05-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Scott Warren wrote: You ask this like you know who the spammers are and where to find them. If this is the case and spammers are that easy to find, why are we not reading more articles like the one where a spammer in the former Soviet Republic was found beaten to death in his apartment?? S

Re: Suing Spammers

2006-05-14 Thread Marc Perkel
jdow wrote: From: "Marc Perkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mouss wrote: Rick Measham wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: ... I do front end spam filtering for about 500 domains. > ... I'm wondering if I make enough money suing spammers I could give my services away for free just to get the spam to sue fo

Re: Suing Spammers

2006-05-14 Thread Marc Perkel
jdow wrote: From: "Marc Perkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jdow wrote: Well, Marc would have a really hard time proving HE was injured by the spam. Therefore seeing would be annoyingly unproductive for HIM. But the ISPs forced to hire him could sue and win. (Collecting might be quite another kettle

Even More Sa-update Problems

2006-05-14 Thread David Baron
I have this working fine. However, once that 0300011 directory exists, all my custom rules (i.e. bayes, regex tests, etc) are no longer working and most all spams get through! Took it off once again. Something needs be modified before this can be used.

Re: A few more sa-update questions

2006-05-14 Thread David Baron
That empty .../rules000300010001 directory will prevent Spamassassin from working so removing it if it be empty is a needed fix. I did so manually. Enabling port 8090 allowed sa_update to work correctly so all's well that ends well. I would want to place spamassassin.org IP into my DMZ rather t