Tesseract OCR open sourced

2006-09-04 Thread jdow
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/06/09/04/2215210.shtml Tesseract, developed by HP labs, is touted as one of the most accurate OCR programs available. Google cleaned it up and has released it OS. {^_^}

Re: Use Fetchmail = SPF_FAIL

2006-09-04 Thread jdow
From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Did you configure SA to trust msgmta-3.gci.net? Heck no, its my clueless ISP, from which I get a ton of spam. ;-) This trust is not "trust them not to send spam." This is trust not to forge headers even when relaying spam. Trust them and see what ha

Re: Use Fetchmail = SPF_FAIL

2006-09-04 Thread jdow
From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from pen.homeip.net You appear to run the output of fetchmail through a mail server. FWIW I do not see this error you have and I simply have fetchmail call procmail to throw the email into the /var/spool/mail folder. I skip sendmail entirely.

Honest spammer

2006-09-04 Thread Loren Wilton
Just got a mortgage spam with the following subject line: Subject: [SPAM][SPAM]holy shmokes No, neither of those two [SPAM] headers was added by my system; I had a third header in front of that. Also, there are no SA headers (or any other spam headers) in the original spam, just this flag on

Re: Feeding bayes outbounds

2006-09-04 Thread mouss
Logan Shaw wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, jdow wrote: From: "Joe Zitnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Our scanning program has the ability to archive all e-mail, both inbound and outbound, which we have been doing for months now. Given that your outbound mail is almost certainly ham, the majority of it

Re: Enumerating the robots?

2006-09-04 Thread mouss
Loren Wilton wrote: It was mentioned that several people are getting hammered by world-wide robot attacks. I see from the little spam I get that there is a new spam sending tool for robots that is running a stock spam. I suspect the traffic is a combination of distributing the new spam tool

Re: Sa-learn --ham vs spamassassin -report

2006-09-04 Thread Gary V
I understand. In the test I had an issue with, the database started out (at least appears to be) empty, I ran 'spamassassin -r' and the size did not change, then I ran sa-learn, and it did. Certainly not as good a test as actually checking the contents of the database: -rw--- 1 amavis ama

Re: howto let SA find more spam

2006-09-04 Thread mouss
Pitmaster wrote: Hi there, I am a total newbie. Have SA installed and done nothing sinds. SA is working and catches +- 5% of the spam. How can I simply help SA to catch more and keep the speed up? Greeting and thank's in advance, Nico if you want SA to find more spam, give it more spam:) m

Re: Sa-learn --ham vs spamassassin -report

2006-09-04 Thread Gary V
Gary V wrote: > It did work this time. Even with the spamcop error... > > sfa:~# su amavis -c 'sa-learn --dump magic' > 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version > 0.000 0 7 0 non-token data: nspam > [...] > > sfa:~# su amavis -c 'spama

Re: Use Fetchmail = SPF_FAIL

2006-09-04 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, John Andersen wrote: > > MTA SPF should only be run on a mail relay that is receiving messages > > directly from the Internet. > > Most of my mail comes direct to pen.homeip.net > Maybe 2% I pop via Fetchmail ok. > > > Received: from utl-lnx3.puk.ac.za by .com with > > > >

Re: Sa-learn --ham vs spamassassin -report

2006-09-04 Thread Robert LeBlanc
Gary V wrote: > It did work this time. Even with the spamcop error... > > sfa:~# su amavis -c 'sa-learn --dump magic' > 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version > 0.000 0 7 0 non-token data: nspam > [...] > > sfa:~# su amavis -c 'spamas

Re: Messages are not scanned??

2006-09-04 Thread Jason Haar
st0kes wrote: > I have spamassassin running on Qmail (I used qmailrocks) > > I notice things are not scanned by SpamAssassin - the headers read: > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=? required=? > X-Spam-Level: > > But - if I manually scan the message from the command line using: > > spamassassin -t < /p

Re: Use Fetchmail = SPF_FAIL

2006-09-04 Thread John Andersen
Thanks John, See comments imbedded On Monday 04 September 2006 12:37, John D. Hardin wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, John Andersen wrote: > > This does not seem all that unusual a setup to use in the linux > > world, and one that SPF tests should be able to handle, so I'm > > suspecting there may be

Messages are not scanned??

2006-09-04 Thread st0kes
I have spamassassin running on Qmail (I used qmailrocks) I notice things are not scanned by SpamAssassin - the headers read: X-Spam-Status: No, score=? required=? X-Spam-Level: But - if I manually scan the message from the command line using: spamassassin -t < /path/to/message It works. Thi

Re: Use Fetchmail = SPF_FAIL

2006-09-04 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, John Andersen wrote: > This does not seem all that unusual a setup to use in the linux > world, and one that SPF tests should be able to handle, so I'm > suspecting there may be a setup problem somewhere. MTA SPF should only be run on a mail relay that is receiving messages di

Re: Use Fetchmail = SPF_FAIL

2006-09-04 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 04 September 2006 12:26, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > On 9/4/2006 4:17 PM, John Andersen wrote: > > I notice (on my personal machine) that mail I fetch via Fetchmail will > > fail the SPF tests if the original sender's system used SPF. > > > > This does not seem all that unusual a setup t

Re: Use Fetchmail = SPF_FAIL

2006-09-04 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 9/4/2006 4:17 PM, John Andersen wrote: I notice (on my personal machine) that mail I fetch via Fetchmail will fail the SPF tests if the original sender's system used SPF. This does not seem all that unusual a setup to use in the linux world, and one that SPF tests should be able to handle,

Use Fetchmail = SPF_FAIL

2006-09-04 Thread John Andersen
I notice (on my personal machine) that mail I fetch via Fetchmail will fail the SPF tests if the original sender's system used SPF. This does not seem all that unusual a setup to use in the linux world, and one that SPF tests should be able to handle, so I'm suspecting there may be a setup pr

Re: RDJ failes via cron, fine via shell?

2006-09-04 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Evan Platt wrote: At 12:56 AM 9/4/2006, you wrote: It looks like you've got an old version of SpamAssassin installed somewhere and that version is first in cron's environment while the newer version is in your shell's environment. Search for and destroy the old version of SA you've got instal

[Fwd: Re: Sa-learn --ham vs spamassassin -report]

2006-09-04 Thread Michael Scheidell
Sorry for toppost, but seems right in contect. Is is possible that if spamassassin -r < spam.eml fails one of the remote tests (like spamcop, 'too old') that it doesn't go on to any of the other tests? is report to spamcop done BEFORE the baysian learning? Original Message

Re: add headers

2006-09-04 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, e2rd wrote: > I would like to add headers X-Spam-Status, X-Spam-Level, X-Spam-Flag to > every e-mail tested by SpamAssassin. Try "report_safe 0" -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic #11174pgpk -a [EMAIL

Re: RDJ failes via cron, fine via shell?

2006-09-04 Thread Evan Platt
At 12:56 AM 9/4/2006, you wrote: It looks like you've got an old version of SpamAssassin installed somewhere and that version is first in cron's environment while the newer version is in your shell's environment. Search for and destroy the old version of SA you've got installed. What would b

No log to syslog after upgrade

2006-09-04 Thread Thomas Ericsson
After our upgrade from SA 2.6.3 to SA 3.1.3 we do not get any logs written to /var/log/mail.log anymore. Any ideas why this could be? Here's our setup: OSX 10.3.9, Communigate 4.2.8, CGPSA 1.4, SA 3.1.3 Thomas Ericsson

RE: Sa-learn --ham vs spamassassin -report

2006-09-04 Thread Gary V
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:27:55PM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > Sa coach sends stream to spamd with 'TELL' protocol. > > It then calls the equivalent of 'spamassassin -r' (for spam) or '-z > > for ham' or -f for forget. > > > > Do I need to call sa-learn --ham and sa-learn --spam also? >

RE: Sa-learn --ham vs spamassassin -report

2006-09-04 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:07 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Sa-learn --ham vs spamassassin -report > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:27:55PM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > Sa coach

Re: new question

2006-09-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: - A fairly sizeable percentage of spams that come through as false negatives, ending up in my normal mailbox (I was hoping for better). Well... one key discovery: I run a lot of virtual domains on my site, so... I had to add all of them to @local_domains_acl -- something t

Re: Running on Debian stable

2006-09-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Johann Spies wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:52:24PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Thanks Gary! Any advantages to installing from testing? Seems like backports would be just a bit safer. After trying out backports' 3.1.3 I have gone back to 3.0.3. I had regular entries in /var/log

add headers

2006-09-04 Thread e2rd
Hi, I would like to add headers X-Spam-Status, X-Spam-Level, X-Spam-Flag to every e-mail tested by SpamAssassin. Currently I don't have those headers in any e-mail (spam and non-spam). Instead I have configured Sieve rule that adds header like: Spam-test: True ; 1000.2 / 5.0. What I need to confi

Re: new question

2006-09-04 Thread Bob Proulx
John Andersen wrote: > Recommendation: Get your bayes working first. Agreed. Here is a shot in the dark. If the Berkeley DB version upgaded and there were old db files on disk then those will need to be upgraded to the new version otherwise the effect is that they will be ignored. Example:

Re: Another pointless spam

2006-09-04 Thread Justin Mason
Ramprasad writes: > On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:06 +, Duane Hill wrote: > > On Monday, September 4, 2006 at 6:13:50 AM, Ramprasad confabulated: > > > > > Hi, > > > All the LARGO tests and our own custom rules notwithstanding , some > > > image spams still get thru. > > > But spams like these a

Re: Another pointless spam

2006-09-04 Thread Ramprasad
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:06 +, Duane Hill wrote: > On Monday, September 4, 2006 at 6:13:50 AM, Ramprasad confabulated: > > > Hi, > > All the LARGO tests and our own custom rules notwithstanding , some > > image spams still get thru. > > But spams like these are absolutely pointless. > > http

Re: Another pointless spam

2006-09-04 Thread Duane Hill
On Monday, September 4, 2006 at 6:13:50 AM, Ramprasad confabulated: > Hi, > All the LARGO tests and our own custom rules notwithstanding , some > image spams still get thru. > But spams like these are absolutely pointless. > http://ecm.netcore.co.in/tmp/buildup.eml.txt > I dont get any message

Re: Troubleshooting Spamassassin

2006-09-04 Thread Matthias Haegele
Ben Ventura schrieb: **warning message from newbie** I've inherited an installation of SA version 3.0.1 on an OS X server (10.4) and it does not seem to be working properly. It's running with Communigate as the mail server. It seems to be scanning the messages, it is adding the headers like

Re: new question

2006-09-04 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 04 September 2006 00:31, Miles Fidelman wrote: > $sa_tag_level_deflt  = 0.0; > $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.0; > $sa_kill_level_deflt = 10.0; > $sa_dsn_cutoff_level = 20; > > And this is what's confusing me: Amavisd.conf is one of those files you have to read like a lawyer ;-) Look for

Re: Running on Debian stable

2006-09-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:52:24PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Thanks Gary! > > Any advantages to installing from testing? Seems like backports would > be just a bit safer. After trying out backports' 3.1.3 I have gone back to 3.0.3. I had regular entries in /var/log/mail.info like this: A

new question

2006-09-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thanks everyone who helped with upgrading on my new Sarge box. Now that I have a relatively current spamassassin, and up-to-date rules, I realize two things: 1. I need to turn on Baysian filtering - too much stuff still gets through. But that's another topic. 2. A whole LOT of stuff that go

Re: RDJ failes via cron, fine via shell?

2006-09-04 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
It looks like you've got an old version of SpamAssassin installed somewhere and that version is first in cron's environment while the newer version is in your shell's environment. Search for and destroy the old version of SA you've got installed. Daryl

RDJ failes via cron, fine via shell?

2006-09-04 Thread Evan Platt
Running OS/X, SA 3.1.4... Have the following in my crontab: @daily /usr/local/bin/rules_du_jour (Run as root) The e-mail I get via cron: ***NOTICE***: spamassassin --lint failed. This means that you have an error somwhere in your SpamAssassin configuration. To determine what the problem is,

Re: Running on Debian stable

2006-09-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gary V wrote: Found it, changed it, seems to work like a charm. Now let's see if the new rules actually catch more spam than the basic stable install. :-) Thanks again Miles I never took the time to set up RulesDuJour or study which SARE rules might be the most appropriate for me. Th