Allow User Rules

2006-11-24 Thread Chuck Payne
I am curretly using 3.1.3 and I am having a problem with the allow_user_rules. I have it as the line in my local.cf. and my users have .spamassassin in their home dir. Each has it own user_prefs with their required_score, but my system required_score is over riding them. How can I get that work

Re: Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?

2006-11-24 Thread Bookworm
Marc Perkel wrote: Kelly Jones wrote: I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the numbers for people who use spam filtering? I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false positives, tools used, etc, but do people who use spam filtering find that only 10% of the messag

Re: Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?

2006-11-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Kelly Jones wrote: I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the numbers for people who use spam filtering? I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false positives, tools used, etc, but do people who use spam filtering find that only 10% of the messages they receive are

Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?

2006-11-24 Thread Kelly Jones
I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the numbers for people who use spam filtering? I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false positives, tools used, etc, but do people who use spam filtering find that only 10% of the messages they receive are spam? 25%? 50%? higher

RE: R: pyzor server address

2006-11-24 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Chris Purves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > > > b) leave the servers file as is, lower the pyzor's timeout and > increase the maximum retries: > > I've been told that many short-time attempts are better > that a single, long-lasting, > > one. So, in you

Re: R: pyzor server address

2006-11-24 Thread Chris Purves
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: b) leave the servers file as is, lower the pyzor's timeout and increase the maximum retries: I've been told that many short-time attempts are better that a single, long-lasting, one. So, in your local.cf, try using something like: use_pyzor 1

Re: getting "and" operator work

2006-11-24 Thread Matt Kettler
vertito wrote: > /[\s']((mountain.*clouds)|(clouds.*mountain))[\s',-]/i > > great, the above works on making "mountain" and "clouds" both true. > > does the below differs from the above? > > /\bmountain\b|\bclouds\b/i > Absolutely. That second string is an OR operation. It will match mountain

RE: getting "and" operator work

2006-11-24 Thread vertito
/[\s']((mountain.*clouds)|(clouds.*mountain))[\s',-]/i great, the above works on making "mountain" and "clouds" both true. does the below differs from the above? /\bmountain\b|\bclouds\b/i thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: razor-agent.log being placed in root directory - solved

2006-11-24 Thread Chris Purves
Gary V wrote: Gary V wrote: I noticed today that razor-agent.log is placed in the root directory. I have --helper-home-dir=/etc/spamassassin/helper-home-dir set as a spamd option, but the log is not being written to there. How can I fix this problem? Thanks. -- Chris This may be an ind

Re: razor-agent.log being placed in root directory

2006-11-24 Thread Chris Purves
Gary V wrote: Gary V wrote: I noticed today that razor-agent.log is placed in the root directory. I have --helper-home-dir=/etc/spamassassin/helper-home-dir set as a spamd option, but the log is not being written to there. How can I fix this problem? Thanks. -- Chris This may be an ind

Re: razor-agent.log being placed in root directory

2006-11-24 Thread Gary V
After creating the /root/.razor files, copy the .razor directory to the helper home. cp -r /root/.razor/ /etc/spamassassin/helper-home-dir/ Note that this is functionally equivilent to: razor-admin -create -home=/etc/spamassassin/helper-home-dir/.razor Gary V ___

Who wants my spam - seriously!

2006-11-24 Thread Marc Perkel
As you all know I'm in the spam blocking business and looking to share my information with others to help them block spam for everyone. I'm currently feeding my spam to several people now. So - looking to expand this now that I feel like I'm not losing the spam battle anymore. (Thanks to Fuzzy

Re: razor-agent.log being placed in root directory

2006-11-24 Thread Gary V
Gary V wrote: I noticed today that razor-agent.log is placed in the root directory. I have --helper-home-dir=/etc/spamassassin/helper-home-dir set as a spamd option, but the log is not being written to there. How can I fix this problem? Thanks. -- Chris This may be an indication there is

Re: getting "and" operator work

2006-11-24 Thread John Rudd
vertito wrote: header CF_BAD_SUBJ12 Subject =~ /[\s']mountain\|clouds[\s',-]/i score CF_BAD_SUBJ12 8.0 describe CF_BAD_SUBJ12 Drug spam with the above example, how do you make make a subject rule with the words mountain AND (operator) clouds in a way

getting "and" operator work

2006-11-24 Thread vertito
header CF_BAD_SUBJ12 Subject =~ /[\s']mountain\|clouds[\s',-]/i score CF_BAD_SUBJ12 8.0 describe CF_BAD_SUBJ12 Drug spam with the above example, how do you make make a subject rule with the words mountain AND (operator) clouds in a way if both words ex

Re: Bayes - Autoexpiry, bayes_seen, and bayes_tok

2006-11-24 Thread Matt Kettler
It's not "fixed", it's only hack-fixed. There is no real expiry of bayes_seen, nor the AWL, in SA 3.1.x. It's now safe to delete bayes_seen, you won't corrupt your whole bayes DB if you do that. That's the only fix I know of that's been applied. See http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug

Re: postgres database

2006-11-24 Thread Chris Purves
Tom Allison wrote: Rick Macdougall wrote: Tom Allison wrote: I was reading through the man pages about the use of a database for the storage of bayesian tokens. Is this a list that is global to the mail server, or something that is distinct for each user of that mail server? In other words

Re: postgres database

2006-11-24 Thread Tom Allison
Rick Macdougall wrote: Tom Allison wrote: I was reading through the man pages about the use of a database for the storage of bayesian tokens. Is this a list that is global to the mail server, or something that is distinct for each user of that mail server? In other words -- will I have the

Re: postgres database

2006-11-24 Thread Rick Macdougall
Tom Allison wrote: I was reading through the man pages about the use of a database for the storage of bayesian tokens. Is this a list that is global to the mail server, or something that is distinct for each user of that mail server? In other words -- will I have the exact same bayesian hist

Re: Bayes - Autoexpiry, bayes_seen, and bayes_tok

2006-11-24 Thread Jason Frisvold
No takers on this? Have I hit upon a FAQ question? I swear I looked and searched and I didn't find suitable answers... On 11/23/06, Jason Frisvold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, Just a few quick questions. First, I noticed that prior to 3.1.0 bayes_seen was not auto expiriing. That b

postgres database

2006-11-24 Thread Tom Allison
I was reading through the man pages about the use of a database for the storage of bayesian tokens. Is this a list that is global to the mail server, or something that is distinct for each user of that mail server? In other words -- will I have the exact same bayesian history in my token lib

Re: razor-agent.log being placed in root directory

2006-11-24 Thread Chris Purves
Gary V wrote: I noticed today that razor-agent.log is placed in the root directory. I have --helper-home-dir=/etc/spamassassin/helper-home-dir set as a spamd option, but the log is not being written to there. How can I fix this problem? Thanks. -- Chris This may be an indication there is

Re: Newbie Question

2006-11-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Andrew Sykes wrote: > Matt, > > Thank you, that makes things a lot clearer, is there any way to utilise > forwarded messages or is it a lost cause? > In general, no... In some situations you can make use of how a particular mail client does its forwarding, but you'd need to really look at what t

Re: sa-learn treating spam as ham

2006-11-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Patrick Sherrill wrote: > Sorry, last email was a poor example. Try this one. > > Before sa-learn: > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.201 required=4.9 tests=[BAYES_50=0.001, > HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR=4.2] > > After sa-learn: > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=4.8 tests=BAYES_40 > autolearn=ham vers

RE: RBL checks and -lastexternal

2006-11-24 Thread Randal, Phil
If you're using sendmail, you can blacklist using cn.countries.nerd.dk at the sendmail level, and use See http://blue-labs.org/howto/access_hints.php for tips on how to use sendmail's access file to whitelist senders (and recipients) who might otherwise be blocked by rbls. Connect:your.friend.cn

Re: Newbie Question

2006-11-24 Thread Andrew Sykes
Matt, Thank you, that makes things a lot clearer, is there any way to utilise forwarded messages or is it a lost cause? Thanks Andrew On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 10:22 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > Andrew Sykes wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm writing some code to integrate SpamAssassin with Apache JAMES. >

Re: sa-learn treating spam as ham

2006-11-24 Thread Jim Maul
Patrick Sherrill wrote: Sorry, last email was a poor example. Try this one. Before sa-learn: X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.201 required=4.9 tests=[BAYES_50=0.001, HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR=4.2] After sa-learn: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=4.8 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 T

Re: sa-learn treating spam as ham

2006-11-24 Thread Patrick Sherrill
Sorry, last email was a poor example. Try this one. Before sa-learn: X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.201 required=4.9 tests=[BAYES_50=0.001, HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR=4.2] After sa-learn: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=4.8 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 The difference in required

Re: sa-learn treating spam as ham

2006-11-24 Thread Patrick Sherrill
Before sa-learn: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.74 required=4.9 tests=[BAYES_20=-0.74] After sa-learn: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=4.8 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Pat - Original Message - From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Patrick Sherrill" <

Re: Newbie Question

2006-11-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Andrew Sykes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing some code to integrate SpamAssassin with Apache JAMES. > > I want to setup an address to allow me to pipe spam into sa-learn. I > have a prototype of this working fine, but would like to allow various > webmail client users to be able to forward spam messag

RE: razor-agent.log being placed in root directory

2006-11-24 Thread Gary V
I noticed today that razor-agent.log is placed in the root directory. I have --helper-home-dir=/etc/spamassassin/helper-home-dir set as a spamd option, but the log is not being written to there. How can I fix this problem? Thanks. -- Chris This may be an indication there is no razor-agent

Newbie Question

2006-11-24 Thread Andrew Sykes
Hi, I'm writing some code to integrate SpamAssassin with Apache JAMES. I want to setup an address to allow me to pipe spam into sa-learn. I have a prototype of this working fine, but would like to allow various webmail client users to be able to forward spam messages to this address. As I have v

Re: sa-learn treating spam as ham

2006-11-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Patrick Sherrill wrote: > 'sa-learn --spam addspam' seems to add the sender to AWL and mark the > message as ham. Any clues on what I may be doing incorrectly? (SA 3.1.0) sa-learn doesn't add the message to the AWL... however *EVERY* message you receive is added to it. That said, being in the AWL

sa-learn treating spam as ham

2006-11-24 Thread Patrick Sherrill
'sa-learn --spam addspam' seems to add the sender to AWL and mark the message as ham. Any clues on what I may be doing incorrectly? (SA 3.1.0) Pat... [EMAIL PROTECTED] CocoNet Corporation SW Florida's First ISP

Passing on spam bounces to sa-learn

2006-11-24 Thread Kim Christensen
Is there anyone who has a working scenario in where double bounces are stripped from the two bounce messages (thus containing only the original spam mesage) and fed to sa-learn? These got tagged as spam the first time they arrived on the server, but since they double bounced, I wanna put them in t

Re: [solved] onnection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries

2006-11-24 Thread Rejaine Monteiro
forget about it... I modified the source code in line: #define MAX_CONNECT_RETRIES 3 to #define MAX_CONNECT_RETRIES 30 And recompiled spamc binary... Works fine now... Rejaine Monteiro escreveu: Sometimes, I give this errors: Nov 24 10:26:44 server spamc[31357]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at

trouble with rules_du_jour

2006-11-24 Thread Peter Matulis
I am running amavisd 2.44 chrooted on OpenBSD 4.0. I am running rules_du_jour.sh and even though I specify my SA_DIR (inside /etc/rulesdujour/config) as /var/amavisd/etc/mail/spamassassin I keep getting errors because I have score modifications for non-existent rules inside /etc/mail/spamassassin/

RE: razor-agent.log being placed in root directory

2006-11-24 Thread Sietse van Zanen
I beleive razor log files and config go into the homedir of the user running spamassassin. For me, Í run SA as user spamassassin and that user's homedir is /var/lib/spamassassin. There is a .razor dir there, wheere all the files are. -Sietse From: Chris Purves Sent: Fri 24-Nov-06 0:50 To: u

connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries

2006-11-24 Thread Rejaine Monteiro
Sometimes, I give this errors: Nov 24 10:26:44 server spamc[31357]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused Nov 24 10:26:45 server spamc[31357]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#2 of 3): Connection refused Nov 24 10:26:46 se

Re: RBL checks and -lastexternal

2006-11-24 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
Yeah I do manage the MTA, but I do still want to pass those emails to SpamAssassin for checking - I just don't want SA to run the DNSBL tests against those whitelisted IPs, but I do still want SA to run all it's other tests against the email, as it might still be spam anyway. All I could do at

Re: RBL checks and -lastexternal

2006-11-24 Thread Matt Hampton
Jeremy Fairbrass wrote: > I want to block all emails that come from an IP in China (where the IP is > the one connecting to me), *BUT* I want to exclude a particular server in > China that is used by a friend who I trust, for example. How could I do > that? Do you managed the MTA? If you do t

BayesStore/SQL.pm

2006-11-24 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
What is $self->_userid in seen_put() and the like? The uid of the process running SpamAssassing (i.e.: amavis) or the message destinating user? If the first, how can I get the message destinating user from subclasses of BayesStore/SQL.pm? I mean, in many SQL.pm functions it seems to me that the

Re: translation help please

2006-11-24 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 24.11.2006 um 04:22 schrieb Chris: This was tossed into my spam folder tonight but it was during my NANAS report run. I'm not sure if its a reply from abuse@ or just a spam: Neither. It's instructions on how to use the website galeon.com configuring the browser to work with cookies, etc.

Re: RBL checks and -lastexternal

2006-11-24 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
Okay, thanks for the explanation. I was hoping to have a way of whitelisting certain servers from all DNSBL tests - but they are servers that are not within my control, not my own local server, and thus inappropriate to add them to internal_networks. And I don't want to remove my own server from