Re: [sa-list] Re: DNS timeouts on almost all queries

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Matt Kettler wrote: > >> >> Hmm, have you tried hitting the local named with queryperf (it's a DNS >> mass-querry load-test.) > > Haven't yet. Was also going to try turning on the querylog (I turn it > on via rndc but I'm not getting output an

Re: Unknown option: a when restarting spamd

2007-01-05 Thread Michael Parker
Geoff Soper wrote: > I've recently moved from calling spamassasin to using spamc/spamd. Today > I had a "/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd restart" fail with the message "Unknown > option: a". Googling this led me to the /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin and > /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd files, both of which specified t

Re: Unknown option: a when restarting spamd

2007-01-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:39:30AM +, Geoff Soper wrote: > What would the "a" option be and why did the two files specify it when > spamd doesn't accept it? No idea. Neither spamassassin nor spamd have/had a "-a" option from what I can see. Some crazy distribution's add-on ? -- Randomly S

Unknown option: a when restarting spamd

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Soper
I've recently moved from calling spamassasin to using spamc/spamd. Today I had a "/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd restart" fail with the message "Unknown option: a". Googling this led me to the /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin and /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd files, both of which specified the "a" option (the form

Re: [sa-list] Re: DNS timeouts on almost all queries

2007-01-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Matt Kettler wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: ie: is the localhost DNS server working properly? Yes, it is. I'm not seeing any major errors in /var/log/messages, and I'm seeing some rules match on this. It would be quasi-helpful if the error logged what lookup w

Re: [sa-list] Re: DNS timeouts on almost all queries

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >> >> >> ie: is the localhost DNS server working properly? > > Yes, it is. I'm not seeing any major errors in /var/log/messages, and > I'm seeing some rules match on this. It would be quasi-helpful if the > error logged what lookup was actually timing out (i.e. >

Re: [sa-list] Re: DNS timeouts on almost all queries

2007-01-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Matt Kettler wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Any idea what could be causing the following? DNS is against localhost, net::dns is 0.59 I'm seeing a ton of this in my ddebug log: Jan 5 16:37:14 quark spamd[2031]: dns: timeout for sorbs-lastexternal,sorbs after 11 s

Re: [sa-list] Re: remove known-postmaster entries from AWL?

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > >> You do realize the AWL isn't a whitelist, right? > > Why is it hitting, then? If it has the power to influence the score > hamward (on a non-real and possibly forged email address), I'd prefer > it not to apply. Well, first, back to the point. The AWL is an a

Re: [sa-list] Re: remove known-postmaster entries from AWL?

2007-01-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Matt Kettler wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, The subject line says it all. I've got a lot of users complaining about bounce spam, and while there's an 0.1 scoring "Vbounce" ruleset, I notice that more often than not "postmaster" scores sometimes a whopping

Re: DNS timeouts on almost all queries

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Any idea what could be causing the following? > > DNS is against localhost, net::dns is 0.59 > > I'm seeing a ton of this in my ddebug log: > > Jan 5 16:37:14 quark spamd[2031]: dns: timeout for > sorbs-lastexternal,sorbs after 11 seconds Try "dig @localhost www

Re: remove known-postmaster entries from AWL?

2007-01-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey all, > > The subject line says it all. I've got a lot of users complaining > about bounce spam, and while there's an 0.1 scoring "Vbounce" ruleset, > I notice that more often than not "postmaster" scores sometimes a > whopping .5, and at other times -17. Is

remove known-postmaster entries from AWL?

2007-01-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, The subject line says it all. I've got a lot of users complaining about bounce spam, and while there's an 0.1 scoring "Vbounce" ruleset, I notice that more often than not "postmaster" scores sometimes a whopping .5, and at other times -17. Is there any way to simply say "dont do thi

RE: Does AWL cancel Manual Whitelist?

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Koontz
Personally, I think the AWL function is poorly named as it really does not reflect what it is or does. I suspect this name leads to much confusion for most new users and/or those that do not work closely with SA consistently. I know when I first started using SA, it confused me in the beginning. Ma

RE: CF files not formatted correctly; ASCII vs Binary?

2007-01-05 Thread Clay Davis
thanks Dan. I'll check it out. Re, Clay >>> On 1/5/2007 at 4:20 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dan Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clay, You have several replies about the difference between CR/LF and LF, but nothing useful. To "LOOK" at the files, use Wordpad instead of Notepad. It ha

Re: Does AWL cancel Manual Whitelist?

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Purves
skuba wrote: If my auto white list is on, does it mean that the manual white list won't work? Or could both be ON at the same time? See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist for explanation of AWL. -- Chris

Re: CF files not formatted correctly; ASCII vs Binary?

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Purves
John Rudd wrote: Clay Davis wrote: Can someone give me an idea what is causing this and of its causing a problem with my SA config? I am using wget to ftp download several of the SARE rules on a weekly basis. When I look at the rule on the SARE site, its formatting looks normal (spaces, tabs

Re: Which plugins are running?

2007-01-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:17:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Question - how do I tell if network plugins are working? > > I am not seeing any mention in headers of Razor or Pyzor. I have > looked for logs for these apps, and have not found anything. [...] > see what the standard FreeBSD

Which plugins are running?

2007-01-05 Thread yahoojunk
Hello list, First, thanks to the gurus who have worked so hard on SA. I feel like I have gained a new life now that the spam has slowed to a trickle. I have read a lot of the documentation on the wiki site, but am still not sure if I have my initial configuration optimized. (Actually, I ge

Re: How to increase Manual Whitelist score?

2007-01-05 Thread skuba
Thanks. I will do some more tests. Theo Van Dinter-2 wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:49:24AM -0800, skuba wrote: >> even though I add certain senders to whitelist prefs, they still get >> labeled >> as spam because the whitelist score is very low. How could I increase >> that >> in the pr

DNS timeouts on almost all queries

2007-01-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Any idea what could be causing the following? DNS is against localhost, net::dns is 0.59 I'm seeing a ton of this in my ddebug log: Jan 5 16:37:14 quark spamd[2031]: dns: timeout for sorbs-lastexternal,sorbs after 11 seconds Jan 5 16:37:14 quark spamd[2027]: dns: timeout for rfci_envfrom aft

RE: CF files not formatted correctly; ASCII vs Binary?

2007-01-05 Thread Dan Barker
Clay, You have several replies about the difference between CR/LF and LF, but nothing useful. To "LOOK" at the files, use Wordpad instead of Notepad. It handles either line end. SpamAssassin (actually perl) doesn't care in this instance. FTP'ing them in ASCII won't hurt anything, but why mess wi

RE: CF files not formatted correctly; ASCII vs Binary?

2007-01-05 Thread Clay Davis
thanks, neal. crimson reads it just fine. clay >>> On 1/5/2007 at 2:52 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Coffey, Neal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clay Davis wrote: > I am using wget to ftp download several of the SARE rules on a weekly > basis. When I look at the rule on the SARE site, its fo

RE: Training Bayesian Filter

2007-01-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Amavis uses SA's config file for rules, scores, and plugins. Just > > keep in mind that it may be looking in a non-standard place for the > > config depending on your setup. > > > > Amavis adds some extra scoring on top of the SA score and does it's > > own mar

Re: Does AWL cancel Manual Whitelist?

2007-01-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:50:36AM -0800, skuba wrote: > If my auto white list is on, does it mean that the manual white list won't > work? Or could both be ON at the same time? The AWL (score averager) is completely independent of everything else. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: Inoculatte: To ta

Re: How to increase Manual Whitelist score?

2007-01-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:49:24AM -0800, skuba wrote: > even though I add certain senders to whitelist prefs, they still get labeled > as spam because the whitelist score is very low. How could I increase that > in the prefs file? The default is -100, which should be quite sufficient. Have you a

RE: CF files not formatted correctly; ASCII vs Binary?

2007-01-05 Thread Coffey, Neal
Clay Davis wrote: > I am using wget to ftp download several of the SARE rules on a weekly > basis. When I look at the rule on the SARE site, its formatting looks > normal (spaces, tabs, indents, etc.); however, after an ftp download > to my PC and opening it in Notepad, its all run together and al

Does AWL cancel Manual Whitelist?

2007-01-05 Thread skuba
If my auto white list is on, does it mean that the manual white list won't work? Or could both be ON at the same time? Thanks so much -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Does-AWL-cancel-Manual-Whitelist--tf2927595.html#a8184649 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list

How to increase Manual Whitelist score?

2007-01-05 Thread skuba
Hi, even though I add certain senders to whitelist prefs, they still get labeled as spam because the whitelist score is very low. How could I increase that in the prefs file? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-increase-Manual-Whitelist-score--tf2927585.html#a81

Re: CF files not formatted correctly; ASCII vs Binary?

2007-01-05 Thread John Rudd
Clay Davis wrote: Can someone give me an idea what is causing this and of its causing a problem with my SA config? I am using wget to ftp download several of the SARE rules on a weekly basis. When I look at the rule on the SARE site, its formatting looks normal (spaces, tabs, indents, etc.);

CF files not formatted correctly; ASCII vs Binary?

2007-01-05 Thread Clay Davis
Can someone give me an idea what is causing this and of its causing a problem with my SA config? I am using wget to ftp download several of the SARE rules on a weekly basis. When I look at the rule on the SARE site, its formatting looks normal (spaces, tabs, indents, etc.); however, after an ftp

RE: Training Bayesian Filter

2007-01-05 Thread dino
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Darn. I thought that might be the problem. Well, back to square one. >> You are right, this is not the right list for amavisd questions, but >> where do you draw the line? > > If the question is about rules, scoring or plugins, ask it here. If the > question is abo

Question about using the AWL result

2007-01-05 Thread IanCar
We rarely get mail from new people (apart from spam), so I'd like to be able to detect if someone is sending mail for the first time and to add a score. I've been trying to use some rules to see what the AWL count is but not having any success. I don't want to do greylisting but would be interes

RE: Training Bayesian Filter

2007-01-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Darn. I thought that might be the problem. Well, back to square one. > You are right, this is not the right list for amavisd questions, but > where do you draw the line? If the question is about rules, scoring or plugins, ask it here. If the question is about markup a

Re: sa-stats.pl blows up on maillog covering turn of year

2007-01-05 Thread Chris
On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:03 pm, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > That's not the one I'm having trouble with. Both of Dallas' scripts > work fine. It's the sa-stats.pl script that is bundled with SA > (produces a quite different report) that does unpleasant things when > used with the current (v1.

Re: Botnet-0.7 not working

2007-01-05 Thread Jens Schleusener
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, John Rudd wrote: > Jens Schleusener wrote: > > > > > > But "undefining" the variable "botnet_pass_trusted" I got > > > > Forgot to ask this last time: > > what do you mean "undefining"? Did you set it to "none", like the > documentation mentions? or anything else along th

Re: Training Bayesian Filter

2007-01-05 Thread dino
Darn. I thought that might be the problem. Well, back to square one. You are right, this is not the right list for amavisd questions, but where do you draw the line? > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:49:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So, the bayes_path is set in my local.cf files and it poin

Re: Botnet-0.7 not working

2007-01-05 Thread John Rudd
Jens Schleusener wrote: But "undefining" the variable "botnet_pass_trusted" I got Forgot to ask this last time: what do you mean "undefining"? Did you set it to "none", like the documentation mentions? or anything else along those lines?

Re: Botnet-0.6

2007-01-05 Thread John Rudd
Steve Pfister wrote: Is it possible to get Botnet-0.6 anywhere? I'm having some trouble getting Botnet-0.7 to work and I'd like to try it. If it's the same problem you already posted about (Net::DNS::Resolver), then: a) I don't know how to help you... the only thing I can think of is to ch