Old/Unresolved Botnet error, "Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ... line 564"

2007-06-24 Thread JT DeLys
In debugging some Spamassassin configuration problems, I've found lots of Botnet-plugin-related errors in my logs - " Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /var/spamassassin/local/Botnet.pm line 564." I found a January 17th, 2007 post on this @ http://archives.devshed.com/forums/networkin

Re: spamd hanging in bayes processing

2007-06-24 Thread Stew2
Thanks for the prompt reply. > What makes you believe that SA has hung and isn't actually doing > something? Without any indication that SA has actually hung I would > suspect that a bayes auto expiry is taking place. If you prefer, you > could disable bayes_auto_expire and run expiries via

Re: Errors compiling 3.2.1 for Mac OS 10.4

2007-06-24 Thread Randall Perry
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: It's a bug in the test suite. Just do a force install. Ok, force installed and it's working -- thanks. But am getting this perl error trying to feed it spam: Command: sudo sa-learn --spam -C /etc/mail/spamassassin --showdots --dir /spam Error: Can't use string ("Ma

Re: Botnet Score

2007-06-24 Thread Mark Martinec
On Sunday June 24 2007 19:30:32 OliverScott wrote: > Though BotNet is VERY effective in catching SPAM, the default score of 5 is > way too high IMHO. I fully agree, 5 is way too high. > With a well trained BAYES, using a selected list of RBLs and URIBLs for > scoring, the SARE rules, and some cus

Re: Errors compiling 3.2.1 for Mac OS 10.4

2007-06-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Randall Perry wrote: > I've currently got 3.2.0 running ok with perl 5.8.6 under Mac OS 10. > > On trying to install 3.2.1 via CPAN I get the errors below (these are > the only failed tests -- the rest passed or were skipped). I've > installed/updated all required and most optional modules, excepti

Re: Errors compiling 3.2.1 for Mac OS 10.4

2007-06-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
It's a bug in the test suite. Just do a force install. Daryl Randall Perry wrote: I've currently got 3.2.0 running ok with perl 5.8.6 under Mac OS 10. On trying to install 3.2.1 via CPAN I get the errors below (these are the only failed tests -- the rest passed or were skipped). I've insta

Errors compiling 3.2.1 for Mac OS 10.4

2007-06-24 Thread Randall Perry
I've currently got 3.2.0 running ok with perl 5.8.6 under Mac OS 10. On trying to install 3.2.1 via CPAN I get the errors below (these are the only failed tests -- the rest passed or were skipped). I've installed/updated all required and most optional modules, excepting Net::Ident and IO::So

Re: getting lots of "giving up on regexp" on sa-compile in version 3.2.1

2007-06-24 Thread JT DeLys
... you're usually OK ... debug might tell you why ... might be able to tell you why ... it probably did. Haha. Now that we've cleared THAT up ;-) Kidding aside ... I understand. Thanks, JTDeLys

Re: getting lots of "giving up on regexp" on sa-compile in version 3.2.1

2007-06-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
JT DeLys wrote: One comment that I'll share: After reading the list, wiki, general web, etc I got the clear message that lint+debug-ing is a wise/necessary step. It wasn't immediately clear to me that these 'failures' weren't real problems (that's why I'm asking here, of course). Is there s

Re: getting lots of "giving up on regexp" on sa-compile in version 3.2.1

2007-06-24 Thread JT DeLys
This is normal, some regexes can't be optimized. They're still used though. > What do I do about these? Nothing. That's good. And, thanks. (Re-enabling loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Rule2XSBody now). One comment that I'll share: After reading the list, wiki, general web, etc I go

Re: getting lots of "giving up on regexp" on sa-compile in version 3.2.1

2007-06-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
JT DeLys wrote: I've installed Spamassassin version 3.2.1, and have enabled loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Rule2XSBody in 'init.pre'. After downloading the latest rule updates using sa-update, when I compile the rules using sa-compile --sudo -D It finishes "correctly" at C

Re: Botnet Score

2007-06-24 Thread OliverScott
Though BotNet is VERY effective in catching SPAM, the default score of 5 is way too high IMHO. With a well trained BAYES, using a selected list of RBLs and URIBLs for scoring, the SARE rules, and some custom rules of my own I am confident that I am catching well over 90% of the SPAM hitting my se

Re: Automatic Whitelist Generation - Why wouldn't this work?

2007-06-24 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: > One thing that spammers can't spoof is RDNS. So if the RNDS of an > IP is xxx.xxx.amd.com then we know the email is ham. ...unless, for instance, an AMD corporate box gets pwned. > A query comes in to a specially written DNS server where the RNDS > is lo

Automatic Whitelist Generation - Why wouldn't this work?

2007-06-24 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - here's an idea I'm rolling around in my brain and thinking this could work to massively automatically generate white lists of IP addresses from companies that generate no spam at all. This could be used not only to greatly reduce false positives, but also you reduce system load. Any IP lis