Re: user_prefs rules not being used

2008-01-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:45:26AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > allow_user_rules 1 > in my local.cf. > > However, when I edit .spamassassin/user_prefs in my home directory to add > further whitelist_from commands, spamassassin doesn't see them. Is there > any obvious reason why? You don't

user_prefs rules not being used

2008-01-20 Thread alayne
I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on SuSE 9.3. Spamassassin is invoked through amavisd. I have a series of whitelist_from commands in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, which spamassassin recognizes. I also have allow_user_rules 1 in my local.cf. However, when I edit .spamassassin/user_

Re: Cute - another google spam trick!

2008-01-20 Thread Chip M.
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Loren Wilton wrote: >Is [letters][numbers] a required format, or just what this spammer picked? It's not required. It is the single most common format (that I've seen). What's the "cute" trick? That looks like a pretty typical one. (It's late-ish, I could be missing the obv

Cute - another google spam trick!

2008-01-20 Thread Loren Wilton
http://wyfaguxi76434.googlepages.com Anyone know if there is a specific "top level" googlepages name format? Is [letters][numbers] a required format, or just what this spammer picked? Loren

Bayes database corrupt.

2008-01-20 Thread Michael Hutchinson
The children were becoming un-responsive, one after the other, and were not returning to process any more mail. Eventually this caused qmail to reject smtp connections, as mail processing had come to a halt. These processes were given the chance to "come right" after Saturday evening and for half

Re: Bayes database corrupt.

2008-01-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:02:23AM +1300, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > Does anyone know how to fix a corrupted Bayes Database ? Why do you think the DB is corrupt? All you said is that the children were doing processing on the DB, which sounds a lot like an expire run. -- Randomly Selected Tagli

Bayes database corrupt.

2008-01-20 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hi all, Recently upgraded SA to 3.1.7 (the latest supported by Debian Sarge backports.). I just caught a nasty problem with our Bayes Database. Spamd children were trying to use 99% CPU each (5 of them) and were hanging not doing any processing. I discovered that there was in issue with our

Re: more efficent big scoring

2008-01-20 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Loren Wilton wrote: > I would not be terribly surprised to find out that on average > there was no appreciable difference in running all rules of all > types in priority order, over the current method; Neither am I. Another thing to consider is the fraction of defined rules t

Re: more efficent big scoring

2008-01-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Loren Wilton wrote: Well, it looks like I need to spend some time reading the code to study exactly how SA runs rules, and see if it's doing something that pollutes the memory cache, which would cause the over-sorting to not matter.. As best I recall, it runs rules by type, and sorted by prio