Re: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread Matt
RobertH wrote: matt, wouldnt deleting the ~./spamassassin folder also delete the bayes data in many circumstances? Yes this would - this was purely for testing purposes - as Justin said in a previous email some information is cached in that folder so I deleted it to make sure that it was

RE: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread RobertH
> From: Matt > > Using a slightly different method - using a maximum number of > children parser. The times were taken after deleting the > ~/.spamassassin folder before each run. > > Before > > real21m24.068s > user18m58.465s > sys 0m45.532s > > After using 4 children > >

Re: locking topic

2009-04-16 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 15:52 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: > At 03:48 PM 4/16/2009, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > > How to force SpamAssassin to filter messages on the subject? > > Much of the spam to me is in the subject: 100%, %%% > > Spamassassin doesn't 'filter'. While that's certainly true an

Re: locking topic

2009-04-16 Thread Evan Platt
At 04:41 PM 4/16/2009, you wrote: Please don't reference the old comcast.net documents. They're quite out-of-date and I've not been in control of that account for a few years now. The above text has become part of the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules My bad... I did a go

Re: locking topic

2009-04-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Evan Platt wrote: > At 03:48 PM 4/16/2009, you wrote: >> Hello, >> How to force SpamAssassin to filter messages on the subject? >> >> Much of the spam to me is in the subject: 100%, %%% > > Spamassassin doesn't 'filter'. > > You can probably do something in your MTA to 'filter' messages based > on

Re: locking topic

2009-04-16 Thread Evan Platt
At 03:48 PM 4/16/2009, you wrote: Hello, How to force SpamAssassin to filter messages on the subject? Much of the spam to me is in the subject: 100%, %%% Spamassassin doesn't 'filter'. You can probably do something in your MTA to 'filter' messages based on subject - ie procmail, if you're lo

locking topic

2009-04-16 Thread vibi
Hello, How to force SpamAssassin to filter messages on the subject? Much of the spam to me is in the subject: 100%, %%% -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/locking-topic-tp23088025p23088025.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

spamc: oops! message_dump

2009-04-16 Thread James Butler
System: Fedora 10, Spamassassin 3.2.5, Perl 5.10.0 The following error is preceded by log entry: spamc[PID]: skipped message, greater than max message size (512000 bytes) Error: spamc[PID]: oops! message_dump of 8192 returned different (there are as many of those errors as it takes to reach the f

Re: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread Matt
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Wonder why that is -- due to the excessively long metas? The sub-rules' REs are quite trivial. Would constructing it using a binary (or n-ary, with small upper bound of n) tree speed the compilation up? Using a slightly different method - using a maximum number of

Re: New to list.... URIBL currency?

2009-04-16 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 13:58 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > > It will take a few days for me to get the 'flow' of this list, and the > sense of any threads already in progress. So I apologize if my query > has been recently discussed/resolved. Do we have a searchable archive > somewhere on the we

RE: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread RobertH
for those in the know re the programming and speed of processing using sa-compile... it appears the fules compile fast without the sought ruleset applied. and time to compile increases by roughly (very rough) a factor of 10 with sought ruleset applied. is that time extra time spent strictly in

New to list.... URIBL currency?

2009-04-16 Thread Charles Gregory
Greetings! It will take a few days for me to get the 'flow' of this list, and the sense of any threads already in progress. So I apologize if my query has been recently discussed/resolved. Do we have a searchable archive somewhere on the web? First the good news: I got rid of my horrible old s

Re: spam and carbon emissions

2009-04-16 Thread Jesse Stroik
> "Interestingly, the majority of energy usage (around 80%) comes from users viewing and deleting spam, and searching for legitimate emails within spam filters." Right -- if your users can't trust their 'spam' folder as spam, then what is the point? They should keep it around so they can che

Re: spam and carbon emissions

2009-04-16 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:22 PM +0100 Martin Hepworth wrote: Interesting article http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16951-spam-tramples-environment-wit h-huge-carbon-footprint.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news I wonder how they figure out the transmission costs are are doing someth

Re: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Scheidell
well.. thats not it. im using 0.13.5 also. Larry Nedry wrote: On 4/16/09 at 7:44 AM -0400 Michael Scheidell wrote: Larry: what version of re2c are you using? re2c 0.13.5 -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone: 561-999-5000, x 1259 > *| *SECNAP Network Security Corporation * Certi

Re: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread Larry Nedry
On 4/16/09 at 7:44 AM -0400 Michael Scheidell wrote: >Larry: what version of re2c are you using? re2c 0.13.5

Re: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Scheidell
> On 4/15/09 at 10:30 AM -0400 Rick Macdougall wrote: >> Normal sa-update && sa-compile takes about 2 minutes here. >> If I add JM's saught rules it takes over 30 minutes. > > Here's another data point. With JM's sought and sought-fraud rules the > compile takes less than 7 minutes on a server ru

Re: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Normal sa-update && sa-compile takes about 2 minutes here. If I add JM's saught rules it takes over 30 minutes. Here's another data point. With JM's sought and sought-fraud rules the compile takes less than 7 minutes on a server running an Intel Core 2 Duo running at 2.13 GHz. # time sa

Re: sa-compile

2009-04-16 Thread Justin Mason
A lot of stuff is cached between runs in ~/.spamassassin... --j. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:56, Larry Nedry wrote: > On 4/15/09 at 10:30 AM -0400 Rick Macdougall wrote: >>Normal sa-update && sa-compile takes about 2 minutes here. >>If I add JM's saught rules it takes over 30 minutes. > > Here's