Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Linda Walsh
May I point out, that while you may find the language crude -- it isn't language that would violate FTC standards in that in used any of the 7 or so 'unmentionable words'... People -- these standards of 'crude language' really need to be strongly held 'in check' -- the US is 'supposed' to be th

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Linda Walsh : > It's an American thing. Things that are normal speech for UK blokes, get > Americans all disturbed. Sloppy language is sloppy language everywhere! I took offense in the message, too and I am neither American nor am I from the UK. But what annoys me the most is that the comments

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Linda Walsh
It's an American thing. Things that are normal speech for UK blokes, get Americans all disturbed. Funny, used to be the other way around...but well...times change. Justin Mason wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:32, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Imagine what Barracuda Networks could do with

X-Spam-Report

2009-07-31 Thread router backup
Hello, Is there a directive to change the way X-Spam-Report formats in the header of mail? Currently I get a single X-Spam-Report line wrapped; X-Spam-Report: * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 2.2 HIDE_WIN_STATUS RAW: Javascript to hide URLs in browser * 1.3 MIS

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread jdow
From: "poifgh" Sent: Friday, 2009/July/31 19:47 I am sorry, I did not provide any statistics of the machine involved. CPU - 8 cores with each core 2327 MHz RAM - 16GB Afair its has 7200RPM disk - 2TB. One disk you might consider a striped array to get disk speed. 50 megabytes per second

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread jdow
From: "LuKreme" Sent: Friday, 2009/July/31 12:37 On Jul 31, 2009, at 1:33 PM, jdow wrote: Given that profanity is the effort of a small mind to express itself I have a feeling he's going to receive his third and final warning any time now, Matt Given that nothing that richard said is not an

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread jdow
From: "LuKreme" Sent: Friday, 2009/July/31 12:30 On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:25 AM, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: ... dropping in here and making jokes at such low hanging fruit. Make all the jokes at Barracuda's expense that you like, complain about th

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:37 -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: > LuKreme said the following on 7/31/09 3:27 PM: > >> Richard -- please watch your language. This is a public mailing > >> list, and offensive language here is inappropriate. > > > > I dunno, 'gay' isn't that offensive. > > > > > > Gay is *not

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
I havent tried with sa-compile yet - I can give it a shot -- Henrik K wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:41:47AM -0700, poifgh wrote: >> >> Henrik K wrote: >> > >> > Yeah, given that my 4x3Ghz box masscheck peaks at 22 msgs/sec, without >> > Net/AWL/Bayes. But that's the 3.3 SVN ruleset..

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
I am sorry, I did not provide any statistics of the machine involved. CPU - 8 cores with each core 2327 MHz RAM - 16GB Afair its has 7200RPM disk - 2TB. Yes, people were right in indicating AWL could be the problem. turning off AWL results in near linear scaling of SA as we increase number of pro

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Henrik K
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:41:47AM -0700, poifgh wrote: > > Henrik K wrote: > > > > Yeah, given that my 4x3Ghz box masscheck peaks at 22 msgs/sec, without > > Net/AWL/Bayes. But that's the 3.3 SVN ruleset.. wonder what version was > > used > > and any nondefault rules/settings? Certainly sounds st

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Matt Kettler
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > email me off list as I've just been > banned for upsetting a sponsor LOL > Richard, this has nothing to do with Barracuda. They have no influence over my opinions whatsoever. I don't work for Apache or Barracuda, or any company sponsored by either.Neither Apac

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Glenn Sieb
LuKreme said the following on 7/31/09 3:27 PM: >> Richard -- please watch your language. This is a public mailing >> list, and offensive language here is inappropriate. > > I dunno, 'gay' isn't that offensive. > > Gay is *not* a synonym for stupid. I do take offense to the term being used in th

Re: running two versions of spamd?

2009-07-31 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:59 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > I have set up spamassassin to run as a damon and run as the user spamd > instead of root. > When I run ps xafu | grep spamd I get this output: > root 2389 0.0 2.5 29288 26852 ?Ss 17:15 0:02 > /usr/sbin/spamd

Re: Bogus Data within

2009-07-31 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Nathan M wrote: Here's an example of what we're seeing within the message source. creatures quickly produce approve crevice nuclear moping esoteric pernicious motion faith does embodies does purify testament maximum exceeding centralism intellect prey tidying welcomed tra

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread John Rudd
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:37, LuKreme wrote: > On Jul 31, 2009, at 1:33 PM, jdow wrote: >> >> Given that profanity is the effort of a small mind to express itself >> I have a feeling he's going to receive his third and final warning any >> time now, Matt > > Given that nothing that richard said is

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread LuKreme
On Jul 31, 2009, at 1:33 PM, jdow wrote: Given that profanity is the effort of a small mind to express itself I have a feeling he's going to receive his third and final warning any time now, Matt Given that nothing that richard said is not anything I've heard on, say, prime time TV or... a co

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread jdow
From: "Matt Kettler" Sent: Friday, 2009/July/31 04:26 rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 09:53 +0100, Justin Mason wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:32, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: ... Richard -- please watch your language. This is a public mailing list,

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread LuKreme
On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:25 AM, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: ... dropping in here and making jokes at such low hanging fruit. Make all the jokes at Barracuda's expense that you like, complain about them all you like, just avoid offensive language. Rea

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread LuKreme
On Jul 31, 2009, at 2:53 AM, Justin Mason wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:32, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Imagine what Barracuda Networks could do with that if they did not fill their gay little boxes with hardware rubbish from the floors of MSI and supermicro. Jesus, try and process tha

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Parker
On Jul 31, 2009, at 1:55 AM, poifgh wrote: I ran freshly build SA with Bayes and DNSBL turned off. Why am I not seeing a linear increase in the throughput? Is a file locking creating the bottleneck? If yes, which particular file is being locked? If no, what could be the reason for this?

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Paweł Sasin
> In my tests - there was not MTA. The mails/spam were collected from > some server in mbox format and fed to SA using --mbox switch. The > size of msgs was not altered in any fashion - just the usual size of > incoming spam/mails If you're interested in testing/tuning spamassassin for heavy loads

Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-07-31 Thread jdow
no. Even if you cannot think properly and use your brain the people here have brains that function. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "snowweb" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/July/28 04:07 I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting a bit hacked of with this 1980's style forum. I'm trying

privacy policy updates?

2009-07-31 Thread LuKreme
I've gotten a message from realage-privacypolicy.com which looks like it is a typical corporate html-heavy message. This one is updating me that their privacy policy has changed. The reason I am suspicious is that I've received at least 3 others this week that look very similar from various

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Nigel Frankcom
OK - I can see what metrics you are trying to ascertain - I think. I'm not sure that your test and real life are 'right'. For obvious reasons I don't want to carry this one on via list - I would suggest you ask Justin and I will be happy to give info on my local setup (this assumes Justin can grab

running two versions of spamd?

2009-07-31 Thread torleif
Hi I have set up spamassassin to run as a damon and run as the user spamd instead of root. When I run ps xafu | grep spamd I get this output: root 2892 0.0 0.0 3116 716 pts/0S+ 20:34 0:00 \_ grep spamd root 2389 0.0 2.5 29288 26852 ?Ss 1

Bogus Data within

2009-07-31 Thread Nathan M
This seems to be a newer tactic, and a lot of email with content poisoning seems to be slipping through our spam filters. The reason is all the "legitimate" content between tags. Most email apps don't show the data between