Re: SA and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-07-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Chris, I see something odd when the path mentions /usr/lib/perl5/site-perl/5.10.1 and the search path for Perls modules looks at /usr/lib/perl/5.18 It looks to me that you have 2 versions of Perls (5.10 and 5.18) and that some modulesz are installed in one environment but not the other. best reg

SA and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-07-14 Thread Chris
After my Mandriva system crashed this weekend and after getting a new box I've decided to use the above distro. I'm getting most issues worked out however there are a few I need some help with. When running 'spamassasin -D -t against a saved message I get: dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::

Re: I need professional help

2014-07-14 Thread Pat Traynor
Thanks, Bob. I've implemented a couple of your suggestions immediately and will read through some of the other ones, as well as Jim's article for ideas on further improvements. --pat-- On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Pat Traynor wrote: I've pastbin'd the first part of one of the spams

Individual Bayes (Re: I need professional help)

2014-07-14 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:24:10 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > And since this appears to be at the global MTA stage in a milter > that it will always be less effective globally than an > individualized Bayes database. Not necessarily. We have a giant Bayes database based on feedback from our customers

Re: I need professional help

2014-07-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Pat Traynor wrote: > I've pastbin'd the first part of one of the spams here: > http://pastebin.com/Feete78K The IP address of the message appears to me to be 185.45.193.123 out of Dubai. It is not listed in most of the DNSBLs that I checked. It is listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net however. That would b

Re: I need professional help

2014-07-14 Thread Pat Traynor
Thanks. Spam fluctuates - sometimes I'll go hours without a spam and sometimes I'll get 15 in the course of five minutes. But since I added spamhaus, it *seems* like less spam is coming through. I'll have to give it a whole day before I'm sure, but at least it's promising. --pat-- On Mon, 14

Re: I need professional help

2014-07-14 Thread Matthew Newton
Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 05:44:41AM -0400, Pat Traynor wrote: > Thanks, Bob. I've added zen.spamhaus.org to my list. For what it's worth, looking at the last 7 days of logs here, of the total rejections: 75% was rejected due to being listed on Spamhaus lists, whilst 3% was rejected because of

Re: I need professional help

2014-07-14 Thread Pat Traynor
Wow - that's a lot of good info, and I thank you for taking the time to explain it. The mailq and postcat utilities work as you outlined. I've pastbin'd the first part of one of the spams here: http://pastebin.com/Feete78K I only included the envelope and the first few lines of the message, as

Re: I need professional help

2014-07-14 Thread Pat Traynor
Thanks, Bob. I've added zen.spamhaus.org to my list. --pat-- On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Pat Traynor wrote: I'm using Postfix for mail. I've done some research and implemented several changes in my main.cf file with directives such as smtpd_recipient_restrictions