good ideas for spam blocking

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Matthews
Hi there, at the moment I have the rules_du_jour script running every week and I have the script below running every night telling SpamAssassin to learn what I can from the uses junk mail folders, but I still seam to get a lot of junk mail that gets past the scanners, can anyone make any suggestio

spamassassin: execvp: Permission denied

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Matthews
I get this error message in my boot log file, anyone have any idea what it is? spamassassin: execvp: Permission denied

Re: sa-learn script

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Matthews
> Also, i'm using the squirrelmail plugin spam_button. > > http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=242 > > But what I want it to do is once it is marked as spam to move the e-mail > from /var/spool/mail/user to $HOME/mail/Junk > > and same as marking it ham, move it from $HOME/mail/Junk to >

Re: sa-learn script

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Matthews
> Almost certainly not, unless you change that "i$" to "$i" ;-) > okay, say I do change it, will that script work? if i just add it in a cron job? Also, i'm using the squirrelmail plugin spam_button. http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=242 But what I want it to do is once it is marked

sa-learn script

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Matthews
Hi there, i'm running RHEL4 with spamassassin-3.0.5-3.el4 and i'm looking for a script that will make sa-learn go though everyone's Junk mail folder and 'learn' what is Junk. i've come up with this #!/bin/bash for i in $( ls /home/MYDOMAIN); do sa-learn --spam /home/MYDOMAIN/i$/mail/Junk d

rules_du_jour

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Matthews
Hi there, I've found this website http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour It's a list of rules that can automatically update, it's telling me in the config file you can tell it what lists to download TRUSTED_RULESETS="TRIPWIRE SARE_ADULT SARE_OBFU1 SARE_URI0 SARE_URI1" Can anyone gi

Re: Re[2]: checksumming image spam

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Matthews
>> And to me that sounds like me running a Small Business Server I >> should be alrighht? > > Yes, absolutely. > > --Sandy > > > When I want to test that spam assassin it working it's fairly easy, look in the header information or user the gtude command http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/

RE: checksumming image spam

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Matthews
>> Razor is also a good check, but it only free for personal use >> (same as dcc): http://razor.sourceforge.net >> Razor compile and install is a bit more difficult than dcc or >> pyzor, as it might need a whole lot of perl modules >> (depending on what is already there), so better get your CPAN >>

RE: checksumming image spam

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Matthews
> DCC is at: http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/ > > Don't know about rpm's, you can try http://rpmfind.net (Don't think they > have RH EL rpms) > Or http://dag.wieers.com > > But probably you'll have to compile it yourself (As I did for my RH EL3), > which is pretty simple. okay, i'll install

Re: checksumming image spam

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Matthews
e images, with words spelled partially in plain > text and partially as images, so that the content, when viewed on a > common e-mail reader like Outlook or AOL, would look like an ordinary > message. > > > Aside from that techie stuff, it's a good interview too ;) > > --j.

Re: list of rules

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Matthews
query to DNS, thus rapidly > updated) and uses much less memory. However, it does require use of DNS. I've removed all the files that I got from that website, but i'm still looked for a self updating soluation for SA. Any idea's? -- Paul Matthews Junior Network Technician

Re: list of rules

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Matthews
> Are you using sa-update? i'm not sure, how do i know if i am, but i did a locate sa-update and i came up with nothing so i have to guess that i'm not. Although, i've found the website http://www.sa-blacklist.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/ and i've add the following information into a script and se

list of rules

2006-05-18 Thread Paul Matthews
Hi there, I've just installed spam assassin and it's working okay, but some spam is still getting in, I only have like 3 rules at the moment that I added in, is there a list of pretty safe rules out there that I could just copy into my local.cf SA file?