Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Geoff Soper wrote: > > OK, I'm slightly confused as to what the advice is here. Is there consensus > on SAREs? Should I still use them (via the channel list described at > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SareChannels ) or is it better not to > use them? I get

Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Geoff Soper wrote: > I've now added the saupdates.openprotect.com > channel which contains recommended SAREs rules and all is working! I thought I read that no one should be using openprotect as it's hoplessly out of date. ?? -- -ste

Re: Should I use greylisting

2007-01-25 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
> Personally, I didn't like the added delay for first-time mails, which is > why I chose to greylist only on blocklists, but for a minimal effort my > spam was significantly reduced. what are you using to greylist based on blocklists? I use maRBL. The latest version lets me greylist (I use sqlg

Lint messages from sa-update

2007-01-09 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Both of my systems reported: Subroutine __CTYPE_HTML_head_test redefined at /tmp/.spamassassin25471WRu8v8tmp/20_ratware.cf, rule __CTYPE_HTML, line 6. Subroutine __FROM_EBAY_head_test redefined at /tmp/.spamassassin25471WRu8v8tmp/80_additional.cf, rule __FROM_EBAY, line 6. Subroutine __HAS_RCVD_h

Re: No hits on SARE rules.

2007-01-01 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 1/1/07, Shaun T. Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, this is interesting. :) The follow-up to this is that I just got spam that was hit by the SARE rules, so it's working now. Additionally, Razor2 & DCC are now working, as well. So the only mystery is why everything ins

Re: No hits on SARE rules.

2007-01-01 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Ok, this is interesting. :) I removed all SA installations, except for the one under /usr/local/perl-5.8.8. I moved my sa-update-keys directory to /usr/local/perl-5.8.8/etc/mail/spamassassin. I modified my nightly script to use /usr/local/perl-5.8.8/bin/sa-update. I ran my nightly script. Now it

Re: No hits on SARE rules.

2007-01-01 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 1/1/07, Gary V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When you run amavisd debug-sa does it say you are using?: Module Mail::SpamAssassin 3.001007 Yes. Have you run 'sa-update'? I'm wondering if you have files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/ Yes, I see stuff in there, and in the directories I s

Re: No hits on SARE rules.

2007-01-01 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Ok. I'm starting to understand this now. I've built perl 5.8.8 and pointed my existing amavisd-new at it, by editing its first line. I then added, via CPAN, any module it complained was missing, each time I tried to run it, until it no longer complained of anything missing (that was required, anyw

Re: No hits on SARE rules.

2007-01-01 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 1/1/07, Gary V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You must be running SA 3.1.4 or older and amavisd-new 2.4.2 or older. Nope. SA 3.1.7 & amavisd-new 2.4.4. I see in amavisd, the line you suggested I add is actually there, but commented out, as a comment there indicates that SA should be able to ha

Re: No hits on SARE rules.

2007-01-01 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 1/1/07, Shaun T. Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What am I doing wrong? I just ran amavisd with the debug-sa option, and as near as I can tell, it appears to only be using the original ruleset - and doesn't even seem to know that I am pulling new rules down with sa-update.

No hits on SARE rules.

2007-01-01 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I have two identically (or so I thought) configured mail servers, each pulling down SARE rules (successfully, I might add). One of them shows hits on SARE rules all the time - the other one, never. Aside from simply configuring sa-update to pull the rules down, I'm wondering if there is something

Re: SA-UPDATE and recent branches/3.1 rules? or Did I miss an SA version update?

2007-01-01 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Regardless of the reason, is my SA now broken, and in any case, how do I recover from this? -- -ste

spam from "kntr" top level domain

2006-12-16 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I'm seeing hundreds of connection attempts from systems claiming to be in the kntr top level domain, on a client's mailserver. I haven't seen these on my own server. Is this new, or are they just finally getting around to a server I admin, so I'm now noticing it? Anyone else seeing this? --

Re: rules_du_jour question

2006-10-29 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 10/29/06, Leander Koornneef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my experience, using the default sa-update channel, the openprotect channel, auto-whitelisting, proper bayes training(!), pyzor, razor, dcc, SPF and DNS blacklists wil get you a spam detection rate >99%. I'm doing all that, now, I th

Re: rules_du_jour question

2006-10-29 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 10/29/06, Leander Koornneef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are using spamassassin 3.1, you can use sa-update to get the SARE rulesets from the channel provided by http://saupdates.openprotect.com/. This negates the necessity to run rulesdujour alongside sa-update. This channel consists onl

rules_du_jour question

2006-10-28 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I've just downloaded this and set it up. I see there are MANY rulesets I can choose from, but I have no idea if they are all 'safe' (not even sure what I mean by that). Is there a subset of all these rulesets, that "everybody" uses, or does everyone use all of them? How do you decide which to use

Re: Confused about getting plugins to work.

2006-10-28 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 10/28/06, Shaun T. Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The current problem is that Pyzor times out trying to contact it's remote server: Because this server (66.250.40.33:24441) - which I got from multiple tries at running 'pyzor discover' - isn't responding. Thi

Re: Confused about getting plugins to work.

2006-10-28 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 10/28/06, Clifton Royston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you run the "discover" mode on Razor yet? You need to manually run that (as the user and with the home directory Razor will be running as, in your case amavis) for it to latch onto some servers to use. Yes, and Razor2 is working fi

Re: Confused about getting plugins to work.

2006-10-28 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 10/28/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you want to see Razor debug output, run a message through in the way I mentioned before, ala: spamassassin -D razor2 < message_file > /dev/null will show you only razor2 debug output (most of which will look like output from "razor-che

Re: Confused about getting plugins to work.

2006-10-28 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
On 10/28/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 03:12:16PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > Yes, I've gone to the SA site, and read what I can find on these three > plugins, but it's still not clear to me how to enable them and see > tha

Confused about getting plugins to work.

2006-10-28 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I am setting up a new server to replace an old one. The old server ran a version of spamassassin prior to it's use of plugins. I've got my new server up and running (CentOS 4.4) nicely, with amavisd-new (v2.4.3) calling spamassassin (v3.1.7), and SA's default settings are tagging most spam as suc

Re: Spamd broken since 3.0.x

2004-11-03 Thread Shaun
Your the man, i found the spamassassin conf in /etc/mail/spamassassin moved it to old and copyed the config from another server onto it and it's working now. Thanks.

Re: Spamd broken since 3.0.x

2004-11-03 Thread Shaun
Where is this conf? I know cpanel sets a .spamassassin dir for each user (which contains there own whitelists, blacklists, scoresettings etc) but if there a global conf some where? "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Spamd broken since 3.0.x

2004-11-02 Thread Shaun
arser.pm line 678. Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm line 678. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm line 707. unknown type for NJABL_MULTI_STAGE: 8 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1671. ### END Thanks, ~Shaun

Re: Book has gone to press

2004-10-07 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Martin Schröder wrote: On 2004-10-07 10:37:32 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: http://www.packtpub.com/book/spamassassin "Release date November 1999" Yes, it should be at the press by now. :-) Best regards Martin PS: If it applies to SA3, the description should mention that. Hmm. When

Re: Book has gone to press

2004-10-07 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Chris Santerre wrote: http://www.packtpub.com/book/spamassassin How does this book compare to the O'Reilly book, by Schwartz? -ste