up.
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Greg Troxel wrote on 26/09/24 12:13 am:
It looks to me like there may be a middle ground that works for both SA
and dnswl.
Your suggestions are in a similar direction to discussions that have
been moved over to the dev list as they have become more relevant to
that mailing list. Our first te
Matthias Leisi wrote on 25/09/24 5:38 pm:
[...snip...]> I can suggest that we run a statistical experiment
I'm moving this to the dev list in my full reply, as now we are getting
more into things more suited to that mailing list.
Sidney
in the process after the first 127.0.0.255 is received you
would feel better about relying on that. Or maybe you can think of another
compromise suggestion.
I can say that if you stop returning false HI results instead of BLOCKED we
should always be willing to restore dnswl to our default configurat
I've been in touch with a former developer of pyzor. Bottom line is that
the company that had it was acquired, and pyzor is not being maintained
by the new owners.
I'm still trying to get a contact who might be able to pass on the
maintenance ownership of the GitHub repository, but have yet to
tomoe wrote on 7/08/24 8:17 pm:
Dear Developers and members of the PMC
My name is Tomoe.
I would like to install SpamAssassin on a newly built mail server.
Does SpamAssassin work on Ubuntu 24.04LTS ?
I look forward to Answer from you.
https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/24.04/ubuntu-main-amd64/spamassas
llclock secs ( 1.24 usr 0.22 sys +
280.71 cusr 26.08 csys = 308.25 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/217 test programs. 0/3765 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
Tuc
On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 4:03 PM Sidney Markowitz mailto:sid...@sidney.com>> wrote:
tOS 7 which installs perl 5.16. Upgrading to a more
recent perl will make the problem go away, or updating SpamAssassin from
trunk, or for a minimal change, apply the patch that I committed to
close the bug at
https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8245
Sidney
Sidney Markowitz wro
As a practical matter, the message appears to be a warning in the log,
but the results would be correct, so it can be ignored.
Sidney Markowitz wrote on 20/04/24 9:55 am:
I've open a bug in which I noted my suspicion of what is happening.
https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.c
I've open a bug in which I noted my suspicion of what is happening.
https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8245
If you have a sanitized email that consistently causes this to happen,
please attach it to the bug report.
As I said in the bug report, I suspect that an email that does
Scott Ellentuch wrote on 10/04/24 5:15 am:
Apologies, but I don't understand.
I am running "make test" as the AWS user "ec2-user" when getting these
errors. Are you saying that its an acceptable error right now, and I can
just do the "sudo make install"?
If you ran "make test" as user "ec2
Scott Ellentuch wrote on 4/04/24 9:43 am:
File attached. However, I don't see any smoking gun.
I've verified the problem. I ran sudo make test in a directory tree in
/tmp with world r-x access, and got the error in t/spamd_client.t as
well as in t/spamc_optL.t. I don't know why you didn't see
Loren Wilton wrote on 4/04/24 9:26 pm:
Would it be worth adding some sort of test for this kind of thing
I started to look at where in SATest.pm it ought to go, and I found
https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5529
I think from the comments I left there 17 years ago that is is al
I haven't had a chance yet to read this thread carefully, but spamd when
run as root in tests will, at least in some cases, set itself to run as
user "nobody". If you do that in a subdirectory of your non-nobody
user's HOME, the usual permission configuration will not provide read
access to nob
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Bill Cole wrote on 22/03/24 8:36 am:
It seems to me that it would require extension of the spamc/spamd protocol and
cargo-culting some code from spamassassin to spamd.
Doesn't look like much cargo-culting to do. The spamassassin script just
calls a function in Mail::SpamAssassin.pm for each
Cecil Westerhof wrote on 2/11/23 4:02 am:
And when I run that from the command line I get:
gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir
'/etc/spamassassin/sa-update-keys'
That is referring to the owner of the directory
/etc/spamassassin/sa-update-keys not the permissions. ls -al
/etc/spama
Benny Pedersen wrote on 19/01/23 10:47 +13:00:
https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DecodeShortURLs.pm#L594-L601
only me testing postgresql ?
As I discovered from a recently discovered postgres-only bug, there must
not have been much use of postgres
Sidney Markowitz wrote on 4/01/23 8:47 pm:
There's a typo, which must just be in your email since postgres won't
accept it, that should be =+ not +=
I am not expert it SQL :)
Further testing reveals that there is no auto-increment operator in
postgres or SQLite SQL, neither += no
Benny Pedersen wrote on 4/01/23 11:00 am:
https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/SQLBasedAddrList.pm#L289
$sql .= " ON CONFLICT (username, email, signedby, ip) DO UPDATE set
msgcount = ?, totscore += ?";
confirm is from my side needed it would fix it, i atleast
Ángel wrote on 4/01/23 2:59 pm:
On 2023-01-04 at 10:24 +1300, Sidney Markowitz wrote:
If anyone else reading this is using 4.0.0 and postgres for AWL, are
you seeing or not seeing this problem?
I can easily reproduce this with a quick install and manually providing
the SQL from the code
Benny Pedersen wrote on 4/01/23 3:19 am:
https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/SQLBasedAddrList.pm#L310
imho this line
I agree, but I don't see from looking at that line how the SQL query can
have more than one table involved, and from the description of what
Benny Pedersen wrote on 3/01/23 2:21 pm:
https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/sql/awl_pg.sql#L6
https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/wRkT4AeI/awl.sql
how to solve it ?
The sql error means that there is more than one table in the sql
statement that has a column named "totscore" and
Philippe Chaintreuil via users wrote on 26/12/22 6:27 am:
I'm getting test failures for the dnsbl_subtests.t. Figured I'd check
here before filing a bug.
I'm running Spam Assassin 4.0.0 on Gentoo Linux. Perl 5.36.0.
Test output:
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Greg Troxel wrote on 12/12/22 4:47 am:
UPGRADE says:
https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WelcomelistBlocklist (Bug 7826)
1) I find that URL gets me "page not found.
We missed creating that wiki page when bug 7826 was handled. I have just
created a minimal page so the URL no longer 404s
hanks,
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3.4.x.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/cqhpzy9pp26mq7bzw4jcvzx6swop6lcg
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Benny Pedersen wrote on 21/05/21 4:59 am:
only place i find it https://spameatingmonkey.com/lookup/libehat
Spameatingmonkey lists it as "This domain was first registered within
the last 30 days Listings automatically expire in less than 30 days"
It was registered on April 23. Maybe see
John Hardin wrote on 21/05/21 2:28 am:
Odd, the URIBL website lookup tool says libera (.chat) is not listed,
and didn't yesterday when you first posted this.
https://admin.uribl.com/
Lookup Results (obfuscated just in case)
Domain Status
libera_chat NOT Listed on URIBL
Bill Cole wrote on 20/05/21 1:58 pm:
The new domain was NOT listed in any RHSBL at 13:55 UTC.
The first of its four ip addresses, 185.199.108.153, is on
sbl.spamhaus.org but not the domain name.
That is the only match that shows up in the list of RBLs checked at
ant-abuse.org Multi-RBL Chec
Don Saklad wrote on 20/04/21 3:36 am:
How do you set nomail for the List?
I can't tell if any of the replies to your query actually answered your
question because of the various interpretations of "nomail" and the way
the thread expanded into a discussion of other mailing list policies.
If
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Niamh Holding wrote on 11/12/20 11:10 pm:
Hello Sidney,
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 11:45:34 PM, you wrote:
SM> If you got this rpm from an unofficial source who perhaps built it from the
source rpm for Spamassassin 3.4.4 in the Fedora repo, talk to whoever did that
about how they built the
Niamh Holding wrote on 10/12/20 12:01 am:
rpm -ivh spamassassin-3.4.4-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
perl(BSD::Resource) is needed by spamassassin-3.4.4-1.el7.centos.x86_64
perl(Net::CIDR::Lite) is needed by
spamassassin-3.4.4-1.el7.centos.x86_64
1. The C
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Daniel J. Luke wrote on 11/09/18 5:58 AM:
I use this (with a perl I built myself outside of macports) and I can confirm
it works.
Cool. Also, FYI, I did a quick test for the DB_File problem in the latest beta
of Mac OS Mojave with the system perl and it did not have this bug. I haven't
had
This is really old, but it was never answered satisfactorily and it is what
shows up in a Google search for the problem. I'm posting this solution to make
sure it shows up in future searches.
Here is the solution I just found and added to the Apache SpamAssassin wiki
https://wiki.apache.org/sp
Testing, testing, is this on?
Sorry for the noise, checking if the users@ list is working since it has no
messages for a while.
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Dianne Skoll wrote on 22/08/16 8:56 AM:
> And... why can't a set contain itself?
>
It can't in standard modern set theory (ZFC), through the foundation axioms,
also known as the axiom of regularity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_regularity
which is a formulation that allows set theory t
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Lorenzo Thurman wrote on 8/07/16 9:26 AM:
> Thanks for the info. Does anyone know how I can use whitelistfrom_rcvd? I
> can't find any clear answers via Google.
>
Excuse my typo for the correct spelling whitelist_from_rcvd.
To use it, look at the legitimate emails that you want to whitelist an
Lorenzo Thurman wrote on 8/07/16 3:03 AM:
>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 8:14 AM, Antony Stone
>> wrote:
>> \.microsoft\.com$ will match anything ending in ".microsoft.com"
RW already pointed this out, but to make sure nobody reading this thread
misses it, the above is wrong because whitelist does not us
Benny Pedersen wrote on 4/07/16 9:47 AM:
> On 2016-07-03 23:34, Groach wrote:
>> On 03/07/2016 23:29, Reindl Harald wrote:
It turns out that this mailing list software gives me only a bigger hammer
than I wanted to use. I cannot place individuals under moderation so I can
review their posts before
Alex wrote on 4/07/16 6:48 AM:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote:
>> On 2016-07-03 20:18, Alex wrote:
>>
>>> whitelist_from *@pm.sprintpcs.com
>>>
>>> does not work.. Why?
It's because the mail has a Resent-From which overrides any other from type
header.
>From the
David Jones wrote on 29/06/16 2:13 AM:
>> From: RW
>> That wont work in this example because nothing has actually been
>> spoofed.
>
> Exactly. If I search the Internet for the CEO/CIO/CTO/etc of a company
> and send and email from my domain but make the displayed name in
> the visible From: be
David Jones wrote on 29/06/16 12:46 AM:
> This is pure social engineering that can't be stopped by technology. The AP
> dept has to have proper safeguards and out of band validation (i.e. phone
> call to the "Recognized Name").
No, technology can help. The IT department sets up the mail client th
Ram wrote on 28/06/16 7:19 PM:
>
>
> On Tuesday 28 June 2016 12:03 PM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>> Hai!
>>
>> I dont understand why they would match your spf record either. Are they
>> sended out by a IP adres you 'approved' ??
> SPF does not fail , because they use a different envelope address
Ram wrote on 28/06/16 3:10 AM:
>
> Here is the sample
>
>
> I just redacted the actual recpient email id and name
>
>
> Return-Path:
This isn't a SpamAssassin problem, but it is a problem that you can use
SpamAssassin as a tool to help solve.
If your company's accounting department can send
Reindl Harald wrote on 12/06/16 9:31 AM:
>
> headers don't help when you have a "spamd: result" log-line with a ton
Ah, finally I understand what you are trying to do! You analyze the spamd
result log lines, and they currently have two deficiencies: 1) They do not
distinguish between Bayes faili
Reindl Harald wrote on 12/06/16 9:08 AM:
>
> and it's not worth to discuss since the *real* solution would be a
> "BAYES_NOTOKS" which would appear *everywhere* and clearly explain why
> no other BAYES_XX is present
I can't argue with that. Without the ability to make it a rule or a meta-rule
t
Reindl Harald wrote on 12/06/16 8:37 AM:
>
> it is not part of the report itself while tags, scores and descriptions
> are - a report is something like this:
what you showed is defined in the configuration file using "report". Those
just happen to be the last lines of it in the default configura
Reindl Harald wrote on 12/06/16 4:44 AM:
> look above "sadly that works only for mail-headers - but don't appear in
> the logs"
>
Oh, you mentioned spamc -R before and it does appear in that output. I got
that confused with the spamd logs - You're right, I don't see them there.
Sidney
Reindl Harald wrote on 12/06/16 2:13 AM:
> sadly that works only for mail-headers - but don't appear in the logs
I just tried adding this to my local configuration, not pretty, just to see
what it would do
report tag values sender _SENDERDOMAIN_ author _AUTHORDOMAIN_ bayesh
_BAYESTCHAMMY_ bays
Reindl Harald wrote on 12/06/16 2:13 AM:
> sadly that works only for mail-headers - but don't appear in the logs
> nor in a report generated with "/usr/bin/spamc -R" over a webinterface
> which proceeds uploads of eml-files :-(
Yes I see how that could be useful. It might work if you define a me
Reindl Harald wrote on 12/06/16 1:04 AM:
> output of "spamassassin -D < ignored_by_bayes_stripped.eml" attached
See this line in that output:
Jun 11 14:47:00.510 [5188] dbg: bayes: cannot use bayes on this message; not
enough usable tokens found
> i would expect a bayes result in any case and
Merijn van den Kroonenberg wrote on 10/06/16 10:17 PM:
> What does this mean, can still a single operation take more than this
> time_limit?
There is a fundamental difficulty in perl that the built-in timer alarm
facility cannot always interrupt the built-in regular expression matching
facility. T
jimimaseye wrote on 10/06/16 1:50 AM:
> CONCLUSION: it was working as the book says (even though the book is not
> clear WHY the book says what it says).
It's been a very long while since I worked with this code and I have to kind
of twist my mind up funny to keep it in my head all at once, but t
I'm one of the moderators of this mailing list.
I'm also one of those thin-skinned "hypersensible" people who don't want to
see rudeness and insults on the list.
However I don't want to have to judge whether one person is being too rude to
bear and another not quite, or to weigh one person's helpfu
Justin Mason wrote:
>
> Anyone care to craft a response? I think we should. bonus points for
> including the obligatory comp.risks tagline
>
I submitted a reply right after the RISKS Digest issue came out. The issue
after that indicated that there was a backlog of submissions to RISKS, so
ma
Jari Fredriksson wrote, On 15/6/07 7:53 AM:
> Both installation tries were via cpan, and here is the result.
That looks like bug 5510, about failing tests when they are run s root,
which breaks CPAN installation in the common setup in which the build
and test are run as root. I think you can confi
OpenMacNews wrote:
> i'll update/refresh & take a look!
I think, but I'm not sure, that I have run into situations where just
svn update ; make ; make install did not update the man pages.
When working with svn trunk it is a good idea every so often to do a
make distclean
before building to ma
OpenMacNews wrote:
> ah. fyi (& others who may be interested), no such reference to
> "auto_whitelist_path" in (my) "man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf"
I'm running svn trunk, so this could be a recent change in the doc that
I didn't notice when it happened.
-- sidney
OpenMacNews wrote:
> plugins have configuration options? new news to me!
They are merged in with the other options and documented in
man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf
For example in that man page search for auto_whitelist_path which is the
one you were having trouble with. Some of them can only be s
OpenMacNews wrote:
> i'd tried setting an alternative directory for any given user i was exec'ing
> at
> with the -H option ... to no avail. same complaint :-S
I looked at the source code in spamd. I had not read the man page
documentation on -H carefully enough. It is used to set the $HOME
var
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