RE: Linting of local.cf

2022-04-15 Thread Steven Manross
> we have not seen default rules never have zerro lint fails from > upstream, so apache.org is doing well :=) P.S. I am a typo king and love the above typo for "zerro" (and possible never = ever) while talking about lint errors (because I would definitely make that kind of mistake and have) but

RE: Apache SpamAssassin and Spammers 1st Amendment Rights

2020-11-21 Thread Steven Manross
Long time lurker… sometimes poster: The marketplace of ideas is a century old concept that goes back to the days of landmark U.S.S.C. First Amendment cases, and it is the “marketplace”’s duty to weed out bad ideas (such like SpamAssassin is doing). But again, SpamAssassin isn’t infringing on a

RE: sa-learn and exchange integration

2013-02-13 Thread Steven Manross
What exactly are you looking for? I have a Windows perl script that sa-learns from an Exchange Public Folder - (It requires an account with access to Exchange, Outlook and a COM component available on the Internet along with some modification to Exchange security to allow scripting the Outlook cli

RE: SpamAssassin on Exchange 2007

2007-11-24 Thread Steven Manross
>From what I am reading, the change is based in the fact that Event Sinks have been replaced by Transport Agents, and that Exchange 2007 no longer depends on IIS. smtpreg.vbs allowed you to touch the IIS SMTP Service and add rules to it (allowing VBScript or EXEs to intervene prior to message del

RE: MS outlook can't read parsed email... HELP!!

2007-08-15 Thread Steven Manross
> > -Original Message- > > From: Loren Wilton [mailto:] > > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 5:28 AM > > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > Subject: Re: MS outlook can't read parsed email... HELP!! > > > > >> output file. Then i followed instructions and installed > > Exchange SMTP

RE: MS outlook can't read parsed email... HELP!!

2007-08-13 Thread Steven Manross
> -Original Message- > From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 8:02 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: MS outlook can't read parsed email... HELP!! > > > Sorry for jumping in late to this thread.. But, I currently run > > SA3.18 wi

RE: MS outlook can't read parsed email... HELP!!

2007-08-13 Thread Steven Manross
Sorry for jumping in late to this thread.. But, I currently run SA3.18 with a similar yet different Exchange Sink and have no such problems as the original poster. Steven > -Original Message- > From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 5:28 AM > To: us

RE: RelayChecker too slow?

2006-11-16 Thread Steven Manross
> > every message. JSA has an internal timeout of 20 sec which I cannot > > change without rebuilding the whole application. Is there a way to > > speed up RC? > > I'm running the default setup with: > > relaychecker_pass_auth 0 > > relaychecker_reduced_dns 0 > > try setting that last one to 1

RE: RelayChecker 0.3

2006-11-12 Thread Steven Manross
Am I missing something or is the use of Sys::Syslog not necessary? I can't find a compatible Win32 build.. Though I didn't look all that hard for it, as the module seems to work correctly without it (from my limited testing). Thanks, Steven > -Original Message- > From: John Rudd [mailto

RE: Train from Outlook?

2006-08-23 Thread Steven Manross
Matt Yackley wrote/co-authored (not sure which), a plugin for Outlook that moves the messages to a public folder (spam and ham).. Maybe he'll share? >From there, a central server could attach to those public folders, create RFC822 text files out of them, and then learn them via a simple perl scr

RE: Any windows users try the new Active Perl with SA?

2006-03-28 Thread Steven Manross
Notes below... > -Original Message- > From: Bret Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:51 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Any windows users try the new Active Perl with SA? > > > I tried this as a sink on an exchange box and it doesn't

autolearn=failed ---- after upgrade to 3.11

2006-03-13 Thread Steven Manross
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL=0.023,BAYES_00=-2.599 autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 It seems that since upgrading to 3.11 last night, the autolearn=yes|no|failed always shows up as failed (on all messages). Did I miss something? As well, the headers added by SA (and me

RE: X-Spam-Status settings

2006-03-13 Thread Steven Manross
_TESTSSCORES(,)_ From: Shane Mullins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 1:22 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: X-Spam-Status settings I have forgotten the setting that tell

RE: autolearn=failed ---- after upgrade to 3.11

2006-03-13 Thread Steven Manross
> > It seems that since upgrading to 3.11 last night, the > > autolearn=yes|no|failed always shows up as failed (on all messages). > > > > Did I miss something? > > Generally "Failed" means that SA somehow can't access the > bayes database to write to it. > > Have you tried sa-learn --sync an

RE: autolearn=failed ---- after upgrade to 3.11

2006-03-13 Thread Steven Manross
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 1:35 PM > To: Steven Manross > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: autolearn=failed after upgrade to 3.11 > > Steven Manross wrote: > > &g

RE: autolearn=failed ---- after upgrade to 3.11

2006-03-13 Thread Steven Manross
> -Original Message- > From: Steven Manross > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:46 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: autolearn=failed after upgrade to 3.11 > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 > tests=AWL=0.023,BAYES_00=-2.599 >

has someone already written this rule yet?

2006-02-02 Thread Steven Manross
http://www.whatever.com/secretphishersite/blah?something=blahblah"; >http://www.paypal.com/somethingsecure/this?that=1 ...where you test what is in the href section against what they are trying to display in the visible part of the A tag -- and if a URL is found in the visible part of the A tag,

RE: (OT) Actualizar spamassassin

2006-01-16 Thread Steven Manross
Group, Does someone have an SA RH8 upgrade guide link? Please? He's using RH8 and coming from SA 2.31-16... If someone also speaks Spanish, please forgive my butchery of the language. No translators were used -- it's all my fault. Fabian, Pardone me, pero mi Espanol es muy malo, y no tengo in

RE: updating WIKI -- InstallingOnWindows

2006-01-09 Thread Steven Manross
This was apready pointed out to me.. And I'll be re-editing the page to reflect this part I did not know until 2 people pointed it out to me. Thanks. Steven

updating WIKI -- InstallingOnWindows

2006-01-09 Thread Steven Manross
Would anyone with access update the WIKI for Windows, please? Namely, http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingOnWindows 90% of the way down... (the following command throws errors -- %%f was unexpected at this time) for %%f in (*.*) do call pod2html %%f --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\ma

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Steven Manross
>From my 9.3.1 install... libbind9.dll libdns.dll libeay32.dll libisc.dll libisccc.dll libisccfg.dll liblwres.dll msvcr70.dll Dig.exe Host.exe Steven -Original Message- From: Aaron Boyles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:11 PM To: SM; SpamAssassin Subject:

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Steven Manross
IPs or DNS names? It wants Ips in the resolve.conf. (the version that comes with BIND is tested and works on Windows). Earlier versions crapped out on Windows with various messages. Steven -Original Message- From: Aaron Boyles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 20

RE: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-22 Thread Steven Manross
A Win32 DIG executable is provided with the latest version of bind.. I use 9.3.1 but it looks like they are on 9.3.2 now.. http://isc.org/sw/bind Steven -Original Message- From: Aaron Boyles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:14 AM To: SpamAssassin Subject:

RE: exchange event sink?

2005-12-22 Thread Steven Manross
Well, that's just a rule -- for moving mail messages. And you could set that rule on each and every mailbox you own if you wanted to programatically. But, the Event Sink is for an SMTP interface on Exchange Server. Contact me offlist for the sink of about the Sitewide rule creation if you want t

RE: Newbie looking for info... Win32 SA API

2005-12-21 Thread Steven Manross
Ken, Aaron, others: I maintain a pure Win32 "PerlScript" (some COM programming as well) working as an Exchange Event Sink on the SMTP interface. I was working with 2.63 and upgraded to 3.04, and will be upgrading to 3.10 (or whatever is stable at the time I take the leap) soon. The code mods fro

RE: [OT] distributed spamming

2005-12-17 Thread Steven Manross
REALLY OT: "Sure, some of them are stupid, but not all are." Isn't that statement true of all stereotypes.. Women... Geeks.. Nerds... Men... Windows Admins (who write perl scripts -- me), Etc, etc, so forth, so on? (not stupidity...) In general stereotypes are created out of frustration

adding header via pure perl

2005-12-07 Thread Steven Manross
How would I go about adding a header in the perl code below, the value of the header would be dynamic on a per message basis so I don't think a local.cf mod would help me. I've tried dynamically touching $spamtest->{conf}->{headers_spam} and $spamtest->{conf}->{headers_ham}, as well as a few other

RE: Postfix/SA/Exchange 2000 'NDR attack' exploit spam and other bad things

2005-09-20 Thread Steven Manross
Ok.. I wasn't going to say anything.. But now I am... :) I don't like this perl script because it puts usernames and passwords to an internal system on the external box (more exposure) -- and won't work unless you poke holes in a firewall (assuming the mail server is in a DMZ. Running the scri

RE: Win32 Vircom Agent?

2005-07-06 Thread Steven Manross
My experience with VopMail (earlier form of ModusMail) was that I needed to control releasing the message to the user's mailbox after the batch finished in the script. With that said, I think your "copy %1 %2" should be modified so that you are working on a copy of the file that does not live in y

RE: Exchange/Outlook - how do you learn spam?

2005-06-21 Thread Steven Manross
Some people use various IMAP clients to do it, but I use the Outlook object model using Win32::OLE (probably because of my Windows background) and a COM object created by Dmitry Streblechenko (www.dimastr.com) called Outlook Redemption.. There's a charge for it's use with any commercial applicat

RE: SA and Exchange 5.5

2005-06-10 Thread Steven Manross
Sinks will work with SA, I have one pretty much ironed out for 2000/2003 -- a lot better than it was a year ago :) .. (pure perl -- PerlScript). But I'm not sure how it will do on volume servers. With my small server/volume, it works well for me. P.S. to all that need it.. MS put out a COM ob

RE: Outlook plugin

2005-06-07 Thread Steven Manross
I'd be happy to beta that one.. :) Steven I've got something like that in the works. :) Hopefully I can get a beta release put out soon, management has OK'ed us to release it as GPL software, so I need to do a little documentation and get my dev to clean up a few errors and build a vanilla .

RE: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-05-26 Thread Steven Manross
Yes, BAYES is an integral part of SA! It's like a constantly changing rule (without the need to tweak the rule ever so slightly for nuances in the "new" mail. There are mails that don't trip any standard rules, but are caught by bayes alone. Steven -Original Message- From: Jake Colman [

RE: debug and STDERR

2005-05-23 Thread Steven Manross
Thanks Justin. I'll try that later. Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:05 AM To: Steven Manross Cc: Loren Wilton; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: debug and STDERR -BEGIN PGP SIGNED ME

RE: debug and STDERR

2005-05-22 Thread Steven Manross
Thanks for the response. Well, I am calling the SA classes directly as perl via "PerlScript"... Similar to VB and how an ASP page is called from IIS (but by perlse.dll). EX: use Mail::SpamAssassin; Etc, etc. Namely, the SMTP Exchange interface ('Simple Mail Transfer Protocol' service) allow

debug and STDERR

2005-05-22 Thread Steven Manross
Is there any way that something like this could be inserted/changed into the Mail::SpamAssassin module... Or is this just something that I should implement as there's no other need for it? sub dbg { if (!defined($dbg->{foo}) { warn "debug: $msg\n"; } else { push (@{$Mail::SpamAssas

RE: sa-learn and big messages

2005-05-20 Thread Steven Manross
Along those same lines, is the message limit of 250K with or without attachments? Steven -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:56 PM To: Jim Maul Cc: Ingo Reinhart; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: sa-learn and big messag

RE: SQL Question -- FIX

2005-05-13 Thread Steven Manross
***This now works (with minor mods to the SA distro files [SQL.pm] and the creation of an additional MS SQL User defined function) I've mocked up an MS SQL Version of RPAD that could be easily introduced into the readme code that creates the bayes tables, and sets the version. (please correct the

RE: SQL Question

2005-05-13 Thread Steven Manross
arker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:38 PM To: Steven Manross Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SQL Question > debug: bayes: tok_get_all: Token Count: 302 > debug: bayes: tok_get_all: SQL Error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Se > rver]'RPAD&

RE: SQL Question

2005-05-13 Thread Steven Manross
Friday, May 13, 2005 8:57 AM To: Steven Manross Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SQL Question On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 08:35:08AM -0700, Steven Manross wrote: > On that same note, > > I was playing around with BAYES on a MS SQL Server... > (I followed the directions in the r

RE: SQL Question

2005-05-13 Thread Steven Manross
On that same note, I was playing around with BAYES on a MS SQL Server... (I followed the directions in the readme files and tweaked the mysql.sql code to work for MS SQL in creation of the tables.) The import worked fine (no errors that I could see). sa-learn --D --backup >bayes-backup.txt) Mod

RE: SA 3.02 rewrite_mail problem

2005-04-08 Thread Steven Manross
riginal Message----- From: Steven Manross Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SA 3.02 rewrite_mail problem I'm having issues rewriting mail. In the case that spam has been found, the message rewrites fine. In the case of real mail, I want the SA headers in

RE: my girlfriend is getting ticked :)

2005-03-30 Thread Steven Manross
Sounds like it's easier to just get rid of the girlfriend! All sarcasm aside, SURBL and SA together have diminished my unwanted volume quite hastily. The rules emporium rulesets have been quite helpful, as well. (my wife complains if any SPAM gets through, or any FPs happen at all). :( St

SA 3.02 rewrite_mail problem

2005-03-28 Thread Steven Manross
th: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Mar 2005 17:53:57.0443 (UTC) FILETIME=[F2F4C130:01C532F5] Date: 27 Mar 2005 10:53:57 -0700 Received: from localhost by homeexch2.manross.net with SpamAssassin (version 3.0.2); Sun, 27 Mar 2005