Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread btb
On 2016.09.23 16.16, Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 18:43 +0100, RW wrote: Right, but the question here is why isn't a forwarding server also a recursive server? Why is the use of iteration the defining feature of a recursive server and not the support for recursion. http://serve

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread btb
On 2016.09.23 12.03, RW wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:24:21 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: Lists shouldn't have said "caching", that confuses the issue. Caching and recursion are two different, unrelated pieces. Focus on the "recursion" and "no forwarding" parts of that recommendation. I've

spf records and cnames

2015-10-21 Thread btb
are spf records allowed to be a cname? e.g.: http://dpaste.com/0MR0R3C.txt is this explicitly addressed in an rfc? thanks -ben

Ubuntu daily builds PPA

2015-06-29 Thread btb
i was excited to see a link to https://launchpad.net/~spamassassin/+archive/ubuntu/spamassassin-daily on https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DownloadFromSvn but it appears to be defunct. should this be current? or has it been abandoned? is it missing a curator? just curious thanks -ben

sa-compile seems to not clean up after itself

2015-02-04 Thread btb
hi- i happened to notice a bunch of old files in /tmp/, related to spamassassin. after a bit of testing, it looks like sa-compile isn't cleaning up after itself? >ls -alH /tmp/ total 44 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 36864 Feb 3 17:18 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Dec 25 00:34 .. >sa-compile --

Re: Rule updates....

2014-12-17 Thread btb
On 2014.12.16 07.10, Axb wrote: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sare/files/ thanks for this. it's particularly timely for us, as we've just recently been pretty badly phished. is there a method which can be used to measure/report on the efficacy of these particular rules? -ben

Re: fixing errors with --debug --lint

2014-12-12 Thread btb
On 2014.12.12 12.55, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, btb wrote: is the description for FROM_MISSP_SPF_FAIL absent on purpose? i know it's not anything that matters in terms of spamassassin working properly, but it's always nice to have descriptions, and of course helps avoid

fixing errors with --debug --lint

2014-12-12 Thread btb
i see a handful of messages when testing with spamassassin --debug --lint 2>&1 | egrep -i '(define|fail)' that i'm wondering about: http://dpaste.com/25PPE0Z.txt is the description for FROM_MISSP_SPF_FAIL absent on purpose? i know it's not anything that matters in terms of spamassassin workin

Re: different results when using --debug

2014-12-09 Thread btb
On 2014.12.09 06.46, Mark Martinec wrote: On Dec 08, 2014, at 19.28, Mark Martinec wrote: Actually, looking at a diff of DBM.pm between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 I can see the taint bug has already been fixed by r1608413: @@ -814,3 +816,3 @@ my @vars = $self->get_storage_variables(); - dbg("bayes: DB

Re: different results when using --debug

2014-12-08 Thread btb
On 2014.12.08 13.44, Mark Martinec wrote: Ben wrote: On 2014.12.08 10.13, Mark Martinec wrote: btb wrote: i hope it's not too soon to ask about this again. i'm not quite sure how to debug something like this when when it's --debug that is what behaves differently :) i'

Re: different results when using --debug

2014-12-08 Thread btb
On 2014.12.08 10.13, Mark Martinec wrote: btb wrote: i hope it's not too soon to ask about this again. i'm not quite sure how to debug something like this when when it's --debug that is what behaves differently :) i've put the commands and output into a pastebin this time

Re: different results when using --debug

2014-12-08 Thread btb
i hope it's not too soon to ask about this again. i'm not quite sure how to debug something like this when when it's --debug that is what behaves differently :) i've put the commands and output into a pastebin this time. On 2014.12.03 05.45, Mark Martinec wrote: listsb-spamassas...@bitrate.

Re: different results when using --debug

2014-12-04 Thread btb
On 2014.12.03 05.45, Mark Martinec wrote: > listsb-spamassas...@bitrate.net wrote: >> i was testing with a sample message, and noticed that when running >> manually with --debug, there seem to be numerous differences in the >> results, such as scores for the same tests differing, visual ordering >>

Re: messages that appear to be identical, ~2 minutes apart - one spam, one not

2014-11-04 Thread btb
On 2014.11.04 11.37, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > I didn't look at the emails but most of these appear to be reactive > network-based tests like RBL and Razor/Pyzor. It would make complete > sense that it might slip by and then be caught in the future. On 2014.11.04 12.00, Bowie Bailey wrote: Sinc

messages that appear to be identical, ~2 minutes apart - one spam, one not

2014-11-04 Thread btb
hello- i've noticed lately a trend in which two messages which appear to be identical arrive a few minutes apart, and one is marked as spam while the other is not. aside from time stamps, queue ids, etc, i believe the headers and content of the two messages to be identical. i can see obviou

sanitizing/normalizing messages for feeding sa-learn

2014-08-27 Thread btb
hi- we have a system [zimbra] where users can select a message in the mua interface and click a spam or not spam button. this generates a message [containing the selected message] which is ultimately delivered to a mailbox. i intend on retrieving these messages via imap and feeding sa-learn