SpamD and SpamC

2008-04-10 Thread dougp23
I run SA on a host-wide basis, so no per user configuration files. I fire off SA as non-root, yet my maillog keeps filling up with those messages about root problems, like these: config: cannot write to /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied So, I find that if I fire off spamass-mi

Replies from Yahoo rejected by SA

2008-03-19 Thread dougp23
I am seeing a strange problem. A woman at our company sends out a newsletter, and several people said when they replied, the reply was rejected on our end by SA. A little testing shows this is true!! If you compose a message from Yahoo to Julie, it goes fine. If she sends one to your Yahoo acc

new version always trusts 127.0.0.1

2008-03-12 Thread dougp23
Hi. Running SA 3.1.8 Would like to move to a newer version for a few reasons... Anyways the 3.2.3 version looks compelling, but I use a mailserver called Scalix. It uses Sendmail as its engine. But each X-Spam header shows this: rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=34757, Which makes me th

Re: Addendum -- New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-21 Thread dougp23
Also, Robert, take a look at this page: http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html local.cf has TONS of options, many of which are lightly documented. Pay close attention to bayes_path auto_whitelist_path Scalix is also a bit of an oddity when it comes to using spamass-milter (

Re: Headers: What do I block here?

2007-08-20 Thread dougp23
a real IP address. My MTA and SA are on the same box, if that matters. If you (or anyone else) can think of any other ideas, I'd love to hear them! We are getting a fair amount of this new "stock" spam, where words are broken up with punctuation. Thank you again! Doug Matt Kett

Headers: What do I block here?

2007-08-19 Thread dougp23
So I am seeing some of this stuff, and I want to block it based on headers. So here's the header: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from qmail.example.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by qmail.example.gov (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7JFvfer015649 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Spamd trying to write to root

2007-08-08 Thread dougp23
It seems this has been covered a bunch of times, and I've tried a lot of solutions: Invoking the -u flag for spamd Invoking the -u flag for spamc Creating a symbolic link to /root to the actual user's home dir And STILL, in maillog, there's spamd trying to write to /root and being denied! My sy

Re: Blacklist a mailing list

2007-07-01 Thread dougp23
veral other forums and we always use mydomain.com or mymail.com. I will pass the word there as well! Thanks! Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > dougp23 wrote: >> I am a member of a mailing list, and I can't get them to reply to me >> to remove me from the list. >> I have

Blacklist a mailing list

2007-07-01 Thread dougp23
I am a member of a mailing list, and I can't get them to reply to me to remove me from the list. I have tried sending 'unsubscribe' to the list, to no avail. So now I get spam from the mailing list. I have Sendmail 8.13, SpamAssassin 3.1.8 How do I go about blocking the mailing list? here are so

Re: Errors in local.cf

2007-06-28 Thread dougp23
> Also, I get this one: > > [22120] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: blacklist from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You're missing an underscore.. It's "blacklist_from" not "blacklist from" D'OH -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Errors-in-local.cf-tf3994100.html

Errors in local.cf

2007-06-28 Thread dougp23
I am getting some errors when i do spamassassin --lint Things like: 22120] warn: Unrecognized escape \V passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?i)\V <-- HERE iagra\b/ at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm line 969. [ Is it due to this rule in my local.

Spamass-Milter Help

2007-05-07 Thread dougp23
I am trying to get all my spam forwarded to one box on my system. Seems easy enough. (Sendmail is my MTA) Anyways, my optional flags in spamass milter look like this: -b [EMAIL PROTECTED] -r 15 So all spam is being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is working great! The problem becomes when a s

Re: Block a user based on content

2007-04-04 Thread dougp23
her-2 wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 05:30 -0700, dougp23 wrote: >> I have a user IN the company, who loves to forward these large messages, >> things like "Check out these so cute puppies", and "Photoshop Magic" and >> what not. Pure drivel. >>

Block a user based on content

2007-04-04 Thread dougp23
I have a user IN the company, who loves to forward these large messages, things like "Check out these so cute puppies", and "Photoshop Magic" and what not. Pure drivel. Anyway, Can I tell SA to "block sending email from jsmith" when "mutliple jpgs attached" or something like that? I would app

Block Message that is only GIF

2007-04-03 Thread dougp23
What sort of rule would I write that would block a message that the body is entirely a gif or jpg? Something like this: body HTML_80_90 eval:html_range('ratio','0.80','0.90') body HTML-80_90 score 11 Am I close??? (I pulled this from the /usr/share/spamassassin/20_html_tests

Re: Subject Line Not changing

2007-04-01 Thread dougp23
Thanks! That and /etc/init.d/spamass-milter had the -m switch on. Now we're changing subjects!!! Theo Van Dinter-2 wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 05:49:24AM -0700, dougp23 wrote: >> #Change the subject of suspected spam >> rewrite_header_subject

Re: Sunday Morning Email Geek

2007-04-01 Thread dougp23
Yeah, I have restarted spamd, spamassassin-milter, and sendmail. It just seems like the new "required score" should be getting reflected in /var/log/maillog. Bob McClure Jr-2 wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 05:41:03AM -0700, dougp23 wrote: >> >> Here it is Su

Subject Line Not changing

2007-04-01 Thread dougp23
Yes, I know this has been asked SSS many times, but I need to just ask again. Sendmail, spamd, spamass-milter. /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter says: ### Override for your different local config SOCKET=/var/run/spamass.sock ### Default parameter for spamass-milter is -f (work in the background

Sunday Morning Email Geek

2007-04-01 Thread dougp23
Here it is Sunday morning and I'm playing with the email server!!! lol! Oh well! Anyways, here's a question: I edited my local.cf to change the spam score from 7.5 to 5.0 When I tail maillog, I still see "required score 7.5". I am using sendmail, spamd, spamass-milter. When I make a change, is

Re: Newbie, Has Questions

2007-03-30 Thread dougp23
I am tyring to do this on an email server. I am not sure if some of the instructions you are shooting at me are for end users, or are for the server! My email server is Scalix, which appears to use Sendmail as its engine. My SA is already tagging messages as Spam (fast learner), but like I said,