Re: symlinking config files

2024-01-05 Thread Kris Deugau
Thomas Krichel wrote: Hi gang, my first post here. I'm running version 4.0.0-8 on debian testing. This is for Mailman. I have a script that creates a welcomelist for all my Mailman members. I include it via a symlink. # ls -l /etc/spamassassin/88_mailman_members.cf lrwxrwxrwx 1

Re: symlinking config files

2024-01-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
Bill Cole writes > You probably only needed to restart spamd. I think I did this every time I tested, and I tested many times over. -- Written by Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel on his 21399th day.

Re: symlinking config files

2024-01-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 2024-01-05 at 13:53:00 UTC-0500 (Fri, 5 Jan 2024 18:53:00 +) Thomas Krichel is rumored to have said: Hi gang, my first post here. I'm running version 4.0.0-8 on debian testing. This is for Mailman. I have a script that creates a welcomelist for all my Mailman members. I inclu

Re: symlinking config files

2024-01-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
Antony Stone writes > Check the user which spamc runs Thank you for this! root@tagol~# ps axf | grep spam 789246 ?S 0:00 \_ spamd child root@tagol~# ps axf | grep spam 662102 ?Ss 0:00 gpg-agent --homedir /etc/spamassassin/sa-update-keys --use-standard-socket --

Re: symlinking config files

2024-01-05 Thread Antony Stone
On Friday 05 January 2024 at 19:53:00, Thomas Krichel wrote: > I'm running version 4.0.0-8 on debian testing. This is for > Mailman. I have a script that creates a welcomelist for all my > Mailman members. I include it via a symlink. > Clearly spamassassin follows the symlink and reads th

symlinking config files

2024-01-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
Hi gang, my first post here. I'm running version 4.0.0-8 on debian testing. This is for Mailman. I have a script that creates a welcomelist for all my Mailman members. I include it via a symlink. # ls -l /etc/spamassassin/88_mailman_members.cf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 Jan 5 15:52

Re: cf tld for config files :(

2019-08-21 Thread Henrik K
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 07:28:40PM +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: > 20_ac_rules_test.cf 20_body_tests.cf 20_bug5523.cf 20_bug_7063.cf > 20_bug_7068.cf 20_dynrdns.cf 20_freemail.cf 20_khop_experimental.cf > 20_meta_tests.cf 20_mime_no_text.cf 20_misc.cf 20_s25r.cf > 20_sergio_experimental.cf 20_smf

cf tld for config files :(

2019-08-21 Thread Benny Pedersen
20_ac_rules_test.cf 20_body_tests.cf 20_bug5523.cf 20_bug_7063.cf 20_bug_7068.cf 20_dynrdns.cf 20_freemail.cf 20_khop_experimental.cf 20_meta_tests.cf 20_mime_no_text.cf 20_misc.cf 20_s25r.cf 20_sergio_experimental.cf 20_smf.cf 20_trust.cf 20_uri_obfu_ws.cf 20_vbounce.cf 23_bug_6780.cf 70_tt_dr

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-05 Thread RW
On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:14:50 -0500 Bill Cole wrote: . I would guess that with some authoritative > servers refusing to serve invalid names and some resolvers refusing > to resolve them, it would be a low-yield tactic to use them to evade > filtering. Authoritative nameservers are potentially un

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-05 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, November 05, 2018 12:14 PM -0500 Bill Cole wrote: FWIW, BIND 9.x (since 9.4-ish) will parse and load a zone with such an A in it, but complains and does not serve the record: NXDOMAIN for a normal query, no hint of it in a zone transfer. BIND's check-names directive controls whe

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Nov 2018, at 9:44, RW wrote: I created an A-record at Namecheap for a_b.mydomain.tld and neither firefox nor chromium had a problem with it. That's interesting and unfortunate because 'a_b' is unequivocally a violation of the syntax for hostnames. It may be acceptable as a DNS label, bu

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-05 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 02:44:29PM +, RW wrote: > On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:28:02 -0500 > Bill Cole wrote: > > > On 4 Nov 2018, at 16:27, Henrik K wrote: > > > > > Can someone actually register and use a domain with underscore in > > > it? > > > > No. > > > ... > > I support the concept of

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-05 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:28:02 -0500 Bill Cole wrote: > On 4 Nov 2018, at 16:27, Henrik K wrote: > > > Can someone actually register and use a domain with underscore in > > it? > > No. > ... > I support the concept of not treating domain-name-like strings that > are not valid hostnames as if t

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Rupert Gallagher
.local is a valid tld for LANs. Please do not mess with the DNS. On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 17:14, Benny Pedersen wrote: > is it a problem ? > > i think it should be solved to make configfiles local dns resolved only, > if at all it needs to be dns > > so cf changes to cf.localdomain or cf.localhost

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, November 04, 2018 7:28 PM -0500 Bill Cole wrote: most of my examples of "Not A URI" were in fact turned into clickable links by some horrific MUA. If it's clickable, some user will click on it. If it's not, a malicious message may beg the user to copy and paste it into the brow

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, John Hardin wrote: Why is your system doing that? ...never mind, explained in a later post. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Benny Pedersen wrote: Bill Cole skrev den 2018-11-04 19:25: On 4 Nov 2018, at 11:45, Grant Taylor wrote: Why does it matter if there's a naming collision between DNS domain names and file names? Discussion of config files for SpamAssassin and Postfix has intermitt

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 4 Nov 2018, at 16:27, Henrik K wrote: Can someone actually register and use a domain with underscore in it? No. It is worth noting that the SA "standard" for what is treated as a domain part of an URI is grounded in how MUAs behave, not in conformance to to any well-defined specification

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/04/2018 04:02 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: I have been downloading a daily lists of newly registered domains for almost a year. I have grand plans of turning the data into an RBL (of sorts) that I can use to artificially add score to young domain names. Something like last day, last week,

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/04/2018 02:27 PM, Henrik K wrote: It does seems wasteful parsing 72_foobar.cf as a legal domain. Agreed. Can someone actually register and use a domain with underscore in it? I don't know. Does anyone have access to some URIBL data, is something actually listed with an underscore? I

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Henrik K
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 04:12:12PM -0500, Bill Cole wrote: > > That would be SpamAssassin itself. The policy of treating anything matching > '[-a-zA-Z0-9_]+\.' as an URI in all contexts dates back to v3.3.1 > at least. See https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6716 and > note this scan

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 4 Nov 2018, at 14:48, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 4 Nov 2018, at 11:45, Grant Taylor wrote: Why does it matter if there's a naming collision between DNS domain names and file names? Bill Cole skrev den 2018-11-04 19:25: Discussion of config files for SpamAssassin and Postfi

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 4 Nov 2018, at 11:45, Grant Taylor wrote: Why does it matter if there's a naming collision between DNS domain names and file names? Bill Cole skrev den 2018-11-04 19:25: Discussion of config files for SpamAssassin and Postfix has intermittently been matched by URI DNSBLs. Some years

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Grant Taylor
ame of the file is actually the problem. All of that said, I do think that you have a problem. It looks like something is trying to do a DNS lookup of the name of config files. Something that I strongly doubt should be done. -- Grant. . . . unix || die smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
Bill Cole skrev den 2018-11-04 19:25: On 4 Nov 2018, at 11:45, Grant Taylor wrote: Why does it matter if there's a naming collision between DNS domain names and file names? Discussion of config files for SpamAssassin and Postfix has intermittently been matched by URI DNSBLs. Some years

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 4 Nov 2018, at 11:45, Grant Taylor wrote: > Why does it matter if there's a naming collision between DNS domain names and > file names? Discussion of config files for SpamAssassin and Postfix has intermittently been matched by URI DNSBLs. Some years ago I discovered just how wide

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Benny Pedersen wrote: is it a problem ? i think it should be solved to make configfiles local dns resolved only, if at all it needs to be dns so cf changes to cf.localdomain or cf.localhost, not just use cf with is a valid cctlds :( is cf.local valid and where ? i hav

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Grant Taylor
On 11/04/2018 09:14 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: is it a problem ? i think it should be solved to make configfiles local dns resolved only, if at all it needs to be dns so cf changes to cf.localdomain or cf.localhost, not just use cf with is a valid cctlds :( is cf.local valid and where ? i

config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
is it a problem ? i think it should be solved to make configfiles local dns resolved only, if at all it needs to be dns so cf changes to cf.localdomain or cf.localhost, not just use cf with is a valid cctlds :( is cf.local valid and where ? i have not maked a bug on it yet, but will start

Version control config files (was Re: False Positive on Domain Name)

2012-06-08 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:30:25 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: > A piece of advice: take a look at the rcs/ci/co commands, and use > them to "version control" your configuration files. Or use etckeeper: http://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/ On Debian and Ubuntu, it's just an apt-get away... Regards,

RE: How to include external config-files

2008-10-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
Duane Hill wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > how do i include external config files for example i want to > > integrate my own rulesets - from > > > > /home/username/my_ruleset.txt > > From 'perldo

Re: How to include external config-files

2008-10-03 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, how do i include external config files for example i want to integrate my own rulesets - from /home/username/my_ruleset.txt From 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf': include filename Include configuration lines fro

How to include external config-files

2008-10-03 Thread usenet
Hello, how do i include external config files for example i want to integrate my own rulesets - from /home/username/my_ruleset.txt tnx

RE: [Sare-users] ImageInfo.pm and config files

2006-10-17 Thread Dennis Davis
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: > From: "Suhas (QualiSpace)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:36:53 +0530 > Subject: RE: [Sare-users] ImageInfo.pm and config files > >

RE: [Sare-users] ImageInfo.pm and config files

2006-10-17 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
for discussion of SpamAssassin rules emporium. Subject: Re: [Sare-users] ImageInfo.pm and config files Kevin Golding wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dallas Engelken > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >> i believe someone provided the details for making it work on

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-10-01 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:10:01 +0200, Andreas Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined: > Andreas Pettersson wrote: > > > In case anybody is interrested, I've compiled a config file for > > the geo zone at TQM http://tqmcube.com/worldzone.php > > It might not be of great use, but it is interresting to

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-10-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, September 30, 2006 19:10, Andreas Pettersson wrote: >> http://anp.ath.cx/tqmcube/ > > I have updated tqmcube_world.cf with the -lastexternal setting on the > set name, so that only the connecting IP address is checked instead of > the whole chain of relays. now spammers just forward to a

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-30 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Andreas Pettersson wrote: In case anybody is interrested, I've compiled a config file for the geo zone at TQM http://tqmcube.com/worldzone.php It might not be of great use, but it is interresting to gather some statistics of where the mails come from. Files found here http://anp.ath.cx/tqmcub

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-10 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Andreas Pettersson wrote: I don't know. I haven't used RELAY_COUNTRY, but now that I'm aware of its existense I'll have a look at it :) Ok, I've had a quick look now. RelayCountry presents the country code of the last relay either as a separate header, or as the _RELAYCOUNTRY_ header mar

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-10 Thread Andreas Pettersson
mouss wrote: How does/would this compare to using RELAY_COUNTRY? are they similar (so one should only use one of them) or complementary? I don't know. I haven't used RELAY_COUNTRY, but now that I'm aware of its existense I'll have a look at it :) Regards, Andreas

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-10 Thread mouss
Andreas Pettersson wrote: In case anybody is interrested, I've compiled a config file for the geo zone at TQM http://tqmcube.com/worldzone.php It might not be of great use, but it is interresting to gather some statistics of where the mails come from. Files found here http://anp.ath.cx/tqmcube

TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-08 Thread Andreas Pettersson
In case anybody is interrested, I've compiled a config file for the geo zone at TQM http://tqmcube.com/worldzone.php It might not be of great use, but it is interresting to gather some statistics of where the mails come from. Files found here http://anp.ath.cx/tqmcube/ Regards, Andreas

RE: Config files

2006-03-07 Thread James Smith
> I think you will have to ask the VHCS people. Their site is > all in German; and, I don't speak German. So I could not > glean anything from their site at all when I searched for > SpamAssassin. I had the same problem unfortunately, but thank you all for trying, it is most appreciated. -- Ja

RE: Config files

2006-03-06 Thread James Smith
oke it. Any idea where in the postfix config files (of which there are many) it could be invoking spamassassin? -- Jay

RE: Config files

2006-03-06 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
James Smith wrote: Or to attack the problem from the other end, are there any files on your system that contain required_score 4 >>> >>> What would be the best way to find that out? > >> I have always just used a locate local.cf andlocate >> user_prefs this will tell you al

RE: Config files

2006-03-06 Thread James Smith
> > > Or to attack the problem from the other end, are there > any files on > > > your system that contain > > > required_score 4 > > > > What would be the best way to find that out? > I have always just used a locate local.cf andlocate > user_prefs > this will tell you all of the f

RE: Config files

2006-03-06 Thread jeffd
Quoting James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Or to attack the problem from the other end, are there any > > files on your system that contain > > required_score 4 > > What would be the best way to find that out? > I have always just used a locate local.cf andlocate user_prefs this wi

RE: Config files

2006-03-06 Thread James Smith
> Or to attack the problem from the other end, are there any > files on your system that contain > required_score 4 What would be the best way to find that out? -- Jay

RE: Config files

2006-03-06 Thread James Smith
> > On running 'spamassassin -D --lint' it claims to use those config > > files, and does indeed (as shown by the TEST_E at the end of the > > output) but it must be using diferent configs when invoked from the > > mail server. My mail headers list tests not in

Re: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread Loren Wilton
> > No sign of TEST_E and I made sure there was an e in the subject as > > well as the body and other headers so this config file clearly isn't > > being read properly. Any other ideas where else I could configure SA > > from? I forget, are you running spamd? You need to restart it for new rules

Re: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread jdow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James Smith wrote: On running 'spamassassin -D --lint' it claims to use those config files, and does indeed (as shown by the TEST_E at the end of the output) but it must be using diferent configs when invoked from the mail server. My mail headers l

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This addresses one of my concerns. If there are multiple local.cf > files, if children are spawned (correct term?) could they possible > access the other files. Specifically, some of my ham, which is > obviously spam seems to be comparing to another required_hits score

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread jeffd
problems. running SA 3.0.4, Fedora core 3 Thank you, Jeff D Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: > > James Smith wrote: > >> On running 'spamassassin -D --lint' it claims to use those config > >> files, and does indeed (as shown by the TEST_E

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: > James Smith wrote: >> On running 'spamassassin -D --lint' it claims to use those config >> files, and does indeed (as shown by the TEST_E at the end of the >> output) but it must be using diferent configs when invoked from the >> mai

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
James Smith wrote: > On running 'spamassassin -D --lint' it claims to use those config > files, and does indeed (as shown by the TEST_E at the end of the > output) but it must be using diferent configs when invoked from the > mail server. My mail headers list tests not

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread James Smith
> > > Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and take a look at the > output. It will > > > list all of the config files that it uses in the debug output. > > > > It claims to be using the one I am modifying, it lies! On running 'spamassassin -D --lin

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
James Smith wrote: > > > Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and take a look at the output. It > > will list all of the config files that it uses in the debug > > output. > > It claims to be using the one I am modifying, it lies! Post the full output from that c

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread James Smith
It was. > Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and take a look at the output. > It will list all of the config files that it uses in the debug output. It claims to be using the one I am modifying, it lies! -- Jay

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
thing I can tell you is what I told you (at least I think it was you) earlier. Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and take a look at the output. It will list all of the config files that it uses in the debug output. You may want to try running it this way to filter out all of the other debug info: spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep 'dbg: config:' -- Bowie

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread James Smith
> Make a rule that hits everything with a low score. Something like > this: > > Header TEST_E ALL =~ /e/ > Describe TEST_E Found an E in the header > Score TEST_E 0.01 > > This will fire on every email, but with a low score, it shouldn't > affect spam detection. Ok, I inserted thos

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
tem, this time it is Ubuntu (Debian derivative) > with VHCS handeling all the mail users. I don't know if Ubuntu does anything different or not. It should still respect the normal config files. > > The other place SA configuration files will show up is in > > ~/.spamassass

RE: Config files

2006-03-03 Thread James Smith
> Ah, Debian. :/ Not a big fan myself, but thought I would give Ubuntu a try... > The other place SA configuration files will show up is in > ~/.spamassassin. These are per-user files, and set up > *slightly* differently than the main files. There is one file > (~/.spamassassin/user_prefs) t

Re: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread Kris Deugau
James Smith wrote: I am having some trouble finding the spamassassin config files on my system. I have got /etc/mail/spamassassin with local.cf and init.pre, I have /etc/spamassassin ^ Ah, Debian. :/ > I am using Ubuntu with VHCS if that helps. OK, a Debian derivat

RE: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
James Smith wrote: > > Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and look for a line like the following: > > > > [18246] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre > > Thanks, I got... > debug: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/init.pre > > But the only thing in that file NOT commented is the l

RE: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread James Smith
> Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and look for a line like the following: > > [18246] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre Thanks, I got... debug: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/init.pre But the only thing in that file NOT commented is the loading of 3 plugins (spf, hashcash

RE: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
James Smith wrote: > Sorry, should have mentioned that /etc/mail/spamassassin is a link to > /etc/spamassassin not a directory. Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and look for a line like the following: [18246] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre -- Bowie

RE: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread James Smith
Sorry, should have mentioned that /etc/mail/spamassassin is a link to /etc/spamassassin not a directory. -- Jay

Config files

2006-03-02 Thread James Smith
I am having some trouble finding the spamassassin config files on my system. I have got /etc/mail/spamassassin with local.cf and init.pre, I have /etc/spamassassin with the same two files but all four of them seem relatively empty with only 4 config lines, all of them commented. I do have a /usr