Re: General assistance

2006-03-01 Thread DAve
Chris Santerre wrote: I would like to make a quick comment to everyone who has helped in this thread: Great job. Seriously. Some good answers here. Can we we all take a minute to make sure these answers are posted somewhere on the SA wiki's for future reference? Its been a while since we had a p

Re: General assistance

2006-02-14 Thread DAve
Chris Santerre wrote: -Original Message- From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:14 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance Chris Santerre wrote: I would like to make a quick comment to everyone who has helped in this

RE: General assistance

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: General assistance > -Original Message- > From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:14 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: General assistance > > > Chris Santerre wrote: > > I would l

Re: General assistance

2006-02-14 Thread DAve
Chris Santerre wrote: I would like to make a quick comment to everyone who has helped in this thread: Great job. Seriously. Some good answers here. Can we we all take a minute to make sure these answers are posted somewhere on the SA wiki's for future reference? Its been a while since we had a p

RE: General assistance

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: General assistance I would like to make a quick comment to everyone who has helped in this thread: Great job. Seriously. Some good answers here. Can we we all take a minute to make sure these answers are posted somewhere on the SA wiki's for future reference? Its been a

Re: General assistance

2006-02-14 Thread Daniel Cañas Montero
On Feb 14, 2006, at 10:47 AM, DAve wrote: Daniel Cañas Montero wrote: On Feb 11, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Ed Russell wrote: I have to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to this thread. My filter is working 500% more efficient that it ever was. I have done the following: 1

Re: General assistance

2006-02-14 Thread DAve
Daniel Cañas Montero wrote: On Feb 11, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Ed Russell wrote: I have to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to this thread. My filter is working 500% more efficient that it ever was. I have done the following: 1.Installed djbdns and I am using dnscache

RE: General assistance

2006-02-14 Thread Ed Russell
is cheap since supply always exceeds demand. --- -Original Message- From: Daniel Cañas Montero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:14 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance On Feb 11

Re: General assistance

2006-02-14 Thread Daniel Cañas Montero
On Feb 11, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Ed Russell wrote: I have to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to this thread. My filter is working 500% more efficient that it ever was. I have done the following: 1. Installed djbdns and I am using dnscache as I was told. I have inc

Re: General assistance

2006-02-13 Thread DAve
Bowie Bailey wrote: DAve wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: DAve wrote: Ed Russell wrote: 2. Once this is in place should I re-activate pzyor, dcc or razor? Is one better than the other? Are there advantages to either? I use neither, though I think I am in the minority. I routinely che

RE: General assistance

2006-02-13 Thread Ed Russell
Talk is cheap since supply always exceeds demand. --- -Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:20 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: General assistance DAve

RE: General assistance

2006-02-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
DAve wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > DAve wrote: > > > > > Ed Russell wrote: > > > > > > > 2. Once this is in place should I re-activate pzyor, dcc or > > > > razor? Is one better than the other? Are there advantages to > > > > either? > > > > > > I use neither, though I think I am in th

Re: General assistance

2006-02-12 Thread DAve
that has been answered already. Once again, thanks so much to everyone. This group is simply amazing. I second that! DAve Ed -Original Message- From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:19 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assist

Re: General assistance

2006-02-11 Thread Loren Wilton
> b. Does anyone have any utilities to get statistics from SA? Such as Can't help you on your first question, but likely someone else can. On the second question, there are two different stats scripts. Confusingly enough they are BOTH named sa_stats.pl. One is distributed with SA itself. I fo

RE: General assistance

2006-02-11 Thread Ed Russell
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:19 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance Ed Russell wrote: > User validation is going to be tough or all but impossible. This box > forwards off the mail to an NT box running SL Mail. There is no easy way to

RE: General assistance

2006-02-11 Thread Ed Russell
most part it works. We just ensure that we are not too aggressive on the rules. Ed -Original Message- From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:28 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance No, Ed, qmail-scanner should not ini

Re: General assistance

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 10. Februar 2006 22:42 Ed Russell wrote: > I was doing some reading and I am beginning to look into Rules Du > Jour.  I see there are quite a large number of rulesets to choose > from when utilizing this.  Does anyone have any advice on what ones > would be safe? I use those: SARE_ADUL

Re: General assistance

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 10. Februar 2006 19:32 Ed Russell wrote: > 1.  Does anyone have an opinion as to what RBL to contact?  I > know there are quite a few. sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, multi.surbl.org, safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net, dnsbl.njabl.org, bl.spamcop.net, relays.ordb.org I use those at MTA level. That drop

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread jdow
ECTED] 3-)(#$*&&&!" {o.o} - Original Message - From: "Ed Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: 2006 February, 10, Friday 20:11 Subject: RE: General assistance I think you are confused as to how I have set this up. Qmail-scanner is my replacement qmail queue

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Russell
: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:55 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance From: "Ed Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If everyone would indulge me I would like to put forth the setup I am > utilizing and get some feedback. I have a box that I have

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread jdow
From: "Ed Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If everyone would indulge me I would like to put forth the setup I am utilizing and get some feedback. I have a box that I have been using for some time which acts as a pass-through filter for many domains (currently about 100) for spam, this is a fairly

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread DAve
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 4:30 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance Bowie Bailey wrote: DAve wrote: Ed Russell wrote: 2. Once this is in place should I re-activate pzyor, dcc or razor? Is one better than the other? Are there

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread DAve
//cr.yp.to/djbdns.html. It can log in a very verbose way, generating gigabytes of log files a day. What you have above for Bind. DAve -Original Message- From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:28 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Jackson
I was doing some reading and I am beginning to look into Rules Du Jour. I see there are quite a large number of rulesets to choose from when utilizing this. Does anyone have any advice on what ones would be safe? I use these: SARE_ADULT SARE_BAYES_POISON_NXM SARE_FRAUD SARE_HEADER0 SARE_HEA

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Joey
@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance Ed Russell wrote: > If everyone would indulge me I would like to put forth the setup I am > utilizing and get some feedback. I have a box that I have been using for > some time which acts as a pass-through filter for many domains > (cur

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Russell
supply always exceeds demand. --- -Original Message- From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 4:30 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance Bowie Bailey wrote: > DAve wrote: >

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread DAve
Bowie Bailey wrote: DAve wrote: Ed Russell wrote: 2. Once this is in place should I re-activate pzyor, dcc or razor? Is one better than the other? Are there advantages to either? I use neither, though I think I am in the minority. I routinely check my spam and I have found that bayes, ray

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
DAve wrote: > Ed Russell wrote: > > > > 2. Once this is in place should I re-activate pzyor, dcc or razor? > > Is one better than the other? Are there advantages to either? > > I use neither, though I think I am in the minority. I routinely check > my spam and I have found that bayes, rayzor

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread DAve
e. Right now SARE_OEM and SARE_STOCK are helping out. Next week it might be SARE_ADULT. -Original Message- From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:19 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance Ed Russell wrote: User validation is

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Ed Russell wrote: > 1.Does anyone have an opinion as to what RBL to contact? I know > there are quite a few. openrbl.org has a reasonably comprehensive list. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Kristopher Austin
> -Original Message- > From: Ed Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:32 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: General assistance > > My homework is: > > 1.Install and configure dnscache. > 2.Look into

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Russell
should I re-activate pzyor, dcc or razor? Is one better than the other? Are there advantages to either? -Original Message- From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:19 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance Ed Russell wrote: > U

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread DAve
s@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: General assistance -Original Message- From: Ed Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:51 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: General assistance Am I completely off base in the way I have this all setup? I hav

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread DAve
: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: General assistance DAve wrote: Ed Russell wrote: No user verification or RBL at the MTA level. Absolutely do user verification. I can throw out from 20% to 80% of my traffic depending on the current level of dictionary and Joe-Job attacks. Since you

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Russell
. --- -Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:51 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: General assistance DAve wrote: > Ed Russell wrote: > > > > No user verification or RBL at the MTA level. > &g

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Russell
--- Talk is cheap since supply always exceeds demand. --- -Original Message- From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:39 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: General assistance Ed

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
DAve wrote: > Ed Russell wrote: > > > > No user verification or RBL at the MTA level. > > Absolutely do user verification. I can throw out from 20% to 80% of my > traffic depending on the current level of dictionary and Joe-Job > attacks. Since you are processing ahead of your clients Exchange bo

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
Ed Russell wrote: > > No user verification or RBL at the MTA level. You really should consider finding a way to do user verification at the MTA level. You can greatly reduce your server's load if you don't accept mail for nonexistent users. To give you an example, so far today my server has rej

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread DAve
I need consider? Ed --- Talk is cheap since supply always exceeds demand. --- -Original Message- From: Kristopher Austin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org

Re: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread DAve
Ed Russell wrote: If everyone would indulge me I would like to put forth the setup I am utilizing and get some feedback. I have a box that I have been using for some time which acts as a pass-through filter for many domains (currently about 100) for spam, this is a fairly high traffic server pr

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Ed Russell
2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: General assistance > -Original Message- > From: Ed Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:51 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: General assistance > >

RE: General assistance

2006-02-10 Thread Kristopher Austin
> -Original Message- > From: Ed Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:51 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: General assistance > > Am I completely off base in the way I have this all setup? I have went > with > a higher speed HD to increase