Query

2005-02-15 Thread Atif Munir
Hi I am currently conducted an experiment to test the accuracy of spamassassin. Having conducted one experiment I need to re-run the it. I just wanted to know how to delete the data that has been stored by the bayes component of the filter. Would you know how to do this? (I am using spamassassin

local rule, score is ignored

2005-02-15 Thread Vicki Brown
We allow user rules. (Please don't argue with me about this. It's a very small site and yes, we do trust our users.) The following are in my .spamassassin/user_prefs header CF_SUB_UID Subject =~ /vlb|Vicki/i score CF_SUB_UID4.0 describe CF_SUB_UID Subje

Re: local rule, score is ignored

2005-02-15 Thread jdow
From: "Vicki Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We allow user rules. (Please don't argue with me about this. It's a very > small site and yes, we do trust our users.) > > The following are in my .spamassassin/user_prefs > header CF_SUB_UID Subject =~ /vlb|Vicki/i > score CF_SUB_UID

Re: local rule, score is ignored

2005-02-15 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdow writes: > From: "Vicki Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > We allow user rules. (Please don't argue with me about this. It's a very > > small site and yes, we do trust our users.) > > > > The following are in my .spamassassin/user_prefs > > header

Re[2]: Care and feeding instructions for SpamAssassin?

2005-02-15 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello FH, Monday, February 14, 2005, 11:30:14 AM, you wrote: F> Thanks for the help/pointers :D So where are these other FAQs? http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FrequentlyAskedQuestions F> I think I need a good crash course on how/where to setup custom rules http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin

Re: Query

2005-02-15 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Atif, Monday, February 14, 2005, 5:29:34 PM, you wrote: AM> Hi AM> I am currently conducted an experiment to test the accuracy of spamassassin. AM> Having conducted one experiment I need to re-run the it. I just wanted to AM> know how to delete the data that AM> has been stored by the baye

Re: Less spam blocked with 3.02 - AWL-related?

2005-02-15 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks! I am learning every day. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or domi

Doesn't work with non local accounts

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Afliatunov
Hello! I use spamassassin-3.01 in site-wide mode (spamd+spamc) on Linux Slackware-9.1 mail server. Everything worked just fine - about 300 spam-letters dayly was filtered. But then I made system to look up mail-users in ldap database. And removed accounts from linux system. Now spamc can't check

Doesn't work with non local accounts

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Afliatunov
Sorry, mistake, must be "3000 spam-letters dayly was filtered." -- Andrew.

[OT] Spam Quarantine

2005-02-15 Thread Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank]
Title: [OT] Spam Quarantine Hi List. Sorry to post this here but I am stumped as where to look. I am looking for webmail software which can be a frontend to A catchall for spam. Basically I would like to login via the web and release messages. Also, a once-a-day digest would be great.

Re: [OT] Spam Quarantine

2005-02-15 Thread Evan Platt
At 12:07 AM 2/15/2005, you wrote: Hi List. Sorry to post this here but I am stumped as where to look. I am looking for webmail software which can be a frontend to A catchall for spam. Basically I would like to login via the web and release messages. Also, a once-a-day digest would be great. Thanks

Re: [OT] Spam Quarantine

2005-02-15 Thread Martin Hepworth
Thomas being a MailScanner user myself. I'd say, use that and a couple of little extras called MailWatch and Quarantinereport. Head over to the MailScanner list and we'll you all the details :-) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Thomas King

Re: [OT] Spam Quarantine

2005-02-15 Thread Robert LeBlanc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank] wrote: | Hi List. | | Sorry to post this here but I am stumped as where to look. | | I am looking for webmail software which can be a frontend to | A catchall for spam. | | Basically I would like to login via the web an

Re: [OT] Spam Quarantine

2005-02-15 Thread Martin Hepworth
Good two projects for him to evaluate. Should give Thomas a nice choice. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Robert LeBlanc wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank] wrote: | Hi List. | | Sorry to post t

RE: [OT] Spam Quarantine

2005-02-15 Thread Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank]
Hi All. Thanks for the responses. Maia seems extremely cool, just wish there were some screenshots to look at. Definetely seems like a good way to go considering the platforms I am currently running on. Thanks again Tom -Original Message- From: Robert LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Spam Quarantine

2005-02-15 Thread Robert LeBlanc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank] wrote: | Maia seems extremely cool, just wish there were some screenshots to look | at. | Definetely seems like a good way to go considering the platforms I am | currently running on. Maia was featured in the December i

Using external tests

2005-02-15 Thread Manuel Schmitt (manitu)
Hello all, I am searching for a way to use an external test in Spamassassin. E.g. I want to have a simple bash script which is called by SA every time a mail is checked. This external program returns an return code which SA uses for testing purposes. Perhaps this is very simple by having a simp

little tool for detecting & reanimate hanged Spamd

2005-02-15 Thread Eugene Kurmanin
Hello, all. May be useful for someone... Little tool SpamdMon on clear C for Linux. It works fine for me on my busy production servers, which used daemonize version of SpamAssassin. You know, hangup sometimes happens with SA. http://user.rol.ru/~kurmanin/projects/ Feedback are

FORGED YAHOO RCVD

2005-02-15 Thread Steven Stern
This is the header from a message I sent myself from my Yahoo account. I leads to two questions: 1. How reliable is the "forged" test? 2. Is there a test for verifying domain keys? Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from web90102.mail.scd.yahoo.com (web90102.mail.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.94.

Re: Spamassassin with sa-learn

2005-02-15 Thread Tinni
Hi Thanks for your reply. >>OK, looks good. SA puts preferences and AWL data and >>Bayes data files in ~/.spamassassin/ by default. I am sorry if my qs sounds little bit funny but as i am new so i have some confusions. Here my qs. is when a mail is coming to the server , suppose, for *user2* o

Re: Using external tests

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:04 AM 2/15/2005, Manuel Schmitt (manitu) wrote: I am searching for a way to use an external test in Spamassassin. E.g. I want to have a simple bash script which is called by SA every time a mail is checked. This external program returns an return code which SA uses for testing purposes. P

Re: Doesn't work with non local accounts

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:12 AM 2/15/2005, Andrew Afliatunov wrote: I use spamassassin-3.01 in site-wide mode (spamd+spamc) on Linux Slackware-9.1 mail server. Everything worked just fine - about 300 spam-letters dayly was filtered. But then I made system to look up mail-users in ldap database. And removed accounts

Re: Spamassassin with sa-learn

2005-02-15 Thread Kris Deugau
Tinni wrote: > Here my qs. is when a mail is coming to the server , suppose, for > *user2* or many others, will the spamassassin check the mails for > ham/spam with the *default* database which is bydefault set to > *user1* ? or it will check only for the mails of *user1* ? I am > little bit conf

Re: spamd hanging or looping

2005-02-15 Thread Henk van Lingen
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:18:47PM +0100, Henk van Lingen wrote: > > Additional info on this bug: Being a bit surprised about the lack of interest in a bug like this here, I'm trying to submit something to this 'bugzilla'. I've made an account and now it suggest reading the guidelines.

Re: bayesian filter training

2005-02-15 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
Robert Menschel wrote: Hello Matias, Friday, February 11, 2005, 5:32:10 AM, you wrote: MLB> The sa-learn man page says that for a good training of the MLB> Bayesian filter, you need to train it with equal amounts of spam MLB> and ham, or more ham if is possible. So if I sa-learn the spam MLB> folde

How Can I find out what SA is doing?

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Withers
Hi, I run spamassassin from procmail using the following in my .procmailrc: # Spam Assassiin and other spam filtering :0fw: spamassassin.lock | /usr/bin/spamassassin I'm using a debian package install - spamassassin 3.0.2-0.backports.org I also use rules_du_jour in a my_rules_du_jour style and have

Re: How Can I find out what SA is doing?

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:35 AM 2/15/2005, Chris Withers wrote: I'm using a debian package install - spamassassin 3.0.2-0.backports.org I also use rules_du_jour in a my_rules_du_jour style and have the following trusted rule sets: TRUSTED_RULESETS="BIGEVIL TRIPWIRE ANTIDRUG EVILNUMBERS"; Please don't use antidrug.cf

Re: How Can I find out what SA is doing?

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Withers
Matt Kettler wrote: TRUSTED_RULESETS="BIGEVIL TRIPWIRE ANTIDRUG EVILNUMBERS"; Please don't use antidrug.cf with SA 3.0 or higher.. SA 3.0 already has antidrug as a part of the standard ruleset, and the second .cf is a waste. Aha, OK. I'd also strongly suggest switching over to enabling network tes

RE: spamd hanging or looping

2005-02-15 Thread Sander Holthaus - Orange XL
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:18:47PM +0100, Henk van Lingen wrote: > > > > Additional info on this bug: > > Being a bit surprised about the lack of interest in a bug > like this here, > I'm trying to submit something to this 'bugzilla'. I've > made an account > and now it suggest readi

Re: How Can I find out what SA is doing?

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:03 PM 2/15/2005, Chris Withers wrote: > I'd also strongly suggest switching over to enabling network tests and disabling bigevil.. Much lower overhead. Can you explain how I make that switch or refer me to any relevent docs? Really, all you need to do is make sure Net::DNS is installed.. SA

URIDNSBL error

2005-02-15 Thread Austin Weidner
Why am I getting around 20 lines of this in a spamassassin --lint -D: debug: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL=HASH(0xa89414c) inhibited further callbacks What is URIDNSBL and what is this error? Thanks

Re: spamd hanging or looping

2005-02-15 Thread Henk van Lingen
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:27:39PM +0100, Sander Holthaus - Orange XL wrote: > > From reading your messages, I wouldn't be sure if it is a bug in spamd > itself. It could very well be in either the Perl-version or related modules > your are using. Some are actually quite old and have known

Re: URIDNSBL error

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:38 PM 2/15/2005, Austin Weidner wrote: Why am I getting around 20 lines of this in a spamassassin --lint -D: debug: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL=HASH(0xa89414c) inhibited further callbacks What is URIDNSBL and what is this error? It's not an error, it's a debugging information

Wierd Problem identifying Spam

2005-02-15 Thread Daniel Draes
Hi folks, I ahve a pretty wierd problem here and cannot figure out why. Here is my system: SuSe 9.2 Postfix 2.0.19 SpamAssassin 2.64 SA is runnung as deamon, and postfix is connecting correctly to the assigned TCP port. Here is what happens: SA gets the mail and checks it nicely. However, applyin

Re: URIDNSBL error

2005-02-15 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:22:01PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > >debug: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL=HASH(0xa89414c) > >inhibited further callbacks > > It's not an error, it's a debugging informational message only.. It's > highly important to plugin writing and debugging, but oth

Re: Wierd Problem identifying Spam

2005-02-15 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:30:33PM +0100, Daniel Draes wrote: > Any ideas whats wrong with my setup? My guess is that you're running the message through SpamAssassin twice. The first time marks it up appropriately, then the second time sees a substantially different message and marks it up differ

Re: Wierd Problem identifying Spam

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:30 PM 2/15/2005, Daniel Draes wrote: Here is what happens: SA gets the mail and checks it nicely. However, applying points to the mail seems to fail somehow. For example I have mails where the subjects will be rewritten according my confing with '*SPAM*' but the SA-Spam-Status Flag

Re: Wierd Problem identifying Spam

2005-02-15 Thread Daniel Draes
Hi, Usually that means the message has been double-scanned.. First at the MTA layer, where it got tagged as spam and encapsulated. The encapsulation also winds up creating new headers for the message. The second time it got called at the MDA layer (ie: procmail) and the new headers resulted in a

Re: URIDNSBL error

2005-02-15 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Austin Weidner writes: > Why am I getting around 20 lines of this in a spamassassin --lint -D: > > debug: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL=HASH(0xa89414c) > inhibited further callbacks > > What is URIDNSBL and what is this error? that's

RE: URIDNSBL error

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Santerre
>surbl.org is the biggest source of URIDNSBLs. Is there another? :) --Chris (Oh no! We're the Microsoft of URIDNSBLs! All your domains are belong to us!)

RE: How Can I find out what SA is doing?

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Santerre
>> > I'd also strongly suggest switching over to enabling >network tests and >> disabling bigevil.. Much lower overhead. >> >>Can you explain how I make that switch or refer me to any >relevent docs? > >Really, all you need to do is make sure Net::DNS is >installed.. SA 3.x will >by default b

[OT] SA Users and spam folder deliveries.

2005-02-15 Thread Dave Goodrich
Good afternoon all, I'm begining to see instances where my modified ifspamh script is failing. Could be many reasons. Last night I had a spam attack of about 44k + messages (several thousand with 15 to 20 recipients each). I currently have different scripts for each clients needs. I'd like to r

RE: URIDNSBL error

2005-02-15 Thread List Mail User
Crhis, Yes. Try using the rfci lists and/or AHBL (no they're not in the code base as delivered, but they work very well). Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 15 10:53:26 2005 >Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm >Prece

MISC: HUMOR Instant 419!

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Santerre
Looks like 419'er are using instant messaging to get people now! Funny conversation that a friend of mine had. Worth the read. http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/funny419.txt (Friends name changed, but engrojie_adams is the real 419'er. --Chris

Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Austin Weidner
I have autolearned disabled in my SpamAssassin config. I get certain e-mail accounts that are old and JUST GET SPAM (no question about it). I set up a script that takes e-mails from these accounts and feds them in to sa-learn as SPAM. I have no HAM's right now, however I have plans to add at leas

RE: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Santerre
>I have autolearned disabled in my SpamAssassin config. > >I get certain e-mail accounts that are old and JUST GET SPAM >(no question >about it). I set up a script that takes e-mails from these >accounts and feds >them in to sa-learn as SPAM. > >I have no HAM's right now, however I have plans to

Re: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Thomas Arend
Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 21:54 schrieb Austin Weidner: > I have autolearned disabled in my SpamAssassin config. > > I get certain e-mail accounts that are old and JUST GET SPAM (no question > about it). I set up a script that takes e-mails from these accounts and > feds them in to sa-learn as

Re: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:54 PM 2/15/2005, Austin Weidner wrote: I get certain e-mail accounts that are old and JUST GET SPAM (no question about it). I set up a script that takes e-mails from these accounts and feds them in to sa-learn as SPAM. I have no HAM's right now, however I have plans to add at least a couple h

Re: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Thomas Arend
Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 22:08 schrieb Chris Santerre: > >I have autolearned disabled in my SpamAssassin config. > > > >I get certain e-mail accounts that are old and JUST GET SPAM > >(no question > >about it). I set up a script that takes e-mails from these > >accounts and feds > >them in to

Re: sa-learn ham from my emails

2005-02-15 Thread Thomas Arend
Am Montag, 14. Februar 2005 23:13 schrieb Daniel Cañas: > On Feb 14, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Thomas Arend wrote: > > Am Montag, 14. Februar 2005 20:50 schrieb Daniel Cañas: > >> I have over 2000 emails that I have as ham and would like to feed to > >> sa-learn.. > > [..] > >> I have legit spam that I wa

Re: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:26 PM 2/15/2005, Thomas Arend wrote: The 1:1 ratio is a mistake based on a wrong interpretation of the bayes=20 theorem. I have a ham : spam ratio of 1 : 40. No, it's not.. Dan Q actually corrected me once on this.. Technically, the "optimal" ratio is 1:1, based on the testing done by the SA

RE: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Chris Santerre
>>The 1:1 ratio is a mistake based on a wrong interpretation of >the bayes=20 >>theorem. I have a ham : spam ratio of 1 : 40. > >No, it's not.. Dan Q actually corrected me once on this.. >Technically, the >"optimal" ratio is 1:1, based on the testing done by the SA >development team. > >SA is v

Re: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
Chris Santerre wrote: The 1:1 ratio is a mistake based on a wrong interpretation of the bayes=20 theorem. I have a ham : spam ratio of 1 : 40. Also: "I thing bayes is a very good addition to individual rules. And when it's trained propper it works fine. " I agree on a personal scale it works

Re: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler writes: > At 03:54 PM 2/15/2005, Austin Weidner wrote: > >I get certain e-mail accounts that are old and JUST GET SPAM (no question > >about it). I set up a script that takes e-mails from these accounts and feds > >them in to sa-learn as

Clustered MySQL with SA

2005-02-15 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Could anyone point me towards any useful info on how to cluster the SA MySQL backend (Bayesian etc.)? TIA Nigel

RE: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:56 PM 2/15/2005, Chris Santerre wrote: Yes, it does tolerate a deviation well. But I remember DQ saying somethnig like this. Here's one reference to the post I was talking about. In the thread I'd been suggesting "optimal" would be best if the training ratio matched your "real world" spam:h

Re: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:11 PM 2/15/2005, Justin Mason wrote: Yes, this is one thing to watch out for. If the spamtrap accounts include some accounts that *were* previously active as user accounts, you *really* need to monitor those for the occasional ham slipping in. I agree wholeheartedly.. This is also a concern

RE: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Austin Weidner
So do you think it is better for bayes if you try to keep this ratio more toward 50/50? I find it is much harder to train HAM than it is SPAM. But if a bad ratio is going to hurt things, one could shut down the SPAM trainer. Basically, is too much SPAM a bad thing? -Original Message- Fr

RE: Good idea or bad idea?

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:00 PM 2/15/2005, Austin Weidner wrote: So do you think it is better for bayes if you try to keep this ratio more toward 50/50? I find it is much harder to train HAM than it is SPAM. But if a bad ratio is going to hurt things, one could shut down the SPAM trainer. Basically, is too much SPAM a

Re: Re[2]: Care and feeding instructions for SpamAssassin?

2005-02-15 Thread FH
-- Original Message -- Received: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:21:21 AM EST From: Robert Menschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re[2]: Care and feeding instructions for SpamAssassin? > Next time you get one of those spam that sneaks through

Re: Clustered MySQL with SA

2005-02-15 Thread Michael Parker
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:28:41PM +, Nigel Frankcom wrote: > > Could anyone point me towards any useful info on how to cluster the SA > MySQL backend (Bayesian etc.)? > Here is a nice little HOWTO: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-cluster-for-two-servers.html Let me know