sa-update error

2007-12-03 Thread Juergen . Boehm
Hi i get following error when i run sa-update. uery failed: 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org => answer section incomplete can anybody help me with this? here is the whole dump from sa-update: [31625] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [31625] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [31625] dbg: generic:

spamcheck question

2007-12-03 Thread Kate Gordon
I am unclear as to which link in my email is referred to in the SpamScore below. Something you can help? - Kate Kate Gordon Associate Director, Campaigns and Grassroots Advocacy Alzheimer's Association Advocacy and Public Policy Division [EMAIL PROTECTED] (202) 638-8669 -Original Me

spamd bayes error

2007-12-03 Thread Bazy
Hello guys, Why after a period of time, after spamassassin keeps learning ham and spam... do I get this message: Dec 1 16:34:32 goofy spamd[1694]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/spamassassin/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists Dec 1 16:34:41 goofy spamd[1694]: bayes: c

Re: Forward Conformed Reverse DNS troubleshooting tool

2007-12-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On Nov 28, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Joseph Brennan wrote: Well, not genuine, or administered by a pompous professional who thinks s/pompous/incompetent/ There are gazillions of incompetent "network engineers" out there.

Re: spamd bayes error

2007-12-03 Thread mailinglists
Hi you seem to run global bayes. Try to use a database such as mysql or pgsql for bayes. you can make the db larger using the bayes_expiry_max_db_size parameter. See perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf Philipp > Hello guys, > > Why after a period of time, after spamassassin keeps learning ham and

Re: Forward Conformed Reverse DNS troubleshooting tool

2007-12-03 Thread Jonas Eckerman
mouss wrote: It also confirms that your SMTP banner greeting matches the reverse DNS. Who requires this? The hostname in the banner is usually the same hostname as in HELO/EHLO, and it's often a good idea to HELO/EHLO with a hostname that matches RDNS. You are confused. How so? (I wa

X-WUM Header Question

2007-12-03 Thread Rick Mallett
I've noticed that a lot of the lottery spam and nigerian scam messages that slip by SA (3.1.9) unscathed (i.e. score < 5) at my site contain the following headers X-Wum-Nature: EMAIL-NATURE X-WUM-FROM: |~| X-WUM-CCI: |~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~|| X-WUM-REPLYTO: |~| and I'd

Re: sa-update error

2007-12-03 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i get following error when i run sa-update. uery failed: 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org => answer section incomplete can anybody help me with this? here is the whole dump from sa-update: I'm getting the proper response from all five of our name servers. Try the query

Re: spamcheck question

2007-12-03 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Kate Gordon wrote: I am unclear as to which link in my email is referred to in the SpamScore below. Something you can help? As far as I can see it doesn't hit in the last versions to have the rule (3.1 series) and never did in any other version going back to the rule's introduction in 2.5

Re: Mondo bayes_toks - millions of entries

2007-12-03 Thread Wes
The PostgreSQL experiment turned out to not be as stellar as I had hoped. With our volume, the disk write load for bayes auto-learn is extremely high, even with fsync disabled, share mem increased, etc. I also ran into some severe concurrency issues - lots of waiting on locks, even with only one s

Re: Mondo bayes_toks - millions of entries

2007-12-03 Thread Justin Mason
Wes writes: > The PostgreSQL experiment turned out to not be as stellar as I had hoped. > With our volume, the disk write load for bayes auto-learn is extremely high, > even with fsync disabled, share mem increased, etc. I also ran into some > severe concurrency issues - lots of waiting on locks,

Re: X-WUM Header Question

2007-12-03 Thread Matt Kettler
Rick Mallett wrote: > I've noticed that a lot of the lottery spam and nigerian scam messages > that slip by SA (3.1.9) unscathed (i.e. score < 5) at my site contain > the following headers > > X-Wum-Nature: EMAIL-NATURE > X-WUM-FROM: |~| > X-WUM-CCI: >|~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||

Testing with My Yahoo Account Spams

2007-12-03 Thread mozafar rowshan
Hi friends! I've installed SpamAssassin 3.2.3 in CentOS 5, now for testing purposes. I've checked SA (spamc/d) and It works for package spam and non-spam sample files. As far as I remember, I did not play with SA settings, so the configuration is default. Anyway, I tested SA with some

Why not score mails without __ENV_AND_HDR_FROM_MATCH

2007-12-03 Thread ram
Almost all of the phising mails I can see have (!__ENV_AND_HDR_FROM_MATCH) Can I simple give a high score to all mails whose header from and env from dont match I will have to whitelist all mailing lists , yahoogroups etc. But is there any other issue with this Thanks Ram