Cygwin SA3.0 Problems

2004-09-26 Thread JamesDR
I am trying to figure out how to install SA3.0 under a clean cygwin install.  I can get it quasi working, however, I have a huge problem.  It seems that Spamd is truncating emails with attachments (doesn’t matter the attachment) around the same spot.  Spamd in it’s logs report that it sends

RE: Cygwin SA3.0 Problems

2004-09-26 Thread JamesDR
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 4:46 AM To: 'JamesDR'; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Cygwin SA3.0 Problems Here are CygWin instructions that I wrote a few months ago that worked for me and others up to and including SA-3.0.0-rc2... at which point I

Re: Sorry Florida.

2004-10-01 Thread JamesDR
I'm in Florida (one of the counties hit.) At work, we've been getting far more spam than usual, however, most seems to come from the far east and Europe (by the ip's). May be just a conscience that you haven't received as much lately. Raquel Rice wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:10:07 -0400 AltGren

Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread JamesDR
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin writes: Wanted to share a recent email that I got, that SpamAssassin didn't pick up on as being spam. I have one crucial question afterwards. I've been seeing more and more of these -- and the %MAKE_TEXT

Re: What's the POINT?

2004-10-03 Thread JamesDR
I would personally block messages that are a loop from me to me. I don't foresee any real reason to have this loop enabled. On my mail server this probably blocks 10% at the mail server. Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin writes: Wanted t

Re: Plesk / SA3 + General setup?

2004-10-11 Thread JamesDR
lar with any current methods (I'm currently developing one of my own.) HTH Thanks, JamesDR Justin Fielding wrote: Hi guys, I am using a plesk VPS server (7.1.4) and am looking at updating to SA3. There are SA3 rpm's out there for plesk so I guess it is compatable. My main questio

Re: Windows and SA

2004-10-14 Thread JamesDR
s you read the directions carefully. So, YMMV Thanks, JamesDR Jason J Ellingson wrote: Use CygWin to enable all the features of SpamAssassin. A pure Win32 SpamAssassin cannot do many of the test like DCC, Razor2, Pyzor, etc... Instructions on installing SA under CygWin are hidden at: http://w

Re: Load average probs

2004-10-30 Thread JamesDR
He did say what his mail average is: "This is a small-scale family server receiving only about 250 emails a day." You may want to read the entire message next time. Thanks, JamesDR Loren Wilton wrote: When the high LA hits, available RAM is essentially nil and the swap space is about 8

Re: Score 9.9 by configuration?

2004-11-15 Thread JamesDR
7 0.7 0.7 0.7 TOTAL: 10.2 I guess I'm missing the problem here. (other than at first glance calculation is incorrect by .3) Thanks, JamesDR Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, I have attached a message that has got 9.9 points. Is this score assinged by the default or by a custom configuration?

Re: My IP listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net

2004-11-26 Thread JamesDR
big reason is their policies.) C) Good luck having it unlisted. Thanks, JamesDR Chris wrote: I was messing around with fetchmail yesterday seeing if I could get it to work for the first time. After playing with it for a few hours and seeing that it was working I happened to notice one of my cro

Re: reply from sorbs

2004-11-28 Thread JamesDR
n order to be allowed to send mail to them (via from your ip), would you be willing to do this? This would in effect stop 100% spam... My 2c Thanks, JamesDR Bob Amen wrote: I realize this is way off topic, but it is important to spam fighting. jdow wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 10:11:12

Re: reply from sorbs

2004-11-28 Thread JamesDR
ny, and you'd by out of my money. If you aren't interested in making money, such schemes will work to drive your customers away my friend. I can easily stop spam by putting in *.*.*.*; is that lazy: yes. is that irresponsible: yes. should you be sacked: yes :-D Thanks, JamesDR David B

Re: Unsubscribe?

2004-12-21 Thread JamesDR
oduct will cost more than spamassassin. It is a shame however, that your state taxpayers will pickup the bill. (in another note, my city has swapped all their mail/db/GIS servers to open source recently, saving the city millions of dollars a year.) Good luck in your adventures (was where you were at

Re: SpamAssassin on Exchange...

2004-12-31 Thread JamesDR
Which tool are you using to connect between exchange and spamassassin? Thanks, JamesDR Eric C Sandquist wrote: I have gotten SpamAssassin(Latest Release) to work with exchange using one of the sinks. It seems to be doing a wonderful job of catching spam.. BUT --- It is also damaging

Re: Incredibly slow SA checks

2005-02-09 Thread JamesDR
digit of the ip, mysqlsa is my spamd server (along with mysql). Also, make sure your mysql server has proper dns setup in it as well, with out dns, it falls down the chain of name res. to determine the connecting machine for auth. HTH Thanks, JamesDR Gary MacKay wrote: Thanks for the help James. I

Re: commercial license

2005-02-25 Thread JamesDR
AFAIK you don't need one :-D Tho, I bet they'd be happy for a donation ;-D Thanks, JamesDR shabanip wrote: how can i get commercial license of spamassasian Payam Shabanian shabanip -at- avapajoohesh.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Suggestion: OCR

2005-03-02 Thread JamesDR
ms, what I did was hand modify the rules that did hit, I set them just a bit higher till it hit the limit that marked it as spam, while making sure ham messages (why someone embeds images in their mails is beyond me.. but it does happen.) My 2 cents.... Thanks, JamesDR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: How to setup Spamassassin. Novices with no or little mastery of computers.

2005-03-05 Thread JamesDR
Tho I do get complaints about one or two slipping by every 3 months or so..) Just keep in mind, no one here is making a profit from support on this mailing list. We are here to help each other, but there comes point where the questions can be answered by a 5 min. session on goggle, that can get qui

Re: Spamassassin headers. 1. What you can do with Spamassassin headers and 2. how.

2005-03-06 Thread JamesDR
not be worried about the semantics of how... Thanks, JamesDR Don Saklad wrote: How might a provider pull together better, easier ways to explain, instruct a. using less of what might be perceived as jargon and b. using less what might be perceived as arcane references, how might a provider more easil

Re: Is spamassassin 3.0.2 wrked for any one just after install or upgrade

2005-03-19 Thread JamesDR
s tests to start with, that should help quite a bit. Thanks, JamesDR crisppy fernandes wrote: Dev community, This is to know from developers community is spamassassin wrked for anyone just after upgrade or install. Everyday one or other new user complaints abt this behaviour that spamassassin after

Re: interesting problem with SQL backend

2005-03-24 Thread JamesDR
h stage of connecting. Thanks, JamesDR alan premselaar wrote: Today I had an interesting situation. This is more of an FYI in case anyone else has run into similar problems. (cross-posted to MIMEDefang list as well) I use SpamAssassin with MIMEDefang. I got notified by one of my users that they were unab

Re: Config Error

2005-03-30 Thread JamesDR
quot; From:http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.txt Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: RulesDuJour error updating bigevil.cf

2005-04-03 Thread JamesDR
l.org? Pete Version of SpamAssassin? 3.0.x includes it, but I'm guessing you aren't using the 3.0.x series. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Unattended spamassassing installation

2005-04-12 Thread JamesDR
make sure the db is still working (mysql) properly etc etc. This goes along with the normal check of the other components of the system. I can see, with every mail, if sa is still working via the headers. If they stop appearing in the mails; I know then that something is not working properly.

Re: Which number of children spawn is best?

2005-04-21 Thread JamesDR
l load isn't nearly as high has yours. I've found, in my experience, that sa scales better across multiple boxes with a few number of children, than one gigantic server with many children. Again, this is my own experience, and I can't attest to any others. -- Thanks, J

Re: Is there a new source of spam?

2005-04-21 Thread JamesDR
so popular that you are lucky to be graced with more spam from spamers purchasing your email addresses from a 3rd party. :-D -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: spamd doesn't work any more..

2005-04-22 Thread JamesDR
´ëÈ­¸¦ ³ª´©¼¼¿ä. http://messenger.msn.co.kr Was it running? What does the spamd log say? What are the system specs (cpu, mem, etc)? How many mails were being scanned at that time? Many things can cause this issue. We need more info as to what is the issue at hand. -- Thanks, JamesDR smim

Re: Anyone else seem spam like this?

2005-04-22 Thread JamesDR
ould key other rules. A few points here/there do help. HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA + SQL + per-user prefs

2005-05-01 Thread JamesDR
this has run (all scheduled tasks/cron jobs) the Linux side grabs the mail, trains as spam/ham then compresses and sends back to a different folder (in case i need to re-train again later.) http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesFeedbackViaForwarding -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Config problem: Inconsistent spamassassin

2005-05-03 Thread JamesDR
s bayes, debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 2 ham(s) in Bayes DB < 200 You need more hams. This also helped in the scoring of the mail. You may also want to turn back on rbl checks, to see if this helps any: skip_rbl_checks 1 I don't trust anything from anyone ;-) HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?

2005-05-11 Thread JamesDR
/show/document.aspx?plvid=1&name=privacy_sa if they have been hacked, then you'd be lucky that the only thing the people who broken in got were an e-mail address (i'd be watching CC statements...) -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SpamAssassin BAYES_99 problem

2005-05-15 Thread JamesDR
eeing the entire message, I'd assume that a Jose sent you spam, that was learned as such. Learn these ham messages as such, and it should help some. YMMV -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread JamesDR
n and a large chunk of spam as well. Gerald Many already do... I know mine does, along with the local cable co. (I'm on dsl) -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: debug and STDERR

2005-05-23 Thread JamesDR
e what you need. I use a heavily modified version of it (for doing av scanning, sql prefs, etc.) and it works pretty well. Winspamc works like spamc, only for windows :-D -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: changing bayes from individual to global

2005-05-24 Thread JamesDR
Used by BayesStore::SQL storage implementation. If this options is set the BayesStore::SQL module will override the set username with the value given. This could be useful for implementing global or group bayes databases. in your local.cf -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Descripti

Re: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions

2005-05-26 Thread JamesDR
, nary a FP per half year ends up there. Stay with SA. Get good hw for what they want to spend the money on -- Or a company car ;-D -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: false positives and negatives

2005-05-30 Thread JamesDR
e real situation is. HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: false positives and negatives

2005-05-30 Thread JamesDR
ct 1 report_header 1 use_terse_report 1 defang_mime 0 auto_learn 1 invalid. Check your docs for the correct syntax for those config directives. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Running SA on mail gateway and mail server

2005-06-07 Thread JamesDR
Paul Porter wrote: Hello, I have just installed a mail gateway box to soften the load on our internal mail server. Both servers are running SpamAssassin (details below) and I noticed that the internal mail server is scanning messages from our mail gateway eventhough they have already been sca

Re: SA 3.0.2 - SQL User Preferences failing for all but required_score

2005-06-07 Thread JamesDR
Kevin Marvin wrote: HELP! I cant get this figured out for the life of me. Here is what I have... I have SA 3.0.2, using a Postgres database to store user preferences. When I run a test instance and pass a test message to it (using spamc and spamd) and the blacklist_from entries never get read

Re: SA 3.0.2 - SQL User Preferences failing for all but required_score

2005-06-07 Thread JamesDR
JamesDR wrote: Kevin Marvin wrote: Sorry list, Michael set me straight on allow_user_rules :-D -- Thanks, James

Re: user wise preferences from database

2005-06-09 Thread JamesDR
apache.org/spamassassin/WebUserInterfaces I threw the last link in, it's got some interfaces. I don't personally use any of those, my users don't have the need to change settings... too much. HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR

Re: rmail. spamassassin.

2005-06-11 Thread JamesDR
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Re: shared SQL DB

2005-06-14 Thread JamesDR
Ronan McGlue wrote: Hi all, running 2 spamd servers and want to share the BAYES DB between them... so that one never gets too swayed and that both the servers are contantly synced etc... anybody currently running an SQL backend off multiple Spamd servers?? and if so care to part with some

Re: all_spam_to

2005-06-17 Thread JamesDR
Steve Roemen wrote: We have an address setup that people who we reject based on spam/virus can send a message to, to figure out why they are listed as spam. The only problem with that is if a spammer sends a message to numerous people, including this account, the spam is appended a score -100

Re: Multiple messages on this list

2005-06-17 Thread JamesDR
Duncan Hill wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 12:33, Kai Schaetzl wrote: I've been getting multiples of messages from this list recently as if the list software is sending out a spool again and again. Is the list admin aware of the problem? Check the headers and see if there's anything about SMT

Re: New Spam Assassin user

2006-06-15 Thread JamesDR
you'll have to configure per user or domain scoring." I haven't seen any specs on your system, can you post the MTA and how you are calling SpamAssassin? This will help us help you. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SPF SOFTFAIL definition

2006-06-18 Thread JamesDR
tfail) are for sites who are 'testing' (majority of the records are this) and is (from my understanding) supposed to allow the mail to be still delivered. -all (hardfail) is more aggressive, but may cause lost mail ... http://www.openspf.org/whitepaper.pdf -- Thanks, JamesDR smim

Re: SPF SOFTFAIL definition

2006-06-18 Thread JamesDR
to add points for a softfail. Keep in mind, it seems most servers that implement SPF use softfail (~all). HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Is it possible ?

2006-06-19 Thread JamesDR
boka wrote: Hello, is it possible to store global white/black lists in sql ? I know that it is possible for users. Yes, see the wiki pages for the sql userprefs. There is a query that allows you to do Global, Domain, and User based prefs -- all depending on how SA is getting the user of cour

Re: Can SA be used to implement greylisting?

2006-06-19 Thread JamesDR
se, this assume that the standard table of senders, ip's, and their last try time are kept. Along with whitelist/blacklist entries. I think this is a good use of SpamAssassin, graylisting and our tight IT budgets for processor time. My $0.25 worth. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Spamassassin fail to start invalid option a

2006-06-22 Thread JamesDR
aren't using SpamC? The normal spamassassin script doesn't call SpamD. SpamC is the tool to use to send mails to SpamD. Also, post the command line options for SpamC as well (may help in showing why it isn't working like you think it should.) -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Desc

Re: DNS Whitelists

2006-06-22 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: I'm not thinking links, What I want to do is whitelist based on the host name of the server connecting to my server. Why use the host name? They way I see it is you want to whitelist a server, there already exists a way for SA to do a lookup based upon IP, why not go that

Re: Image only spam

2006-07-12 Thread JamesDR
Jack Gostl wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 running on Perl version 5.8.2 under AIX 5.3. Starting a few months ago, I have been absolutely inundated with "image only spam". I've gone from catching 99% of the spam with almost no false positives to less than 85%. I asked about thi

Re: mangled uris

2006-07-13 Thread JamesDR
with this technique a day. It goes back to what users will do, and what they won't. Seems some will do what the spamer wants :-D -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA not tagging subject

2006-07-17 Thread JamesDR
tomcatf14 wrote: I am using the following: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 running on Perl version 5.8.7 "rewrite_subject 1" is not recognise when running spamassassin -D --lint You will want rewrite_header Subject without the < and >. -- Thanks, James

Re: score's and custom rules

2006-07-17 Thread JamesDR
Jimmy Stewpot wrote: Hello, I am currently trying to configure spam assassin with some custom rules to block certain words which are being used in a large amount of spam that the email servers receive. When I put the following rules into the local.cf file body VIjAGRA /\bVIjAGRA\b/i score V

Re: score's and custom rules

2006-07-17 Thread JamesDR
Jimmy Stewpot wrote: Hello, How do you clear the AWL and Bayes Lists is that just a case of deleting the files or is there some special command to do that ? Regards, Jimmy JamesDR wrote: Jimmy Stewpot wrote: Hello, I am currently trying to configure spam assassin with some custom rules

Re: SA not tagging subject

2006-07-17 Thread JamesDR
tomcatf14 wrote: rewrite_header Subject --> this is my 1st line in the local.cf file and it's uncommented. I call SA from qmail-scanner. I used the whole package from qmailrocks. In this page: http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/clamspam.htm The instruction is add: rewrite_subject 1 required_h

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:37:32 -0700, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not just eliminate the SMTP protocol for end users and keep SMTP as a server to server protocol and have users send theit email to the server by extending POP/IMAP to s

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:37, Marc Perkel took the opportunity to say: Why not just eliminate the SMTP protocol for end users and keep SMTP as a server to server protocol and have users send theit email to the server by extending POP/IMAP to s

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: > SMTP passwords go away because SMTP goes away. If the user doesn't store the password then they would type it in when say Thunderbird first starts. At that point obly thunderbird, not the virus program would have access to the IMAP port. If the vi

Re: Allowing IMAP/POP to Send Email

2006-08-03 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: Spam is never eliminated - just reduced. Most spam comes from virus infected zombies that talk SMTP. If end users were by default set up so that they can only send email by IMAP then you can block off SMTP ports for end users isolating them from the SMTP world. That would tak

Re: problem with RX subjects

2006-08-28 Thread JamesDR
the SA installation. I've never set this up, but I've heard a couple of people on the list mention it. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: spamd/spamc does not add headers

2005-06-27 Thread JamesDR
/3.0.x/dist/doc/spamc.html HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

-d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
It seems, at least from here, that -d doesn't remove markup. I run: spamassassin -d and what's given back is exactly the mail put into it. man spamassassin says that this should remove any spamassassin markup and return the message to it's almost org. state. spamassassin -d [ < mailmessag

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:12:05PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: Hey, I'm just quoting Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf.. It doesn't make much sense to me either, but that's what the docs say. /me makes commit Well now the documentation says the right thing. ;) Perhaps it's a

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:06:11PM -0400, JamesDR wrote: So if I understand correctly. I need to de-encapsulate the message, not try and pass it through spamassassin -d with sa-learn? Should the spam message be de-encapsulated as well before running sa-learn on any spam

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:32:24PM -0400, JamesDR wrote: I thought that may be a possibility, however, there are others that I know that are having the same issue, their conf. is similar, but different in how the subject is tagged (they use the default.) Anyway, I have

Re: trying to get the spamassassin to work properly

2005-07-01 Thread JamesDR
Michael wrote: [snip] config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 1 config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag [SPAM] ^ these are depreciated, see the conf. for what to use. [snip] Net::DNS version is 0.31, but need 0.34dnsavailable-1 at /usr/li

Re: trying to get the spamassassin to work properly

2005-07-01 Thread JamesDR
Michael wrote: [snip] config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 1 config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag [SPAM] ^ these are depreciated, see the conf. for what to use. [snip] Net::DNS version is 0.31, but need 0.34dnsavailable-1 at /usr/li

Re: How to log negatives as well?

2005-07-06 Thread JamesDR
Felix Natter wrote: I am experimenting with spamassassin (3.0.x) settings and for this purpose I would like to see why some messages were not recognized as spam (which tests matched and how many points total), just like the information I get to see for positives. Is there a way to achieve this

Re: How to log negatives as well?

2005-07-06 Thread JamesDR
the return info discarded. I could be totally wrong however -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA training

2005-07-07 Thread JamesDR
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to SA so I need a bit of help in configuring /training SA- The problem I have is that I do not keep any mail in the SA box- it forwards to my mail server- What method can I use to train it? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Info

Re: SA training

2005-07-07 Thread JamesDR
hout any flags. Thanks a lot! Alejandro [...] Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description I'm also curious as to why a 0 would get flagged as possible spam? -Original Message- From: JamesDR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Re: SURBL, SA 3.0.4, and firewalls

2005-07-10 Thread JamesDR
s nose. Get him!" All it needs is port 53 TCP and UDP open (outbound), depending on what firewall product you use, depends on how. A bit of Google with what ports on what product will yield what you should need. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: simultaneous sa-learn processes

2005-07-11 Thread JamesDR
Chavdar Videff wrote: Hi List, Our mailserver server serves about 100 users. Our config: Sendmail+Procmail+SpamAssassin. The question is: If I got it right, we should run sa-learn for each user in order to benefit from bayes. We intend to run a cron job for each user and do it at night by su

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread JamesDR
jdow wrote: From: "Aecio F. Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have been trying to post to this list using my original subscriber email address. Unfortunately, It has been not possible up to now. I am using a personal and secondary address to workaround a dumb rule, assuming that all hosts under a d

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread JamesDR
Keith Ivey wrote: JamesDR wrote: If you want to post to aol, your HELO MUST match your rdns (has been in my case and a few others.) Not true. I send messages to AOL all the time from a machine whose HELO does not match its rDNS. Perhaps you mean that the HELO must be a valid hostname

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread JamesDR
List Mail User wrote: [snip] Absolutely incorrect! Your HELO/EHLO must match your rDNS or the rDNS needs to match an MX RR for your argument or a few other cases. AOL is quite strict, but you have misinterpreted either their stated policy and/or RFCs 2821 and 2822. In particular, yo

Re: GIF attachments

2005-07-15 Thread JamesDR
Dr Robert Young wrote: Is there a good way to handle spam where the bulk of the "ad" is a image file (jpg, gif, etc) that is attached to the email so that it "displays" when the user opens the email? Dr. Robert Young ALI Database Cons

Re: spamd not keeping up

2005-07-26 Thread JamesDR
Frank M. Cook wrote: I run spamd on a machine of it's own. the spamc is on a separate windows computer (actually it's winspamc). it's version 3 of spamd. everything was working fine until a week or so ago and then things started to back up regularly. I'd look in the morning and thousands of f

Re: Bayes question

2005-07-27 Thread JamesDR
Robert Swan wrote: I have a pair of Spamassassin servers filtering e-mail (Spamassassin 3.0.4, spamd/spamc, Postfix, redhat 9) I was wondering if I could share the bayes database between the two server rather than having each with its own and having to do the salearn process twice. Any Th

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread JamesDR
The Doctor wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:48:22PM -0400, Jim Maul wrote: The Doctor wrote: All right, the short and simple is that Spam-Assassin may not be doing the correct job. This user has a whitelist in place and some e-mail are getting the label of spam. Even some of my cron job

Re: Trying to id spam

2005-07-29 Thread JamesDR
Dr Robert Young wrote: But you can use milter-spamc to direct all identified "spam" to an acct such as [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then simply 'dump' the acct's email periodically. Hence the inquiry On Jul 28, 2005, at 8:14 PM, jdow wrote: Please check with the ClamAV people. There is abs

Re: When is Bulk "Bulk"

2005-08-09 Thread JamesDR
Rob McEwen wrote: OBSERVATION: Could some of us be treating unsolicited Business-to-Consumer and unsolicited Business-To-Business the same? Should they be treated the same? If not, the perhaps some people's irritation about getting called at dinner-time for the 10th time by the same phone compa

Re: SPF implementation

2005-08-09 Thread JamesDR
(as far as spam goes.) I do scan for viruses in/out just as a matter of course. We are a small org, so it's easy to see if a user is misbehaving. You will have to adjust for your org, and environment. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: When is Bulk "Bulk"

2005-08-10 Thread JamesDR
Loren Wilton wrote: My $.02 here... Why doesn't he put together a nice presentation package and mail it to them? I think I know the real reason -- it costs money. It could be argued that sending an email costs money, but hardly the cost of putting together a decent presentation on a few sheets of

Re: Trojan infected FN

2005-08-19 Thread JamesDR
I've been seeing these as well, ClamAV does the catching tho (before SA). Think about at least installing ClamAV (FREE/OSS.) -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: reporting spam/non-spam for those mis-identification of spam email

2005-08-31 Thread JamesDR
would like to see any of these scripts, let me know, I'll be more than happy to share them with the community. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Rules Help please

2005-09-03 Thread JamesDR
e url so the SURBL's don't hit on it. Next give your self a 'real name', you'll see I use JamesDR. These few things will also help reduce your score to other persons who may be running spamassassin. This is what your mail scored (subject "Rules Help Please&

Re: SA 3.0.4 ingnores bayes

2005-09-09 Thread JamesDR
l filters seems to work, except bayes. My 'local.cf' is untouched (dir: /etc/mail/spamassassin) and use_bayes is set explicit to 1. How can I figure out my problem? Thanks Mathias Do a spmamassassin --lint -D and look for any bayes errors/calls. Post back what you find. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: 3.1.0 X-headers

2005-09-18 Thread JamesDR
s feature off? I didn't see anything in man or in the upgrade notes. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Problems getting blacklist_From to work

2005-09-21 Thread JamesDR
ath called 'localbl.cf' where I have a line for each blacklist entry. It would be good to show the list some headers where the blacklist_from is not hitting. Also, be sure you restart spamd each time you add/change a setting from any file. HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description:

Re: subject rewrite

2005-09-23 Thread JamesDR
and I use spamassassin 3.04 on redhat 9 with spamd/spamc.. Robert Peace he would say instead of goodbyepeace my brother. RTFM for rewrite_header, via the html doc pages, the answer is in the first paragraph HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description

Re: problem with ok_laguages option?

2005-09-30 Thread JamesDR
Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm getting some warning about the ok_languages config option. Did this parameter has changed? I couldn't find it in the notes for upgrading to SA 3.1.0 This is the output of spamassassin -D --lint: [27255] warn:

Re: SA tags above header info

2005-10-01 Thread JamesDR
f the list. HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA tags above header info

2005-10-01 Thread JamesDR
Chris wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 09:34 pm, JamesDR wrote: Chris wrote: I may have missed a thread on this but is there a reason that SA is now placing its tags above the headers: X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Seen: Tokens 251 X-Spam-New: Tokens 446 X-Spam-Remote: Host

Re: SA tags above header info

2005-10-02 Thread JamesDR
children), this should give you more available 'connections', but watch mem usage etc. These are all in the man spamd page. HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR

Re: server reached --max-clients setting

2005-10-04 Thread JamesDR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I got a lot of this messages in my maillog. Oct 4 08:27:13 server spamd[482]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it Oct 4 08:27:13 server spamd[482]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it Oct 4 08:2

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