Re: The "definitive" SPF How-to

2004-09-07 Thread Ron Johnson
Daulton, Douglas writes: > > Could someone point me to the definitive SPF how-to? > If there's something better than: http://spf.pobox.com/dns.html I'd be glad to hear about it.

Re: Preferred DNSBL

2004-09-27 Thread Ron Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > spamcop.net > njabl.org > spamhaus.org > ordb.org > > recently took a lot of heat for using sorbs.net I really like a hack I picked up from Brandeis' admin (sorry, blanking on the name) You can use any number of RBLs. Host only gets blocked if listed in two. Reall

Re: bayes "not able to be used"

2004-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
Ronan writes: Answering Matt's question: > > debug: bayes: found bayes db version 2 > bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm > line 160. No. > > Matt Kettler wrote: > > > At 02:50 PM 10/20/200

Re: bayes "not able to be used"

2004-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
Ronan writes: > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Ronan writes: > > > > Answering Matt's question: > > > > > >>debug: bayes: found bayes db version 2 > >>bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! at > >

Re: [OT] Email Servers

2004-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
Jeffrey Lee writes: > > The email server I am using now has some unwelcomed price changes > happening soon and I would like to switch to another server. I would > like something that works well with SA and possibly ClamAV. The server > would require pop, imap, and webmail. If someone could sugg

Re: slightly OT: sudden rise in Rumplestiltskin attacks?

2004-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Christopher X. Candreva writes: > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Dave Duffner - NWCWEB.com wrote: > > > The Con is we see tons of sludge when a dictionary > > attack comes forth, if we had a method to simply reject that > > with a 550 or other response that'd leave just the important > > sludge so w

Re: SPAMASSASSIN ON RELAY HOST ???

2004-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > If I want to install spamassassin on a SENDMAIL relay host that relays to an > internal machine, how do I do ?. > > As others have said, easy enough. I'd suggest you start without SA -- simply ensure that the relay host can deliver to your internal host(s). We mai

Re: [2.64] FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK buggy

2005-01-05 Thread Ron Johnson
Kris Deugau writes: > > Per Jessen wrote: > > So the question is - what is the need for maintaining 2.64? > > Little to none, IMO. I'm baffled by what people are doing to their poor > servers to make them break the way I constantly see reported on this > list and elsewhere. > > > Show of han

Re: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Chris Santerre writes: > > *snip* > > Cliffs: Hairdresser is spamming anyone with an account. > > > > >Do I: > > > > >- Show up and try to convince her what a horrible thing she is doing? > > Yup. FWIW I had a similar experience. I thought I'd convinced the person I talked to that spamming w

Re: sendmail installation saught

2005-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
MC writes: > > Kirk D Bailey General Mismanager wrote: > > I want to use spamassassin with sendmail. Maybe it's buried on the > > website, but I am not finding instructions on how to use it with > > sendmail MTA. Can anyone point me at the procedure to do this? > > > > You could also go along th

Re: Exchange/Outlook - how do you learn spam?

2005-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
Jon Dossey writes: > > I'm sure a lot of us have a similar setup, linux/bsd mx gateways > (running SA) relaying mail to Exchange, and Outlook clients. I'm just > curious how everyone handles learning? > > It seems like a lot of people recommend a public folder for users to > dump spam in, but

Re: Can SA be used to implement greylisting?

2006-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
Steven W. Orr writes: > > > And this is my point. SA *DOESN'T* work on messages after they have been > received. Since I use spamass-milter, SA sees the messages before > reception is completed. (You're free to do otherwise.) Then when SA > decides that the message doesn't conform to its high

Re: sudden deluge of university spams

2006-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
Ramprasad writes: > > > > I am doing regex match something like > > > /1 *- *2 *2 *- *3 *3 */ > > > > > > Any inputs ? > > > > Yes, as SA collapses multiple spaces down to a single space (in 'body' > > tests), you only need to look for a single instance of the space, > > not an unlimited number.

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
The Doctor writes: > > - Forwarded message from Angry and Concerned Customer - > > > > 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

Re: Antidrug.cf deprecated and no longer maintained.

2005-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
Matt Kettler writes: > > At 09:36 PM 11/29/2005, mouss wrote: > >it would be good to make the file empty, only containing this info. this > >way, even those who miss this message (and the previous one) still have a > >chance to get the info. > > Yes, but there are still users out there that are

Re: Antidrug.cf deprecated and no longer maintained.

2005-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
Matt Kettler writes: > > At 10:33 AM 11/30/2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >Matt Kettler writes: > > > > > > At 09:36 PM 11/29/2005, mouss wrote: > > > >it would be good to make the file empty, only containing this info. this > > > >way, even

user_prefs not recognized?

2010-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
stuff I got from the wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UserPrefRuleTest If relevant, this is Debian Sid, running v3.3.0-1 Thanks -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms." Mike Ditka

Re: user_prefs not recognized?

2010-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-04 15:13, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I want my users (it's a small at-home setup of fetchmail, postfix, SA and courier-imap) to be able to whitelist certain users. You do *not* need allow_user_rules, to enable per

Re: user_prefs not recognized?

2010-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-05 10:14, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:41 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-04 15:13, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: [snip] How is SA called? (Lines manually "continued" for easy reading.) # grep spam /etc/postfix/master.cf smtp inet

Re: user_prefs not recognized?

2010-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-04 15:41, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-04 15:13, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: [snip] How is SA called? (Lines manually "continued" for easy reading.) # grep spam /etc/postfix/master.cf smtp inet n - n - - \ smtpd -o content_filter=

Re: Rule help

2010-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
hint why it doesn't work. Will that ignore the "Spam detection software, running on the system..." stuff and just look at the "real" email that's now just an attachment? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms." Mike Ditka

[now OT] Re: Google search as spam URI

2006-01-05 Thread Ron Johnson
Chris Santerre writes: > > Hah! Am I reading that right? Translate English to English! I give them 1 > point for coming up with that one. > OT, but I recall reading that there are at least two "English to English" translation books published. Guides for people who've learned English and are havi

Re: SA frequently skipping rules

2006-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
Loren Wilton writes: > > Also be careful of writing the usual ill thought out and draconian rules > youself like > > body MY_PORN_1/cock/i > scoreMY_PORN_1100# eliminate evil words! > > That works just fine. Unless you maybe have a user or a client named John > Babcock. Or to t

Re: Annoying spammer

2006-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
Evan Platt writes: > > Well, as if there's a NON annoying spammer.. > > I'm getting HAMMERED with the re: Hello spams. > > http://www.espphotography.com/stopthisspammer.txt > > Best way I can see to drop this guy is to block on "The Bat! > (v3.62.14) Home" in the header. > > Near as I can see

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Ron Johnson
Paolo Cravero as2594 writes: > > Gustafson, Tim wrote: > > > Could SpamAssassin benefit from a filter that would actually check the > > spelling of the text parts of the message, and if misspelled words > > exceeds, for example, 50%, then we can add a few points to the SPAM > > score? I'm not su