Re: NOTE: Warning to Abusers of Update Servers

2017-11-24 Thread Dave
My recollection is that something was eating the TXT results; but not the A records. Probably a PIX or something like that, it broke ESMTP pretty badly too. > On Nov 24, 2017, at 06:34, RW wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:39:25 -0700 > Dave Warren wrote: > >>>

rules and configuration not running correctly

2014-10-24 Thread dave
uages #dcc use_dcc 1 dcc_path /usr/local/bin/dccproc #pyzor use_pyzor 1 pyzor_path /usr/bin/pyzor #razor use_razor2 1 razor_config /etc/razor/razor-agent.conf thanks dave

RE: rules and configuration not running correctly

2014-10-24 Thread dave
[mailto:axb.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 11:27 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: rules and configuration not running correctly On 10/24/2014 06:17 PM, dave wrote: > Hello all > > I am running Spamassassin 3.4 on an Ubuntu 14.04 build. The server > installation i

RE: rules and configuration not running correctly

2014-10-24 Thread dave
unning correctly On 10/24/2014 06:34 PM, dave wrote: > Thanks... I am looking to have x-spam status and associated scores > added to the headers of all messages ... also my custom and sought > rules do not seem to fire Please keep list mail on the list. - How are you using SA? (pls

RE: rules and configuration not running correctly

2014-10-24 Thread dave
Anyone have any ideas?? -Original Message- From: dave Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 11:51 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> SA Mailing list Subject: RE: rules and configuration not running correctly (Sorry about the list thing realized after sending) It is launched from

Rule Help

2015-09-25 Thread Dave
Received !~ /\.com\b/I || Received !~ /\.net\b/I || Received !~ /\.org\b/I || Received !~ /\.edu\b/I || Received !~ /\.uk\b/I describe GC_TLD Not common TLD score GC_TLD 2 Can someone help me out or point me in the right direction? Thanks, Dave Grolen Communications da...@grolen.com<mai

sendmail spamassassin milter

2005-02-16 Thread dave
till running even tho it's not mentioned in sendmail? TIA =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David SternUniversity of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

running spamd remotely

2005-03-09 Thread dave
with $SPAMHOME/bin/spamd -d --syslog-socket=inet -r /var/tmp/spamdnew.pid \ --allowed-ips= But I don't even see anything in syslog on hostB. TIA =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David SternUniversity of Mar

Re: running spamd remotely

2005-03-09 Thread dave
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Dave Goodrich wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is involved in setting up spamassassin to run on a remote machine? After installing it on hostA (mailserver) and hostB, I get onto hostA and tweak my procmailrc to have :0fw: $HOME/spamassassin.lock | $SPAMHOME/bin/spamc -d

False Positives

2005-04-10 Thread Dave
:RC:0(68.230.240.31):SA:1(5.3/5.0):. Processed in 6.255823 secs Process 8768) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.1.2 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:23:43 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [SPAM] this is a test testing the new SA system, lemme know h

Re: supplying additional path for Perl modules

2005-04-29 Thread dave
mes you can just say: use "/my/perl_directory"; =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David SternUniversity of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Re: supplying additional path for Perl modules

2005-04-29 Thread dave
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Dave, use lib "/my/perl_directory/lib/site_perl"; or sometimes you can just say: use "/my/perl_directory"; is it enough to add it to Makefile.PL, or do I need to add it to every single SpamAssassin .PL file? No, The "

Re: supplying additional path for Perl modules

2005-04-29 Thread dave
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Dave, No, The "use" construct tells perl to look elsewhere for libraries when running. All of the above assumes you're installing the modules somewhere other than where the system would normally look for it. eg You don't

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-04 Thread dave
an be running SA remotely on another machine (users run spamc -d sa.machine.com) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David SternUniversity of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Re: sa-learn on other server than spamd

2005-05-18 Thread dave
st and run. (Of course, then you have to deal with the lower level of security of people being able to ssh w/out passwd to the other machine) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David SternUniversity of Maryland

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-16 Thread DAve
e larger users and I know there are users with personal installs on SA as well. To believe there is one best practice for using anything is painting with a very large brush. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do t

Re: Posioned MX is a bad idea [Was: Email forwarding and RBL trouble]

2007-08-26 Thread DAve
d over. Some times that IP is only one of our MX's. We finally call them and insist they reboot their server. Then wala, it works. I dread taking down a MX for maint, even when the DNS has been expired for a month in advance. I hate spammers, hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em. They

Re: Bit OT but it's about SPAM

2007-10-18 Thread DAve
smaller and smaller. I would love to have numbers like 10% spam along with no customer complaints. That would mean spam was slowing down and I could spend that anti-spam money on other things I need for our NOCs. Things that make us money. But I understand your point, I take everything written/spoken/

Re: Mismatched URLs revisited

2007-12-06 Thread DAve
d based on mismatched URLs you would tag the same messages incorrectly. Just my experience. DAve -- I've been asking Google for a Veteran's Day logo since 2000, maybe 1999. I was told they finally did a Veteran's Day logo, but none of the links I was given return anything but

Re: Is http://www.rulesemporium.com?

2008-02-29 Thread DAve
7 dls-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.80.14) 144.269 ms 72.000 ms 71.572 ms 8 mai-b1-link.telia.net (80.91.252.62) 100.388 ms 102.816 ms 107.478 ms 9 * * * 10 * * * 11 * * * 12 * * * Same result from Indiana USA, dies at telia.net. DAve -- Google finally, after 7 years, provided a

SA 3.2.4 speedup

2008-04-08 Thread DAve
WHOIS_NOLDC WHOIS_NOMINET WHOIS_PRIVACYPOST WHOIS_PRIVDOMAIN WHOIS_PRIVPROT WHOIS_REGISTER4LESS WHOIS_REGISTERFLY WHOIS_REGTEK WHOIS_SAFENAMES WHOIS_SECINFOSERV WHOIS_SECUREWHOIS WHOIS_SPAMFREE WHOIS_SRSPLUS WHOIS_UNLISTED WHOIS_WHOISGUARD WHOIS_WHOISPROT Thanks, DAve -- In 50 years

Re: SA 3.2.4 speedup

2008-04-08 Thread DAve
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 08.04.08 10:52, DAve wrote: We recently upgraded to SA 3.2.4 and are experiencing much slower processing. After watching my rule hits for a few days I would like to remove some rules (set score to 0) to gain back some speed. Ami I correct in believing that

Re: SA 3.2.4 speedup

2008-04-08 Thread DAve
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 08.04.08 10:52, DAve wrote: We recently upgraded to SA 3.2.4 and are experiencing much slower processing. After watching my rule hits for a few days I would like to remove some rules (set score to 0) to gain back some speed. Ami I correct in believing that

Re: Spam Virus MX forwarding firewall

2006-06-07 Thread DAve
the setup you describe implemented via MailScanner, MailWatch, and Sendmail+milter-ahead. Works very well. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing f

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread DAve
ver stop seeking, never, 24/7/365. A consumer grade storage device would scream "mommy" and wet itself. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but noth

Re: The Future of Email is SQL - What drives do you use?

2006-06-09 Thread DAve
wrote: | Between two mail gateways and three toasters we have 14 disks that never | stop seeking, never, 24/7/365. A consumer grade storage device would | scream "mommy" and wet itself. | | DAve OK, I'm sorry for changing the subject but I have had good results with 18 and

Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam

2006-07-17 Thread DAve
Shane Williams wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 16 July 2006 06:35 am, Shane Williams wrote: I never realized SpamAssassin was started back in 1994. What version number was that? I'd say it was definitely ahead of its time, since I almost never got email spam until

URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-07 Thread DAve
of curiosity I moved my updates.spamassassin.org* out to /tmp and reran the debug, same results. Logs show the last time I was getting hits was 4 days ago. What have I done wrong? DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-07 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: Good morning, I noticed this morning that I am no longer hitting any URIBL and SURBL. I did a test, host -tTXT test.uribl.com.multi.uribl.com and got the proper response. I also ran spamassassin -D < testemail.txt which is a message with a URI known in the URIBL list and

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-07 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: DAve wrote: Good morning, I noticed this morning that I am no longer hitting any URIBL and SURBL. I did a test, host -tTXT test.uribl.com.multi.uribl.com and got the proper response. I also ran spamassassin -D < testemail.txt which is a message with a URI known in the UR

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-07 Thread DAve
Dig works, host works. Not sure why SA can't get a lookup. I've restarted dnscache several times, and I have my normal dns servers listed under 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day.

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-07 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: Richard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I noticed this morning that I am no longer hitting any URIBL and SURBL. I did a test, ... I should have included this in the debug output. [23441] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes [23441] dbg: dns

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-07 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: DAve wrote: Richard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I noticed this morning that I am no longer hitting any URIBL and SURBL. I did a test, ... I should have included this in the debug output. [23441] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-08 Thread DAve
Jeff Chan wrote: On Monday, August 7, 2006, 1:56:41 PM, DAve DAve wrote: In frustration I edited /etc/resolv.conf and removed 127.0.0.1, URI lookups are completing and MailScanner is blasting through the queues on both machines exceedingly fast now. No idea what could have possibly changed

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-08 Thread DAve
Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 8:05:04 AM, DAve DAve wrote: I had no logging running on dnscache before so I don't *know* what was happening. I re-enabled logging and the issue went away. To be specific I changed my run file from exec setuidgid Gdnslog multilog -* to

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-08 Thread DAve
Dhawal Doshy wrote: DAve wrote: [snip] If it happens again I'll have some logs, provided I catch it in time, dnscache makes logs like bunnies make more bunnies. Until then I'm inclined to think it was a resource issue or anomaly on my system rather than an issue with SA or dnsca

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-08 Thread DAve
Logan Shaw wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, DAve wrote: Dhawal Doshy wrote: Dave, you might need to update the 'root/servers/@' file. IIRC, a couple of root servers have changed in the past few years. We replace the @ file with one of our own on every server. I contains just our dns s

updates.spamassassin.org.cf overrides local.cf?

2006-08-08 Thread DAve
I noticed that if I have updates_spamassassin_org.cf in place in my rules dir, my local.cf rule changes are set back to default. I tried to post, but that soesn't seem to be an option today. If anyone is interested it's here. http://pixelhammer.com/local-cf.txt DAve -- Three year

Re: updates.spamassassin.org.cf overrides local.cf?

2006-08-08 Thread DAve
Bowie Bailey wrote: DAve wrote: I noticed that if I have updates_spamassassin_org.cf in place in my rules dir, my local.cf rule changes are set back to default. I tried to post, but that soesn't seem to be an option today. If anyone is interested it's here. http://pixelhammer.com/lo

Re: updates.spamassassin.org.cf overrides local.cf?

2006-08-08 Thread DAve
think it needs fixed, but a warning that I was acting like a luser using my site rules dir would have been nice. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothi

Re: updates.spamassassin.org.cf overrides local.cf?

2006-08-08 Thread DAve
y moot. What files are in what directories doesn't really matter. It seems the idea is that anyone reading all the documentation, and the wiki, should be able to discern what will go where, in what order, why, and when. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't hav

Re: Image spam with inline jpeg image

2006-08-09 Thread DAve
like SARE rules be the purpose for channels in sa-update? What other possible purpose could there be for allowing multiple channels other than to update more than the distributed rule set? DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day.

sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-09 Thread DAve
porium.com /var/lib/spamassassin/$VER/updates.sare-header.rulesemporium.com /var/lib/spamassassin/$VER/updates.tls.local /var/lib/spamassassin/$VER/updates.someOtherRulesHouse.com This would leave /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin containing only the local site specific .pre files and local.cf

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
e between that and having a channel for every rule subset. Bret Are there stats available for what SARE rules are downloaded in what numbers? That would tell you rightaway if popular groups of rules could be created and made available. I'm building a channel now for use internally. If i

RE: Improved OCR Plugin with approximate matching

2006-08-10 Thread Dave .
Give them code from Ocr.pm:--- foreach my $p ( $pms->{msg}->find_parts("image") ) { my ( $ctype, $boundary, $charset, $name ) =Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::parse_content_type( $p->get_header('content-type') ); if ( $ctype eq "image/gif" ) { open OCR, "

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
pular files would be the best way, "sets" so to speak. Though I am not against a channel for each file, I think it would be a sure fire way to clutter /var/lib/spamassassin though. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: I ran into one issue but I haven't gotten a chance to look deeper into it yet. The sha1 file on updates.spamassassin.org is in one format, and he sha1 file I create is in another. Currently sa-update can't parse my file so I had to edit it. SpamAssassin sha1 contents

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:12:48PM -0400, DAve wrote: SpamAssassin sha1 contents (would all be one line) have the signature first, f7c3edde6e9e2330318c3fc6a8e70af68387eaeb /home/updatesd/tmp/stage/3.2.0/update.tgzSHA1 My sha1 contents (would all be one line) have the

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
e earliest I can find it on my servers is 5.4, using the FreeBSD included openssl. It might show up when I upgrade the port. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: Panagiotis Christias wrote: On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the format that you showed? Answering my own question, FreeBSD seems to not

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
Bill Randle wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:35 -0400, DAve wrote: DAve wrote: Panagiotis Christias wrote: On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the forma

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
so there is a bit of dusting off of braincells to do. Any thoughts on popular sets? No one from SARE has said a word about this yet, any problem with me publishing SARE rules? DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they c

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
Bowie Bailey wrote: DAve wrote: I have it working fine here, about 20 lines of /bin/sh and and I can turn out any number of rule sets, even a channel per SARE rule. I'm willing to publish the channels if there is interest in them. I still believe packages or sets of popular rules would be

Re: Image spam with inline jpeg image

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
works on Windows. cool ;) I'm amazed GPG does. I am too, but it works surprisingly well with GPG for Windows. ;) Bret I think a status report would be a good option as well. SA already asks you for your admins email address at install time. Sending a report of what happened durin

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
, that's what's really important to know IMO. What he said. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot

Re: Image spam with inline jpeg image

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:56:00AM -0400, DAve wrote: I think a status report would be a good option as well. SA already asks you for your admins email address at install time. Sending a report of what happened during the sa-update process would be very, very valuable

Re: Nailed by spam today?

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
s-phishing. Now the stocks are rising again. Came at a bad bad time for us. My smtp refusals are running about 120k to 140k per day, 80k to 90k are getting in, and I'm delivering 25k. The rest are grabbed by SA and MailScanner. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
nels if others are interested, some SARE rules, maybe others if requested. If it works and is well received, possibly Doctor Doolittle and the EuropeanAntiSpamConsortium will consider providing channels for their own rules, maybe even SARE. Who knows? exit 0 DAve -- Three years now I've aske

Re: SARE sa-update channels available!

2006-08-13 Thread DAve
rules. Not sure how to handle that, or if users/authors will even care. Possibly authors would be willing to tar, gzip, and sign their rules if they were provided an upload facility. Just some thoughts. Thanks for taking the time to do this, I think it will be welcomed once the word gets out.

Re: SARE sa-update channels available!

2006-08-13 Thread DAve
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: On 8/13/2006 4:49 PM, DAve wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Hello all, For those of you interested in SpamAssassin's sa-update, I've created sa-update channels for all of the rules found at the SpamAssassin Rules Emporium website (http://w

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread DAve
using SA to stop the backscatter after the fact is not the best way to go about this. I wouldn't worry about the high load on your FirstClass system, stop the spam from getting past the qmail server and your load will likely drop considerably. If you get as much spam as we do anyway ;^)

ImageInfo Plugin

2006-08-16 Thread DAve
0.1 13,705 99.9 DC_PNG_UNO_LARGO 6,37721 0.3 6,356 99.7 DC_GIF_MULTI_LARGO 46618 3.9 448 96.1 That is from a total of 500k messages processed in the last 7 days. Very nice, it has made a big difference here. DAve -- Three years now I&#x

Re: Enumerating the robots?

2006-08-21 Thread DAve
s accepted and gets a high SA score, and you can still determine the sending IP, then that might be automatically harvested also. Thoughts? Does somethign like this have any value? Loren Something like http://dhsield.org, but limited to email instead of all ports? DAve -- Three

Re: Enumerating the robots?

2006-08-21 Thread DAve
jdow wrote: From: "DAve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Loren Wilton wrote: It was mentioned that several people are getting hammered by world-wide robot attacks. I see from the little spam I get that there is a new spam sending tool for robots that is running a stock spam. I suspec

Re: How can I (we) get rid of this?

2006-08-21 Thread DAve
s URIBL and SURBL before I would consider that. Is there a way around the dependencies? The FreeBSD port shows the following, xorg-libraries-6.9.0, ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15, teTeX-3.0_1, tcl-8.4.13_1 (TCL?), and all their dependancies. Plus a lot more. I'd need to look at configure --help.

Re: Perfect spamassassin setup?

2006-08-29 Thread DAve
is a good concept, works well, and fills a needed space. They have a mail list and several users are here and on the MailScanner list as well. DAve Ken A. Pacific.Net Eric Persson wrote: This might be a shot in the dark, but after running a patched qmail, qmailscanner with spamassassin and

Re: Perfect spamassassin setup?

2006-08-29 Thread DAve
Ken A wrote: DAve wrote: Ken A wrote: http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/ Doesn't do per user SA rule scores since it works with MailScanner, and MailScanner doesn't support that, but does do pretty much everything else SA, clamav and MailScanner do, including logging to mysql,

Re: AWL confusion.. (drinking game)

2006-08-30 Thread DAve
ople have gotten eighty-two-hundred-bazillion hits on a search engine, 99% of which are unrelated, by using a simplistic search. Folks learn to be very specific when searching. Maybe each article on the wiki should be indexed to a specific config option, or options? Just a thought. DAve -- Thre

Re: Antidrug.cf, call to cease RDJ updates.

2006-09-05 Thread DAve
ortly after they move out on their own, they realize Mom and Dad were not so stupid after all ;^) Two boys, 19 and 15, wouldn't trade them for fame or fortune. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do

Re: Q. about spam directed towards highest MX Record?

2006-09-27 Thread DAve
ecord when no mail server failure occurred? Just about any MS Exchange server. I have never had a valid message from qmail/Sendmail/Postfix/Exim go to that server. Always Exchange, and generally from a small business with a "shrink wrap admin" running the mail services. DAve --

Re: Rulesemporium rules

2006-10-10 Thread DAve
Joe Zitnik wrote: A simple no would have sufficed. But I so enjoyed the answer. What was the question again? DAve On 10/10/2006 at 4:25 PM, Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: Joe Zitnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10,

Re: Bayesing Filtering needs to be rewritten

2006-10-11 Thread DAve
attachments before scanning/learning highly desirable. IME this would be a real performance boost and have a very minor, if any, impact on SpamAssassin's ability to detect spam. At least in my mail environment. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo c

Re: SA Webmail Portal

2006-10-17 Thread DAve
spam within the quarantine and we send a daily quarantine report to each user every day. The user can then log into their quarantine and release spam messages which will then be delivered normally. We use a heavily modified version of MailWatch for MailScanner to do this. DAve -- Three years now I&

Re: Q. about spam directed towards highest MX Record?

2006-10-18 Thread DAve
note from Jesus to get a message delivered through the server. All that traffic is not connecting to my primary mail gateway ;^) DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-internationa

Re: Q. about spam directed towards highest MX Record?

2006-10-18 Thread DAve
then never try the highest, just fail. With the current setup a valid message will eventually get through. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothi

Re: Q. about spam directed towards highest MX Record?

2006-10-18 Thread DAve
. DAve Isn't that how it is suppose to work? Try the lowest first? MX 10 and MX 20 are my mailgateways, the lowest MX or the highest priority MX. And MX 30 is my highest MX or my lowest priority MX, and the server that gets the Spam and the Exchange connections. MX 10, often refered

Re: Early Questions

2005-07-19 Thread DAve
no faith in a server that was running the "latest" distro/RPM/package just because it was "the latest". If you rely on the version number of your distro and the build skills of an unknown party to be the extent of your security awareness, you are certain to end up on someones RBL. DAve

OT Spam sources

2005-09-14 Thread DAve
seeing this besides me. I suspect the spammers are making a new attempt to find web forms they can abuse and possibly the robots are just not smart enough to know that our forms don't work the way they suspect. DAve

Re: OT Spam sources

2005-09-14 Thread DAve
Michael Monnerie wrote: On Mittwoch, 14. September 2005 16:03 DAve wrote: the robots are just not smart enough to know that our forms don't work the way they suspect. Maybe rename the script? Could be there's a script of that name which is vulnerable... mfg zmi All our form

spamc connection refused

2005-09-14 Thread dave
rying (#3 of 3): Connection refused Can I presume these are just an indication of resource limits? Thanks =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David SternUniversity of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

spamc connection refused

2005-09-15 Thread dave
rying (#3 of 3): Connection refused Can I presume these are just an indication of resource limits? TIA =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David SternUniversity of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Re: Qmail question..

2005-11-08 Thread DAve
o expect people to just "give me the answer". Likely the answer you need is in the below link. http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ If you must ask for help, read the link below FIRST! http://pyropus.ca/personal/writings/12-steps-to-qmail-list-bliss.html DAve

Re: Qmail question..

2005-11-08 Thread DAve
ser base active, the tools up to date. I've run Sendmail, Exim, Postfix as well. All have their place. qmail works quite well with spamc and there are several ways to use the two together. I would argue there are more ways to combine spamc and qmail than any other mailserver. Choose the best tool for the job. DAve

OT: senderbase

2005-11-23 Thread DAve
high mail volumes, yet the IPs they list have port 25 blocked at the client router. I have send two emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and received no replys so far. Am I spinning my wheels here? DAve

Re: OT: senderbase

2005-11-23 Thread DAve
Matt Kettler wrote: DAve wrote: Good afternoon, I take a look each week at senderbase to check and see what others think my network is sending out in terms of mail volume. I generally find it helpful. http://senderbase.org Anyone else using that report? I ask because I have two IPs showing

Re: some messages bypassing spamassasin

2005-11-30 Thread DAve
global maildroprc and captured the return code of spamc and I am seeing a return code of 74 (io error) in the logs. I would have expected to see 69 (not available) or 75 (temp error) if I was having a problem reaching spamd. Any idea why I would be getting a return code of 74? Thanks, DAve

Re: trusted_networks

2005-12-11 Thread DAve
;fail" to report the host name or IP, the mail admin "failed" to properly configure his choosen mail server software. DAve

Re: [OT] Re: SpamAssassin is EXTREMLY slow

2009-04-01 Thread DAve
. The local DNS cache is reaching out to a common DNS cache inside the same network which is doing all the outside DNS lookups for mail services. The common cache is cycling around once an hour. SA routinely takes less than a second per message with several URLs in the message. Does that help?

Re: EmailBL hit count

2009-05-13 Thread DAve
ed by EMAILBL. EMAILBL hit 15 that were not already tagged as spam. Seems like this plugin hit almost in lock step with the JM_SOUGHT rules here. I will continue to run it on both servers for a week and see what happens. DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present gen

Re: EmailBl Stats

2009-05-18 Thread DAve
the update, for now the last five days stats are as follows. Total mail through SA = 208,498 Total spam messages tagged with EMAILBL = 1471 Total non spam messages tagged with EMAILBL = 128 FP seen = 0 (fully %80 of our traffic never gets to SA) DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much

Re: I want MORE SPAM - MORE SPAM

2009-05-18 Thread DAve
pproaching 600k when things get bad. We have a wide variety of clients from dialup/DSL users to corporate users. Our clients receive mail from Europe and the Pacific Rim regularly. I'm just sayin... DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve y

Re: EmailBl Stats

2009-05-18 Thread DAve
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:50 -0400, DAve wrote: I will see about the update, for now the last five days stats are as follows. Total mail through SA = 208,498 Total spam messages tagged with EMAILBL = 1471 Total non spam messages tagged with EMAILBL = 128 What

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-06-25 Thread DAve
email/spam lists they wouldn't allow us to use half the software we do. DAve Quoting Res : On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: 1. It's 'You're' a joke - not 'your' a joke Ah the classic sign of someone in defeat, has to nit pick someones

Re: constantcontact.com

2009-07-06 Thread DAve
ess who or what gets whitelisted in any app/device. I care about whether it can be turned off easily or not. If the majority of SA users find CC gives little or no spam, let SA add CC to a whitelist by default. Better to let some spam in by default then to keep ham out. Just don't t

Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-07-28 Thread DAve
Snow I am not particularly interested in having to go a shop for information when I can have it sent to me. List mail also has the advantage of being fully compatible with plain text viewing, at my leisure. Feel free though to start a forum if you wish. DAve -- "Posterity, you will know h

local mail headers

2009-08-18 Thread Dave
LOCAL_RCVD Received =~ /.*\(\S+\.example\.com\s+\[.*\]\)/ describe LOCAL_RCVD Received from mail.example.com Thanks. Dave.

RE: SA and mail from backup mx?

2009-08-19 Thread Dave
like yours, if the primary goes down for maintence or whatever the backup holds messages then relays when the primary is back. Thanks. Dave.

SA and mail from backup mx?

2009-08-19 Thread Dave
Hello, Mail from my backup mx is not being scanned for spam as it's coming in. Is this something i'd have to turn on at the MTA level, content filter, or SA? A majority of stuff my backup mx sends me is spam and i'd like to get it tagged as such. Thanks. Dave.

RE: SA and mail from backup mx?

2009-08-19 Thread Dave
Hi, Postfix on my server, the backup mx is using qmail. Dave. -Original Message- From: Gary Smith [mailto:gary.sm...@holdstead.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:03 PM To: 'dave.meh...@gmail.com'; 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' Subject: RE: SA and

sare channels

2009-08-19 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm trying to add additional sa rules and wanted to use the sare channels referenced by the wiki. I'm using sa 3.2.5 and when i atempted to get updates from saupdates.openprotect.com the channel didn't exist. Has it moved? Thanks. Dave.

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