Re: [Assp-user] Replacing the bayesian engine with DSPAM?

2007-05-09 Thread billc
At 1:17 AM -0500 5/8/07, David wrote: Elvar wrote: David, This definitely helps and I thank you very much for the suggestions. I think #2 will work excellent in my situation and I will work on implementing it right away. Two quick notes too: 1) make sure you're running a very recent

Re: [Assp-user] Replacing the bayesian engine with DSPAM?

2007-05-07 Thread billc
At 1:58 PM -0400 5/7/07, Charles Marcus wrote: The *only* potential thing that it has that ASSP doesn't is per-user settings/quarantine. As someone else pointed out, this generally only matters to large installs like ISPs, where their customers 'demand' it. Though my customers are generally not

Re: [Assp-user] A cost per spam to businesses?

2007-04-14 Thread billc
At 2:54 PM -0500 4/13/07, Chris Norman wrote: Does anyone have a link to a reasonable study on how much each spam costs a company? I'm wanted to quantify how much money we're saving by blocking spam. Any suggestions appreciated... Multiply the number of spam by the average amount of time it

Re: [Assp-user] Mac OS X 10.3.9 Quitting Problem Post Security Updates

2007-03-07 Thread billc
At 11:19 AM +1300 3/8/07, Chris White wrote: Hi again! We have been working on trying to get this to work throughout the week, but I am still getting the same results as below and would definitely appreciate any pointers anybody could offer. Thanks in advance! I'm having no problems since

Re: [Assp-user] Questions regarding code-quality and (in)securityof ASSP...

2007-01-31 Thread billc
At 9:48 AM +1000 1/28/07, Joseph Armstrong wrote: - Original Message - From: Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Questions regarding

Re: [Assp-user] Spam from the future\past

2006-12-20 Thread billc
At 9:37 AM +0100 12/18/06, Fritz Borgstedt wrote: Though not nearly as frequent as incorrectly dated spam, we often see real mail with wierd dates. Perhaps this is a Mac thing, as earlier Mac OS would often lose its date if the system became corrupt or if the mobo battery died. All the

Re: [Assp-user] Multiple servers

2006-12-12 Thread billc
At 4:36 PM +0100 12/12/06, Fritz Borgstedt wrote: We are working on a feature: The idea is to distinguish destination based on point of connexion typically IP address, but potentially ip:port. Only to be applied where the destination is defined as __INBOUND__ Based on the connexion we may

Re: [Assp-user] Do Redlisted emails skip any checks?

2006-12-08 Thread billc
At 4:29 PM -0500 12/8/06, Eric B. wrote: But what about redlisted emails? Does a redlisted email skip any checks? Or do they go through the same checks as a regular mail, but just not get added to the corpus/whitelist? From what I can tell, a redlisted email is nothing more than a

Re: [Assp-user] Outgoing mail corrupting the /notspam directory?

2006-11-27 Thread billc
At 11:33 PM -0500 11/27/06, Eric B. wrote: Any other ideas? You are saying, your mailserver is not adding a forwarding-header ? And you can not put that header into red regex? Am not sure exactly what you mean by a forwarding-header. The MTA isn't configured to specifically add an

[Assp-user] Q re: move2num.pl

2006-10-18 Thread billc
Hi all, Question about the move2num.pl script: I'm currently running more than one instance of ASSP; one on a server running an opensource mail program, and another running a commercial email program. They serve different domains, with similar email patterns. The commercial side has far

Re: [Assp-user] Two install questions, and then I am ready to test.

2006-10-11 Thread billc
At 1:25 PM -0500 10/11/06, Rance Hall wrote: In section Validate Local Adresses you can put the addresses in a file and/or use LDAP for verification. I can get the addresses to a list file, no problem. I still have a question about a mailing list address and all the different variation

Re: [Assp-user] PHP tool to view and Sort your Spam/Notspam

2006-10-10 Thread billc
At 2:11 PM +0200 10/10/06, Fritz Borgstedt wrote: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net schreibt: But that is precisely Michaels point... the effectiveness *was* diminished, due to 2 (I think he said 2) specific users who were *very* heavy

Re: [Assp-user] [SPAM] Got a regex for this?

2006-08-25 Thread billc
At 11:25 AM +0200 8/25/06, Matti Haack wrote: Hello, Try this: (?:(?:\n|\r|(?:\r\n)) ,\w){4}? WIth a few changes, that appears to be doing the trick. Thanks. changes are: [a-z]|[A-Z] instead of \w (I want it only to find single letters at this point, not words) and (3) instead of (4), as the

[Assp-user] Got a regex for this?

2006-08-24 Thread billc
Hi all, It seems that a lot of the spam activity I'm personally receiving is for 'personal enhancement drugs' and has a pattern like this after the usual speil: , h , z , y , y That is: (carriage return comma space letter) repeated four times. I figure that if I just bounced messages

[Assp-user] Restart needed after loading new db?

2006-08-14 Thread billc
Hi all, I seem to remember that ASSP does not have to be restarted after the spamdb is rebuilt. Just wanted to check, as I have three servers running ASSP, but everyone reports their spam and sends their mail out through one. The db is rebuilt there and then copied over to the other two