Re: New spam-to me-and how do I stop.

2009-01-06 Thread Bob McClure Jr
- Set your score to push them over the threshold. Much more than that and you risk FPs. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. b...@bobcatos.com http://www.bobcatos.com My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke

Re: had it with spaces spam and idiots at hotmail

2008-10-29 Thread Bob McClure Jr
Security Products Guide * CRN Magazine Top 40 Emerging Security Vendors Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com The Lord says: These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips

Re: Strange behavior - load high when scanning mail from one specific user

2008-10-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
(or deleted) his bayes_* files, and that cured the problem, though he had to start over on Bayes. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Revelation 3

Re: Mailer DAEMON Returns Body Check on Multipart

2008-08-25 Thread Bob McClure Jr
telling me, that modules like SPF are not present. Any hints on that? The SPF modules are not required, but helpful. You can install them from CPAN, and then rerun your perl Makefile.PL for SA. Regards, Alexander Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-22 Thread Bob McClure Jr
://www.thehundredacre.net/ Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Jesus turned and saw her. Take heart, daughter, he said, your faith has healed you. And the woman was healed from that moment. Matthew 9:22 (NIV)

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-22 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:38:09PM +0200, mouss wrote: Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:37:39AM -0400, Kevin Parris wrote: snippage The spammers are spending other people's money, since much of their work is done by hijacked machines, thus they do not care how 'expensive

Re: general questions abour spamc/spamd

2008-05-02 Thread Bob McClure Jr
it and returns it with the desired spam markup. then how does it cycle to get to the recipient client?? After it comes back from spamc, what happens depends on the following procmail recipes. You can divert it, delete it (to /dev/null), or send it on to the recipient. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr

Re: logrotate query !

2008-03-03 Thread Bob McClure Jr
, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalm 57:10 (NIV)

Re: Logging with SA/procmail standalone (no spamd)

2008-01-29 Thread Bob McClure Jr
like /var/log/maillog) and have procmail call spamc instead of spamassassin? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by observing the law; rather, through the law

Re: exclude emails with Japanese chars [not spam]

2007-11-21 Thread Bob McClure Jr
-wide, put it in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and restart MailScanner. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Then Jesus said, Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God? John 11:40 (NIV)

Re: Maillog shows a few errors

2007-11-17 Thread Bob McClure Jr
package Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1197. I'd use CPAN to install the Tie::Cache module to start with. Then see what falls out. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: re the 419 scam apologizing for 419 scams

2007-09-13 Thread Bob McClure Jr
cleaned his machine. That might mean shutting down the legitimate client too, and they could try to sue for lack of service. I believe that is covered in the Terms Of Service that the subscriber agrees to in order to get service. Loren Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat

Re: Maybe I'm dense...

2007-09-06 Thread Bob McClure Jr
...-tf4393677.html#a12527794 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance. 2

Re: OT blacklist check

2007-08-28 Thread Bob McClure Jr
} servers. If so, you will have to look them up and give them a ringy-dingy and anything else that's appropriate. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor my

Re: Using SpamAssassin to filter port 110

2007-08-20 Thread Bob McClure Jr
can run spamd and call spamc from each user's .procmailrc. The SA distribution includes examples of how to do that. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved

Re: Post cart spams

2007-07-17 Thread Bob McClure Jr
- Of course you can divert it to some quarantine bin, instead of /dev/null. Be sure to set up ClamAV as daemon or stand-alone first, before you build clamassassin. clamassassin figures out for itself whether it needs to call clamscan or clamdscan during the build process. Cheers, -- Bob McClure

Re: Post cart spams

2007-07-17 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:42:31AM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: Bob McClure Jr wrote: I installed clamassassin What a dumb name for software. Does it want to assassin ClamAV? I think its intention was to make ClamAV as easy to use as SpamAssassin, and it succeeds very well. I'd also say

Re: sa-learn --forget

2007-07-13 Thread Bob McClure Jr
, that will automatically forget its spamminess and learn it as ham. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry

Re: Confused about which bayes db gets used with spamc?

2007-06-30 Thread Bob McClure Jr
-about-which-bayes-db-gets-used-with-spamc--tf4004657.html#a11373245 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com The Lord says: These people come near

Re: Setting up an email rule for these posts

2007-05-15 Thread Bob McClure Jr
on full headers and you will see a line: List-Id: users.spamassassin.apache.org Filter on that. That works with many lists. Any help appreciated. Chris. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Pride only breeds

Re: Increase of spam?

2007-05-03 Thread Bob McClure Jr
the blighter down. I do that for mailing list postings I have to moderate on a list server I don't control, and mail sent to postmaster at my domain. Am I not correct in not filtering mail to postmaster? Sorry, I think I digressed a bit, there. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open

Re: Increase of spam?

2007-05-03 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:13:33AM -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007, Bob McClure Jr wrote:  If he has a legit mail server, then he should trace back to the client Yes, its widely known that every mail system administrator has hours of idle time on his hands to track

Re: Fowarding spams to the list.... Not good???

2007-04-30 Thread Bob McClure Jr
] Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so

Re: cannot install it on BSD

2007-04-28 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:00:10AM +0800, Mailing List wrote: Hi guys, I cannot install spamassassin on FreeBSD. Does anyone experienced with this before? Not here. any advices will be appreciated. Any clues besides it doesn't work? thx Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat

Re: IP - Responsible Person

2007-04-25 Thread Bob McClure Jr
; } $netname do { # warn netname found: $netname; $netname ne $arg whois($netname); } } =8 Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: IP - Responsible Person

2007-04-25 Thread Bob McClure Jr
a more automated tool. In my best of all possible worlds, instead of throwing away obvious spam (scoring 10 or more), I'm going to identify the sending IP and auto-report the stuff. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Spamd dieing for no apparent reason

2007-04-17 Thread Bob McClure Jr
of spamd didn't work right. Found I had to stop spamd, sleep for a few seconds, and then start it. If I did a plain restart, the start part didn't work because some of the children were still alive. There is doubtless a more elegant solution, but that worked. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
in our environment. Just take a bit of time to setup botnet and your trusted_networks correctly and all will run just fine. Bill Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy

Re: Change from new mail mode to add to the existing header

2007-04-03 Thread Bob McClure Jr
://www.nabble.com/Change-from-%22new-mail-mode%22-to-%22add-to-the-existing-header%22-tf3515321.html#a9827762 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com A new

Re: Sunday Morning Email Geek

2007-04-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
#a9777388 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd

2007-03-21 Thread Bob McClure Jr
: =?UTF-8?B?SmVyZW15IENoYXBtYW4=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:22:48 + Content-type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 -- Robert Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com The wicked man earns deceptive

Re: sendmail's vacation(1) Precedence: junk headers

2007-03-12 Thread Bob McClure Jr
about how vacation works. Any advice will be appreciated, Damon Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 1 Peter 5:6 (NIV)

Re: [2] Auto-whitelist Errors others.

2007-03-08 Thread Bob McClure Jr
4096 Mar 8 14:35 spamassassin/ That's definitely not going to work. 0777, not 0666 (directory, not a file). -- Randomly Selected Tagline: You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL

Re: whitelist problem

2007-03-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
. please suggest something. Provide an example header, scoring, and applicable whitelist entry? Regards .. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything

Re: SA successfully installed, but it doesn't work. Can't locate Digest/SHA1.pm?

2007-02-25 Thread Bob McClure Jr
with that? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing right. James 2:8 (NIV)

Re: SA successfully installed, but it doesn't work. Can't locate Digest/SHA1.pm?

2007-02-25 Thread Bob McClure Jr
not running the 3.0.0 version of that tool, and instead the older 2.x version is still installed on your system, and still in the PATH. - Original Message From: Bob McClure Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:57:18 PM Subject: Re

Re: SpamAssassin using spamc but not using rules correctly? Is my time being wasted changing local.cf etc?

2007-02-12 Thread Bob McClure Jr
Phone: +64 9 970 5550 Fax: +64 9 970 5559 DDI: +64 9 970 5552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.turnstone.co.nz Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Bob McClure Jr
://www.rulesemporium.com/ Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. Jeremiah 32:17 (NIV)

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Bob McClure Jr
::File. Kind Regards, Philip Seccombe Turnstone Technologies NZ Limited Phone: +64 9 970 5550 Fax: +64 9 970 5559 DDI: +64 9 970 5552 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.turnstone.co.nz major snippage Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Bob McClure Jr
PROTECTED] Web: www.turnstone.co.nz -Original Message- From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 9 February 2007 12:41 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

Re: Botnet FP

2007-02-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
://www.frukt.org/ Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. Romans 8:6 (NIV)

Re: sa-update correctly done?

2007-01-29 Thread Bob McClure Jr
99_sare_fraud_post25x_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net 99_sare_fraud_post25x_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net.cf updates_spamassassin_org updates_spamassassin_org.cf updates_spamassassin_org.pre Am I doing these correctly ? Please advise. Yes, that is correct. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open

Re: bayes sql initialization

2007-01-25 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 05:20:27AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:01:58PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Am I correct in understanding that I have to run sa-learn for every user who is going to have a bayes token store? If you are running per-user

Re: bayes sql initialization

2007-01-24 Thread Bob McClure Jr
their Bayes with mis-marked ham and spam, or want to pre-load Bayes with some corpus. Standardize shouldbeham and shouldbespam boxes, and cron is your friend. I'd say Bob's your uncle, but I'm not. :-) Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: sa-update exclude some rulesets

2007-01-22 Thread Bob McClure Jr
, but if the programme takes an option somehow, that would be better. In your local.cf, put score rule_you_dont_want 0 thanks rolf. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com When they saw the courage of Peter

Re: sa-stats.pl blows up on maillog covering turn of year

2007-01-04 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:09:54PM -0600, Chris wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:18 pm, Bob McClure Jr wrote: I run sa-stats.pl written by Dallas: # file: sa-stats.pl # date: 2005-07-27 # version: 0.9 # author: Dallas Engelken [EMAIL PROTECTED] # desc: SA 3.x log parser

Re: sa-stats.pl blows up on maillog covering turn of year

2007-01-03 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:44:34PM -0600, Chris wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 3:54 pm, Bob McClure Jr wrote: sa-stats.pl as distributed with SA v3.1.7 blows out a ton of WARNING: ignoring future date in syslog line: Dec 31 20:26:56 bubba spamd[7149]: prefork: child states: II

sa-stats.pl blows up on maillog covering turn of year

2007-01-02 Thread Bob McClure Jr
this? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me -- put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:9 (NIV)

Re: How best to restart SpamAssassin with RDJ

2006-12-11 Thread Bob McClure Jr
/spamassassin restart or /sbin/service spamassassin restart for SA_RESTART. They are functionally identical. Thanks, Geoff Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Where you go in the hereafter depends on what you were

Re: Systemwide Procmail usage

2006-12-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
: * ^List-Id: users\.spamassassin\.apache.org /var/spool/mail/bob which diverts such mail directly to my mailbox without going through SA. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Where you go in the hereafter depends on what

Re: Systemwide Procmail usage

2006-12-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:38:38AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, December 1, 2006 8:06 am, Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:56:06AM -0500, Will Nordmeyer wrote: I know this isn't the procmail list, but had a quick question. My server is running SA 3.1.7

Re: Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread Bob McClure Jr
. -- _ John Andersen Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Where you go in the hereafter depends on what you were after here. - Thanks to Graffiti, 2 March 2004

Re: Sending Marked up mail to another address

2006-11-17 Thread Bob McClure Jr
* ^^rom[ ] { LOG=*** Dropped F off From_ header! Fixing up. :0 fhw | sed -e '1s/^/F/' } Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Where you go in the hereafter depends on what you were after here

Re: FW: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/update-rules.sh

2006-11-10 Thread Bob McClure Jr
McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Where you go in the hereafter depends on what you were after here. - Thanks to Graffiti, 2 March 2004

Re: sa-learn in background

2006-10-11 Thread Bob McClure Jr
Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Where you go in the hereafter depends on what you were after here. - Thanks to Graffiti, 2 March 2004

Re: sa-learn in background

2006-10-11 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 02:00:42PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:23:28PM -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote: it's over with, the script umounts the share and sometimes that reports umount: /var/spamtmp: device is busy No, it isn't sitting on /var/spamtmp

Re: local.cf

2006-10-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
files in (presumably) /etc/mail/spamassassin/ with .cf extension will be read. Don't forget to restart spamd if you are using it. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Where you go in the hereafter depends on what you

Re: sa-learn: option to delete learn-mails

2006-10-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
length. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Where you go in the hereafter depends on what you were after here. - Thanks to Graffiti, 2 March 2004

Re: sa-learn: option to delete learn-mails

2006-10-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:38:41PM -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bob McClure Jr wrote: Why not add ; $myuser/spam_learn $myuser/spam_learn would be better. means only execute if the preceding step completed successfully. That way if sa-learn fails you won't delete

Re: The grey hats are at it in force

2006-08-31 Thread Bob McClure Jr
Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 I have, from time to time, alerted a network admin of a phishing page on a machine on his network. He may well have handled it directly. I would have. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL

Re: What is normal period for SA retraining ?

2006-06-15 Thread Bob McClure Jr
per-user Bayes, and those that care feed sa-learn anything that's mis-categorized. I have a very low false rate. Currently using v3.1.1. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Jesus wasn't (and isn't) politically

Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-07 Thread Bob McClure Jr
. :-) Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com The best things in life aren't things.

Re: Updated Pump and Dump rules. 2006-02-23

2006-02-24 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:25:02AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 23:20, Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:59:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: A snippet or 3 from a 'crontab -l' as root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06 22 * * * /etc/init.d/asmb restart

Re: Updated Pump and Dump rules. 2006-02-23

2006-02-23 Thread Bob McClure Jr
everything put there. If RDJ is sending me email from its early morning run, its getting lost someplace. Also, where would it put it if it did dl a new version of itself? Probably in /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/. -- Cheers, Gene Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open

Re: Updated Pump and Dump rules. 2006-02-23

2006-02-23 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:59:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:45, Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:36:19PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: snippage Also, where would it put it if it did dl a new version of itself? Probably in /etc/mail

Re: Updated Pump and Dump rules. 2006-02-18

2006-02-21 Thread Bob McClure Jr
for ruleset named SARE_STOCKS. Check that this ruleset is still valid. am I doing something wrong? You need a new rules_du_jour. SARE_STOCKS was added in version 1.28. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com

Re: seeing a few new spams with low SA scoring

2005-12-06 Thread Bob McClure Jr
straight to /dev/null. SA never sees it. so SA does not trap it, should i be looking at a procmail rule to dump the emails. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary.

Re: RulesDuJour problem

2005-12-04 Thread Bob McClure Jr
called it). Long option names are preceded by two dashes. Somewhere you have -max-conn-per-child=50 where you should have --max-conn-per-child=50 Look over man spamd and check your options against that. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Help with install and config

2005-10-19 Thread Bob McClure Jr
this piece of info on the Web site anywhere, it needs to be CHMOD'ed to 755. I wouldn't have guessed that. For good reason. It should be 644. No reason to have it executable. Thanks again Liam Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Problem to start spamd as a user

2005-08-26 Thread Bob McClure Jr
??? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bruno Della Ducata is out of the office.]

2005-08-26 Thread Bob McClure Jr
: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on bobcat.bobcatos.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE, NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=3.0.4 I will be out of the office until 05.09.2005. - End forwarded message - Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr

Re: Problem to start spamd as a user

2005-08-26 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:03:53PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: At 09:58 AM 8/26/2005, Bob McClure Jr wrote: Umm, why do you want to do that? spamd is supposed to be started as root, after which it changes ID to a non-priveledged user, like nobody. Erm, bob.. Patrick IS starting it as root

Re: Error in starting spamd

2005-08-22 Thread Bob McClure Jr
/spamassassin and edit the file. Look for the options line and remove the -a from it. {^_^} Check also /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Peace at any price is inflationary.

Re: Where should I adjust scoring

2005-08-15 Thread Bob McClure Jr
/user_prefs unless it's processing email for spamfilter, and it's being called from something like ~spamfilter/.procmailrc. Thanks, Craig Sloan Also, you should upgrade to v3.0.4. Versions 3.0.1-3 have a DOS vulnerability. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL

Re: Not delivering Spam with Procmail

2005-08-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
that stuff if you want to, but if I went for a month without finding anything salvageable, I'd change things to summarily punt anything that scores that high. I punt anything above 9.0. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God

Re: spamd failded to start after upgrade to version 3.0.4

2005-08-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
disclaimer punted Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God doesn't have (or need) a Plan B.

Re: /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin restart

2005-08-06 Thread Bob McClure Jr
to reduce the max number of connections per child, if you're trying to hold down memory consumption. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God doesn't have (or need) a Plan B.

Re: spamassassin restart

2005-08-06 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 04:24:55PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Saturday 06 August 2005 10:13 am, Bob McClure Jr wrote: Shutting down spamd: [ OK ] Starting spamd: Could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use (IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use) [FAILED

Re: Basic Questions

2005-07-28 Thread Bob McClure Jr
will be read and used. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God doesn't have (or need) a Plan B.

Re: RDJ from cron - is it safe?

2005-06-27 Thread Bob McClure Jr
, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God doesn't have (or need) a Plan B.

Re: Exceptions to all_spam_to?

2005-06-16 Thread Bob McClure Jr
accounts. Some punt all spam. Some punt spam that scores 9 or more. Some just mark spam without punting any of it. Not hard to manage at all. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God is more interested in our availability than

Re: OT : How to 'nomail' this list

2005-06-13 Thread Bob McClure Jr
. -- Homer Simpson Homer Defined Homer didn't happen to mention where he found the manual (for women) did he? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God is more interested in our availability

Re: debug output to file?

2005-06-07 Thread Bob McClure Jr
is the file handle for stderr. Mike Schrauder Specialty Blades, Inc. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God is more interested in our availability than our ability.

Re: (OT, slightly) dealing with AOL spam reports?

2005-05-18 Thread Bob McClure Jr
that all of them need to subscribe themselves. /rant Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com God is more interested in our availability than our ability.

Re: Spamassasin false positive review

2005-04-04 Thread Bob McClure Jr
with description, score listing, and then attaches the original message. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Everyone wants to harvest, but few want to plow.

Re: bogus-virus-warnings-cf

2005-04-02 Thread Bob McClure Jr
will be redirected to /dev/null, oh no, it's full...). (Michael Beck, describing the PC-speaker sound device) Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Everyone wants to harvest

Re: EFF Newsletter as SPAM

2005-04-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
, such an entry should subtract 100 points from the total score. It appears that whatever you put in the whitelist_from is not matching what's in the From: line. Could you show your whitelist_from line and a sample header of the subject email? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open

Re: EFF Newsletter as SPAM

2005-04-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:56:32AM -0600, Chris wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:55 pm, Bob McClure Jr wrote: Here's the latest one to come in: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,PYZOR_CHECK, SARE_MILLIONSOF,SARE_MONEYTERMS autolearn=disabled version

Re: Scanning and deleting my probably-spam folder

2005-03-23 Thread Bob McClure Jr
it will be re-created. Any ideas? Let me know if any of that's not clear. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Worry is a waste of the imagination.

a more effective spam defense

2005-03-23 Thread Bob McClure Jr
to secondary MXs. This morning, in the shower (where many great ideas are born), it occurred to me that if one combined the two concepts, i.e. implement greylisting on (only) the secondary MX server, one might get all the benefits with no downside. Have I missed something? Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr

Re: How do I whitelist this list?

2005-03-22 Thread Bob McClure Jr
. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Worry is a waste of the imagination.

Re: Excessive DNS Requests

2005-03-22 Thread Bob McClure Jr
. I can't give you specific instructions for FC1, but I know older versions of RedHat had a package specifically for this, all preconfigured. I think it was pdnsd, but it appears not to be in the FC sets. Google for it. It was very easy to set up. I still use it. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr

Re: upgrading methods

2005-01-12 Thread Bob McClure Jr
(including clients) RedHat 9, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com Wise men still seek Him.

Re: what about non-marked spam?

2004-09-12 Thread Bob McClure Jr
it that certain message is a spam such as Thunderbird etc...? Thanks, redrag Two things: man sa-learn http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ In the latter, look for Spam getting through? among other things. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Using the -l (log) option

2004-09-06 Thread Bob McClure Jr
Core Linux with SA v2.6x, the stock /etc/rc.d/init.d/spam* has SPAMDOPTIONS=-d -c -a -m5 -H In my installations, spamc is called from each user's ~/.procmailrc. spamd normally logs to /var/log/maillog the user, score, and whether it was judged spam or ham. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr