Re: mass check tips and tricks - need advice

2013-02-18 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Damn, I thought I had you in my junk list - play nice spammer and keep one address? On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:34:15 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: >OK - I'm getting mass checking set up and working. I'm still in the >testing phase. > >Right now the process of selecting spam and ham is automated. It's n

Re: Bayes database in mysql on multiple servers

2011-11-30 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:14:33 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: >On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:11:49 +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote: > >> Am 30.11.2011 09:06, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas: >>> On 30.11.11 00:17, Alex wrote: I have two fedora15 boxes that process mail for a few domains, and rec

Re: Not sure if this is old or new

2011-09-22 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:08:42 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >On 20.09.11 18:57, Nigel Frankcom wrote: >>I moved SA to a newer box and have the following output in my logs: >>http://pastebin.com/VvZfXwAC >> >>Apologies if I'm being dense, but is there a wa

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL on my own emails to self

2011-04-10 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:59:29 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: >Hello rstarkov, > >Am 2011-04-09 15:50:36, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: >> Does your header definitely include an ESMTP marker as per the RFC? Mine >> didn't; that was the real issue. We didn't find a bug in this rule. So I >> guess

Re: Performance on Spear Phishing?

2011-03-18 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:22:40 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 12:58 +0000, Nigel Frankcom wrote: >> Unrelated but reminded me I hadn't posted a thanks to all those that >> responded about the sa-update rules. That's partly because I'm >&

Re: Performance on Spear Phishing?

2011-03-17 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Unrelated but reminded me I hadn't posted a thanks to all those that responded about the sa-update rules. That's partly because I'm awaiting permission from clients to add their mails to the corpus. So, thanks all. Apologies for forgetting my manners. Have no clue about Spear Phishing other than

sa-updates

2011-03-10 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Apologies if this has been covered, an admittedly fairly cursory Google showed nothing new. My local sa-update hasn't updated in the better part of a month. Is it that there have been no updates or do I need to dig into my systems to see what I broke, how and when? Regards to all Nigel

Re: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-29 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:26:07 -0500, "David F. Skoll" wrote: >On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:09:42 +0100 >Matthias Leisi wrote: > >> I'm not sure whether that would be more appropriate for the dev list, >> but I guess this is relevant/of interest to the SpamAssassin project, >> and I don't know whether t

Re: Comment - GFI/SORBS

2010-12-15 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:04:18 +, "corpus.defero" wrote: > >> Ultimately, this seems to be more of a witch hunt against SORBS than a >> SA issue. Although I'm not opposed to a SORBS witch hunt, I don't think >> it belongs here. > >Indeed, and it's Lynford and his money grabbing cronies mostl

Re: Comment - GFI/SORBS

2010-12-15 Thread Nigel Frankcom
This is a long and somewhat complex story. I've been running my own mail for 15+ years or so, always on a fixed IP. A few years ago business picked up so I got some additional IP's from my supplier (BT); it turned out that they were "decommissioned" DUL's renewed as statics. Initially we jumped the

Comment - GFI/SORBS

2010-12-14 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Is sorbs going to be continued as a scoring option in SA? Having hit yet more problems with them I've zeroed their scoring. I found this a couple of days ago, maybe it can add weight. http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/12/gfi-sorbs-considered-harmful/ Best to all Nigel

Re: SpamAssassin service file missing after installation

2010-10-27 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Those are not optional modules. You can either install them from CPAN or from yum (depending on the repo you use) As a rule if it says REQUIRED, it probably is :-) Apologies if this is teaching you to suck eggs: In CPAN type: install Digest::SHA Or in yum, do yum list available and look in th

ot/possibly

2010-07-06 Thread Nigel Frankcom
I've not been paying much attention to the list, silly season and work/home preassures. Of late I've had some truly horrific backscatter issues, enough to pretty much drop my primary mail. I suspect it's an artifact of the server, which is being swapped out, since it only happens on the rdns domai

Re: [OT] was SORBS

2010-04-30 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:48:49 +0100, "corpus.defero" wrote: >On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:19 +0100, Nigel Frankcom wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:59:57 +0100, "corpus.defero" >> wrote: >> >> >On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:50 +0100, Nigel Frankcom wro

Re: [OT] was SORBS

2010-04-30 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:59:57 +0100, "corpus.defero" wrote: >On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:50 +0100, Nigel Frankcom wrote: > >> We're on a BT only exchange here so it's them or nothing, well not >> quite, I could go CoLo... hmmm maybe not, or satellite, I was in

Re: [OT] was SORBS

2010-04-30 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:22:16 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 08:43 -0400, Lee Dilkie wrote: >> First, I'd like to point out that not everyone has the option of >> changing ISP's. Believe it or not, there are many folks who have only >> one choice for high-speed internet acces

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On 20 April 2010 18:29, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On tir 20 apr 2010 19:17:10 CEST, Nigel Frankcom wrote > >> My IP has full rDNS supplied by my ISP - please feel free to ping -a >> 217.36.54.209 and tell me what exactly is wrong wit that? > > http://www.db.ripe.ne

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On 20 April 2010 18:07, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On tir 20 apr 2010 18:56:37 CEST, John Hardin wrote >>> >>> not correct, hotmail gmail yahoo works without isp dependice, why care ? >> >> You're kidding, right, Benny? > > does it looks so ? > >> Why care that the ISP providing my IP addresses can't

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
My IP has full rDNS supplied by my ISP - please feel free to ping -a 217.36.54.209 and tell me what exactly is wrong wit that? On 20 April 2010 16:08, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On tir 20 apr 2010 15:04:53 CEST, Nigel Frankcom wrote > >> If anyone has any ideas - please let me know? >

Re: SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On 20 April 2010 14:13, corpus.defero wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 14:04 +0100, Nigel Frankcom wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Am I the only one incabale of figuring out the SORBS interface? >> >> I'm told by various mailserver that sorbs is blocking me (includ

SORBS

2010-04-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Am I the only one incabale of figuring out the SORBS interface? I'm told by various mailserver that sorbs is blocking me (including this list hence mailing from my gmail account). When I log on to sorbs, give my details I get a nice email back saying: $Id: Act.pm,v 1.16 2006/11/27 03:36

Re: Any known issues with Razor2?

2010-03-23 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:12:16 +, Nigel Frankcom wrote: >Hi All, > >Apologies if this has already been asked. A hunt through Google didn't >help much nor did any digging around the SA site. That's not to say >it's not there, just that I can't find it :-/

Any known issues with Razor2?

2010-03-23 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Apologies if this has already been asked. A hunt through Google didn't help much nor did any digging around the SA site. That's not to say it's not there, just that I can't find it :-/ I have Razor2 installed via CPAN, though without a version number. When I try and install the new SA I

Re: Bayes help

2010-03-14 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:20:14 -0400, Alex wrote: >Hi, > >> Do you have Autolearn On? > >Yes. Here is the bayes config from my local.cf: > >use_bayes 1 >bayes_auto_learn 1 >bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam -0.9 >bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 16.0 >bayes_expiry_max_db_size 100 > >Thanks, >Al

Re: Bayes help

2010-03-14 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:08:17 -0400, Alex wrote: >Hi, > >I'm concerned that my bayes database may contain incorrect >information. I performed a search on all of the messages in the >quarantine, and pulled out the ones that contained BAYES_00 in their >score. There weren't all that many of them, bu

Re: Bayes help

2010-03-14 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:08:17 -0400, Alex wrote: >Hi, > >I'm concerned that my bayes database may contain incorrect >information. I performed a search on all of the messages in the >quarantine, and pulled out the ones that contained BAYES_00 in their >score. There weren't all that many of them, bu

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Nigel Frankcom
ze of msgs >was not altered in any fashion - just the usual size of incoming spam/mails > >There are no AV [you mean Anti Virus right?] running on the machine > >Would be back with results > >-- > > > > >Nigel Frankcom-2 wrote: >> >> I'm assuming you

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread Nigel Frankcom
I'm assuming you run a tad more messages than I, but on a quad with a failover I have never seen the failover kick in 4 years. This is not disputing your observations, just noting mine. I claim absolutely no knowledge about the core processing/stacking though I would assume (perhaps incorrectly) t

Re: sa-update error

2009-06-08 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 03:30:59 -0700 (PDT), snowweb wrote: > >I've just heard about sa-update and tried to run it. I was thinking of >setting up a cron to do it daily, however, I got the following error message >when I ran it manually: > >[r...@s1 spamassassin]# sa-update && service spamassassin res

Re: Custome rule problem. Resolved

2009-02-19 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:01:48 -0800 (PST), John Hardin wrote: >On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Nigel Frankcom wrote: > >> Testing was done through spamassassin --lint and with debug. I used a >> mail that *should* have hit the rules. > >--lint is not for testing rule performance, as

Re: Custome rule problem.

2009-02-19 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:16:48 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:50 +0000, Nigel Frankcom wrote: > >> Using --lint the rule come back clean but on testing it appears to be >> ignored. It's in the spamassassin directory. >> >> Am I mis

Custome rule problem.

2009-02-19 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, I've written the following rule to deal with spam a particular set of users are getting hit by that very few of my rules are hitting. Using --lint the rule come back clean but on testing it appears to be ignored. It's in the spamassassin directory. Am I missing something stupid? (Wouldn'

Re: html experts: empty

2009-01-30 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:00:47 -0800, Kelson wrote: >On the subject of vs