I'll say. I have mine set at 4, which I have found (for my setup) is pretty
near perfect, even though it is lower than the default setting of 5.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I added this to my Sendmail configuration a couple of weeks back, and I have
been amazed at how much SPAM has been rejected as a result.
I prefer to have Sendmail reject it at the get-go, rather than have it come
all the way through to SA.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Compan
This sounds like my earlier problem trying to sa-learn "large" mailboxes.
Others here commented that it "must be a hardware problem," but my box is
fairly new with very decent components (built from scratch by me but with
"good" MB and memory, etc.) and nothing else I do, including using X, gives
Definitely SPAM, and of a particularly nasty sort. Somehow someone is
snagging emails off the archive or some other way, and fabricating these
replies.
Bad business.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mai
I am running SA 2.60 installed from the RPMs on Red Hat 9,
on an AMD 2100+ based system with a half-gig of RAM.
This has now happened for the second time. Before when it
happened, about two weeks ago, I figured it was just a coincidence. Now, I’m
positive that it’s SA-LEARN that is the
It isn't SA you want, it's procmail. The formail tool in the procmail
package will do anything like this that you want.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard
Hofm
am.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin
Radford
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:23 PM
To: Bill Polhemus
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Auto-Learn
At Tue
I use Sendmail with SA, but I do use procmail.
Do you not have access to the ability to install packages on your server?
Otherwise, you’re going to have to
use the Spamass milter, which means you’ve STILL got installation to do.
Without the ability to install stuff on
your server,
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin
Radford
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:23 PM
To: Bill Polhemus
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Auto-Learn
"autolearn=no" indicates that this particular message was not learned
fr
How can I know for sure if Auto-Learn is functioning
correctly?
It does seem to be working for SOME messages but the headers
in many of them say:
X-Spam-Status: … autolearn=no
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
Yes. In fact, I have a .procmailrc file that uses the ${HOME} variable among
other "generics", and can be put in the HOME directory of any user. That way
the user can also add their own recipes if they like.
Oh, and I also have a /etc/procmail file that has some "site-wide" recipes
(it adds stuff
IIRC, it should be
Sa-learn --spam --mbox kill
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph
P. Wetstein
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let me guess: You're hiring hit men to track down and eliminate, not just
the Spam, but the Spammers themselves!
Then, you're going to invest in genetic research that will find the "Spammer
gene" and provide an inoculation for all the children in the world, to
eradicate any possibility that they w
I do it using a procmail recipe, such as:
=BEGIN PROCMAIL RECIPE==
:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
{
# Mails with a score of 15 or higher are almost certainly spam (with 0.05%
# false positives according to rules/STATISTICS.txt). Let's delete them
# completely.
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Level
Yes.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas
Kinghorn
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:50 AM
To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail)
Subject: [SAtalk] custom rules >> local.
I cannot speak as an expert on this score, but my understanding is that a
"combination" of such Bayesian databases would likely do more harm than good
because the residual spam corpus that would get through the general SA
filtering would be very specific to the recipient.
That is, combining databa
ick
Morris
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 3:18 PM
To: Bill Polhemus
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] "Insecure dependency in sysopen"
Bill Polhemus wrote:
> I realize this is a Perl problem, but can anyone help me diagnose
> this? I know next to NOTHING about Per
I realize this is a Perl problem, but can anyone help me
diagnose this? I know next to NOTHING about Perl.
The following is an error message I get when attempting to run
SA from an email alias under Sendmail:
- Transcript of session follows -
Insecure dependency in sy
. Polhemus, Jr.
P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Polhemus
Sent: Friday, October
17, 2003 6:26 PM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SAtalk] HELP: Can't
Invoke SA From Sendmail
I have wanted to set up a “spam trap” for some
time. First, I created an account, called “spamtest,” on my system.
Then, I went to Usenet and posted a ton of “test” messages to every
newsgroup I could think of (mostly the pr0n ones) where the address would be
harvested, and tried using the
This one got through. Can we figure out how and why?
Notice purposeful misspellings as obfuscations.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Begin Included Message-
16121g11n4m06a8a53594548b10126vx
291uqs7rz3xo63jl8w5ie14f3q3c3770The stoicism which
she
I always use the SRPMs when they are available.
However, I have never attempted to build SRPMS myself. Is this difficult to
do?
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dav
Well, a follow-up:
I figgered out that I probably had to “remake”
and “remake install”, etc.
Which I then proceeded to do, and then *BOOM!* I get a “compile error”
on Razor2.
Bear in mind that I had no problem
installing it before. Further bear in mind that I even erased the who
Okay, so I applied the patch as shown at:
http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq02.006.htp
But I get the following message, STILL:
razor2 check skipped: No such file or directory Insecure
dependency in open while running with -T switch at
/usr/lib/perl5/s
] SA-LEARN
(SA 2.60) "Segmentation Fault"
-->
Maybe you can
make the spam corpus available on a web page so other people can test if it segfaults
on their machine too ?
JS
-Message
d'origine-
De :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Bill Po
Running SA 2.60, I am seeing the following in my procmail
logs:
razor2 check skipped: No such file or directory Insecure
dependency in open
while running with -T switch at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Razor2/Client/Config.pm
line 414, line 1.
Can any
I noticed that if I try to feed SA-LEARN a mailbox full of
SPAM, it now “craps out” claiming “segmentation fault.”
Anyone have any ideas?
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
<>
I think this thing about RH "dropping" their boxed sets is really, really
overblown. They will continue to make updates available, and they will
release new distributions. You just won't be buying them in stores.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Orig
I implemented some of the rules others have posted on this
list regarding “obfuscating text”. Now that I am running SA 2.60, I
note that I’m getting the following error message.
Failed to compile body SpamAssassin tests, skipping:
(Bareword "i" not allowed while
"strict subs" i
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith C.
Ivey
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] More HTML Obfuscation: This One Made It Through
Bill Polhemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They use the
> spu
I really would prefer to implement something as complex as SA through the
RPMs on my Red Hat 9 system. So far, they are only up to SA 2.55. That has
worked fine up until recently, when the HTML obfuscation has begun cropping
up. Perhaps 2.60 can fix that.
Any idea when those will be available?
Wi
Here's another one from a batch of several that have gotten through SA 2.55
over the last several days. They use the spurious HTML tags to break up the
text and get it through the Bayesian filter.
I'm running these through every time I get one--and luckily, there've only
been about one or two per
-- Message Text -
Here's one that I got today, that slipped through (the first in over a
week). Not sure why SA 2.55 didn't get it:
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:23:22 -0400
From: Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: )US D-oct
I only have a couple of mailboxes here in my home office, but today was the
first day in WEEKS--since I got SA optimized--that SPAM got through.
We had three all from ostensibly the same source. Penis enlargement.
Hey, if I buy some, will they leave me alone?
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhem
"The Screwfly Solution"
A really good short story by SF writer Raccoona Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr./
(the late) Alice B. Sheldon as well.
Bet you didn't think anyone else would notice.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMA
Sheesh, how much for a Gig of RAM now, about 200 Euros or so?
What's the problem?
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kai
Schaetzl
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:12
Yes, and the answer is...
PROCMAIL!
(I sound like a, er, "scratched CD.")
Since SpamAssassin only tags the email, something else has to make the
decisions on what should be done with it afterward. PROCMAIL can examine the
headers, look at the X-Spam-Score field, do a test against it, and redirec
Best to do this as "root". Or try "/usr/bin/patch".
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert
Krüger
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Su
Again, this is a job...
FOR PROCMAIL!
(Admitting surprise that most don't use PROCMAIL along with SA...)
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver
Neubauer
Sent: Thu
Well, I use procmail to send mail to SA.
So how about a recipe, checking to see if mail is to that certain mailbox,
and putting that recipe before the recipe that sends "everything else" to
SA?
I find that procmail solves a whole host of my email problems, btw.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polh
If you are using Procmail (a good idea to use in tandem with SA anyway),
then see:
http://www.spamless.us/pub/procmail/virussnag
For a venerable, tried and true recipe for "snagging" viral emails. Even
though the recipe(s) has/have been around awhile, they still seem to work
even on the latest ge
Sorry, doesn't seem to work.
I'm using SA 2.55, if that makes a difference.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 12:41 PM
To: [EM
eadable report) than
that?
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 12:08 PM
To: Bill Polhemus
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Getting Some Bayesia
Is there a script available to tell me simply how many emails I have
processed through "SA-LEARN?" I would just like to know how many SPAM and
HAM messages have passed through the database.
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I'm curious. Can you not just use "rpmbuild --rebuild" on the .src.rpm
alone, and not worry about the .spec file?
That's what I do, and it seems to work okay.
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EM
What's the problem with just putting
*:
In your ALIASES file?
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven
W. Orr
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 9:39 PM
To: s
IIRC, sa-learn doesn't appear til 2.5x.
Do what I did: Compile from the tarball sources. It's not that tough (can't
be if even I can do it).
William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
Polhemus Engineering Company
Katy, Texas USA
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
I also run RH 9.0.
FWIW, I simply went and got (and compiled) Version 2.55 from the tarballs.
The RPMs are good, but sometimes I just don't have the patience to wait till
someone comes out with them (and I don't the inclination to learn how to
make SRPMs myself).
I like compiling from Source.
W
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert
Menschel
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:25 PM
To: Phil N
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] FW: Feedback on how identified spam is being handled
> All spam is then kept to be used as part
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