Thomas Nilsen wrote:
As you can see from the header info, the message got 8, and we have the
spam level set to 8.. Why would it not tag this email as spam?
Its because the X-Spam-Status: No. is rounded off, it may have only
scored 7.75, count the stars in X-Spam-Level, there's 7
tm
Try this:
http://www.spamassassin.org/full/2.6x/dist/USAGE
tm.
john walsh wrote:
Hi.
I am new to spamassassin, but it looks very good and I would like to use
it.
After reading a lot of DOC's, I have decided what I want to do, but none
of them have
shown me how to do it.
I want to run spamd
Mike Kuentz (2) wrote:
Terry Milnes wrote:
I am not exactly sure what you want, sprintspectrum.com is
NOT the same
domain as sprint.com, its irelevant that it may be hosted on the same
servers and owned by the same people.
I'm aware that sprintspectrum.com & sprint.com aren&#
I am not exactly sure what you want, sprintspectrum.com is NOT the same
domain as sprint.com, its irelevant that it may be hosted on the same
servers and owned by the same people.
whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sprint.com
whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sprintspectrum.com
Terry
Have you tried dropping the comma after [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see
the comma included in the spamassassin.conf man page.
Marcio Merlone wrote:
Hello all,
I think my whitelist_to is not working, can someone help me?
On /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]# grep [EMAIL PR
You could use procmail to call spamc, eg. .qmail-user files look like this:
| preline procmail -t -p ./the_users_name_here/Maildir/procmailrc
and the user's procmailrc:
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
VERBOSE=ON
### Spam Assassin
:0fw
* < 256000
| /usr/bin/spamc -u the_users_name_here -f
:0
*
./th
Are you sure the earthlink servers don't have another name prepended?
eg mail server name = mail1.earthlink.com, therefore it would be
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tm.
Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
I added a few entries in the local.cf to let all earthlink email come
through hopefully but it didn’t work. Her
Barb Bautista wrote:
Newbie question...sorry for my ignorance.
What do I do with the "tests performed" available here:
http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html
Could someone please explain if I should just copy this file into a .cf file
in my local.cf? I am currently running SA site-wide.
That's ju
Barry Porter sent me a link to the following (we were discussing this
off list):
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mvz/software/msgconvert.pl
This appears to be what I need
Terry
Terry Milnes wrote:
I am looking for a script that can convert the .msg file that is created
when you copy an outlook
I am looking for a script that can convert the .msg file that is created
when you copy an outlook message to a folder (out of the .pst tree) into
text or some other usable format.
Presently when I look at the file, the headers appear intact as does the
content, it is however full of other extra
Robert Harrison wrote:
Hi all,
Lots of helpfull people say this can be done by configuring SA to do it.
Well I guess lots of helpful people are wrong then.
However these same people don't mention how this can be done,
Thats because SA can't do it
so do any of you nice people out there know h
What do you mean by "user rules"? if you mean user preferences I
have preferences in mysql that are not in the local.cf and they do work.
Terry
Adam Denenberg wrote:
I believe Dallas touched on this some time ago when 2.55 was released
but not sure of the status. It appears still that in
Logan Harbaugh wrote:
To all concerned, I apologize for the apparent maligning of SpamAssassin
in my recent article in InfoWorld. In my original article, I stated that
I used the 2.44 release of SpamAssassin for two reasons - because it was
the version shipping with the latest release of Red Hat
Frederick M Avolio wrote:
At 06:13 AM 11/25/2003 +0100, Mark wrote:
Is SA hard to install? Not harder than any other program based on
Perl. Perl
is the underlying engine, which, in and by itself, has nothing to do with
SA. It is good to keep that in mind;
Perhaps this is *my* problem. November
Nancy McGough wrote:
On 24 Nov 2003 Fred ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[...]
SpamAssassin 2.4 is really out-dated, it's missing Bayes and thousands of
other fixes that make it a better product.
I had a good laugh on your article, you say "Spend the 10 or 20 per month
per year for one of the commerci
front than down the road. Software upgrades are done
in the comfort of my house, using SSH and webmin, usually taking only a
couple hours, if that, at my convenience...
-Jim
-Original Message-
From: Terry Milnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 11:16 AM
To: Je
The company I did this for is a small company, a large user base doesn't
mean a large company. The same can be said for the larger companies,
they may have an admin who makes 20 bucks an hour so their costs would
be in the $30 an hour range.
There were other considerations I didn't even mentio
From spamassassin man page:
-a, --auto-whitelist, --whitelist
Use auto-whitelists. Auto-whitelists track the long-term average score
for each sender and then shift the score of new messages toward that
long-term average. This can increase or decrease the score for
messages, depending on the l
And now for the real world.
I was asked a year ago to come up with a solution for spam filtering, in
a multiple domain, multiple user environment ( > 4,400 users). After
extensive research I recommended SA. I installed SA on my system and
ran it for about a month, it was an older version
Randall J. Parr wrote:
Running
Red Hat 8.0 with all current updates, sendmail-8.12.8-9.80,
procmail-3.22-7, and spamassassin-2.60-0.fdr.2.rh80
I have /etc/procmailrc passing to SpamAssassin as below:
# send mail through SpamAssassin
:0fw
* < 256000
| /usr/bin/spamc -f
It works BUT I think somet
Ditto, kinda, mine is specific to this list:
whitelist_to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists.sourceforge.net
Works for me and is harder for spammers to abuse.
Note that for this to work your mail system must be set up in such
a way that spamassassin can "see" the e
Paul Hirschorn wrote:
I have been working on a variety of scenarios of how to handle per user spam
prefs on a mail gateway machine. Through trial and error found a couple of
interesting things. In order to user prefs to be read from SQL I need to
invoke the -u "username" flag in spamc. I have my
Marco Schnüriger wrote:
Hi all
I've got spamassassin 2.60 running (as root, not fine I know). Sendmail
is working with spamass-milter which calls spamassassin. My system is a
red hat 8.0 box. In /var/log/maillog I see those recurring events:
Nov 17 10:19:36 probivirix spamd[30674]: cannot write to
Margit Meyer wrote:
Further I created accounts for all these "spamboxes". As a result every
user has two mailboxes: his "normal" mailbox, e. g. peter and a second,
the"spambox", e. g. peter_spam.
Now a user may (if he misses a mail) or may not look at his spambox to
control whether Spamassassin is
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry
Milnes
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 4:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Bounce all but whitelist
Haha I just had to try this Blacklist [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the db for that
particular u
This list seems to be worse than most though, go figure .
Matt Kettler wrote:
At 07:18 AM 11/12/03 -0500, Terry Milnes wrote:
Are the threads on this list screwed up by the list program, or is it
just users replying to existing mail to create new?
Just wondering, because it seems to be
Haha I just had to try this Blacklist [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the db for that
particular user, then add his acceptable senders as whitelisted entries.
Don't know about any negative ramifications, but it does work and will
fit in with the way you want it to.
tm
Tim Merkel wrote:
I have a clie
Are the threads on this list screwed up by the list program, or is it
just users replying to existing mail to create new?
Just wondering, because it seems to be terribly messed up
Terry...
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Margit Meyer wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:51:51 -0800
"Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All seems good. I am trapping all spam and viruses in /var/virusmail (they
are in .gz format)
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can add some better management
around spam that we have blocked, that we ne
and what happens when you run spamd -D from the command line?
Rajdeep Larha wrote:
I installed SpamAssassin as per the documentations available at the
spamassassin.org. I instaleld all the dependent modules and it installed
fine w/o any error,
I checked and verified using the command listed in
ess I could start with my corpus and add to it as I do mine, and
watch the test accounts to see how well it works.
Thanks
David B Funk wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Terry Milnes wrote:
The bayes filtering works great, but the typical user is not going to
want to jump through what he would conside
Lukreme wrote:
On 10 Nov 2003, at 07:33, Terry Milnes wrote:
The typical user is capable of making toast in his electric toaster,
but when it comes to the overwhelming complexities involved in
operating a computer he is totally lost. He will become extremely
agitated when he looses the *REALLY
Yeah RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK etc. is annoying, and it is a bug, that is
scheduled to be fixed in version 2.7 (the last time I looked)
In the meantime maybe notify whoever informed you that spamassassin has
a bug (# 2537 dialup dnsbl's don't skip first hop). They can add
"score RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 0"
Paul Hirschorn wrote:
I wanted to allow my users to be able to change there user prefs via the
mysql interface. The problem I am facing is most of my users have 3-6 email
addresses.
Sure there is...
I have multiple email accounts but only one user in mysql that each
account uses. This is accom
Lukreme wrote:
On 08 Nov 2003, at 06:46, Terry Milnes wrote:
Some of us though are system administrators and need a solution to
offer to the end users. The typical end user wants to open their
email and see no spam, period.
Since the definition of spam varies from person to person that is
you are correct, it doesn't resolve for me either
Mark wrote:
Is it just me, or is bl.spamcop.net gone? I am no longer able to get a DNS
resolution for it.
- Mark
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Now I don't expect SA to know dutch; that would be unfair. But what I
would
like is some way to score those english terms way higher than an american
would or could. For an american, mortgage does not spell spam per se. But
for ME it does, and I can practically guarantee I will not ever get an
em
Russell,
I suspect you are not comparing apples to apples here, I asked for the
command you use when running manually, I am assuming a) you are not
logging in as the user spamd and b) you are not running:
(as user spamd)
$ spamd -x -H /home/spamd -d -d -c -a
Because this is the command your sta
Although I use qmail/vpopmail/mysql etc. I call spamc from procmail,
don't use the qmail-scanner-queue, so my method is a little different
than yours but it may help, the spamc call uses the -u username option...
eg. users procmailrc file:
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
VERBOSE=ON
### Spam Assassin
Haha this guy "Doctor Electron" is a moron oops I defamed him...
His paper "The Smart Gateway: Port-to-Local-Host Address Mapping" was
also entertaining
tm.
Matthew Cline wrote:
http://www.angelfire.com/space/netcensus/ispassassin.html
Hmmm... The article claims that SA itself genera
Haha this guy "Doctor Electron" is a moron oops I defamed him...
His paper "The Smart Gateway: Port-to-Local-Host Address Mapping" was
also entertaining
tm.
Matthew Cline wrote:
http://www.angelfire.com/space/netcensus/ispassassin.html
Hmmm... The article claims that SA itself generate
This is a spammers wet dream come true, send out 15,000,000 'IMPORTANT'
emails, use a bell smtp server and it reaches the end user 8 times so he
doesn't miss the valuable message.
The same problem has been occuring at sympatico.ca as well, another
"Bell" company. It started about 3 weeks ago.
Don't know if I can be of much help here becaue I don't have a
required_hits directive in local.cf, I thought it would be redundant
when using the sql preferences.
Anyway I slapped that directive into local.cf, then reloaded spamd, ran
a test message and the answer is the local.cf does not appe
s.
--Larry
-----Original Message-
From: Terry Milnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:45 PM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin updates
Hold it a sec, not all rpms contain the source, in fact unless things
have changed I thought that most
Hold it a sec, not all rpms contain the source, in fact unless things
have changed I thought that most contained precompiled binaries, and
that was the problem with them.
I work primarily with source installations, I have no problem tracking
what was involved during the install process, granted
Hodgson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:09:36PM -0400, Terry Milnes wrote:
Personally I don't see how its possible to run a customized server using
rpms only.
You need to build your own RPM's for stuff that isn't already packaged
or for software that you want special optimizat
Darren Coleman wrote:
I'm Linux SysAdmin at the company I work for, I always install
everything from source.
A colleague, a Windows SysAdmin, installs everything on his Linux boxes
from RPMs.
Personally I don't see how its possible to run a customized server using
rpms only.
A windows system admi
l be a
Fedora n, I would also assume that the concern that started this thread
with regards to RPM support is unfounded.
tm
E R wrote:
That might be because it might not be called RedHat anymore, it's the
Fedora Project
Terry Milnes wrote:
I don't know how you arrive at that conclusio
I don't know how you arrive at that conclusion, versions prior to 7.1
have reached end of life. RH states that there will be no errata
released for those versions.
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/archives/
They also state that versions up to 9 will reach end of life at the end
of this ye
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2543
This bug is marked as "resolved" with a target milestone of 2.70.
Does this mean that there is no fix/patch available, and will not be
until 2.70 is released?
In the interim, I'd recommend disabling the rule by adding the following
to your
the trusted_networks option
Ryan Moore
--
Perigee.net Corporation
704-849-8355 (sales)
704-849-8017 (tech)
www.perigee.net
Terry Milnes wrote:
Ryan,
Ok here are the two headers again, both messages originated from the
same computer, smtp server in outlook express is set up to use
aloak.c
ep they are.
The recipient can use the 'trusted_networks' option that was added in
2.60 to get around that problem. I don't have the start of the thread on
the machine I'm writing this from so hopefully I understood what was
going on ;]
Ryan Moore
--
Perigee.net Corpor
ully their policies haven't changed.
Thanks for the response btw.
Terry
Gerry Doris wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Terry Milnes wrote:
This may be a little difficult to explain but here goes.
All of my systems are behind a nat box. My mail server OS is linux,
using qmail/vpopmail/mysql p
This may be a little difficult to explain but here goes.
All of my systems are behind a nat box. My mail server OS is linux,
using qmail/vpopmail/mysql procmail etc.etc..
Upgraded to Spamassassin V 2.60 rc6 (the day before the final release)
My daughter's system is on the same network as my mai
It could be relativly static if each admin makes up their own... The
admin could also write a script to verify the name resolution.
Alternativly perhaps verisign could register a domain name that could be
used for this purpose.
tm.
Gert Lynge wrote:
So presumably, looking up a garbage address
I just wanted to ask , can I blacklist an entire domain for a particular
user in his spam settings (Web iterface)
blacklist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Put that in the users config file
Chris
I prefer [EMAIL PROTECTED], the example above will not blacklist the entire
domain, mail from [EMAIL
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