Re: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 Spamassassin 2.55

2003-06-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:03, Clement wrote: Hi Guys, Someone must have asked this, I cannot install Spamassassin 2.55 in RH9.0. When doing the make, this is the error message: Makefile:72: *** missing separator. Stop. Trying 2.53 gets the same error, just on another line:

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Abigail Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) SA Developers: PLEASE provide some method whereby end-users like me can implement header, body, and uri rules in user_prefs. You can implement rules by adding them to the local.cf file; here's an example of a ruleset for body: body BODY_PLING /\!\!\!+/

RE: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 Spamassassin 2.55

2003-06-18 Thread Clement
Thank you very much for your reply. It looks like a problem with RH9. I get the same error when installing Zip on this machine: Makefile:88: *** missing separator. Stop. I have already install all the RH 9 updates. Has anyone had the same experience? Regards, Clement On Tue, 2003-06-17 at

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Abigail Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Can anyone run the spam below against a vanilla ruleset, 2.5[45] and/or 2.6, and let me know if this spam should have been caught under 2.54? Bob, The reason the spam in your case bypassed SA but got caught when you had others run it is here: X-Spam-Status:

Re: [SAtalk] Everyone running PYZOR read

2003-06-18 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:25, Jorge Fbregas wrote: Hello all, I noticed I wasn't hitting the Pyzor rule for a couple of days...When I ran spamassassin in debug mode I had: 66.47.67.162:24441 TimeoutError It tuns out their public server changed its address. You need to run: pyzor

Re: [SAtalk] LDAP Storage instead of SQL Storage

2003-06-18 Thread Kristian Koehntopp
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:01:10PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: One idea we've been thinking of for 2.70 or 3.0, was to use DBI for specifying database locations; in other words, just this. DBI uses URI-style strings to specify formats, access methods, etc. along with the db names; if

RE: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 Spamassassin 2.55

2003-06-18 Thread Wijk, K.M. van
-Original Message- From: Clement [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 18 juni 2003 7:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 Spamassassin 2.55 Thank you very much for your reply. It looks like a problem with RH9. I get the same error when installing Zip on

Re: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 Spamassassin 2.55

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
Check out ftp://mail.camerontech.com/pub/spam - I have posted SRPMs for the latest SA and the latest spamass-milter. They rpm --rebuild just ducky on a RH 9 box. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 - Original

Re: [SAtalk] LDAP Storage instead of SQL Storage

2003-06-18 Thread Colin Dean
I agree with Kristian that LDAP and SQL are very different beasts. Having lived with both, I tend to work on the basis that LDAP can be a fast and lightweight engine for high load read access and that talking to it through an SQL layer could have performance implications. On the other hand, using

Re: [SAtalk] Everyone running PYZOR read

2003-06-18 Thread Brian Read
I noticed I wasn't hitting the Pyzor rule for a couple of days...When I ran spamassassin in debug mode I had: 66.47.67.162:24441 TimeoutError It tuns out their public server changed its address. You need to run: pyzor discover ...in order to get the new address. Check their page:

Re: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 Spamassassin 2.55

2003-06-18 Thread Robin Whittle
My documentation of installing SA 2.55 on Red Hat 9.0 is: http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/Postfix-SA-Anomy-Maildrop/ There are problems with Perl caused by a LANG setting which includes UTF-8 - this can upset all sorts of things, including Make-maker which makes makefiles. My page has the

Re: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Maechler
Well, it did score 13.30 without the bayes learner and even 16.30 using the bayes data base, with SpamAssassin (2.53 1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp): --- This mail is probably spam. The original message has been attached

[SAtalk] Bayes learning sudden death ..

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Maechler
First, a big thank you to the developers! Using the bayes learner, starting it with several 100 spams and about 1000 hams, and then mainly feeding it spam that wasn't caught in the past had a tremendously positive effect here. At the momemnt, spamassassin is almost perfect for us. We have one

[SAtalk] Very happy with SA 2.55 - 99% success rate!

2003-06-18 Thread Robin Whittle
Mailing lists for programs are typically full of problem reports. Here is the reverse - the equivalent of a thoroughly happy baby-birth story in the middle of a book on childbirth and all that can go wrong with it. I have been running SA 2.55 for 17 days on my own account. I have RBL checks

[SAtalk] auto_learn with manual blacklist ?

2003-06-18 Thread M . Muenz
Hi ML, I always read about AWL and auto_learn. But will SA auto_learn from the manual blacklist settings in local.cf ? THX - Michael --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants: Become An INetU

RE: [SAtalk] Very happy with SA 2.55 - 99% success rate!

2003-06-18 Thread Paul Hutchings
Did you work those out yourself, or using some third party util - if so, might I enquire what? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 024 7635 5378, Fax: 024 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bayes range Total score 1-10%3.7 (Just a few lines of

[SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Bene
Using bayes in a windows/outlook environment without central exchange server, it's rather difficult to get at spam/ham messages for learning. Forwarding the spam/ham messages to seperate accounts local to the mail scanner system as attachments looks like the only viable method at least the

[SAtalk] Base-64 encoded HTML and text spam

2003-06-18 Thread Robin Whittle
One of the few false negatives I mentioned in a recent message was an HTML spam, where the HTML message was encoded as base-64. The start of the message body is: -- --=_NextPart_F83_4BC1_E4708BB4.69BBB339 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes learning sudden death ..

2003-06-18 Thread Oliver Egginger
Could you please tell me what this means: AWL(4.0 points) AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment Do you getting points for being on the auto whitelist? - oliver Complete (spam tagged) message from Martin Maechler: - Start der SpamAssassin Auswertung ---

Re: [SAtalk] Everyone running PYZOR read

2003-06-18 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 5:14 am, Brian Read wrote: Thanks for this. When is pyzor discover normally run? You're welcome. I didn't know the discover argument existed at all ! I thought they had a better|elegant way of doing this switch but that's not the case. I've been thinking about

[SAtalk] sa-learn (auto-learn)

2003-06-18 Thread ODHIAMBO Washington
I am missing something small, maybe. This is what I see: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-cvs (1.193-2003-06-13-exp) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=no version=2.60-cvs X-Spam-Level: When does autolearn=yes happen???

RE: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread David Prall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail Using bayes in a windows/outlook environment without central exchange server, it's rather difficult to get at spam/ham messages for learning. Outlook is rather convoluted, but can be done. Open the message in its

AW: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Bene
Hi David, Using bayes in a windows/outlook environment without central exchange server, it's rather difficult to get at spam/ham messages for learning. Outlook is rather convoluted, but can be done. Open the message in its own window, rather then viewing in the preview window. Actions,

[SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
I've seen this two or three times now, and I'm not sure what to make of it. Outward appearance is that we get hit with a ton of spam, or perhaps that an RBL goes out. I wind up with many copies of spamd running, many more than the -m parameter should allow. (And forget about procmail and

[SAtalk] Bayes DB corruption

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Yrabedra
My bayes database(s) are constantly getting corrupted. IS there anything I can do to prevent this? SA 2.5.5 OSX 10.2.x CGATE 4.06 ++ Mike Yrabedra (President) 323 Incorporated Home of MacDock, MacAgent and MacSurfshop

AW: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Bene
Hi Tom, Drag drop it into a public folder, hit the public folder from your Spamassassin machine using IMAP, save it as an MBOX on your SA machine, learn it from there. Sorry, all clients are currently using POP3; there's no exchange server and no public folders. getting all useres to setup

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Jack, I think, RBL is not the cause for this. I run RBL via qmail, not SA and sometimes there are 4/5 spamd processes when I run ps aux in the morning. I usually stop the original spamd and kill the others, then restart spamd. Running SA 2.54 on Suse 8.0. If someone could explain this, it'd be

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with spamd as non-root user

2003-06-18 Thread Kim Bisgaard
Hi Theo, Tanks for your help! You where correct that it was due to old rule files from the prior installation of SA. Regards, Kim. On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:45:26PM +0200, Kim Bisgaard wrote: I am trying to run spamd a non-root user. I am using global SA filtering, and run both spamd and

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with spamd as non-root user

2003-06-18 Thread Kim Bisgaard
Hi Michael, Tanks for your help! I took your advice and raised the port number, and it helped but not on the problems I reported in this thread. These problems seemed to be old rule files from the prior installation of SA. The reason for running SA as a non-root was to have a home dir. with

Re[3]: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Abigail, Thanks for the guidance, but Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 10:30:10 PM, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) SA Developers: PLEASE provide some method whereby end-users like me can implement header, body, and uri rules in

[SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Fellow spam-fighters, management wants me to set up an auto-reply to mails marked as spam by SA. I told them that this is a very bad idea, since a.) reply addresses are fakes and not working most of the time anyway b.) if they DO work, we will just notify the spammers that the address they

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
I think, RBL is not the cause for this. I run RBL via qmail, not SA and sometimes there are 4/5 spamd processes when I run ps aux in the morning. I usually stop the original spamd and kill the others, then restart spamd. Running SA 2.54 on Suse 8.0. If someone could explain this, it'd be

Re: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was We TEACH you how

2003-06-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
But _does_ it really hurt them. They don't get any feedback - users that install spam filters wouldn't have responded to to the spam anyway, other than deleting it manually. The only difference is that the deletion process is automated by a spam filter. I reckon spammers don't really care about

Re[3]: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Abigail, Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 10:41:46 PM, you wrote: AM The reason the spam in your case bypassed SA but got caught AM when you had others run it is here: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=9.0 tests=BASE64_ENC_TEXT, ...

Re: [SAtalk] Help

2003-06-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Norberto: Probá con el tutorial que te adjunto, te dice cómo correrlo con un milter para el sendmail, y con un antivirus, pero lo podés poner con SA solo, y anda diez puntos. El howto es bastante completo, creo que lo actualicé para que comprenda el spamass-milter, que es el milter que estoy

[SAtalk] SA-LEARN

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Wagner
Hi Everyone, I have a RedHat 9 box with sendmail and spamassassin running. I installed both from the redhat cd and have done no additional configuration, other than setting up procmail to feed to spamc. Spamassassin works great, it detects spam and marks it as so. However, when I ssh into my

Re: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:47:31AM -0700, Robert Menschel wrote: I'm limited to ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, and by design in the current versions I can change rule scores, but I can't add even the simplest of rules. Please RTFM: allow_user_rules { 0 | 1 } (default: 0)

Re: [SAtalk] SA-LEARN

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:06:17AM -0400, Mike Wagner wrote: I have a RedHat 9 box with sendmail and spamassassin running. I installed ... run the sa-learn command, it says that command not found. I've done a whereis and locate on sa-learn and can't find it anywhere. Anyone have any idea of

[SAtalk] Re: SA-LEARN

2003-06-18 Thread Tom Diehl
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Mike Wagner wrote: Hi Everyone, I have a RedHat 9 box with sendmail and spamassassin running. I installed both from the redhat cd and have done no additional configuration, other than setting up procmail to feed to spamc. Spamassassin works great, it detects spam and

Re: [SAtalk] unlearning a lot of ham

2003-06-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:43:55PM -0400, jeff covey wrote: while the side issues are interesting, does anyone have answers for the actual questions that started this thread? :) LOL, yes - if you retrain Bayes with the messages in question and specifically mention that it's spam, they should

[SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread Oleg Aronov
Hello, I have question and hope that somebody will help me. Please... So, few days ago I installed and configured SpamAssassin on Linux. The SA is works fine, but he is catching only about 20% of spam emails. I believe that I should configure Bayesian with SA. Is it correct? How

[SAtalk] Problem trying to install on new server

2003-06-18 Thread Jody Cleveland
Hello, I'm trying to install the latest SA on Redhat 9. I type in (as root): perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf prerequisites_policy ask install Mail::SpamAssassin Everything seems ok for a while, then this comes up: CPAN.pm: Going to build

RE: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread D'Alessandro, Arthur
That feature is enabled by default, however, it is not activated until it has been seeded with enough entries, off the top of my head, I cannot remember the count. -Art D'Alessandro -Original Message- From: Oleg Aronov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:51 AM

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Please don't thread steal. You replied to an existing thread of conversation and changed the subject line. That is impolite. Now your message right in the middle of Martin Bene's thread about Learning from forwarded mail. How are they related? Many people won't even read your message because

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Jack, based on what you wrote, I added a -m 2 option to my call of spamd, to limit the number of children to 2. This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was unlimited. If that's wrong, could one of the developers or someone with more insight set us straight? Thanks Ralf

Re: [SAtalk] SA-LEARN

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:06 AM 6/18/2003 -0400, Mike Wagner wrote: I have a RedHat 9 box with sendmail and spamassassin running. I installed both from the redhat cd and have done no additional configuration, other than setting up procmail to feed to spamc. Spamassassin works great, it detects spam and marks it as

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes with SQL preferences?

2003-06-18 Thread freebsd
Thus spake Rick Macdougall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13/06/03 19:49]: Works globally without any hacks, but per user is a little more difficult to implement. Hrmmm... I was hoping for per-user, as we have a rather large and diverse user base. I can only see a global Bayes causing more harm than

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
- Original Message - From: D'Alessandro, Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin That feature is enabled by default, however, it is not activated until it has been seeded

[SAtalk] Can't compile

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Covell
Posted this before without any responses, but I am stuck. Trying to build SA on a RH 7.1 box and I get: C compiler cannot create executables I know some rpms are missing that are required to build executables but for the life of me can't remember which. Would anybody have any idea what extra

Re: [SAtalk] Problem trying to install on new server

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Wilson
I had that same Pod2man problem on a stock RH9 system a couple of weeks ago. The (much appreciated) advice I got was to: Download the tarball. Unpack it - (tar -xzvf filename) change to the dir it unpacked in, and instead of running perl Makefile.PL , run LANG=C perl Makefile.PL Worked like a

[SAtalk] Is there a way to filter mail that's forwarded?

2003-06-18 Thread Dragoncrest
Hi all. Trying to use my home mail server to filter my dad's mail for spam. What I'm doing is I'm pulling it in off of his netzero account (oh yeah, spam heaven) and it's supposed to be filtered as it goes through my server and off to the dumping account I have setup for delivering all mail

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:51 AM 6/18/2003 -0500, Oleg Aronov wrote: Hello, I have question and hope that somebody will help me. Please... So, few days ago I installed and configured SpamAssassin on Linux. The SA is works fine, but he is catching only about 20% of spam emails. I believe that I

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Apologies to list members! I am very sorry for confusing anyone's message threading. Since I am stuck with an employer that uses mostly MS stuff, I didn't notice myself. I wasn't aware that anything remains, when one takes an existing posting, removes the body and subject and changes them to

Re: [SAtalk] unlearning a lot of ham

2003-06-18 Thread jeff covey
on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:50:22AM -0400%, Ross Vandegrift said: ross if you retrain Bayes with the messages in question apparently, this thread has wandered far enough that my original message has been forgotten. it's here:

[SAtalk] with MIMEDefang

2003-06-18 Thread Dana Holland
I just installed SpamAssassin with MIMEDefang. I see in the message headers that MIMEDefang is scanning, but I don't see anything to indicate that SpamAssassin is working with it. I checked the mimedefang filer in /etc/mail and see that it has the Spam Assassin code in it. I'm thinking I

[SAtalk] Re: spamassassin Bugzilla Bug 2027: spamassassin -r does learning ham instead of learning spam ?

2003-06-18 Thread jeff covey
on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:59:22PM -0400%, Theo Van Dinter said: theo found the bug, fixed the bug for 2.60. thanks! i'll start reporting spam again after i upgrade to there. in the meantime, my bayesian database is contaminated with 75 spam messages which were recorded as ham because i

Re: [SAtalk] LDAP Storage instead of SQL Storage

2003-06-18 Thread J. S. Townsley
LDAP Storage for spamassassin has been on my 'todo' list for some time now. I still don't have time to get involved with the development of this, but I could devote some time with testing and feedback if it is warranted. Very interested in seeing this come to life! --JST * Colin Dean [Wed, 18

[SAtalk] DCC use with SA?

2003-06-18 Thread Jim Ford
Hi, I've installed dcc_proc as per the spamassassin readme and I get a response from various servers when I do cdcc 'info'. To get it to work with SA, do I just put use_dcc 1 in my user_prefs? How will I tell if it's working OK? I guess the answer's somewhere in the DCC docs, but there's a lot of

Re: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was We TEACH you how

2003-06-18 Thread Jim Ford
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:54:25AM -0300, Luis Hern?n Otegui wrote: Well, Ben, what I do is reject spam-tagged messages with a beautiful data, reject=550 5.7.1 Blocked by Anti-Spam Filter, What does the above line do, or is it just text you manually insert at the top of the message? Also,

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Alan Leghart
--On Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:58 PM +0200 Ralf Guenthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies to list members! I am very sorry for confusing anyone's message threading. Since I am stuck with an employer that uses mostly MS stuff, I didn't notice myself. I wasn't aware that anything remains,

Re: [SAtalk] Is there a way to filter mail that's forwarded?

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Campion-Bye
Hi all. Trying to use my home mail server to filter my dad's mail for spam. What I'm doing is I'm pulling it in off of his netzero account (oh yeah, spam heaven) and it's supposed to be filtered as it goes through my server and off to the dumping account I have setup for delivering all

Re: [SAtalk] Everyone running PYZOR read

2003-06-18 Thread Kelson Vibber
Jorge =?iso-8859-1?q?F=E1bregas?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll just keep watching the spam reprots regularly and If I see something strange with Pyzor I now probably know what it is. Better yet, subscribe to pyzor-announce. People on the list got notified ahead of time. It's very low traffic:

RE: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Roedel, Mark
-Original Message- From: Ralf Guenthner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam Fellow spam-fighters, management wants me to set up an auto-reply to mails

Re: [SAtalk] We TEACH you how to SPAM and make a Fortune!!

2003-06-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I've been looking at Sugarplum spam poison and teergrube/tar pitting, but the gurus on this list seem to thing neither is a good thing. fuck that. how about this? 1) hack their server 2) upload a shitload of metallica tracks 3) call the riaa

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Justin Mason
Ralf Guenthner said: management wants me to set up an auto-reply to mails marked as spam by SA. I told them that this is a very bad idea, since a.) reply addresses are fakes and not working most of the time anyway b.) if they DO work, we will just notify the spammers that the address they

Re: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 Spamassassin 2.55

2003-06-18 Thread Justin Mason
Warren Togami said: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:03, Clement wrote: Hi Guys, Someone must have asked this, I cannot install Spamassassin 2.55 in RH9.0. When doing the make, this is the error message: Makefile:72: *** missing separator. Stop. Trying 2.53 gets the same error,

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
I think its wrong. I'm thinking of removing the -m. But I'm guessing. On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Ralf Guenthner wrote: Jack, based on what you wrote, I added a -m 2 option to my call of spamd, to limit the number of children to 2. This should solve at least my problem, since the default

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Oleg, Direct replies to you get rejected: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host localhost[127.0.0.1] said: 550 5.7.1 Message content rejected, UBE, id=30091-03 I understood that Bayesian will start work automatically as soon as he will have enough information. This is correct, is not it? Yes, it is. I

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Jack, based on what you wrote, I added a -m 2 option to my call of spamd, to limit the number of children to 2. This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was unlimited. If that's wrong, could one of the developers or someone with more insight set us straight?

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Thanks to everyone contributing thoughts about this matter. I can say, that I was able to convince management to refrain from this, using all the facts stated here s Cheers Ralf G. - Original Message - From: Roedel, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18,

[SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Lucas Albers
I am trying to set the values for rbl checks. I add the following entries to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 #no longer in service RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4.0 RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 4.0 RCVD_IN_RELAYS_ORDB_ORG 4.0 It appears to not see my entries correctly. When I run: spamassassin

[SAtalk] SA CVS mirror

2003-06-18 Thread Andrew A. Vasilyev
Hi! Is there any CVS mirror for SA project? Probably the cvs.sourceforge.net is overloaded, too often aborting the connections. ANDY --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers Consultants:

Re: [SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:19:53AM -0600, Lucas Albers wrote: RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 #no longer in service RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4.0 RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 4.0 RCVD_IN_RELAYS_ORDB_ORG 4.0 It appears to not see my entries correctly. It sees your entries correctly. spamassassin -D, against a test

RE: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread Marek Dohojda
Your method doesn't work in Outlook 2002+ Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided that re-sent no longer should send full headers. -Original Message- From: Martin Bene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:25 AM To: David Prall; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi David,

Re: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was We TEACH you how to ...)

2003-06-18 Thread Jeremy Oddo
[SNIP] Sorry Dave, I have to disagree with you here. As an admin who provides in-house support, I lose respect for the average human being. I cannot tell you how many times I have to remove virii, reinstall s/w or entire OSen, or remove spyware. These are adult who repeat their actions.

RE: [SAtalk] We TEACH you how to SPAM and make a Fortune!!

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Jonathan Vanasco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:38 PM To: Jim Ford Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] We TEACH you how to SPAM and make a Fortune!! I've been looking at Sugarplum spam poison and teergrube/tar

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin causing procmail failure?

2003-06-18 Thread James Gorham
I've just had to move my mail to a new host. Both have identical versions of procmail and spamassassin, both installed from the FreeBSD Ports collection. SpamAssassin version 2.55 procmail v3.22 2001/09/10 There are no system-wide config files installed for either program. I have identical

RE: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was We TEACH you how to ...)

2003-06-18 Thread Shayne Lebrun
I think that what this fine fellow is talking about is when you say to somebody do NOT open an email with 'ILOVEYOU' as the subject! Then they say, literally, 'Ok, I won't. Hey, a new email! Wow, somebody loves me! *click click*' Implementing a properly fascist IT environment is damn hard when

Re: [SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, You want score RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 ^ Regards, Rick Lucas Albers wrote: I am trying to set the values for rbl checks. I add the following entries to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 #no longer in service RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4.0 RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 4.0

RE: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (wasWe TEACH you how to ...)

2003-06-18 Thread Alan Leghart
What? Those weren't more pictures of Anna Kournikova? I re-tasked my entire network of SETI machines to decrypt those files! What a waste of 214.7 years of computing power. --On Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:32 PM -0400 Shayne Lebrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that what this fine fellow

Re: [SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:47 PM 6/18/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:19:53AM -0600, Lucas Albers wrote: It sees your entries correctly. spamassassin -D, against a test message and I get the following errors: debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping:

[SAtalk] Whitelisting Certain Domains for Single User?

2003-06-18 Thread Maxwell, Michael
Has anyone come across a way to whitelist certain domains for a single user? Note that our SA installation is running on a store/forward server - no local accounts on the machine. I have one user that is complaining that he *wants* to receive certain spam (yeah, I know...) I cannot simply

[SAtalk] Installing SpamAssassin, Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at ...

2003-06-18 Thread Anitech Systems
Installing SpamAssassin for Personal Use, Warning: the following files are missing in your kit Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm line 2903. Note: That's because it is in

Re: [SAtalk] Installing SpamAssassin, Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at ...

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
Actual: perl /home/anitech/cgibin/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55/Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/anitech/cgibin/sausr SYSCONFDIR=/home/anitech/cgibin/saetc are you in /home/anitech/cgibin/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55 when you run this? If not, that's your problem. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Cats, proof that

RE: [SAtalk] Installing SpamAssassin, Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at ...

2003-06-18 Thread Anitech Systems
-Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:57 PM To: Anitech Systems Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Installing SpamAssassin, Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at ... Actual: perl

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelisting Certain Domains for Single User?

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Morris
Since it sounds like you don't have per-user prefs set up (but I could be wrong about that), your best bet would probably just use all_spam_to in your SA config, and pass *all* the spam to him. Without per-user prefs, that's about as good as your going to get without some fairly tricky custom

[SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Batchelor
We get mail that I want to whitelist using whitelist_from_rcvd. The Received header I am trying to match is like this: Received: from unys-2.namewithheld.com (webmail2.usainteractive.com [209.11.17.108]) by lax1msa1.tmcs.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/200306171005) with ESMTP id h5IJZO0q028359 for

[SAtalk] SA Libmilter patch + help request

2003-06-18 Thread Corwin Grey
Ok, I have done everything withing my power to figure this out. I got one thing fixed so that the libmilter lowercases the username prior to passing it to spamd which fixed one problem. The patch is listed below. (I know, my C sucks but it works... :) The other issue appears to be beyond my C++

Re: [SAtalk] Base-64 encoded HTML and text spam

2003-06-18 Thread Abigail Marshall
RW Does this mean that SpamAssassin is blind to the contents of base-64 RW encoded HTML? Apparently so; but it does correctly identify the email as being base-64 encoded. I would simply recommend that you raise the score in the local.cf file for the SA test BASE64_ENC_TEXT to near or above your

[SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Fulton
Hi all, I recently installed SA on a mail server, only applying globally right now -- no individual user configurations. I've discovered that when I add whitelist_from ... entries to the local.cf file, SA let's spam in that is marked above the hit threshold. With the entries removed from the

[SAtalk] SMTP Proxy for Win?

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Martinec
Hi list, Would anyone be able to please point me to a place where I can get a SMTP proxy that will run on Win2K please? I have managed to compile and setup SA on the box, now I just need to intercept the email and pass it onto it. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers! M.

Re: [SAtalk] SA is running, but no tests...? (running as postfix-filter)

2003-06-18 Thread Justin Mason
Michael Boettjer said: No Test, No Hits. What's going wrong? SpamAssassin is not finding the rules directory. Use the -C switch, or make sure /usr/share/spamassassin is available nad contains the rules files. --j. --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:44 PM 6/18/2003 -0400, Steve Fulton wrote: Hi all, I recently installed SA on a mail server, only applying globally right now -- no individual user configurations. I've discovered that when I add whitelist_from ... entries to the local.cf file, SA let's spam in that is marked above the

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:59 PM 6/18/2003 -0700, Mike Batchelor wrote: Received: from unys-2.namewithheld.com (webmail2.usainteractive.com [209.11.17.108]) by lax1msa1.tmcs.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/200306171005) with ESMTP id h5IJZO0q028359 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed 18 Jun 2003 12:35:24 -0700

Re: [SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Fulton
At 08:23 PM 18/06/2003 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: 1) what ancient version are you running? auto_report_threshold has been dead since something like 2.31. v2.55. However, I did copy the original configuration from the Qmail-Scanner site based on that authors experience. Obviously he ran a

Re: [SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.. updated.

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Fulton
An update: I removed the old and incorrect entries from my local.cf file, and the problem continues. When the whitelist_from entries are used in the local.cf file, spam is delivered even though it is marked as spam and the hit rate is about the threshold. When those are removed, the same

[SAtalk] Re: spamassassin Bugzilla Bug 2027: spamassassin -r does learning ham instead of learning spam ?

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:18:39PM -0400, jeff covey wrote: in the meantime, my bayesian database is contaminated with 75 spam messages which were recorded as ham because i reported them. how can i keep my spam data, erase my ham data, and start training with ham from scratch? I think

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Theo, Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 7:03:30 AM, you wrote: RM I'm limited to ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, and by design in the RM current versions I can change rule scores, but I can't add even the RM simplest of rules. TVD Please RTFM: TVD

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
based on what you wrote, I added a -m 2 option to my call of spamd, to limit the number of children to 2. This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was unlimited. If that's wrong, could one of the developers or someone with more insight set us straight?

[SAtalk] Still can't report spam

2003-06-18 Thread Cam Ellison
I have Razor 2.22 and spamassassin 2.55 on a Debian box. When I run razor-report, it goes on through the routine until the point below: Jun 18 18:54:48.263365 report[31030]: [ 6] response to sent.7 -nsl=? conceit.cloudmark.com joy.cloudmark.com . Jun 18 18:54:48.263532 report[31030]: [ 8]

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