Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
Jeff Chan wrote: Default scores should be ok. The default configuration should have rules and scores already in place. Firstly, thanks to everyone who has contributed some advice thus far. I ran some spam through spamassassin via the command line. I su'd to to the amavisd-new user (vscan), and

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:10:39AM +0200, Mattia Martinello wrote: > Ok, so how I can do if I wish SpamAssassin to change the subject and to > write SPAM headers when it detects a SPAM message? As has been previously stated, your issue is qmail-scanner related, so you need to talk to those folks

RE: [OT] Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Michael Bellears
> > Now I am using verbose_spamassassin, but it doesn't work... :-( > Did you make the suggested mod to qmail-scanner.pl ? my $spamc_subject=``;

mailpolice point of contact

2004-10-18 Thread Chris
Does anyone know of a POC to report phishing msgs that the mailpolice rbl misses? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:24pm up 15 days, 2:18, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.07, 0.13 I just remembered something a

Re: [OT] Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Niek
On 10/19/2004 1:14 AM +0200, Mattia Martinello wrote: I'll bet your are using fast_spamassassin with qmail-scanner rather than verbose_spamassassin. fast_spamassassin does NOT add anything to the email except what qmail-scanner might add. verbose_spamassassin is what you want to use instead.

Re: [OT] Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
I'll bet your are using fast_spamassassin with qmail-scanner rather than verbose_spamassassin. fast_spamassassin does NOT add anything to the email except what qmail-scanner might add. verbose_spamassassin is what you want to use instead. Now I am using verbose_spamassassin, but it doesn't wor

Re: URIBL score

2004-10-18 Thread Khalid Waheed
I added this to /usr/local/share/spamassassin/25_uribl.cf, now it working fine. Thanks Jeff. Jeff Chan wrote: On Monday, October 18, 2004, 12:27:59 AM, Khalid Waheed wrote: The original message and test result is given below, I'm wondering how to improve the score of this messag

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
right, "required_score" doesn't affect your rewriting/markup, they handle that. Ok, so how I can do if I wish SpamAssassin to change the subject and to write SPAM headers when it detects a SPAM message?

[OT] Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Mattia Martinello wrote: aha. you need to talk to the qmail-scanner people. iirc, they handle the markup themselves, so your spamd config is meaningless, at least by default. But if I change the "required_score" value, I can see it changed in the "X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=8.0" h

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:02:12AM +0200, Mattia Martinello wrote: > >aha. you need to talk to the qmail-scanner people. iirc, they handle the > >markup themselves, so your spamd config is meaningless, at least by > >default. > > But if I change the "required_score" value, I can see it changed

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
Kevin W. Gagel ha scritto: What is your MTA and how is your MTA integrated to use SpamAssassin? My MTA is Qmail, and it is integrated with SpamAssassin with Qmail-Scanner...

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Kevin W. Gagel
What is your MTA and how is your MTA integrated to use SpamAssassin? - Original Message Follows - From: Mattia Martinello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Doesn't mark spam messages Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:37:02 +0200 > > Get rid of the "terse report" o

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
aha. you need to talk to the qmail-scanner people. iirc, they handle the markup themselves, so your spamd config is meaningless, at least by default. But if I change the "required_score" value, I can see it changed in the "X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=8.0" header...

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:57:00AM +0200, Mattia Martinello wrote: > I am calling Spamassassin with Qmail-Scanner. aha. you need to talk to the qmail-scanner people. iirc, they handle the markup themselves, so your spamd config is meaningless, at least by default. -- Randomly Generated Tagline

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
Hrm. How are you calling spamassassin/spamd? The X-Spam-Status header you quote is not the standard 3.0 one (it would be "score=", and there'd be a listing of rules...) Either you're using old modules, or whatever you use to pass through SA is actually doing the markup. I am calling Spamassassin

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:47:09AM +0200, Mattia Martinello wrote: > >If you don't get any X-Spam headers, then the mail isn't being fed through > >spamd. You will always get at least a X-Spam-Checker-Version header. > > I get only this header: "X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=8.0". > > So

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
Run a spamassassin --lint I bet it will show you an error. Read the UPGRADE file, it will tell you that rewrite_header is no longer used. spamassassin --lint didn't show me any error message. I carefully read man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf and I don't think I used any deprecated conf... Bye ma

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Andy Jezierski
Andy Jezierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/18/2004 05:47:32 PM: > > Mattia Martinello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/18/2004 > 05:37:02 PM: > [snip]> > Run a spamassassin --lint  I bet it will show you an error.  Read > the UPGRADE file, it will tell you that rewrite_header is no longer

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Andy Jezierski
Mattia Martinello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/18/2004 05:37:02 PM: > > Get rid of the "terse report" option. > > Now this is my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: > > required_score 8 > report_safe 0 > #use_terse_report 0 > use_bayes 1 > bayes_auto_learn 1 > skip_rbl_checks 0 > use_razor2 1 >

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
If you don't get any X-Spam headers, then the mail isn't being fed through spamd. You will always get at least a X-Spam-Checker-Version header. I get only this header: "X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=8.0". So how I can get all the headers that I can insert in local.cf? Thank you very much!

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:37:02AM +0200, Mattia Martinello wrote: > I restarted spamd, but I can't solve the problem. Spam messages that > have a score higher than 8 are not marked with [SPAM] in the > subject and it never adds any header (Flag, Score, Tests, etc.) in the > message head

Re: I'm a newbie to spamassassin

2004-10-18 Thread Doug Brott
Nathan Johanson wrote: Sorry if those questions are too obvious to all you, but I'm completely lost - I'm unable to digest all the info available on the web. If you can help me to find out if I need a milter or not, and if so, which milter do I need, I'll continue with more questions :-) Thank

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
Get rid of the "terse report" option. Now this is my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: required_score 8 report_safe 0 #use_terse_report 0 use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 skip_rbl_checks 0 use_razor2 1 use_dcc 1 use_pyzor 1 #fold_headers 1 rewrite_header subject [SPAM] add_header all Flag _YES

Re: network tests

2004-10-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:19:18AM +0200, Dietmar Lippold wrote: > * Which tests (SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAMEs) are not used when I run >spamassassin or spamd which option "-L"? any that have a "tflags net" set. > * How can I disable network tests by entries in user_prefs (e.g. when >I use spamc

network tests

2004-10-18 Thread Dietmar Lippold
I have some questions about network tests in spamassassin version 3.0.0 (on Fedora 2): * Which tests (SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAMEs) are not used when I run spamassassin or spamd which option "-L"? * How can I disable network tests by entries in user_prefs (e.g. when I use spamc but spamd runs with

Re: Testing SPF

2004-10-18 Thread Steven Stern
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:02:11 -0400, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why ask any of us, look at the headers of your message on the list: > >Received-SPF: pass (hermes.apache.org: domain of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] designates 207.217.120.253 as permitted sender) D'oh! Thank you for pointing o

RE: Testing SPF

2004-10-18 Thread Nate Schindler
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:02 PM > To: Steven Stern; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Testing SPF > > > At 04:59 PM 10/18/2004, Steven Stern wrote: > >I've set up the SPF TXT record for my domain, al

Re: Testing SPF

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:59 PM 10/18/2004, Steven Stern wrote: I've set up the SPF TXT record for my domain, although I'm not quite sure it's correct or acceptable to SA 3 because I have to pass my outgoing mail through Earthlink as a smarthost. I'd like to send a email to a few of you checking SPF to see what resul

Testing SPF

2004-10-18 Thread Steven Stern
I've set up the SPF TXT record for my domain, although I'm not quite sure it's correct or acceptable to SA 3 because I have to pass my outgoing mail through Earthlink as a smarthost. I'd like to send a email to a few of you checking SPF to see what result you get. Please reply directly to me and

Re: how much training?

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:05 PM 10/18/2004, Payal Rathod wrote: Hi, I have SA and bayes for a few accounts and have trained bayes to around 1200 hams and 1000 spams. Is this enough? I have reduced spam a lot, but still a few spam mails do pass through. What do I do about them? I do training manually, checking each mai

RE: How to get SPF to work in Windoze (SA 3.0.0)

2004-10-18 Thread Bret Miller
> I've just installed SpamAssassin 3.0.0 under Windoze. It appears to be > working as documented. However, I'm uncertain what I've done > to make SPF > checking not function. Network stuff appears OK because: > a) it takes a while to run (ca. 5 seconds) and > b) Blacklists work (I see headers l

How to get SPF to work in Windoze (SA 3.0.0)

2004-10-18 Thread Dan Barker
I've just installed SpamAssassin 3.0.0 under Windoze. It appears to be working as documented. However, I'm uncertain what I've done to make SPF checking not function. Network stuff appears OK because: a) it takes a while to run (ca. 5 seconds) and b) Blacklists work (I see headers like: X-Spam-

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread snowjack
(replying to self) Two things: 1) sorry for the dupe message earlier 2) the comment was referring to SURBLs, if that wasn't clear: On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:35:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Blacklisting domains that are included in the content of spam > messages has been a very successful tech

Re: how much training?

2004-10-18 Thread Steven Stern
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:09:11 -0400, Payal Rathod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But that means again I have scan mailboxes manually for false positives >or false negatives. > I have two mailboxes, "should-be-ham" and "should-be-spam" that are processed by a cron job at noon and midnight. I just f

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread Mathieu Nantel
Thanks to all who replied. This sums it up quite well and confirms my doubts about the algorithm-exclusive methods. As always I appreciate this list's objectivity on the topic. -- Mathieu Nantel, RHCE - Systems Manager Ecopia BioSciences Inc. (514) 336-2724 x434

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread snowjack
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:32:10 -0400, "Mathieu Nantel" said: > As I've read a few articles on DSPAM claiming that it's > better/faster/sexier than spamassassin, I would appreciate having this > list's comment on DSPAM. > I'm sure quite a few of you have tried it and might have some interesting > e

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread snowjack
Mathieu Nantel wrote: As I've read a few articles on DSPAM claiming that it's better/faster/sexier than spamassassin, I would appreciate having this list's comment on DSPAM. I'm sure quite a few of you have tried it and might have some interesting experiences to share. My understanding is that D

Re: how much training?

2004-10-18 Thread Payal Rathod
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:07:08PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Automate the training... when you notice a false positive, put it in a "false > positives" location. When you notice a false negative, put it in a "false > negatives" location. > But that means again I have scan mailboxes manu

RE: how much training?

2004-10-18 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Payal Rathod wrote: > Hi, > I have SA and bayes for a few accounts and have trained bayes > to around > 1200 hams and 1000 spams. Is this enough? I have reduced spam a lot, > but still a few spam mails do pass through. What do I do about them? > I do training manually, checking each mailbox, so it

how much training?

2004-10-18 Thread Payal Rathod
Hi, I have SA and bayes for a few accounts and have trained bayes to around 1200 hams and 1000 spams. Is this enough? I have reduced spam a lot, but still a few spam mails do pass through. What do I do about them? I do training manually, checking each mailbox, so it is a hectic process. When do I s

Re: [spamassassin] [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread Don Krause
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 11:32, Mathieu Nantel wrote: > Good day list, > > As I've read a few articles on DSPAM claiming that it's better/faster/sexier > than spamassassin, I would appreciate having this list's comment on DSPAM. > I'm sure quite a few of you have tried it and might have some intere

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:32 PM 10/18/2004, Mathieu Nantel wrote: As I've read a few articles on DSPAM claiming that it's better/faster/sexier than spamassassin, I would appreciate having this list's comment on DSPAM. I'm sure quite a few of you have tried it and might have some interesting experiences to share. My un

RE: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread Nate Schindler
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 11:49 AM > To: 'Mathieu Nantel'; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM > > > > > >-Original Message- > >From: Mathieu Nantel [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Mathieu Nantel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:32 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM > > >Good day list, > >As I've read a few articles on DSPAM claiming that it's >better/faster/sexier >tha

[OFFTOPIC] Opinions on DSPAM

2004-10-18 Thread Mathieu Nantel
Good day list, As I've read a few articles on DSPAM claiming that it's better/faster/sexier than spamassassin, I would appreciate having this list's comment on DSPAM. I'm sure quite a few of you have tried it and might have some interesting experiences to share. My understanding is that DSPAM r

Re: SA with SPF and Return-Path: versus From:

2004-10-18 Thread Kelson
Bob Proulx wrote: I am trying to understand how SpamAssassin 3.0.0 is checking SPF on messages. It seems to be checking the Return-Path: address (envelope address) and not the From: address (header address). That's wrong, isn't it? Shouldn't it be checking the header address? Of course when I r

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, In-line response. Matt Kettler wrote: At 11:25 AM 10/18/2004, Rick Macdougall wrote: Why would one not rely on SA running as one and only one user when writing to bayes and auto_whitelist files ? Is that not the whole reason behind having a separate user to run spamd as ? Yes, but using bay

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:25 AM 10/18/2004, Rick Macdougall wrote: Why would one not rely on SA running as one and only one user when writing to bayes and auto_whitelist files ? Is that not the whole reason behind having a separate user to run spamd as ? Yes, but using bayes_path defeats the purpose of having a sep

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:45 AM 10/18/2004, Justin Fielding wrote: Looks ok now I have the use_dcc = 0 in local.cf. There shouldn't be an = in that line. Just: use_dcc 0 that's it. It seems to be picking the directory up ok. Where do I add the DNSBL of spamhaus? /etc/init.d/spamassassin ? Why do you think you need t

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Ronan
sorry matt - didnt meen to be rude! hehe - yeah i take that on board and ill give it a shot. Ive just checked my logs and spamd does suid nobody while dealing with a message. I run a sitewaide config on 3 mailhubs with no user preferneces, so if i run the initial spamd as a non root user, this

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Justin Fielding
Oct 18 18:34:26 plesk spamd[13231]: spamd starting Oct 18 18:34:32 plesk spamd[13235]: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.0.0) Oct 18 18:34:32 plesk spamd[13235]: server successfully spawned child process, pid 13248 Oct 18 18:34:32 plesk spamd[13235]: server successfully spawned chil

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:21 AM 10/18/2004, Justin Fielding wrote: I added: URIBL_SBL sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org to my local.cf, should this work? What would that do, besides generate a syntax error? What are you even trying to do there? run spamassassin --lint and fix your errors.

Re: "DoS" against amavisd-new and SA 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:50 AM 10/18/2004, Thomas Kaehn wrote: Hi, I am using amavisd-new along with SpamAssassin 3.0. Recently I've noticed, that a mail couldn't be delivered, because SA timed out as it had to do many DNS lookups. The mail had lots of URLs in its body. It is not really SpamAssassin's or amavisd-new'

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Matt Kettler wrote: At 10:02 AM 10/18/2004, Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, No, they keep running as root all the time. 98160 root 62 0 49992K 41208K RUN 0:09 18.49% 17.53% perl5.8.2 It's a large bug here that affects the permissions of the bayes_journal file etc since it gets owned by r

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Justin Fielding
I added: URIBL_SBL sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org to my local.cf, should this work? Many Thanks, Justin Fielding, Intelliweb Ltd UK. A mission statement is defined as "a long awkward sentence that demonstrates management's inability to think clearly." All good companies have one. - Scott Adams, The Dilb

Re: Whitelisting

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:11 AM 10/18/2004, Marco Maske wrote: Maybe "whitelist_from" works bether for you: whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not EVER do this. Spammers frequently forge your own domain in the From: line, and such email will be automatically whitelisted if you do this. Bad idea. Don't even conside

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:56 AM 10/18/2004, Ronan wrote: so theres no way for the forseeable future to have them idle as non root??? Is it advisable jsut to let the configuration be for the time being!? or are the other options available to me?! Sure there is.. you can start spamd as a non-root user.. Spamd runs as

Re: Whitelisting

2004-10-18 Thread Marco Maske
½Bî¶ §ºµth£Ñ½ (southen) wrote: > >I'm trying to whitelist domains on my server (all domains on my server > > are my own domains). I have tried various ways, and I can't seem to > > get it to work. I tried typing at the prompt "spamassassin > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED], . Matt Ke

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:02 AM 10/18/2004, Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, No, they keep running as root all the time. 98160 root 62 0 49992K 41208K RUN 0:09 18.49% 17.53% perl5.8.2 It's a large bug here that affects the permissions of the bayes_journal file etc since it gets owned by root instead of the -u u

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:33 AM 10/18/2004, Justin Fielding wrote: I hashed out the dcc path in local.cf, but it still tries to load it: Just because you removed the option doesn't mean SA won't try to load dcc. The path is option only over-rides the default of trying to hunt around and load it if it can find it in s

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:00 AM 10/18/2004, Justin Fielding wrote: a.. Another handy option to take care of this is to pass spamd the -H option with /etc/mail/spamassassin as the argument. This sets all helper apps' (dccproc/pyzor/razor) homedirs to /etc/mail/spamassassin. Where do I put the -H option, where is the c

SA 3.0 install problem

2004-10-18 Thread Robert Benites
I built and installed SpamAssassin 3.0 on my RedHat EL/WS system. I built it using the command: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local I chose to use PREFIX because I'd like to keep everything associated with SpamAssassin on my /usr/local partition, out of the way of system upgrades, etc. The

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Ronan
so theres no way for the forseeable future to have them idle as non root??? Is it advisable jsut to let the configuration be for the time being!? or are the other options available to me?! thanks ronqn Rick Macdougall wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: At 02:12 PM 10/18/2004 +0100, Ronan wrote: In SA 3.

Qmail scanner giving error

2004-10-18 Thread Robert Bartlett
Im configuring a new server and decided to go with SA 3.0. My question is I installed it, it appears to be running. So to complete the server setup I install qmail-scanner, it tries to find applications it recognizes but for SA it comes back with an error stating it appears it found spamc but insta

"DoS" against amavisd-new and SA 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Kaehn
Hi, I am using amavisd-new along with SpamAssassin 3.0. Recently I've noticed, that a mail couldn't be delivered, because SA timed out as it had to do many DNS lookups. The mail had lots of URLs in its body. It is not really SpamAssassin's or amavisd-new's fault. But is there a solution to this p

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Justin Fielding
I hashed out the dcc path in local.cf, but it still tries to load it: Oct 18 17:31:15 plesk spamd[12730]: spamd starting Oct 18 17:31:20 plesk dccproc[12740]: open(/var/dcc/map): No such file or directory Oct 18 17:31:20 plesk spamd[12732]: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.0.0) Oc

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Justin Fielding
I see, so I must pass -C to spamd, not -c to spamc? a.. Another handy option to take care of this is to pass spamd the -H option with /etc/mail/spamassassin as the argument. This sets all helper apps' (dccproc/pyzor/razor) homedirs to /etc/mail/spamassassin. Where do I put the -H option, where i

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Matt Kettler wrote: At 02:12 PM 10/18/2004 +0100, Ronan wrote: In SA 3.0, the children will pre-fork, idle as root, then it should setuid to nobody when a spamc connects. They will then bail back out of that setuid when they are done scanning, so you will generally see them running as root, but

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:12 PM 10/18/2004 +0100, Ronan wrote: well this is what i have after upgrading tp 3.0.0 ps -ef|grep spamd root 23320 27167 0 11:58:56 ?0:17 /usr/local/bin/perl -T /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -r /logs/spamd.pid root 27167 1 0 Oct 15 ?0:02 /usr/local/bin/perl -T /u

Re: locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:14 PM 10/18/2004 +0300, Justin Fielding wrote: Hi guys. I am running SA3 via qmail-scanner. I setup razor/pyzor/dcc as per the SA site guides. I need to tell SA to use the shared config area for these, using: -C /etc/mail/spamassassin Whoooa, slow down there cowboy... -C is not to point

Re: URIBL score

2004-10-18 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, October 18, 2004, 4:18:54 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:14:27AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > I am using SA 3.0. So I add this to a new file and name in spamcop.cf ? >> urirhssub URIBL_JP_SURBL multi.surbl.org.A 64 >> headerURIBL_JP_SURBL eval:check_uridnsbl(

locating local.cf

2004-10-18 Thread Justin Fielding
Hi guys.  I am running SA3 via qmail-scanner.  I setup razor/pyzor/dcc as per the SA site guides.  I need to tell SA to use the shared config area for these, using:   -C /etc/mail/spamassassin     In my qmail-scanner-queue.pl file I have: == # st: fast

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Ronan
Matt Kettler wrote: At 10:26 AM 10/18/2004 +0100, Ronan wrote: what is the switch to set my spamd children to run as non root. Ive looked throuhg all the docs but i must have skipped over it or i am just in a monday mood and cant understand it... by default spamd will *refuse* to run as root. N

Re: running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:26 AM 10/18/2004 +0100, Ronan wrote: what is the switch to set my spamd children to run as non root. Ive looked throuhg all the docs but i must have skipped over it or i am just in a monday mood and cant understand it... by default spamd will *refuse* to run as root. Normaly spamd setuid's

Re: Whitelisting

2004-10-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:26 AM 10/18/2004 -0400, ½Bî¶ §ºµth£Ñ½ wrote: I'm trying to whitelist domains on my server (all domains on my server are my own domains). I have tried various ways, and I can't seem to get it to work. I tried typing at the prompt "spamassassin whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED], I also

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mike Burger
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Mattia Martinello wrote: > > Read the UPGRADE document, this is answered there: > > Ok, thank you!! > And why I can't see the complete report in the message haeader? Get rid of the "terse report" option. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BB

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
Read the UPGRADE document, this is answered there: Ok, thank you!! And why I can't see the complete report in the message haeader? Thank you very much Bye Mattia.

Re: Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Teun Vink
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 13:16 +0200, Mattia Martinello wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Spamassassin version 3.0.0 from .tar.gz on a Linux box > running SuSE 9.1, Qmail and Qmail-scanner. > Qmail-scanner is correctly configured to use Spamassassin and ClamAV, so > in the mail header I can see "X-Spam-

Doesn't mark spam messages

2004-10-18 Thread Mattia Martinello
Hi, I installed Spamassassin version 3.0.0 from .tar.gz on a Linux box running SuSE 9.1, Qmail and Qmail-scanner. Qmail-scanner is correctly configured to use Spamassassin and ClamAV, so in the mail header I can see "X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=7.5". This mean that Spamassassin is check

running children as root

2004-10-18 Thread Ronan
what is the switch to set my spamd children to run as non root. Ive looked throuhg all the docs but i must have skipped over it or i am just in a monday mood and cant understand it thnaks ronan ps what are the preferred options / tweaks to SA3 to be done to an 'out of the box 'version after

Re: URIBL score

2004-10-18 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, October 18, 2004, 12:27:59 AM, Khalid Waheed wrote: > The original message and test result is given below, > I'm wondering how to improve the score of this message which is sure > spam and listed in URIBL. > The score of the message is always 3.2 with or without bayes. >

URIBL score

2004-10-18 Thread Khalid Waheed
Hi, The original message and test result is given below, I'm wondering how to improve the score of this message which is sure spam and listed in URIBL. The score of the message is always 3.2 with or without bayes. Thanks, Khalid -- Test Result-

Whitelisting

2004-10-18 Thread ½Bî¶ §ºµth£Ñ½
Hi list! I have tried to get this to work on my server - googling for help, trying it out, etc. - for the past month or so before I decided to go ahead & email this mailing list. I'm trying to whitelist domains on my server (all domains on my server are my own domains). I have tried various wa

Re: [Patch] sa-learn option to change username

2004-10-18 Thread Michael Parker
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:46:54AM -0300, Rodrigo A. Diaz Leven wrote: > I finished a patch to sa-learn which adds the option > > -u --username Username to run sa-learn under > > With this option an email alias can be setup so that users can send spam or > ham, using a virtu

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sahil Tandon writes: > Jeff Chan wrote: > > > That said, it sounds like your installation may be messed up > > since init.pre was missing. > > init.pre wasn't missing; the .sample was there since it should be > modified to suit the admin's needs

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Loren Wilton
> So it looks like I now need to know what the appropriate 'score' > variable are. Thanks for the clarification. There are default scores for the 3.0 surbl rules that work fairly well for most people. Loren

Re: Strange mail causing 2.64 to not scan or scan really long?

2004-10-18 Thread Loren Wilton
> What's odd is it DOES take 600 seconds every time it's sent.. what's > I am using > bayes, so I will check on that when I get into the office on Monday.. > could be that bug... If it happens every time on THIS mail, it probably isn't the bayes problem. That tends to hit randomly. The resend on

[Patch] sa-learn option to change username

2004-10-18 Thread Rodrigo A. Diaz Leven
I finished a patch to sa-learn which adds the option -u --username Username to run sa-learn under With this option an email alias can be setup so that users can send spam or ham, using a virtual user configuration. Its against SpamAssassin version 3.0.0 Greetings, Rodrigo

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, October 17, 2004, 8:04:10 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > Jeff Chan wrote: > > That said, it sounds like your installation may be messed up > > since init.pre was missing. > init.pre wasn't missing; the .sample was there since it should be > modified to suit the admin's needs and then put

RE: I'm a newbie to spamassassin

2004-10-18 Thread Nathan Johanson
> > Sorry if those questions are too obvious to all you, but I'm > completely > lost - I'm unable to digest all the info available on the web. If you > can help me to find out if I need a milter or not, and if so, which > milter do I need, I'll continue with more questions :-) > > Thanks VER

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
Jeff Chan wrote: > That said, it sounds like your installation may be messed up > since init.pre was missing. init.pre wasn't missing; the .sample was there since it should be modified to suit the admin's needs and then put in place. *I* did something wrong; the port/package is fine. If the def

Re: Strange mail causing 2.64 to not scan or scan really long?

2004-10-18 Thread Matt
What's odd is it DOES take 600 seconds every time it's sent.. what's additionally wierd is this person's mail server keeps sending the message over and over.. once an hour... (we're working on that with him). He's the only one in the millions of emails we handle every day that is having this issue

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, October 17, 2004, 6:28:19 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > And it's probably worth repeating that the default (suggested) local.cf > entries from www.surbl.org don't tickle spamassassin --lint which exits > quietly. Please don't use the examples in the SURBL Quickstart. I need to revise that

Re: SURBLs not working after upgrade to 3.0

2004-10-18 Thread Sahil Tandon
Michael Parker wrote: init.pre is part of the SA distribution, if your package/port does not include it then it is broken and you should complain to your package maintainer. I've forgotten all of the details but init.pre is special because it gets loaded before all other files are processed (ie sh

Tests converted to PHP Array

2004-10-18 Thread Rodrigo A. Diaz Leven
Hello, i just finished converting all the SA Tests into a PHP array that is being used in a web frontend. This permits the users to modify the scores in the mysql db from the web. You can get it from: http://sportal.sourceforge.net/gentests.tar.gz The array looks like this: $TESTS=array( array