Re: Need Some Advice

2005-01-11 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, January 10, 2005, 9:07:56 AM, Nate Davis wrote: I have heard things about SURBLS, and URIDNSBL, How do I turn these on to use them, or are they already on? I installed SpamAssassin 3.0.2 via CPAN. To use SURBLS and RBLs in SA, enable network tests and install a recent version of

FreeBSD spamd rc script

2005-01-11 Thread Craig McLean
All, Given that I couldn't seem to find a freebsd rc script for spamd that was functional, I wrote one. I note that the spamd maintainer is listed as AWOL on the credits list though and was wondering if anyone (users or committers) wants the script either for their own use or perhaps for inclusion

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Ryan Castellucci
I've been seeing the same thing on RedHat 9, with spamassassin 3.0.2. Anyone have a fix? On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:24:27 -0800, Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's interesting how one process (of all started at the same time) is using so much memory. # ps aux | egrep '(spamd|USER)'

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Take a look for massive AWL or Bayes db files in the filesystem -- that has been reported to cause it in the past... - --j. Ryan Castellucci writes: I've been seeing the same thing on RedHat 9, with spamassassin 3.0.2. Anyone have a fix? On

RE: Implicit trust of surbl and sbl

2005-01-11 Thread Scott Wertz
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:26, Chris Santerre wrote: SA Rules Rule #1: No single rule should EVER cause an email to be marked as spam. Interestingly enough.. SA Rules Rule #2348: All pron spam should be diverted to the marketing dept. Interestingly enough, my previous filtering

Re: bayes?!

2005-01-11 Thread kalin mintchev
apparently this massage never got to the list so here i'm sending it again. after all the way i describe below. i just checked my email and out of 24 new messages 22 were spam. something's wrong what could it be? thank you all... i read this docs on the spamassaassin site.. i did set up

RE: Implicit trust of surbl and sbl

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:43 PM 1/10/2005, Scott Wertz wrote: That said, I have another question. Where can I find a definition of the four numbers in the surbl (and others) scores in 50_scores.cf? Assigning a single score for MAPS is simple enough, but what are these? score SPF_SOFTFAIL 0.500 0.842 0.500 0.500 From

Re: bayes?!

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:52 PM 1/10/2005, kalin mintchev wrote: apparently this massage never got to the list so here i'm sending it again. Your original message did reach the list. after all the way i describe below. i just checked my email and out of 24 new messages 22 were spam. something's wrong what could

Re: No alternative to --virtual-config in spamd 3.0.2 ??

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:32 PM 1/9/2005, Simon Byrnand wrote: As far as I can see this is impossible to emulate with --virtual-config-dir, as it only specifies the DIRECTORY and expects a file user_prefs, with no way to specify an alternative filename. This would mean I'd have to have something like:

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bill Alot of people seem to be noticed this, there is a small memory patch floating around the email list archives you could try. It missed the 3.02 cut off, but apparently works fine with this version. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Bill

Spamassassin + Openldap

2005-01-11 Thread Indran Govender
Greetings Has anybody setup Spamassassin (3.0 and above) to work with openldap and qmail-ldap. If so has it worked and proven effective ? Currently we use Spamassassin with mySQL. Any documentation and guidance would definitely help Warm regards Indran Govender pgpzTTkRrYai5.pgp

spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-11 Thread werner detter
hey everybody on the list, i use postfix on my mailserver, ans spamassassin for marking spammails, it work's really great except one aspect: postfix uses the filter.sh which gives the mail to spamassassin. my only problem is, that every mail is beeing scanned, even if they are bigger (e.g.

SA restarting problems, Address already in use

2005-01-11 Thread BCC
Hello happy SpamAssassin users, Every night, I stop Postfix, stop SA, force-expire bayes db, restart SA, restart Postfix. This goes fine most of the time, but sometimes I run into problems. The problems arise around once a week or so : spamc cannot connect to spamd, saying the following in the

security key invalid on host

2005-01-11 Thread Vincent Toussaint
Hi all, I just installed sac yesterday and Im testing it atm. I get : Security key invalid on host my.host.com on every log lines. What is that security key (I know its in the registry)? How can I get a valid security key? Sorry if its a dumb question Ive looked all around on

Re: annoying changes in 3.0

2005-01-11 Thread ChupaCabra
Ya, I don't get the whole thread. If one wants seamless upgrades and backwards compat for 10 years one should stick to windows, Solaris, AIX etc. Ya, right. My 1 cent for the week. Stuart Johnston wrote: Dan Hollis wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: sarcasm With over 68% market

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Wolfgang . Fuertbauer
Hi! same problem here; as workaround I restart spamd every day Take a look for massive AWL or Bayes db files in the filesystem -- that has been reported to cause it in the past... of course; 400+ users -rw---1 exim exim 31 Jan 11 15:38 bayes.lock -rw---1 exim

Re: security key invalid on host

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:28 AM 1/11/2005, you wrote: I just installed sac yesterday and I'm testing it atm. I get : Security key invalid on host my.host.com on every log lines. What is that security key (I know it's in the registry)? How can I get a valid security key? 1) What is sac ( the product you said you

Re: maintaining the 2.6 branch

2005-01-11 Thread ChupaCabra
I was sticking with 2.64 and postfix 1.* for those same reasons My /boot got totally hosed on my server so I was forced to begin using my experimental box with PF2 and SA302. Now at least half of the spam that used to be processed by SA never even gets there as PF rejects it outright. I am

Re: maintaining the 2.6 branch

2005-01-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
OK spent a coouple of days on this as I need the 'old' machine as a web server and the new 2.8ghz machine is way overkill for that. So I've got everything moved over, including most of the extra rules in /etc/mail/spamassassin and the URI stuff going as well (was already using his for 2.64

RE: SA restarting problems, Address already in use

2005-01-11 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions
BCC wrote: Hello happy SpamAssassin users, Every night, I stop Postfix, stop SA, force-expire bayes db, restart SA, restart Postfix. This goes fine most of the time, but sometimes I run into problems. The problems arise around once a week or so : spamc cannot connect to spamd, saying the

More bayes problems

2005-01-11 Thread Sunny Forro
I've decided to wipe out my old bayes db from SA 2.6. I'm trying to rebuild the bayes db by sa-learning some directories full of spam saved by MailScanner. Sa-learn shows the dots, says it learned from messages, but when I run a spamassassin -D -t it says there are 0 spams. When I do a --dump

RE: SA restarting problems, Address already in use

2005-01-11 Thread Damien Kemens - Equinox Development
Hi, I was running into this problem as well. I was running SA 3.0.0 on Postfix 2 on Redhat AS 3.2. Essentially upon most restarts, it appears child processes were still running. The port to SA was in fact open so SA could not start, but postfix could not connect to it. The fix at that time

Re: More bayes problems

2005-01-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Sunny did use the -p path-to/spam.assassin.pref.conf flag on th sa-lean and spamassassin calls so the things get the correct bayes_path etc? Also bayes won't kick in till you've given it at least 200 spam AND ham examples.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel:

Re: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-11 Thread werner detter
hi, i know that in the future i will have to use spamd/spamc but at the moment i can't migrate because of several reasons. that's why i have to get 'filter.sh' modified in the way that only mails smaller 100 kb are passed through spamassassin. regards, werner Matt Kettler wrote: At 05:12 AM

Re: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:06 AM 1/11/2005, werner detter wrote: i know that in the future i will have to use spamd/spamc but at the moment i can't migrate because of several reasons. that's why i have to get 'filter.sh' modified in the way that only mails smaller 100 kb are passed through spamassassin. Well, the

RE: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-11 Thread Kang, Joseph S.
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:19 AM To: werner detter; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamassassin + filter.sh At 11:06 AM 1/11/2005, werner detter wrote: i know that in the future i will have to

RE: SA restarting problems, Address already in use

2005-01-11 Thread nicolas . pouyet
Quoting Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions The problem occured again, and I catched the following from spamd output What is the output of netstat? Since restarting spamd solves the problem without any visible side-effect, I wrote a watchdog script to monitor spamd, and to restart it

Postfix relay problem with SA ?

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald I. Nutter
I am noticing entries in the maillog like the following. This tells me that somehow mail is relaying through my system. I followed the Scott Henderson setup document and havent noticed this before. Jan 11 11:24:33 SA2 postfix/smtp[12722]: 8FE98F4280: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-11 Thread werner detter
hi matt, Matt Kettler wrote: At 11:06 AM 1/11/2005, werner detter wrote: i know that in the future i will have to use spamd/spamc but at the moment i can't migrate because of several reasons. that's why i have to get 'filter.sh' modified in the way that only mails smaller 100 kb are passed

Re: Postfix relay problem with SA ?

2005-01-11 Thread Alan Munday
Ronald I. Nutter wrote the following on 11/01/2005 16:43: I am noticing entries in the maillog like the following. This tells me that somehow mail is relaying through my system. I followed the Scott Henderson setup document and havent noticed this before. Jan 11 11:24:33 SA2 postfix/smtp[12722]:

RE: Postfix relay problem with SA ?

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Linzbach
I would focus on your reject_unauth_destination setting in postfix. See http://tinyurl.com/499ro for more info. Matt -Original Message- From: Ronald I. Nutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:43 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Postfix relay

RE: maintaining the 2.6 branch

2005-01-11 Thread .rp
same here. On 10 Jan 2005 at 7:45, Nichols, William wrote: I will be sticking with 2.64 for a while as well. -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:42 AM Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: maintaining the

Maybe SA can be of use here.

2005-01-11 Thread ChupaCabra
I took over this email server late in 2003. According to the nasd a copy of all broker emails must be kept. At first we were using mbox and now we use Maildir. One user has a copy of all email including [SPAM] mails. We have discussed it and want to remove all the mail marked as [SPAM] and

Re: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:53 AM 1/11/2005, werner detter wrote: thanks for your help, migration to spamc/spamd wouldn't be the problem - it's even planned within the next half year. there is only one reason this hasn't been done so far: there is no desicion from the company management if the want to use only

Re: spamd eating memory

2005-01-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:14:03AM +, Martin Hepworth wrote: Bill Alot of people seem to be noticed this, there is a small memory patch floating around the email list archives you could try. Do you remember any good keywords subject or author to help in locating the patch? I'm not

RE: Postfix relay problem with SA ?

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald I. Nutter
What makes me think I do is where it says it has talked to another mail server. Didn't think it was supposed to do that. Ron Ron Nutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Manager Information Technology

Re: Postfix relay problem with SA ?

2005-01-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/11/05 11:43 AM, Ronald I. Nutter sat at the `puter and typed: I am noticing entries in the maillog like the following. This tells me that somehow mail is relaying through my system. I followed the Scott Henderson setup document and havent noticed this before. Jan 11 11:24:33 SA2

Re: maintaining the 2.6 branch

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:42 AM 1/10/2005, Martin Hepworth wrote: I've been doing some testing ove the last couple of days with 3.02 and found it's scores are way lower on all test emails than 2.64. (anywhere upto 33% lower in limited tests). I've managed to get most of my 2.64 rules etc over (along with bayes),

Re: Clam AntiVirus plugin for SpamAssassin 3.x

2005-01-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daryl C. W. O'Shea writes: Troels Walsted Hansen wrote: I created a small plugin using the new plugin API in SpamAssassin 3.x. The plugin connects to a local ClamAV server (through TCP) and checks the email for virus. If a virus is found,

Re: bayes?!

2005-01-11 Thread kalin mintchev
At 08:52 PM 1/10/2005, kalin mintchev wrote: apparently this massage never got to the list so here i'm sending it again. Your original message did reach the list. thanks Matt... i didn't get it. i looked at my spam folder too... after all the way i describe below. i just checked my email

RE: bayes?!

2005-01-11 Thread Kang, Joseph S.
-Original Message- From: kalin mintchev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:11 PM To: Matt Kettler Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: bayes?! At 08:52 PM 1/10/2005, kalin mintchev wrote: apparently this massage never got to the list so here

Re: bayes?!

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:10 PM 1/11/2005, kalin mintchev wrote: Have you looked at the X-Spam-Status of any of the messages? Look what rules are matching, this will be your best hint to the problem. yes. but there isn't anything indicating that the spam db are used or tests are being done against them. should

RE: bayes?!

2005-01-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matt Kettler wrote: At 04:10 PM 1/11/2005, kalin mintchev wrote: bayes_path /path/to/spamdb does ending forward slash matter? Actually, you MUST NOT end in a slash.. and it should end in the word bayes, and there must be no directory named bayes there. bayes_path is actually a path

RE: bayes?!

2005-01-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matt Kettler wrote: At 04:35 PM 1/11/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't this be auto-detected for? Something like if (-d $bayes_path) { $bayes_path =~ s(/?$)(/bayes); } Yes, but what if the user really wanted the original option, and the directory exists as an error? In

RE: bayes?!

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:10 PM 1/11/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure DWIM is dangerous, but you must admit the option name is misleading. *VERY* I'd favor changing the option name to something like bayes_dbbasename so that poor users don't get caught up in thinking the SA Developers really mean that bayes_path

RE: Postfix relay problem with SA ?

2005-01-11 Thread List Mail User
Check rfc-ignorant.org for the domain bsweetinc.com. Basically checked and listed after your first message - many strange games in their bag. BTW., My Postfix setup would have bounced it also (and now many more people will). Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-11 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: RE: spamassassin + filter.sh If the call to spamd fails then the message is passed back. Basically if it fails it just isn't scanned. But there usually aren'y many problems with SA. Many of us are running it on high volume systems in complex configurations with no problems. Gary

Re: Clam AntiVirus plugin for SpamAssassin 3.x

2005-01-11 Thread James Lees Vodanovich
I use Amavis which nicly incorporates clamd and spamassasin together, it also supports just about every other (unix) anti virus package and in fact will allow the use of two, as well as dspam. Plus other features. On Wednesday 12 January 2005 07:31, Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED