[OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Michael W Cocke
A serious bug seems to have crept into amavis somewhere, or maybe BerkeleyDB - stability has gone to hell. In any case, I'm starting to think about replacing Amavisd. I can't afford to futz around with my email server - it needs to work. Currently I run postfix, amavisd, spamassassin, clam

RE: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Ben Story
Well I use exim with exim-acl enabled. SA scans based on an exim transport and virus scanning is done during SMTP reception using an ACL. It has been working well for us with about 20K messages per day reaching SA (doesn't include viruses sent to /dev/null). We also use an exim system filter to

Re: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Daniel Bird
Michael W Cocke wrote: A serious bug seems to have crept into amavis somewhere, or maybe BerkeleyDB - stability has gone to hell. In any case, I'm starting to think about replacing Amavisd. I can't afford to futz around with my email server - it needs to work. Currently I run postfix, amavisd,

Re: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Michael W Cocke
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:08:32 +, you wrote: Michael W Cocke wrote: A serious bug seems to have crept into amavis somewhere, or maybe BerkeleyDB - stability has gone to hell. In any case, I'm starting to think about replacing Amavisd. I can't afford to futz around with my email server - it

Re: Spamassassin 3.0.1 + sendmail does not rewrite subject

2005-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:54 PM 1/30/2005, EB wrote: We installed Spamassassin 3.0.1 fedora core 3 rpm with sendmail last week but it never rewrites the subject. We had use the new format already, but it's still not rewriting. But the X header is marked correctly though. Any suggestion how to fix that?

Re: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 1/30/2005 7:00 PM, Michael W Cocke wrote: A serious bug seems to have crept into amavis somewhere, or maybe BerkeleyDB - stability has gone to hell. In any case, I'm starting to think about replacing Amavisd. I can't afford to futz around with my email server - it needs to work.

Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread Mark London
I use the body command to tests for phrases. This was working great, until a spammer started to use double spacing in his email, and the phrases were split up by empty lines. Is there any way around this? I've tried everything, including using full and rawbody, but I still can't find a way to

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread Loren Wilton
It might or might not be impossible. It *is* impossible on rawbody, since the rules only see one line at a time. It might be impossible on full, if the message is encoded, since full will see the encoded text. It may or may not be impossible on body, depending on the version you are running and a

RE: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Denis Croombs
A serious bug seems to have crept into amavis somewhere, or maybe BerkeleyDB - stability has gone to hell. In any case, I'm starting to think about replacing Amavisd. I can't afford to futz around with my email server - it needs to work. Currently I run postfix, amavisd, spamassassin, clam

spamd not marking messages at all...

2005-01-31 Thread Tom Emerson
I've got an odd one that I'm not entirely sure where to start, but here's the scoop: I'm running SA for both myself and my parents using fetchmail to pull messages from our respective ISP's, pass them to postfix which uses essentially the suggestions from the DOC page to process via the

Re: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Martin Hepworth
Michael another vote for MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info). Subscribe to the user list and/or IRC channel. RTFM etc etc.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Michael W Cocke wrote: A serious bug seems to have crept into amavis somewhere, or maybe

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR matches wrongly on hotmail

2005-01-31 Thread Ole Nomann Thomsen
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler writes: At 09:23 AM 1/28/2005, Tony Finch wrote: Hi, it seems that HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR fires wrongly on this header: Received: from bay22-dav1.bay22.hotmail.com[64.4.16.181]:30781 (EHLO

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR matches wrongly on hotmail

2005-01-31 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: So I don't feel able to bugzilla this one - any takers? It isn't a bug in SpamAssassin. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ FAEROES: NORTHWEST 5 TO 7, OCCASIONALLY VARIABLE 3 OR 4 FOR A TIME. RAIN AT TIMES. MODERATE OR GOOD.

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR matches wrongly on hotmail

2005-01-31 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: The order and spacing of the items after the from keyword is wrong. The specification for Received: lines is in RFC 2821. A correctly formatted line would be something like Received: from hotmail.com (bay22-dav1.bay22.hotmail.com

Image-only messages

2005-01-31 Thread Rodrigo Fábregas
Hi, I'm a new member of this mailing list, and i'd like to know how to mark as spam messages containing image-only messages.

[3.0.2] RulesDuJour --lint problem

2005-01-31 Thread Martin Schröder
Hi, since lately rulesdujour has stopped updating the rules; instead it complains that spamassassin --lint fails (which prints a lot of warnings). I've tried using sa30-check but it doesn't help. The installation is from rpms: - Name: spamassassin

Re: bayes db - export/import

2005-01-31 Thread Nix
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Justin Mason stated: Rodney Green writes: I'd like to copy the bayes db to the temporary mail server so it can continue to be used and continue learning. Will I need to do some special export/import procedure or will I be able to just copy the db files into the

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread Mark London
Loren Wilton lwilton at earthlink.net writes: It might be impossible on full, if the message is encoded, since full will see the encoded text. It may or may not be impossible on body, depending on the version you are running and a handful of other things. Sometimes body gets broken up into

Re: Spamassassin 3.0.1 + sendmail does not rewrite subject

2005-01-31 Thread Steven Stern
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:57:52 -0500, EB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got ps aux |grep milter root 2083 0.0 0.2 65904 984 ?Sl 22:52 0:00 spamass-milter -p /var/run/spamass.sock -f -m -r 15 root 2910 0.0 0.1 5408 660 pts/0R+ 22:54 0:00 grep milter Do you have

Spamassassin 3.0.1 and maildrop

2005-01-31 Thread cron
Hello, I use postfix+spamassassin+maildrop and for now I delivery all the email tagged as spam to junk folder, this is very nice except most of the mail is actually spam, so far only one false positive, anyway I would like to delete email marked as spam over a certain score so I ask: Above what

Re: Spamassassin 3.0.1 and maildrop

2005-01-31 Thread Duncan Hill
On Monday 31 January 2005 15:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have typed: Hello, I use postfix+spamassassin+maildrop and for now I delivery all the email tagged as spam to junk folder, this is very nice except most of the mail is actually spam, so far only one false positive, anyway I would like

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:05 PM 1/30/2005, Mark London wrote: I use the body command to tests for phrases. This was working great, until a spammer started to use double spacing in his email, and the phrases were split up by empty lines. Is there any way around this? The body command works on a copy of the message

Re: Spamassassin 3.0.1 and maildrop

2005-01-31 Thread Evan Platt
At 07:27 AM 1/31/2005, you wrote: Hello, I use postfix+spamassassin+maildrop and for now I delivery all the email tagged as spam to junk folder, this is very nice except most of the mail is actually spam, so far only one false positive, anyway I would like to delete email marked as spam over a

Re: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread webmedic
On Sunday 30 January 2005 04:00 pm, Michael W Cocke wrote: A serious bug seems to have crept into amavis somewhere, or maybe BerkeleyDB - stability has gone to hell. In any case, I'm starting to think about replacing Amavisd. I can't afford to futz around with my email server - it needs to

Odd error

2005-01-31 Thread Ron McKeating
We have a cron job which shuts down spamd and restarts it every hour. Since we upgraded to the latest version of SA 3 one of our server keeps giving this error. Shutting down spamd: [ OK ] Starting spamd: Could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use (IO::Socket::INET:

Re: Odd error

2005-01-31 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-01-31 15:41:13 +, Ron McKeating wrote: Shutting down spamd: [ OK ] Starting spamd: Could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use (IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use) [FAILED] Any thoughts as to why this shuold happen? The restart is too soon:

Re: Odd error

2005-01-31 Thread Evan Platt
At 07:41 AM 1/31/2005, you wrote: We have a cron job which shuts down spamd and restarts it every hour. Since we upgraded to the latest version of SA 3 one of our server keeps giving this error. Shutting down spamd: [ OK ] Starting spamd: Could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread Keith Ivey
Loren Wilton wrote: Try the rule with /s on the end of the re. That will tend to turn newlines into spaces. People often seem to be confused by the /s modifier for regexes. All it does is allow '.' to match any character. Without the /s, '.' matches any character other than newline. So /s

RE: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Andrew Ott
We are moving from mailscanner to amavisd-new because of lots more flexibility. Currently we are running sendmail to amavisd-new to sendmail to dbmail, is working great processing about 120,000 messages a day broke out over 2 servers and a database server for dbmail. Initially we had some

Re: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Martin Hepworth
No such thing as a perfect solution for exveryone...nice to have the option of both though. Out of interest though would you mind if I ask what you mean by 'more flexibilty'? prob best to reply off list to keep the signal to noise ratio good. TIA -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator

Newbie - RBL question

2005-01-31 Thread Dermot Paikkos
Hi Spamd v3.0 with Exim v4.43 using exiscan patch on SlackWare. /usr/bin/perl5.8.0 -T -w /usr/bin/spamd -d -s /var/log/spamd.log I am testing out the above configuration on a stand-alone system. On my live server (no spamassassin) I use the rbl option within the mail server (Exim 3.16)

Candidate for EvilNumbers?

2005-01-31 Thread Bret Miller
Received: from virtual1.webair.com ([216.130.161.111] verified) by wcg.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.3) with ESMTP-TLS id 11284223 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:37:37 -0800 Received: from virtual1.webair.com (localhost.webair.com [127.0.0.1]) by virtual1.webair.com

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 06:36, Matt Kettler wrote: Perhaps you just need to modify your rule to tolerate more spaces, and perhaps tabs, between words by using \s{1,10} instead of a space. Maybe better yet: (?:\s|\/?(?:P|BR))+ -- John Hardin Development and Technology group (Seattle) CRS

RE: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Richard Ozer
I'm running a dozen servers with postfix, amavisd-new, and sa3.0.2. I'm having no problems whatsoever with any aspect of the system, including BerkeleyDB. I just want to throw that in to let people know it's quite possible to run a stable system with amavisd-new. RO -Original

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:14 PM 1/30/2005, Loren Wilton wrote: Try the rule with /s on the end of the re. That will tend to turn newlines into spaces. Loren, that should be redundant in any body or uri rule. SA already does that conversion to the whole body to save doing it repeatedly for every body rule in the

RE: Image-only messages

2005-01-31 Thread Bret Miller
I'm a new member of this mailing list, and i'd like to know how to mark as spam messages containing image-only messages. Most image-only spam contains a URL or two in the body of the message. Using the SURBL network tests is probably your best bet to marking these as spam while allowing your

SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread up
Upgraded to 3.0.2 a couple of weeks ago, and just noticed that the root FS was nearly full. I had seen this problem in the past with bayes files growing out of control, but have been doing a sa-learn --force-expire daily which helps keep that under control. However, now I noticed that two other

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Maul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgraded to 3.0.2 a couple of weeks ago, and just noticed that the root FS was nearly full. I had seen this problem in the past with bayes files growing out of control, but have been doing a sa-learn --force-expire daily which helps keep that under control. However, now I

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Maul
Jim Maul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgraded to 3.0.2 a couple of weeks ago, and just noticed that the root FS was nearly full. I had seen this problem in the past with bayes files growing out of control, but have been doing a sa-learn --force-expire daily which helps keep that under

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Rick Macdougall
Jim Maul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgraded to 3.0.2 a couple of weeks ago, and just noticed that the root FS was nearly full. I had seen this problem in the past with bayes files growing out of control, but have been doing a sa-learn --force-expire daily which helps keep that under

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread jdow
From: John Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 06:36, Matt Kettler wrote: Perhaps you just need to modify your rule to tolerate more spaces, and perhaps tabs, between words by using \s{1,10} instead of a space. Maybe better yet: (?:\s|\/?(?:P|BR))+ Geshundheidt,

Re: SARE scores

2005-01-31 Thread Fred
Loren Wilton wrote: in 70_sare_spoof.cf some scores are set to 104. What is the reason to set such high scores? (I know how to lower them) The spoof rules are to catch forgeries for things like Paypal and Ebay and various banks. These are things that people might have whitelisted with a

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 12:17 PM 1.31.2005 -0500, Rick Macdougall wrote: Jim Maul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgraded to 3.0.2 a couple of weeks ago, and just noticed that the root FS was nearly full. I had seen this problem in the past with bayes files growing out of control, but have been doing a

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Maul
Rick Macdougall wrote: Jim Maul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgraded to 3.0.2 a couple of weeks ago, and just noticed that the root FS was nearly full. I had seen this problem in the past with bayes files growing out of control, but have been doing a sa-learn --force-expire daily which

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Maul
Rick Macdougall wrote: Jim Maul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upgraded to 3.0.2 a couple of weeks ago, and just noticed that the root FS was nearly full. I had seen this problem in the past with bayes files growing out of control, but have been doing a sa-learn --force-expire daily which

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:11:05PM -0500, Jim Maul wrote: It doesnt normally fill up /root/ unless you are running spamd as root which i would REALLY not do. my .razor/ and .spamassassin/ directories are in /home/spamd/. Actually, i meant spamc, but i believe its the same for all commands

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:26 PM 1/31/2005, jdow wrote: (?:\s|\/?(?:P|BR))+ Geshundheidt, John. Er, would you care to translate that sneeze, please. I think he's trying to catch spaces or HTML line-end type tags. Two problems 1) it will look for /P and /BR, but BR doesn't have a /BR. 2) body rules

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Maul
Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:11:05PM -0500, Jim Maul wrote: It doesnt normally fill up /root/ unless you are running spamd as root which i would REALLY not do. my .razor/ and .spamassassin/ directories are in /home/spamd/. Actually, i meant spamc, but i believe its the same

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:51:54PM -0500, Jim Maul wrote: Probably, but i do not run spamd as root so i dont know for sure. The problem isnt really what user SA is running as, but where it wants to store its files. By default it uses the home directory of the user its running as. I'm not

Re: Howto skip empty lines in a body test?

2005-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:04 PM 1/31/2005, John Hardin wrote: That simplifies it greatly: \s+ Yep, which goes back to being a lot like my earlier suggestion, \s{1,10} , it just lacks the upper bound of 10 I was using. I generally don't like to use + or * unless I really want SA to be able to bridge a very

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Maul
Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:51:54PM -0500, Jim Maul wrote: Probably, but i do not run spamd as root so i dont know for sure. The problem isnt really what user SA is running as, but where it wants to store its files. By default it uses the home directory of the user its

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Rick Macdougall
Jim Maul wrote: Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, Incorrect, or at least incorrect on the Linux and FBSD servers I maintain. Even running with -u username, spamd will still occasionally write files in /root/.spamassassin unless you specifically specify the path in local.cf. In my case I run spamd

Re: SA 3.x files in root FS

2005-01-31 Thread Jim Maul
Rick Macdougall wrote: Jim Maul wrote: Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, Incorrect, or at least incorrect on the Linux and FBSD servers I maintain. Even running with -u username, spamd will still occasionally write files in /root/.spamassassin unless you specifically specify the path in local.cf.

Re: [OT] Replacement for amavisd-new?

2005-01-31 Thread Michael W Cocke
Just for the record and FYI - I found the cause of at least one major problem, and possibly more. SuSE 9.1 ships with the BerkeleyDB built incorrectly! As shipped, It will only support DB_PRIVATE operations, which causes problems with amavisd and possibly nmdb and postfix. You need to

RE: SARE scores

2005-01-31 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Rainer Sokoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 2:49 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SARE scores On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:38:50AM -0800, Loren Wilton wrote: in 70_sare_spoof.cf some scores are set to 104. What

SURBL DOS

2005-01-31 Thread Chris Santerre
I just got a call from Jeff. www.surbl.org is under what appears to be a DDOS attack :) Wheee!!! Which means...not much. It has no effect on the SURBL lists. All it does it slowdown whitelist requests, and make it difficult for people to read about SURBL :) And Jeff won't be able to

Re: OT: MailFrontier

2005-01-31 Thread Kelson
jdow wrote: From: Kelson Vibber [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 28 January 2005 6:05 pm, jdow wrote: I would ask the tweebs who black listed you precisely how they track it to your address. I'd love to hear their reasoning. Oh, I did! First they told me they couldn't provide anything more than the

Outgoing mail scanning

2005-01-31 Thread Kenneth Andresen
Hello all, I am looking for a way to spam-check outgoing mail, so the users registered with my server cannot send out spam (or viruses). My server is using squirrelmail for sending e-mail, so the mail is generated on the server and sent directly using SMTP (in squirrelmail you may choose between

Re: Outgoing mail scanning

2005-01-31 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Kenneth Andresen wrote: I am looking for a way to spam-check outgoing mail, so the users registered with my server cannot send out spam (or viruses). My server is using squirrelmail for sending e-mail, so the mail is generated on the server and sent directly using SMTP (in squirrelmail you may

Re: [3.0.2] RulesDuJour --lint problem

2005-01-31 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-01-31 11:50:39 +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: since lately rulesdujour has stopped updating the rules; instead it complains that spamassassin --lint fails (which prints a lot of warnings). I've tried using sa30-check but it doesn't help. I forgot: The system has only SARE rules plus a

Bounce to user@domain.com and RESUx@domain.com

2005-01-31 Thread Andy Blanchard
I spotted several instances of this while looking through some mail logs today and I wondered if anyone had any idea what tool might be responsible for this and what the reasoning for it might be, because it seems very broken to me. Amidst all the usual bounces to a domain in the middle of a

Re: Outgoing mail scanning

2005-01-31 Thread Kenneth Andresen
Hello Andrezej, How is it possible to make such a sendmail wrapper script? Any links to examples? Best regards, Kenneth On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:54, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: Kenneth Andresen wrote: I am looking for a way to spam-check outgoing mail, so the users registered with my

Re: Low Scores for High Bayesian Probabilities

2005-01-31 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Bill Landry wrote (2005-01-30 22:52): From: Thorsten Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just installed Razor and DCC, should I go for Pyzor too? Or should I use only one? I use all three, but it's really up to you. You just need to make sure you monitor your hit counts (for FPs/FNs) when adding

Re: Outgoing mail scanning

2005-01-31 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Kenneth Andresen wrote: How is it possible to make such a sendmail wrapper script? Any links to examples? No but you can modify the script below to fit your needs: #!/bin/sh # temporary directory TMPDIR=/tmp # temporary working file name - unix time and process ID TMPFILE=`/bin/date +%s`.$$ #