Re: Removing message/rfc822 attachments to separate files

2005-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Herb Martin wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:21:25 -0500: When forwarding a batch of missed spam (or ham) from Outlook back to SpamAssassin the best way seems to be for our users to select more than a single message, and use the menu: Action-Forward which puts them all in as attachments. I

Re: spamd blank lines after syslog entries

2005-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Steve Martin wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:31:07 -0500: (MacOS X 10.4.2). could it be something specific to the Mac or this Syslog version on this OS X version? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center:

Re: SARE Whitelist candidate

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello jdow, Tuesday, July 26, 2005, 3:03:23 PM, you wrote: j whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] fidelity2.m0.net j Fidelity Investment's Newsletters Got it. Thanks. Will validate, and then publish shortly. Bob Menschel

Re: spamd blank lines after syslog entries

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Martin
That is my best guess at this point. On Jul 27, 2005, at 4:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Steve Martin wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:31:07 -0500: (MacOS X 10.4.2). could it be something specific to the Mac or this Syslog version on this OS X version? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany

RE: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Chris Santerre wrote: If they want ad tracking they can simply use gifs. ? Clarify please. I need ad tracking... I've been keeping a database of URLs and passing IDs to the redirection page, so it won't redirect to unauthorized URLs. But I don't understand your use gifs method? --

Re: Correct use of 'spamassassin --report'?

2005-07-27 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:55 AM 7/27/2005, James Bucanek wrote: I just upgraded my SA system and installed Razor. I have two e-mail addresses set up for spam and ham reporting. Both are sent to an mbox that is, twice an hour, shipped off to a script that runs sa-learn. When I installed Razor I modified the

Re: Please test sc2.surbl.org (and xs.surbl.org)

2005-07-27 Thread Jeff Chan
Some stats from one of our SA servers. After about two days we had: 9076 SURBL hits 5373 SC2 hits 4813 SC hits 1148 SC2 hits that did not also hit SC 588 SC hits that did not also hit SC2 3701 XS hits 1890 SC2 hits that did not hit XS 218 XS hits that did not hit SC2

Re: SARE Whitelist candidate

2005-07-27 Thread Andy Jezierski
jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/26/2005 05:03:23 PM: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] fidelity2.m0.net Fidelity Investment's Newsletters {^_^} Didn't know there was a SARE whitelist. Here's another Fidelity E-Mail address we whitelist: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy

RE: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:05 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: New open http redirector? Chris Santerre wrote: If they want ad tracking they can simply use gifs. ? Clarify please.

RE: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:15 PM To: jdow Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: generating rule stats from spamd logs -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdow writes: From:

Re: Correct use of 'spamassassin --report'?

2005-07-27 Thread James Bucanek
Matt Kettler wrote on Wednesday, July 27, 2005: At 01:55 AM 7/27/2005, James Bucanek wrote: I just upgraded my SA system and installed Razor. I have two e-mail addresses set up for spam and ham reporting. Both are sent to an mbox that is, twice an hour, shipped off to a script that runs

Russian way of fighting spam

2005-07-27 Thread Slava Madrit
http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.shtml Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in ApartmentVardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday.

Re: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:31:23 +0200: It does. I sent a mail to them in German now. Let's see. Got a reply that they know about the problem and are working on a solution. Just their words ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

RE: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread Andy Jezierski
Another Dallas miracle! Oh? Er, how does it determine if a message was ham or spam? It looks like it is rather random based on the reports. BAYES_99 may well hit on 84.33% of spam. But I doubt, given it's score, it hits on 44.53% of ham. The code should be

RE: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
BAYES_00 hits 15.27 of spam on yours, the %ofspam on top ham rules and %ofham on top spam rules must be buggy. i'm not running that version with the 5th column. It must be buggy. i play with it after bit. Dallas From: Andy Jezierski

Re: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Thielen
Dallas L. Engelken wrote: BAYES_00 hits 15.27 of spam on yours, the %ofspam on top ham rules and %ofham on top spam rules must be buggy. i'm not running that version with the 5th column. It must be buggy. i play with it after bit. Dallas Dallas, Did you see the patch I sent to the

RE: [OT] Russian way of fighting spam

2005-07-27 Thread Pettit, Paul
http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.shtml Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported

RE: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread martin smith
M 10BAYES_9915351 4.46% 45.42% 60.57% M 19BAYES_50 6443 1.87% 19.06% 25.42% M 31BAYES_80 1154 0.34% 3.41% 4.55% M 32BAYES_60 1147 0.33% 3.39% 4.53% M 38

RE: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: Chris Thielen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:02 AM To: Dallas L. Engelken Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: generating rule stats from spamd logs Dallas L. Engelken wrote: BAYES_00 hits 15.27 of spam on yours,

RE: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread Andy Jezierski
Dallas L. Engelken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/27/2005 11:26:54 AM: -Original Message- From: Chris Thielen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:02 AM To: Dallas L. Engelken Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: generating rule stats from

Re: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Martin
He only fixed the spam rules section.The TOP HAM RULES sections still has these two incorrect computations...    my $perc2=sprintf("%.2f",($HAM_RULES{$key}/$NUM_SPAM)*100);    my $perc3=sprintf("%.2f",($SPAM_RULES{$key}/$NUM_HAM)*100);Number of times a rule fired on ham / total number of spam

RE: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
My mistake.. It is fixed, hopefully for good. v0.9 - http://www.rulesemporium.com/programs/sa-stats.txt TOP SPAM RULES FIRED RANKRULE NAME COUNT %OFRULES %OFMAIL %OFSPAM %OFHAM

RE: web tracking

2005-07-27 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Chris Santerre wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Santerre wrote: If they want ad tracking they can simply use gifs. ? Clarify please. I need ad tracking... I've been keeping a database of URLs and passing IDs to the redirection

RE: web tracking

2005-07-27 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
David B Funk wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Chris Santerre wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Santerre wrote: If they want ad tracking they can simply use gifs. ? Clarify please. I need ad tracking... I've been keeping a database of URLs and passing IDs to the redirection page, so it

Bayes question

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Swan
I have a pair of Spamassassin servers filtering e-mail (Spamassassin 3.0.4, spamd/spamc, Postfix, redhat 9) I was wondering if I could share the bayes database between the two server rather than having each with its own and having to do the salearn process twice. Any Thoughts?

Re: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Chris Santerre wrote on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:08:21 -0400: If they want ad tracking they can simply use gifs. gifs won't work in certain cases. And they won't work for web banners at all. Remember this is a centralized solution, not one which counts imprints on it's own site. *If* you need ad

RE: SpamAssassin, FreeBSD, Perl 5.8.7, bus errors, oh my!

2005-07-27 Thread John Narron
unfortunately, I'm not sure if there's a workable workaround for that. if you can come up with a pure-perl, non-spamassassin-based test case, it might be worth reporting it to the perl maintainers via perlbug... sounds like they've made some stack-size assumptions that are not valid

Re: Bayes question

2005-07-27 Thread JamesDR
Robert Swan wrote: I have a pair of Spamassassin servers filtering e-mail (Spamassassin 3.0.4, spamd/spamc, Postfix, redhat 9) I was wondering if I could share the bayes database between the two server rather than having each with its own and having to do the salearn process twice. Any

NOTICE: Mass-checks (fwd)

2005-07-27 Thread jm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 just to broaden the pool of recipients. Reminder: today's the deadline. speak up quick if you're still running mass-check and haven't rsync'd up the files yet!! - --j. - --- Forwarded Message Date:Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:01:49 +0100 From:

[FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread The Doctor
- Forwarded message from Angry and Concerned Customer - X-Scanned-By: milter-spamc/0.25.321 (localhost.nl2k.ab.ca [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:11:47 -0600 Hi Dave - we are still getting people labeled as sending us spam that should be on that white list (this includes emails

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Jim Maul
The Doctor wrote: SNIP irate customer message All right, the short and simple is that Spam-Assassin may not be doing the correct job. This user has a whitelist in place and some e-mail are getting the label of spam. Even some of my cron jobs are getting a [SPAM] label when they should nt.

Re: SpamAssassin, FreeBSD, Perl 5.8.7, bus errors, oh my!

2005-07-27 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 excellent -- I see it's being discussed on p5p now. thanks for doing that. (fwiw, that one-liner doesn't crash on Ubuntu Hoary's perl 5.8.3.) - --j. John Narron writes: unfortunately, I'm not sure if there's a workable workaround for that.

Re: SpamAssassin, FreeBSD, Perl 5.8.7, bus errors, oh my!

2005-07-27 Thread Jim Maul
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 excellent -- I see it's being discussed on p5p now. thanks for doing that. (fwiw, that one-liner doesn't crash on Ubuntu Hoary's perl 5.8.3.) It works just fine on rh9 with: This is perl, v5.8.4 built for

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
The Doctor writes: - Forwarded message from Angry and Concerned Customer - All right, the short and simple is that Spam-Assassin may not be doing the correct job. This user has a whitelist in place and some e-mail are getting the label of spam. Even some of my cron jobs are

RE: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Kai Schaetzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:31 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: New open http redirector? Chris Santerre wrote on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:08:21 -0400: If they want ad tracking they can simply

spamd wont start with bayesd on mysql

2005-07-27 Thread spamass
[EMAIL PROTECTED] BayesStore]# spamd -D trying to connect to syslog/unix... no error connecting to syslog/unix logging enabled: facility: mail socket: unix output: syslog creating INET socket: Listen: 128 LocalAddr: 127.0.0.1 LocalPort: 783

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Andy Jezierski
The Doctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/27/2005 02:34:42 PM: - Forwarded message from Angry and Concerned Customer - X-Scanned-By: milter-spamc/0.25.321 (localhost.nl2k.ab.ca [0.0.0. 0]); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:11:47 -0600 [snip] All right, the short and simple is that

RE: SpamAssassin, FreeBSD, Perl 5.8.7, bus errors, oh my!

2005-07-27 Thread John Narron
-Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:00 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SpamAssassin, FreeBSD, Perl 5.8.7, bus errors, oh my! Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread The Doctor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:48:22PM -0400, Jim Maul wrote: The Doctor wrote: SNIP irate customer message All right, the short and simple is that Spam-Assassin may not be doing the correct job. This user has a whitelist in place and some e-mail are getting the label of spam. Even some

Re: spamd wont start with bayesd on mysql

2005-07-27 Thread Michael Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't locate Mail/Spamassassin/BayesStore/SQL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: It is SpamAssassin, notice the uppercase A in Assassin. Michael signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: spamd wont start with bayesd on mysql

2005-07-27 Thread spamass
How would I fix this issue. Is it in a script? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't locate Mail/Spamassassin/BayesStore/SQL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: It is SpamAssassin, notice the uppercase A in Assassin. Michael

Re: Procmail for site wide usage

2005-07-27 Thread .rp
(Q) Given that this RH machine runs only POP3 (management will not allow anything else) how do I set up my /etc/procmailrc file such that all mail that is marked as SPAM is put into the users $HOME/mail/spam file (they can then login using SSH and use Pine to look at SPAM if $LOGNAME is

RE: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Santerre
OK something is wrong with your setup! Sample 1 from a cron job: Subject: [SPAM] Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/nice -20 X-Spam-Flag: NO -- Marked as spam but not? Sample 2 Headers: Subject: [SPAM: score=5.4/5.0] spam

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread JamesDR
The Doctor wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:48:22PM -0400, Jim Maul wrote: The Doctor wrote: SNIP irate customer message All right, the short and simple is that Spam-Assassin may not be doing the correct job. This user has a whitelist in place and some e-mail are getting the label of

Re: SpamAssassin, FreeBSD, Perl 5.8.7, bus errors, oh my!

2005-07-27 Thread The Doctor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:00:15PM -0400, Jim Maul wrote: Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 excellent -- I see it's being discussed on p5p now. thanks for doing that. (fwiw, that one-liner doesn't crash on Ubuntu Hoary's perl 5.8.3.) It works

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread The Doctor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:02:32PM -0400, Ron Johnson wrote: The Doctor writes: - Forwarded message from Angry and Concerned Customer - All right, the short and simple is that Spam-Assassin may not be doing the correct job. This user has a whitelist in place and some

RE: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Santerre
Also, post the whitelist entry you're using... And what file it's in, and how you're calling SA. Whitelist from user/.spamassassin/user_prefs: NEVER post other peoples' email addresses to a public and archived list!!! Deep breaths Doc! --Chris

RE: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Santerre
score gtube 4.0 score razor2_check4 score RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_11_50 4 score RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 4 score DCC_CHECK 5 score PYZOR_CHECK 5 score REMOVE_IN_QUOTES4 score CLICK_TO_REMOVE_2 4 score ASCII_FORM_ENTRY4 score TRACKER_ID 4 *snip* Holy

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread The Doctor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:40:40PM -0400, JamesDR wrote: The Doctor wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:48:22PM -0400, Jim Maul wrote: The Doctor wrote: SNIP irate customer message All right, the short and simple is that Spam-Assassin may not be doing the correct job. This user has a

Re: spamd wont start with bayesd on mysql

2005-07-27 Thread Michael Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I fix this issue. Is it in a script? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't locate Mail/Spamassassin/BayesStore/SQL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: It is SpamAssassin, notice the uppercase A in Assassin. Michael Check your bayes_store_module

Re: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Kelson
Chris Santerre wrote: My point is whatever code/script the redir is running to generate tracking IDs in a URL can ALWAYS be run from a company's own server. Regardless of the method, the sender could always do it. You're still making an assumption that what they're tracking is ad *views*.

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Andy Jezierski
The Doctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/27/2005 03:51:13 PM: [snip] X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=2.20 required=5.00 X-Spam-Level: xx X-Mark-SPAM: YES, score=5.40/5.00, processed for 2.536s on doctor.nl2k.ab.ca [...] What looks odd to me is that X-Spam-Status says NO (I'm

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Chris Santerre wrote: score gtube 4.0 *snip* Holy carp!!! Why did you rescore just about every rule higher? An even better question.. why did he try to rescore GTUBE down to 4.0? Although that was slightly screwed up by not puting the rule name in all-caps, GTUBE should always

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Andy Jezierski
The Doctor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/27/2005 03:42:41 PM: [snip] In my /etc/rc for spam assassin I have, echo -n ' Spam Assassin'; /usr/contrib/bin/spamd -d -i -D -u defang --user-config --siteconfigpath=/etc/mail/spamassassin -- syslog=/var/log/spamd.log

Re: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Chris Santerre wrote on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:14:13 -0400: So your saying the cost of email marketing would rise. Chris, I did't think about email at all ;-) Maybe I'm wrong and the use of this redirector is mostly for email. I thought of it as a central tracker which gets launched when someone

Re: Mass-checks

2005-07-27 Thread Henry Stern
Mass check submissions are closed. I won't be picking up any more. Thanks everyone! Henry Stern wrote: As far as I know, I am only waiting on one person's mass-check results. Unless you speak up before he uploads them, I'm going to start the score generation without you! ;) Henry

RE: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Kelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:59 PM To: 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' Subject: Re: New open http redirector? Chris Santerre wrote: My point is whatever code/script the redir is running to generate tracking IDs

RE: Bayes question

2005-07-27 Thread Alan Fullmer
I attempted to do that once, with a network file system, but it didnt seem to know how to handle the locking properly. I know I did something wrong, so if anyone else has a solution, Id also be happy to hear it! J -Alan Fullmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.xnote.com www.zoobuh.com

RE: Bayes question

2005-07-27 Thread Tyler Nally
Boy... anytime I've done some kind of network file sharing across a system or two, I have never done it for good performance reasons... only convenience sakes. And even then, never large files. Almost a decade ago when I was performing massive COBOL database conversions to load data into flat

autolearn

2005-07-27 Thread Frank M. Cook
I posted a message the other day asking why my spamd might backlog periodically and someone asked me if I could see from the log what was happening. It started again today and I see something. the last entry in the log when the jam occurred said autolearn=unavailable when I stopped

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread The Doctor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:25:42PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: Chris Santerre wrote: score gtube 4.0 *snip* Holy carp!!! Why did you rescore just about every rule higher? An even better question.. why did he try to rescore GTUBE down to 4.0? Although that was

Re: Bayes question

2005-07-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Alan Fullmer wrote: I attempted to do that once, with a network file system, but it didn’t seem to know how to handle the locking properly. I know I did something wrong, so if anyone else has a solution, I’d also be happy to hear it! J As JamesDR suggested.. Do it right, use SQL. It's a

RE: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Chris Santerre wrote: From: Kelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:59 PM To: 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' Subject: Re: New open http redirector? Chris Santerre wrote: My point is whatever code/script the redir is running to generate tracking IDs in a URL

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread Matt Kettler
The Doctor wrote: Next? My honest suggestion? Stop everything, and take a step back. Read, think about the options, then act. First, Fix your setup as Andy Jezerski suggested. Have ONE and only ONE call to spamassassin. You've got 3 right now. Two milters and a procmail call. That's VERY

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread jdow
From: Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Doctor wrote on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:34:42 -0600: This is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, it's he again. Setting to ignore mode. Kai He rather is an example of why we tended not to allow our doctorates into the lab when I was doing

RE: Russian way of fighting spam

2005-07-27 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
jdow wrote: From: Slava Madrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... If you received this transmission in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail or by telephone (+1(212)632-5500) - In other words as soon as the SpamAssassin

Re: Russian way of fighting spam

2005-07-27 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
jdow wrote: From: Slava Madrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ and delete and destroy all copies of the material, including all copies stored in the recipient's computer, printed or saved to disk. Does that also mean we should all show up at Slava's

Re: [SPAM] (6.70/5.00) Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread The Doctor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:45:36PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: The Doctor wrote: The whitelist in question: user/.spamassassin/user_prefs: snip And the spamassassin is called as follows: echo -n ' Spam Assassin'; /usr/contrib/bin/spamd -d -i -D -u

SURBL Rules Not Being Used

2005-07-27 Thread Timothy Spear
Hello, The SURBL Rules do not appear to be working for me. I think I am missing something basic. The test: First Test: Telnet into my MTA and manually enter the SMTP Commands to send an email from a bogus address, email content is the same as the other tests.

Re: SURBL Rules Not Being Used

2005-07-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Timothy Spear wrote: Hello, The SURBL Rules do not appear to be working for me. I think I am missing something basic. The test: First Test: Telnet into my MTA and manually enter the SMTP Commands to send an email from a bogus address, email content is the same

RE: SURBL Rules Not Being Used

2005-07-27 Thread Timothy Spear
I am running 0.53; straight from CPAN. Any other ideas? Tim -Original Message- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:13 PM To: Timothy Spear Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SURBL Rules Not Being Used Timothy Spear wrote:

Re: SURBL Rules Not Being Used

2005-07-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:08:28PM -0400, Timothy Spear wrote: Any other ideas? The first thing for any issue is: run with -D and see what's happening. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Q. Why is this so clumsy? A. The trick is to use Perl's strengths rather than its weaknesses.

RE: SURBL Rules Not Being Used

2005-07-27 Thread Timothy Spear
Found it. I hade two versions of Perl installed, spamassassin was picking up the test install I did of version 6. Which had no Net::DNS installed. Tim -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:25 PM To:

Re: Bogus MS 'critical update'

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 10:33 +0100, Nigel kendrick wrote: I have just had a bogus Microsoft update slip through the net. Is there a rule to combat these? In any case, here's the info in case it's of use: snip IMHO that's a virus, not spam. You should prolly install ClamAV on your mail server.

Re: Russian way of fighting spam

2005-07-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 19:46, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: jdow wrote: From: Slava Madrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ and delete and destroy all copies of the material, including all copies stored in the recipient's computer, printed or saved to

Basic Questions

2005-07-27 Thread John D. Maag
Setup Redhat 9 Spamassassin 3.0.4 I am struggling with learning the basics about spamassassin. I think I = have it going now but I am still not sure. I stumbled into a working = scenario. Somehow Sendmail is calling procmal for me so I do nto need = the .forward file. If someone knows how that

Re: [SPAM] (6.70/5.00) Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread The Doctor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:00:58PM -0600, The Doctor wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:45:36PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: The Doctor wrote: The whitelist in question: user/.spamassassin/user_prefs: snip And the spamassassin is called as follows:

Re: autolearn

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Frank, Wednesday, July 27, 2005, 3:02:23 PM, you wrote: FMC I posted a message the other day asking why my spamd might FMC backlog periodically and someone asked me if I could see from the FMC log what was happening.  It started again today and I see FMC something.  the last entry in the

Re: Basic Questions

2005-07-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:11:22PM -0500, John D. Maag wrote: scenario. Somehow Sendmail is calling procmal for me so I do nto need = the .forward file. If someone knows how that could be happening I would love to know how I got lucky. Most Linux distros, since you said you're using RH9,

Re: New open http redirector?

2005-07-27 Thread Loren Wilton
What about tracking clicks? Suppose you have a website with ads -- or search results -- on it, and you want to keep track of which links to third party sites get followed. You can't do that with a web bug. You can only do that by setting up a redirect script so that you log the click, then

Re: autolearn

2005-07-27 Thread Frank M. Cook
The Bayes system will occasionally determine that it needs to expire old entries, to keep the database files within reasonable size, and that expiration can take a long while. is there a file I can check to see if it has become large? better yet is there some kind of routine to run to do the

Re: autolearn

2005-07-27 Thread Loren Wilton
The Bayes system will occasionally determine that it needs to expire old entries, to keep the database files within reasonable size, and that expiration can take a long while. is there a file I can check to see if it has become large? Yes. I don't know quite how to do it, so someone else

Re[2]: SARE Whitelist candidate

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Andy, Wednesday, July 27, 2005, 7:13:01 AM, you wrote: AJ Didn't know there was a SARE whitelist. Discussed on this list a few months back, while experimenting with it on my own system. Then announced it here when published, but otherwise it's been quiet. Worth mentioning from time to

Basic Questions

2005-07-27 Thread John D. Maag
Ok, If I put preferences in the user_prefs file in $HOME/.spamassassin, do I call the file the same thing in /etc/mail/spamassassin?

Re[2]: autolearn

2005-07-27 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Frank, Wednesday, July 27, 2005, 8:34:02 PM, you wrote: The Bayes system will occasionally determine that it needs to expire old entries, to keep the database files within reasonable size, and that expiration can take a long while. FMC is there a file I can check to see if it has

RE: Removing message/rfc822 attachments to separate files

2005-07-27 Thread Herb Martin
-Original Message- From: Kai Schaetzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Herb Martin wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:21:25 -0500: When forwarding a batch of missed spam (or ham) from Outlook back to SpamAssassin the best way seems to be for our users to select more than a single