RE: bayes DBM versus SQL

2006-03-02 Thread Gary W. Smith
DBM is fine for small installations but if you need to scale up then SQL will allow for a consolidate database across multiple machine. We use it on a decent size platform (multiple front end relays, multiple sa boxes and a clustered MySQL instance). It works well for us. For bayes training, we

Re: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows

2006-03-02 Thread Jeremy
I use SpamAssassin on Windows with no Perl/CYGWIN environment (via MDaemon) which means I can't use RDJ, so I found and customised a reasonably advanced batch file which automatically checks for newer versions of the SA rules I want, and downloads them if there are new versions available for

Re: X-Mailer: GoldMine equated as spam...

2006-03-02 Thread Loren Wilton
I am guessing that our PostFix rejected the message based on SpamAssassin's analysis. Quite possibly true. However, since there is no stock rule for Goldmine that I'm aware of, this would indicate you have a custom local rule objecting to the X-Mailer line. Adjusting it as you desire should be

URIBL_SBL

2006-03-02 Thread Cami
Hi All, A specific message is hitting the following rule: * 5 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist * [URIs: annealbatross.org] The sender would like to know how to fix it and i am unable to find any reference anywhere on the procedure stating how to go

Re: bayes DBM versus SQL

2006-03-02 Thread Steven Stern
Webmaster wrote: Those of you you have used both native DBM and new SQL bayesian, can you comment on benefits of one versus the other please. Much appreciated! I have three MX servers fronting our Exchange box. The fastest of the MX servers is also handling the MySQL server for both

SpamAssassin tested by lwn.net

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Monnerie
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/173910/e7bf95a7cb044637/ They are wondering why bayes_99 is not given 5 points by default, as it seems to have no FP. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc --- it-management Michael Monnerie // http://zmi.at Tel: 0660/4156531 Linux 2.6.11

Re: URIBL_SBL

2006-03-02 Thread Dojja
Cami wrote: Hi All, A specific message is hitting the following rule: * 5 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist * [URIs: annealbatross.org] The sender would like to know how to fix it and i am unable to find any reference anywhere on the procedure

Re: URIBL_SBL

2006-03-02 Thread List Mail User
Hi All, A specific message is hitting the following rule: * 5 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist * [URIs: annealbatross.org] The sender would like to know how to fix it and i am unable to find any reference anywhere on the procedure stating how to go

RE: question on training spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Webmaster wrote: From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Portwine wrote: Hmm.. I don't quite understand this.At my company, we forward any spam that gets through to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any ham marked as spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... this was set up long ago before

RE: SpamAssassin tested by lwn.net

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Hepworth
Seems to produce != doesn't ever. Depends on your config, but I think the developers err on the side of caution a little and don't have single test score that would trigger go over the default 'is spam' limit. Could be wrong - frequently am... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator

Re: SpamAssassin tested by lwn.net

2006-03-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Monnerie wrote: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/173910/e7bf95a7cb044637/ They are wondering why bayes_99 is not given 5 points by default, as it seems to have no FP. Statisticaly speaking, 1% of BAYES_99 hits should be nonspam.In reality, it does a lot better than that. However, in

Re: URIBL_SBL

2006-03-02 Thread Cami
Dojja wrote: Cami wrote: A specific message is hitting the following rule: * 5 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist * [URIs: annealbatross.org] The sender would like to know how to fix it and i am unable to find any reference anywhere on the procedure

RE: URIBL_SBL

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: URIBL_SBL -Original Message- From: Cami [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:45 AM To: Spamassasin Users List Subject: Re: URIBL_SBL Dojja wrote: Cami wrote: A specific message is hitting the following rule: * 5 URIBL_SBL

RE: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows All three of you should add them to the www.exit0.us wiki!! And also, bring me a shrubery! --Chris -Original Message- From: Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:25 AM To:

Re: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows

2006-03-02 Thread mouss
Jeremy a écrit : I use SpamAssassin on Windows with no Perl/CYGWIN environment do you mean you managed to run SA without perl? if so, how?

Re: SpamAssassin tested by lwn.net

2006-03-02 Thread Justin Mason
Matt Kettler writes: Michael Monnerie wrote: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/173910/e7bf95a7cb044637/ They are wondering why bayes_99 is not given 5 points by default, as it seems to have no FP. Statisticaly speaking, 1% of BAYES_99 hits should be nonspam.In reality, it does a lot

Re: URIBL_SBL

2006-03-02 Thread Brandon Hutchinson
Cami wrote: Dojja wrote: Cami wrote: A specific message is hitting the following rule: * 5 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist * [URIs: annealbatross.org] This is not clear at all, i can not see what list it is on because it does not mention what

RE: SpamAssassin tested by lwn.net

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: SpamAssassin tested by lwn.net Michael Monnerie wrote: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/173910/e7bf95a7cb044637/ They are wondering why bayes_99 is not given 5 points by default, as it seems to have no FP. Disregarding the excellent explanation JMason gave, there

Config files

2006-03-02 Thread James Smith
I am having some trouble finding the spamassassin config files on my system. I have got /etc/mail/spamassassin with local.cf and init.pre, I have /etc/spamassassin with the same two files but all four of them seem relatively empty with only 4 config lines, all of them commented. I do have a

RE: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread James Smith
Sorry, should have mentioned that /etc/mail/spamassassin is a link to /etc/spamassassin not a directory. -- Jay

RE: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
James Smith wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that /etc/mail/spamassassin is a link to /etc/spamassassin not a directory. Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and look for a line like the following: [18246] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre -- Bowie

Getting BAYES to work with ESA?

2006-03-02 Thread Christoph Söllner
Hi folks, I'm having some trouble getting the bayes filter to work on my windows installation. SA 3.1.0 is installed and working properly, the ESA fires on every received message and calls spamassassin.bat. Bayes DB trained with 260 HAMs and 2600 SPAMs ^^. When I strip a spam message of its

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Webmaster wrote: Also if your users are only or mostly forwarding spam, SA's bayes is going to have a bayes bias that all messages forwarded by your mail clients are spam, regardless of content. Does this also mean that it is almost useless to share bayes from one server to the next

RE: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread James Smith
Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and look for a line like the following: [18246] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre Thanks, I got... debug: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/init.pre But the only thing in that file NOT commented is the loading of 3 plugins (spf, hashcash

Contextual rules in SA

2006-03-02 Thread David Landgren
Hello list, I've seen a sharp increase in spam that is really easy to identify, but I'm struggling to get SA to do so. One example is The To: header matches: /^([EMAIL PROTECTED])@(?:regexp-of-my-local-domains)$/ The Subject matches: /^Fw: Discount for (\S+)/ and the $1 capture in

Re: Getting BAYES to work with ESA?

2006-03-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Christoph Söllner wrote: Hi folks, I'm having some trouble getting the bayes filter to work on my windows installation. SA 3.1.0 is installed and working properly, the ESA fires on every received message and calls spamassassin.bat. Bayes DB trained with 260 HAMs and 2600 SPAMs ^^. When

Help with BAYES + MYSQL

2006-03-02 Thread sinofzik
Hoppe someone can help me!! Iam using Spamassassin 3.0.1 ( users stored in mysql and vpopmail and qmail). Slackware version 10.2 Mysql version 5.0 My problem: when i use the standart bayes confs ( hard drive .db files) everything works so fine.. When i change to bayes MYSQL. strange things

Re: Multidomain Mailhosting on one physical host

2006-03-02 Thread Kelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User Sam and Joe has internet access via DSL with a dynamic ip address. The mail going from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is identified as SPAM because the sending ip address is the dynamic dial up address. The solution is twofold: 1) Don't scan outgoing mail

RE: bayes DBM versus SQL

2006-03-02 Thread Webmaster
Gary W. Smith wrote -Original Message- From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:59 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: bayes DBM versus SQL Those of you you have used both native DBM and new SQL bayesian, can you comment on

RE: bayes DBM versus SQL

2006-03-02 Thread Webmaster
-Original Message- From: Steven Stern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 2, 2006 5:13 AM To: spamass Subject: Re: bayes DBM versus SQL Webmaster wrote: Those of you you have used both native DBM and new SQL bayesian, can you comment on benefits of one versus the other

RE: Re: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows

2006-03-02 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Jeremy wrote: I use SpamAssassin on Windows with no Perl/CYGWIN environment (via MDaemon) which means I can't use RDJ, so I found and customised a reasonably advanced batch file which automatically checks for newer versions of the SA rules I want, and downloads them if there are new versions

RE: question on training spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread Webmaster
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 2, 2006 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: question on training spamassassin Webmaster wrote: Also if your users are only or mostly forwarding spam, SA's

RE: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
James Smith wrote: Run 'spamassassin -D --lint' and look for a line like the following: [18246] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/init.pre Thanks, I got... debug: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/init.pre But the only thing in that file NOT commented is the loading of

Re: Config files

2006-03-02 Thread Kris Deugau
James Smith wrote: I am having some trouble finding the spamassassin config files on my system. I have got /etc/mail/spamassassin with local.cf and init.pre, I have /etc/spamassassin ^ Ah, Debian. :/ I am using Ubuntu with VHCS if that helps. OK, a Debian derivative.

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamd keeps getting hung up!

2006-03-02 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Had another hangup today. Should I comment on the bug report, or just reply here, and note http://www.gushi.org/maillog.txt -Dan Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey All, I've been running the latest spamd for months now, and it seems to be

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamd keeps getting hung up!

2006-03-02 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Had another hangup today. Should I comment on the bug report, or just reply here, and note http://www.gushi.org/maillog.txt If you're seeing this again... Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Feb 10 08:57:40 quark

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamd keeps getting hung up!

2006-03-02 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Had another hangup today. Should I comment on the bug report, or just reply here, and note http://www.gushi.org/maillog.txt If you're seeing this again... Dan

Re: Multidomain Mailhosting on one physical host

2006-03-02 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Kelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User Sam and Joe has internet access via DSL with a dynamic ip address. The mail going from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is identified as SPAM because the sending ip address is the dynamic dial up address. The best solution would be to make

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamd keeps getting hung up!

2006-03-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Here's the errors I'm currently seeing that do not seem right to me: 1) An error relating to Textcat that I can find no real documentation on in the wiki or the docs, and reading the source does not imply specifying

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamd keeps getting hung up!

2006-03-02 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Had another hangup today. Should I comment on the bug report, or just reply here, and note http://www.gushi.org/maillog.txt If

Re: Spamassassin Spam Header

2006-03-02 Thread Markus Braun
Sounds like you didn't kill spamd first. this is my top: 7091 root 9 0 20092 1096 1096 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.17 spamd 7303 backuppc 8 0 5468 3364 1124 S 0.0 0.3 1:02.43 BackupPC 7315 backuppc 9 0 3032 1536 1100 S 0.0 0.1 0:07.87 BackupPC_trashC 7428 root 9 0 38596

moving bayes db?

2006-03-02 Thread Charles Farinella
I'm moving our mail server to a new machine with current versions of SpamAssassin amd Amavis-new. Can I just copy over the .spamassassin directory containing all the bayes stuff and the autowhitelist or should I start fresh? The old SA is 2.63. thanks, -- Charles Farinella Appropriate

Re: Any rule to flag missing message-id's as SPAM?

2006-03-02 Thread Philip Prindeville
Graham Murray wrote: Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is there a rule that says that any message without a message-id is SPAM ie. one who's SCORE I can increase. I've got a spammer sending messagegs without message-id's. Just change the score for MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID.

Re: SpamAssassin tested by lwn.net

2006-03-02 Thread jdow
It is graded 5 here. I overrode the perceptron score. So far I have not seen a false positive that got a BAYES_99 score. I've seen a very small number of false negatives in spite of the BAYES_99 score. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems to produce

Re: SpamAssassin tested by lwn.net

2006-03-02 Thread jdow
From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Monnerie wrote: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/173910/e7bf95a7cb044637/ They are wondering why bayes_99 is not given 5 points by default, as it seems to have no FP. Statisticaly speaking, 1% of BAYES_99 hits should be nonspam.In reality, it does

Re: URIBL_SBL

2006-03-02 Thread jdow
From: Dojja [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cami wrote: Hi All, A specific message is hitting the following rule: * 5 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist * [URIs: annealbatross.org] The sender would like to know how to fix it and i am unable to find any

prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it messages

2006-03-02 Thread Ron Culler
After upgrading to 3.1 from 3.0 we are starting to see the following error messages in our logs prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it I have looked through the list archives and tried the suggestions that I have found. (adjusting the max children numbers) But still no

Re: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising itmessages

2006-03-02 Thread Mike Jackson
Spamd startup options - -d -q -m 50 -x -- siteconfigpath=/etc/mail/spamassassin -i xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -A xxx.xxx.xxx. -u spamd There's a disconnect between the spamd man page and what the error log reports. What you're looking to change is the -m option in your startup. The man page lists that

Re: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows

2006-03-02 Thread Steven Dickenson
On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:16 AM, mouss wrote: Jeremy a écrit : I use SpamAssassin on Windows with no Perl/CYGWIN environment do you mean you managed to run SA without perl? if so, how? No, he's running SA from MDaemon, which has some form of an internal SA engine, but uses the same basic

RE: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows

2006-03-02 Thread ajc85
I run SA... Well the SA libraries wrapped in a .NET assembly. Then used in an in-house windows port of spamd. I run the whole thing in an exchange sink, so every message coming into the exchange server is checked via spamd-nt, takes about a second or less for each message to be checked; plus gives

Fwd: setruid() not implemented at /usr/bin/spamd line 875 [Mac OS X 10.3]

2006-03-02 Thread Damon McMahon
Greetings, It appears Apple's Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) Security Update 2006-001 has killed my SA 3.1.0. After the update, upon starting spamd this is what happens: Mar 3 14:05:00 localhost spamd[15757]: spamd: server started on UNIX domain socket /tmp/spamd.sock (running version