Re: size of bayes db

2006-06-09 Thread Stefan Jakobs
Hallo, Am Donnerstag, 8. Juni 2006 22:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: Stefan Jakobs wrote on Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:56:22 +0200: I turned on bayes autolearning with the standard options, but my bayes_seen db grows and grows, now it is by 1.1 GB. This is indeed very much. This is a dbm db? (SQL has

Low scoring since 3.1.1 upgrade

2006-06-09 Thread Chris.L.Jones
Hi all, Ever since I upgraded to spamassassin 3.1.1 spam filtering has not been working properly. In short all spam is assigned a score so low that it always gets through. Background info: * Everything worked fine prior to upgrade, previous version was 3.1.0 * Using the spamd method

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2006-06-09 Thread Dan Massey
Hi All I hope somebody on the list can help me here. Our set-up is as follows: Internet -- Spam Gateway -- pop server/exchange server we are using: FreeBSD 6.1 Sendmail 8.13 forward s mail via smtp from mailertable spamass-milter spamassassin 3.1.3 Our problem is that we want to

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2006-06-09 Thread Alan Premselaar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Massey wrote: Hi All I hope somebody on the list can help me here. Our set-up is as follows: Internet -- Spam Gateway -- pop server/exchange server we are using: FreeBSD 6.1 Sendmail 8.13 forward s mail via smtp from

RE: Low scoring since 3.1.1 upgrade

2006-06-09 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Please send in some examples and output of spamassassin --lint -D. version numbers, milter version, sendmail version, configuration files etc. etc. You are aware about changes to the operation configuration of SA3.1.1 and 3.1.2? Lots of things have changed and this needs to be adjusted in

Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
Is anyone else getting spam from gmail? The ones I'm getting are very lengthy but doesn't look like bayes poison. headers Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 Received: from mail2.adventureaquarium.com ([10.0.0.205]) by MAIL-I.adventureaquarium.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713);

Re: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread Rick Macdougall
Jason Staudenmayer wrote: Is anyone else getting spam from gmail? The ones I'm getting are very lengthy but doesn't look like bayes poison. headers Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 Received: from mail2.adventureaquarium.com ([10.0.0.205]) by MAIL-I.adventureaquarium.com with

Re: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread Alejandro Lengua
BTW, email coming from Gmail servers (including valid one) is already being blocked by several real time blacklists (RBLs) On 6/9/06, Jason Staudenmayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else getting spam from gmail? The ones I'm getting are very lengthy but doesn't look like bayes poison.

Re: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread Jamie L. Penman-Smithson
On 9 Jun 2006, at 13:56, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: Is anyone else getting spam from gmail? The ones I'm getting are very lengthy but doesn't look like bayes poison. It's _not from_ GMail. snip Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.4) (66.148.73.132) by mail2.adventureaquarium.com with

RE: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
I see ... I'll have to see why my qmail didn't drop it for those address issues. Thanks -Original Message- From: Jamie L. Penman-Smithson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:26 AM To: Jason Staudenmayer Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Gmail spam On

BL hits on wrong host

2006-06-09 Thread up
I've seen this before, but it's been a while. An AOL user who's on Verizon DSL, sends an email that trips two DNS BLs in SA. This user's Verizon DSL IP is listed for being an open relay, which it may or may not be, since this is presumably a dynamic IP The mail is then relayed through AOL's

RE: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Don't know about qmail, but in sendmail you can easily reject the mail because of this 'forged helo'. -Sietse From: Jason Staudenmayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 09-Jun-06 15:35 To: Jamie L. Penman-Smithson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject:

RE: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
I think I found it, I missed the '.' in my helocheck setting. -Original Message- From: Sietse van Zanen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:45 AM To: Jason Staudenmayer; Jamie L. Penman-Smithson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Gmail spam Don't know

DCC newbie questions

2006-06-09 Thread Al Danks
We just installed DCC and hooked it to SA yesterday. It is working and we are getting DCC_CHECK hits. We understand it is basically scoring bulk mail, not necessarily spam. We see potential settings for dcc_body_max, dcc_fuz1_max, dcc_fuz2_max with a default/recommended 99. Are there

Re: BL hits on wrong host

2006-06-09 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen this before, but it's been a while. An AOL user who's on Verizon DSL, sends an email that trips two DNS BLs in SA. This user's Verizon DSL IP is listed for being an open relay, which it may or may not be, since this is presumably a dynamic IP The mail is

Re: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread List Mail User
... Is anyone else getting spam from gmail? The ones I'm getting are very lengthy but doesn't look like bayes poison. headers Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 Received: from mail2.adventureaquarium.com ([10.0.0.205]) by MAIL-I.adventureaquarium.com with Microsoft

Re: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread qqqq
| If you apply the needed | 27,000 patches to qmail, you can actually get it to refuse garbage | HELO/EHLO arguments like the '192.168.0.4' that is came in with (or | client hosts with no rDNS, etc.); Or you could update to a MTA which | is supported by its author(s) still. LMAO, Well said.

Re: size of bayes db

2006-06-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Stefan Jakobs wrote on Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:06:47 +0200: It is a dbm db! The server process ~ 80 000 Mails per Day and the bayes_seen db is 5 month old. If you count both dbs together 1 GB might be what you end up with this volume and no expiry. What's your salearn --dump magic output? That

Re: is there a way to block email coming from

2006-06-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:50:33 -0400: I agree that outright blocking based on dynamic IP range lists often doesn't suite a particular organizations needs. I was just pointing out that some people do rely on these lists, often blindly, and that anyone who is aware

Ignore first upstream client in report

2006-06-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, I'm moving our content filtering from the frontend smtp-servers to an inside relay. After a test, I can see that while it seems to work ok, all spam is marked Spam from local ip-of frontend smtp. I have trusted_networks and internal_networks set in local.cf with CIDR annotation. How

dumb sa-update question

2006-06-09 Thread Ben Lentz
Greetings List, When I run sa-update and download the new set of include-d rules, it seems the system doesn't define a few make-style variables that /do/ get defined when installing from CPAN. I guess the most obvious one is the report_contact @@CONTACT_ADDRESS@@ in 10_misc.cf. To fix this,

Editing Question....

2006-06-09 Thread Tom Ray
Is there a way to edit the message that appears in your mail when it's marked as spam. This is the text I want to edit: Spam detection software, running on the system mx02.detroitonline.com, has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so

RE: Editing Question....

2006-06-09 Thread Martin Hepworth
Tom Depends on what's call SA. SA will only mark the spam, any processing beyond that is up to you.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 -Original Message- From: Tom Ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 June 2006 17:17 To:

Re: dumb sa-update question

2006-06-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:13:49PM -0400, Ben Lentz wrote: When I run sa-update and download the new set of include-d rules, it seems the system doesn't define a few make-style variables that /do/ get defined when installing from CPAN. I guess the most obvious one is the Yes. This is a

Re: dumb sa-update question

2006-06-09 Thread Ben Lentz
- Original Message - *From:* Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 06/09/2006 12:27:22 PM *To:* users@spamassassin.apache.org *Subject:* dumb sa-update question On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:13:49PM -0400, Ben Lentz wrote: When I run sa-update and download the new set of

Re: Mail somehow bypassing spamassassin entirely showing up in my Inbox

2006-06-09 Thread Arias Hung
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea delivered in simple text monotype: On 6/7/2006 8:09 PM, Arias Hung wrote: For the normal timeouts, it sounds like you might be consistently having a problem with bayes expiry. Although, such a problem isn't normally consistent AND long (time wise)

Re: dumb sa-update question

2006-06-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:37:04PM -0400, Ben Lentz wrote: The easiest method is to put the report_contact setting in your local.cf, then you don't have to care what sa-update does. :) Wow, a reply from the man himself! Hehe. :) I don't know, but we should probably do something. ;)

Why does this rule not hit?

2006-06-09 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
Why does this rule: body ORNL_STOCKT_N2 /H o l l y w o o d I n t e r m e d i a t e/i scoreORNL_STOCKT_N2 6 not hit on a message containing the following text? (Lint shows no errors, spamd was restarted. The string appears in the text several times. Every paragraph is actually a single

Re: Why does this rule not hit?

2006-06-09 Thread Mike Jackson
Did you restart whatever service does the spam filtering after you added the rule? - Original Message - From: Rosenbaum, Larry M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:04 Subject: Why does this rule not hit? Why does this rule: body

Re: Why does this rule not hit?

2006-06-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:04:40PM -0400, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Why does this rule: body ORNL_STOCKT_N2 /H o l l y w o o d I n t e r m e d i a t e/i not hit on a message containing the following text? H o l l y w o o d I n t e r m e d i a t e provides a proprietary The double space

RE: Why does this rule not hit?

2006-06-09 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 14:15 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Why does this rule not hit? On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:04:40PM -0400, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Why does this rule: body

RE: Why does this rule not hit?

2006-06-09 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 3:15 PM On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:04:40PM -0400, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Why does this rule: body ORNL_STOCKT_N2 /H o l l y w o o d I n t e r m e d i a t e/i not hit on a message containing the

The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Marc Perkel
After considerable experimenting and thinking things through I thought I'd start a thread on the future of email to start planting the seeds of where MTA development needs to go. I'm convinced that someday soon we will all realize that MBOX and MAILDIR are obsolete technologies and that

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread qqqq
My point here is - think outside the box. I'm going to be lobbying IMAP server developers to include SQL backends. exim could pipe data into a local delivery agent, or it can have features written to write directly to the SQL backend.Thoughts . ? Because I am an SQL dummy, I do have

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Marc Perkel
wrote: My point here is - think outside the box. I'm going to be lobbying IMAP server developers to include SQL backends. exim could pipe data into a local delivery agent, or it can have features written to write directly to the SQL backend. Thoughts . ?

Re: Ignore first upstream client in report

2006-06-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi all, I'm moving our content filtering from the frontend smtp-servers to an inside relay. After a test, I can see that while it seems to work ok, all spam is marked Spam from local ip-of frontend smtp. I have trusted_networks and internal_networks set in local.cf

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Jason Marshall
That would be about 500 gigs of email. Fry's Electronics has drives that size on special for $189. So - I'd say yes, should be fairly easy to scale up to that size and beyond. You really think one 500 gig disk is going to give you anywhere close to the performance you need to accomodate 500

RE: Ignore first upstream client in report

2006-06-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi all, I'm moving our content filtering from the frontend smtp-servers to an inside relay. After a test, I can see that while it seems to work ok, all spam is marked Spam from local ip-of frontend smtp. I have trusted_networks

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread qqqq
That would be about 500 gigs of email. Fry's Electronics has drives that size on special for $189. So - I'd say yes, should be fairly easy to scale up to that size and beyond. I believe it would be approx 200 Gigs

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread DAve
Marc Perkel wrote: wrote: My point here is - think outside the box. I'm going to be lobbying IMAP server developers to include SQL backends. exim could pipe data into a local delivery agent, or it can have features written to write directly to the SQL backend. Thoughts . ? We are

Re: The Future of Email is SQL - What drives do you use?

2006-06-09 Thread qqqq
| Between two mail gateways and three toasters we have 14 disks that never | stop seeking, never, 24/7/365. A consumer grade storage device would | scream mommy and wet itself. | | DAve OK, I'm sorry for changing the subject but I have had good results with 18 and 36 GB IBM SCSI drives. What

Re: Editing Question....

2006-06-09 Thread David Goldsmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Ray wrote: Martin Hepworth wrote: Tom Depends on what's call SA. SA will only mark the spam, any processing beyond that is up to you.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

Re: The Future of Email is SQL - What drives do you use?

2006-06-09 Thread Jason Marshall
OK, I'm sorry for changing the subject but I have had good results with 18 and 36 GB IBM SCSI drives. What do you use? I generally use Seagate. Used to use IBM/Hitachi and Fujitsu. Still would if they were easier to find in stock around here. Have used Quantums, and long long ago

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Logan Shaw
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: wrote: Because I am an SQL dummy, I do have this question. Would aps like Mysql and Postgres be able to handle 10,000+ users with an average of 50 MB of email? I really don't know. Also, does the body just get written to a table? That would

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:25:52PM -0600, wrote: My point here is - think outside the box. I'm going to be lobbying IMAP server developers to include SQL backends. exim could pipe data into a local delivery agent, or it can have features written to write directly to the SQL backend.

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Marc Perkel
Gary, I'm trying to introduce the idea of a MySQL backend to Timo over at Dovecot. He has done a little work in that direction already. But - I'm throwing this idea out there right now just to get people thinking. I'm hoping that in the next year as people think this through that some serious

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Marc Perkel
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:25:52PM -0600, wrote: My point here is - think outside the box. I'm going to be lobbying IMAP server developers to include SQL backends. exim could pipe data into a local delivery agent, or it can have features written to

RE: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Greg Allen
-Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:19 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: The Future of Email is SQL Thoughts . ? - MS Exchange... one big Database You can use Exmerge to do

Re: The Future of Email is SQL - What drives do you use?

2006-06-09 Thread DAve
wrote: | Between two mail gateways and three toasters we have 14 disks that never | stop seeking, never, 24/7/365. A consumer grade storage device would | scream mommy and wet itself. | | DAve OK, I'm sorry for changing the subject but I have had good results with 18 and 36 GB IBM SCSI

RE: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Rob McEwen
MS Exchange... one big Database Exactly... And that is one reason why I wouldn't touch this SQL idea with a 10 foot pole.. the fact that Exchange works this way only proves my point... I hear all the time about Exchange servers crashing and the administrator having to rebuild the database while

RE: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Greg Allen
-Original Message- From: Rob McEwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:16 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: The Future of Email is SQL MS Exchange... one big Database Exactly... And that is one reason why I wouldn't touch this SQL idea

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Marc Perkel
Greg Allen wrote: -Original Message- From: Rob McEwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:16 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: The Future of Email is SQL MS Exchange... one big Database

Re: Mail somehow bypassing spamassassin entirely showing up in my Inbox

2006-06-09 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Arias Hung wrote: On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea delivered in simple text monotype: As for the copy_config timeouts... what kind of system load are you seeing. 10, 50, 500, or higher? The current 20 seconds alarm is twice the original alarm timeout, but if you've got a high

RE: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Rob McEwen wrote: MS Exchange... one big Database Exactly... And that is one reason why I wouldn't touch this SQL idea with a 10 foot pole.. the fact that Exchange works this way only proves my point... I hear all the time about Exchange servers crashing and the

Re: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread jdow
Off hand you could not convince me that this message ever got near gmail servers. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Jason Staudenmayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone else getting spam from gmail? The ones I'm getting are very lengthy but doesn't look like bayes poison. headers Microsoft

Re: Gmail spam

2006-06-09 Thread jdow
Repeat - it NEVER WENT NEAR gmail. That part is pure forgery. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Jason Staudenmayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see ... I'll have to see why my qmail didn't drop it for those address issues. Thanks -Original Message- From: Jamie L. Penman-Smithson

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:50:03PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Gary, I'm trying to introduce the idea of a MySQL backend to Timo over at Dovecot. He has done a little work in that direction already. But - I'm throwing this idea out there right now just to get people thinking. I'm hoping

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:16:15PM -0400, Rob McEwen wrote: MS Exchange... one big Database Exactly... And that is one reason why I wouldn't touch this SQL idea with a 10 foot pole.. the fact that Exchange works this way only proves my point... I hear all the time about Exchange servers

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Steve Thomas
While this is quite an interesting topic, I have to ask why it's on the spamassassin list. Message stores aren't spamassassin specific and this is already a pretty high-volume list. Does this discussion really belong here? St-

RE: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Gary W. Smith
It's getting there, albeit slowly. I think that if you rule out any up and coming application but it's just not there yet we wouldn't have an opensource community... We have a variety of reasons for using MySQL, most of them aren't good ones though but it's something we've been able to work

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:16:10PM -0700, Gary W. Smith wrote: It's getting there, albeit slowly. I think that if you rule out any up and coming application but it's just not there yet we wouldn't have an opensource community... We have a variety of reasons for using MySQL, most of them

RE: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Gary W. Smith
Don't know... Been using Oracle and MSSQL for years. Both of those work fine. Don't understand the argument. Why use Postgres when I can just piggy back them on my replicated Oracle environment. If we are talking about making a SQL application that is usable for a multitude of people then why

Re[2]: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Sanford Whiteman
If we are talking about making a SQL application that is usable for a multitude of people then why lock them into something. That's the easiest way to drive them away from supporting it. Word. Perl can play nice with plenty of RDBMSs. If this discussion belongs here at all, I can't