Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Matthias Leisi wrote: Hello List, How would you set up a distributed Bayes DB? In this context, distributed means that I have four mailserver machines in parallel (all with equal MX priority) where I want to run Spamassassins Bayes filtering -- without introducing a single point of failure

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Matthias Leisi
Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a SQL server backend. If you must have a no-failure option for the bayes DB, use a cluster of SQL servers. [..] Also see the SQL readme: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SqlReadmeBayes I already took a look

Re: Well, that didn't take very bloody long

2006-11-11 Thread jdow
From: Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, remember that Name Wrote: :) emails? They've completely changed. Now it's hi username instead. Joy, oh joy. Can anyone find any common elements in these emails because whoever this putz is, they're adapting a lot. They hit us, we adapt, they

RE: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Matthias Leisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 4:48 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Distributed Bayes DB? Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a SQL server backend. If you must have

OT : MailScanner

2006-11-11 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
Hi, Need some inputs from the experts. I am planning to switch to postfix + mailscanner + sa + clamav. Just want to know one thing before doing that. I have kaspersky linux edition. Can I create two antivirus scanning layers in mailscanner? Warm Regards, Suhas System

Re: Distributed Bayes DB? (SQL usage)

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Matthias Leisi wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a SQL server backend. If you must have a no-failure option for the bayes DB, use a cluster of SQL servers. [..] Also see the SQL readme:

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: Matthias Leisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 4:48 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Distributed Bayes DB? Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a

RE: OT : MailScanner

2006-11-11 Thread Randal, Phil
Yes you can, and many of us MailScanner users do run two or more virus scanners. You should join the MailScanner user's mailing list, we're are a helpful lot. Phil From: Suhas (QualiSpace) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:17 AM To:

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 11.11.2006 um 10:48 schrieb Matthias Leisi: I already took a look at using SQL, but this quote: | NB: This should be considered BETA, and the interface, schema, or | overall operation of SQL support may change at any time with future | releases of SA. stops me from using it.

Re: OT : MailScanner

2006-11-11 Thread John Rudd
Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: Hi, Need some inputs from the experts. I am planning to switch to postfix + mailscanner + sa + clamav. Just want to know one thing before doing that. I have kaspersky linux edition. Can I create two antivirus scanning layers in mailscanner? A) probably

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Matthias Leisi wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a SQL server backend. If you must have a no-failure option for the bayes DB, use a cluster of SQL servers. [..] Also see the SQL readme: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SqlReadmeBayes I

RE: Well, that didn't take very bloody long

2006-11-11 Thread Randal, Phil
But most of us aren't clever enough with Perl RE's to construct the rule to go with it. So where's the rule to match, folks? Cheers, Phil -Original Message- From: Tony Finch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Finch Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 9:49 PM To: Steve Lake Cc:

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Charlie Clark wrote: Am 11.11.2006 um 10:48 schrieb Matthias Leisi: I already took a look at using SQL, but this quote: | NB: This should be considered BETA, and the interface, schema, or | overall operation of SQL support may change at any time with future | releases of SA. stops me

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Dhawal Doshy wrote: Matthias Leisi wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a SQL server backend. If you must have a no-failure option for the bayes DB, use a cluster of SQL servers. [..] Also see the SQL readme:

RE: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:23 AM To: Michael Scheidell Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Distributed Bayes DB? Actually his point wasn't the SQL clustering was beta, but that the SQL Readme on

Re: FuzzyOcr problem (Re: Relay Checker plugin v0.2)

2006-11-11 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: decoder wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: D.J. wrote: On 11/10/06, Patrick Sneyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get this warning: plugin: failed to create instance of plugin

Re: FuzzyOCR

2006-11-11 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sokka wrote: Hi, Can anyone post me URL or PDF of clear documentation of the FuzzyOcr ? The current URL for FuzzyOcr is http://fuzzyocr.own-hero.net/ The page (wiki) is still quite under construction, but you'll find installation instructions

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Re: Questions about FuzzyOCR

2006-11-11 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pascal Maes wrote: Version 2.3b 1) Here is the ouptut of the scanner (gocr -i) : _ date Informations 9- 11-lO061O_30 Le __ek-end du 3-4r'11, les adresses de cou r_er jlectron_que des jtud_ants non

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Alex Woick
Don't overrate Bayes. Don't focus solely on a bullet-proof highly available clustered or replicated database. If the Bayes database is gone, only one check is gone! All the others are still there. For my mail content, the real filtering power today come from the network checks such as

Re: current stock scams are easy to spot

2006-11-11 Thread Justin Mason
Loren Wilton writes: Well, that's all fine and dandy, but what do we do about them? Since we know they all have a common element, we need to figure out a way to stop them using that info. Well, just from the description and knowing the existance of header ALL, it would be

rule secrecy *again* (Re: Well, that didn't take very bloody long)

2006-11-11 Thread Justin Mason
Loren Wilton writes: Ok, remember that Name Wrote: :) emails? They've completely changed. Now it's hi username instead. Joy, oh joy. Can anyone find any common elements in these emails because whoever this putz is, they're adapting a lot. They hit us, we adapt, they

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Matthias Leisi
First, a thank you all for the suggestions relating to SQL. It seems SQL support is better than I expected and I will give it a try. Alex Woick wrote: Don't overrate Bayes. The system has been running without Bayes for roughly 3 years (with incremental Spamassassin updates), and with good

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 11.11.2006 um 11:47 schrieb Matt Kettler: I suppose you could use something like NFS so that all systems share the same DB, config files, etc. NFS would be HIGHLY not -recommended. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/72362/ match=sql In fact, I personally

user_prefs

2006-11-11 Thread twofers
I have searched for several hours and can't seem to find the answer to this. I've found close answers, but not complete.I have SA set up as individual users. When a new user is created SA creates a new user_prefs file for them. This file contains two prefs. required_score 7 and rewrite_header

Re: Questions about FuzzyOCR

2006-11-11 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 decoder wrote: Pascal Maes wrote: Version 2.3b 1) Here is the ouptut of the scanner (gocr -i) : _ date Informations 9- 11-lO061O_30 Le __ek-end du 3-4r'11, les adresses de cou r_er jlectron_que des

Re: question about bayes database

2006-11-11 Thread pinoyskull
Matthias Haegele wrote: pinoyskull schrieb: will it be ok if i have 1000+ spam learned and only 300+ ham learned, will it still be effective? Dont know. But i think it´s better if you learn *all* spam and ham ... that's my problem, spams overwhelmed ham on our server (If your spam-ham-ratio

RE: question about bayes database

2006-11-11 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: pinoyskull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 9:55 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: question about bayes database (If your spam-ham-ratio is really that bad perhaps you want to use some MTA-level antispam, or

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:23 AM To: Michael Scheidell Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Distributed Bayes DB? Actually his point wasn't the SQL clustering was

spam that only hits the BAYES_99 rule

2006-11-11 Thread Tom H
Hi, I was getting hit by a great deal of spam that only hits the BAYES_99 rule, and maybe gets less than a point or so from elsewhere. But now I'm getting ones through that are basically only hitting the BAYES_99 and nothing else; X-Spam-Score: 3.5 (***) BAYES_99 I tried to send the mail to

Re: OT : MailScanner

2006-11-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, November 11, 2006 11:16, Suhas \(QualiSpace\) wrote: Need some inputs from the experts. experts is on mailscanner mail lists I am planning to switch to postfix + mailscanner + sa + clamav. Just want to know one thing before doing that. I have kaspersky linux edition. Can I create

Re: OT : MailScanner

2006-11-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Sat, November 11, 2006 11:16, Suhas \(QualiSpace\) wrote: Need some inputs from the experts. experts is on mailscanner mail lists I am planning to switch to postfix + mailscanner + sa + clamav. Just want to know one thing before doing that. I have kaspersky linux

Re: OT : MailScanner

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: Hi, Need some inputs from the experts. I am planning to switch to postfix + mailscanner + sa + clamav. Just want to know one thing before doing that. I have kaspersky linux edition. Can I create two antivirus scanning layers in mailscanner? Yes. I use 3

Re: spam that only hits the BAYES_99 rule

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Tom H wrote: Hi, I was getting hit by a great deal of spam that only hits the BAYES_99 rule, and maybe gets less than a point or so from elsewhere. But now I'm getting ones through that are basically only hitting the BAYES_99 and nothing else; X-Spam-Score: 3.5 (***) BAYES_99 I tried to

Re: is there a way to block email coming from

2006-11-11 Thread Robert Nicholson
In my case the rule is designed to catch UK recruiters who are always contacting me. This isn't the only way I trap spam obviously. Another thing I just realized is that this only looks for URI's in the email itself in order to determine if they reside in the UK. Something different from

Is there a release date for 3.1.8?

2006-11-11 Thread Robert Nicholson
When will the Shortcircuit feature be made available in a release?

Re: Creating a signature of an email

2006-11-11 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Sounds to me as if the iXhash mechanism might be what you need. The iXhash plugin you find on the SA wiki works on the body of a mail, removes (redundant) parts of it and computes a hash value from the rest. The results have been found to be quite a reliable indicator for spam mails. I feed two

Re: sa-update rules for SA 3.1.7 have been updated but they fail lint

2006-11-11 Thread Debbie D
Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:31:31PM -0500, Debbie D wrote: Is sa-update something built in or is it an plug-in?? It's a script that comes with 3.1. I ran sa-update service spamassassin restart and was told

Re: sa-update rules for SA 3.1.7 have been updated but they fail lint

2006-11-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 03:08:08PM -0500, Debbie D wrote: OK thanks Theo.. what would be the best way for the to triple verify indeed it is picking up these new rules?? I'll set this to cron today on a weekly basic I think.. is that frequent enough?? spamassassin --lint -D will show what

Re: sa-update rules for SA 3.1.7 have been updated but they fail lint

2006-11-11 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:20 PM -0500 Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: spamassassin --lint -D will show what rule files are being used. Weekly is probably a good choice, daily is as frequent as I would suggest at the moment. It uses DNS to detect new updates, doesn't it? So

RE: Running spamc via postfix not as user nobody

2006-11-11 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Michael Frotscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:19 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Running spamc via postfix not as user nobody spamassassinunix - n n - - pipe user=nobody

Re: rule secrecy *again* (Re: Well, that didn't take very bloody long)

2006-11-11 Thread Steve Lake
At 12:27 PM 11/11/2006 +, Justin Mason wrote: ho hum... here we go again. :( As I've noted several times recently -- these *are* being caught by rules which were developed in the open -- namely RCVD_FORGED_WROTE, which has been sitting in my sandbox for several weeks, was announced in a

RE: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Dhawal Doshy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:54 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Distributed Bayes DB? that should be DRBD Or even geom_gate and geom_mirror on *BSD

Re: Is there a release date for 3.1.8?

2006-11-11 Thread Stuart Johnston
Robert Nicholson wrote: When will the Shortcircuit feature be made available in a release? The Shortcircuit plugin should be available in 3.2.0. Recent messages have suggested that this might be released before January.

sa-update

2006-11-11 Thread Kyle Quillen
Hey all, I am trying to run spamassassin updates on a qmail toaster install centos 4.4 but when I try it throws me this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sa-update -D Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib=

RE: sa-update

2006-11-11 Thread Gary V
Hey all, I am trying to run spamassassin updates on a qmail toaster install centos 4.4 but when I try it throws me this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sa-update -D Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm [...] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/sa-update line 92. Anyone Have any ideas?

RE: sa-update

2006-11-11 Thread Gary V
Install LWP? http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/ Gary V on Centos I think it's perl-libwww-perl _ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?icid=T002MSN03A07001

scoring question

2006-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi, I got the following in a message from our list management software: *X-Spam-Status: * Yes, hits=9.7 tagged_above=0.0 required=6.3 tests=AWL, BAYES_20, NO_RELAYS *X-Spam-Level: * * *X-Spam-Flag: * YES Basic configuration: Debian Sarge Postfix amavisd-new spamassassin 3.001003

Re: scoring question

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi, I got the following in a message from our list management software: *X-Spam-Status: * Yes, hits=9.7 tagged_above=0.0 required=6.3 tests=AWL, BAYES_20, NO_RELAYS *X-Spam-Level: * * *X-Spam-Flag: * YES Basic configuration: Debian Sarge Postfix

Re: Is there a release date for 3.1.8?

2006-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Robert Nicholson wrote: When will the Shortcircuit feature be made available in a release? I doubt that will be in 3.1.8.. sounds more like something for the 3.2.0 release. Of course I could be wrong, but usually features that make a dramatic change in how SA handles things are not done in

RE: Running spamc via postfix not as user nobody

2006-11-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, November 11, 2006 22:49, Michael Scheidell wrote: What happens with this: user=${recipient} argv=/usr/bin/spamc -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient} unix accounts with @ in ? -- This message was sent using 100% recycled spam mails.

Re: Creating a signature of an email

2006-11-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, November 11, 2006 20:47, Dirk Bonengel wrote: The fine thing is that you can use the iXhash plugin along razor, pyzor and dcc. (I don't know if it's possible to use two pyzor servers from within spamassassin, I think if you set up your own server you automatically lose the capabilty

Re: rule secrecy *again* (Re: Well, that didn't take very bloody long)

2006-11-11 Thread jdow
From: Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Loren Wilton writes: Ok, remember that Name Wrote: :) emails? They've completely changed. Now it's hi username instead. Joy, oh joy. Can anyone find any common elements in these emails because whoever this putz is, they're adapting a lot.

Re: spam that only hits the BAYES_99 rule

2006-11-11 Thread jdow
From: Tom H [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I was getting hit by a great deal of spam that only hits the BAYES_99 rule, and maybe gets less than a point or so from elsewhere. But now I'm getting ones through that are basically only hitting the BAYES_99 and nothing else; X-Spam-Score: 3.5 (***) BAYES_99

Re: When Bayes goes bad... How to fix?

2006-11-11 Thread Bob Proulx
I am still trying to figure out why Bayes is giving so many false positives. 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0 101467 0 non-token data: nspam 0.000 0 39694 0 non-token data: nham 0.000 0

question re. whitelist_from_rcvd

2006-11-11 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to whitelist control messages generated by our list manager (Sympa) - which are generated on the localhost and sent to addresses on the localhost. In particular, here's a specific example: *From: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: *