RE: box trapper filter and wildcard question

2007-01-19 Thread Randal, Phil
I also submit any such challenge/response spams I receive at home to spamcop. Eventually someone will get a clue. Phil -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:06 AM To: dan li Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: box

setting different SPF per domain is available?

2007-01-19 Thread Monty Ree
Hello, all. I would like to set different SPF rule per domain. For example, -. I would like to check SPF only per example.com or abc.net. -. I would like to set different SPF score for abc.com and xyz.com. How can I do for this? My system is sa 3.1.5. Thanks for your time.

Re: blacklisting

2007-01-19 Thread D Ivago
*EVERY* time you edit your config files, run spamassassin --lint. It should run quietly and just exit if all is well. If there's a problem parsing your config, it will print a message to that effect. so I added blacklist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my local.cf and ran 'spamassassin -lint' but

Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread nigel
hi everyone, i'm pretty new to SpamAssassin. Disk space on one of our servers is running low and it seems that /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin is using 4.4GB. it is full of items like this bayes_toks.expire7000 i roughly know what they do but is there a way to clear this out? i thought

Mail sent from Lotus Notes blocked

2007-01-19 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Hello, I use amavisd-new. When I send emails from Lotus Notes they get blocked. Even If they are plain messages. Indeed they are however MIME messages. I would like to verify if there is a way to analyse what is the tokens whose raise the score so that the message is considered spam while the

Re: Mail sent from Lotus Notes blocked

2007-01-19 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Rocco Scappatura [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I use amavisd-new. When I send emails from Lotus Notes they get blocked. Why? What's in the logs? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charite - Universitätsmedizin BerlinTel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155

RE: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Nigel Ideally this would be on the mailscanner list... There's a couple of ways MailScanner can expire the bayes tokens down, and which one works for you seems to be hit and miss from my experience.. 1st method is to use the 'internal' MailScanner method. In MailScanner.conf, make sure

RE: blacklisting

2007-01-19 Thread Randal, Phil
Try spamassassin --lint (two dashes, not one). Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK _ From: D Ivago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2007 09:26 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: blacklisting *EVERY*

RE: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Nigel List is best.. Commented out is fine - as in that's what I've got.. ;-) If you're other settings in MailScanner.conf are also as below then you'll have to use the cron method.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 -Original

Re: Question concerning HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_32

2007-01-19 Thread Justin Mason
Office of the Postmaster writes: A 3-5% ratio of our email is getting tagged with HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_32 which according to the DOC is HTML: images with 2800-3200 bytes of words. The Yes, it's the message size that's in question, not the img tag. it's expected that the rule may fire on

RE: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread nigel
my mailscanner settings are slightly different Rebuild Bayes Every = 0 Wait During Bayes Rebuild = no so if i change them to what you suggested this will clear them out? also, does this effect mail delivery while it is doing it? Nigel Martin Hepworth-3 wrote: Nigel List is best..

RE: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Nigel Yes, but given you've got lots of expiring to do I suggested you run the sa-learn by hand first, then you have some feedback for whats happening, rather than MailScanner just waiting.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 -Original

RE: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread nigel
ok how long would you expect this to take? its running on an old server which doesnt help :-) Nigel Martin.Hepworth wrote: Nigel Yes, but given you've got lots of expiring to do I suggested you run the sa-learn by hand first, then you have some feedback for whats happening, rather

RE: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Nigel Then in your case you've not told anything to clean up the bayes files...so yes try the inbuilt MailScanner way First time it may take some time as you've got so many files, so you make wish to stop MailScanner, run sa-learn --force-expire (as the appropriate user if non-root) and then

RE: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread nigel
ok, first do i have to stop MailScanner? Secondly, if i make that change i guess i would have to run sa-learn --force-expire to make it clean up there and then? if i didn't run that command it would do it after the time period set. am i correct here? :) Nigel Martin Hepworth-3 wrote:

Spam not being caught

2007-01-19 Thread Drew Burchett
I'm not sure if this is a MailScanner problem or a SpamAssassin problem, but someone here will at least be able to help me narrow it down. I am running MailScanner 4.57.6 on Suse Linux 10.1. My MTA is Postfix 2.3.6 and I'm running SpamAssassin 3.1.7. The problem I seem to be having is that

RE: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread nigel
i've just ran this and it did not delete any of the tokens. i have saved the output (i used it in debug mode) if that will help Nigel nigel wrote: ok how long would you expect this to take? its running on an old server which doesnt help :-) Nigel Martin.Hepworth wrote:

Re: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:17:31AM -0800, nigel wrote: i've just ran this and it did not delete any of the tokens. i have saved the output (i used it in debug mode) if that will help Feel free to pastebot the debug output. FWIW, --force-expire doesn't guarantee any tokens will be expired, it

multiple different copies of spamd running

2007-01-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
For the purposes of development, I would like to run 5+ separate copies of spamd on the same host to test different settings. I would like to be able to have a different config for each instance. It this possible? More specifically, I would like to test different threshold levels, different

Re: Question concerning HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_32

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:07:53AM +, Justin Mason wrote: Thank you. That explains it then. I suppose there is no fix for the false positives then? Since its the total message size. I began thinking that 1.6 points is not an FP. it's expected that some rules *will* fire on ham

Re: multiple different copies of spamd running

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:17:37AM -0800, Gary W. Smith wrote: For the purposes of development, I would like to run 5+ separate copies of spamd on the same host to test different settings. I would like to be able to have a different config for each instance. It this possible? Sure. More

RE: multiple different copies of spamd running

2007-01-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
More specifically, I would like to test different threshold levels, different rule sets, tie some of the instances into lookup's, etc. My goal is to process each incoming email against each of these instances to see what the primary differences are. It sounds more like you want to use

Re: multiple different copies of spamd running

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:31:49AM -0800, Gary W. Smith wrote: With that said, does anyone know how I would run 5 different copies of spamd on the same box? Run on different ports w/ different startup parameters pointing at different config copies. Better question, what's the best way to

RE: multiple different copies of spamd running

2007-01-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
I'll give that a try. I know that this might sound trivial to some but we recently added a rule to prod and our message processing time when from 1.2 seconds to 2.6 seconds, which doesn't sound like a lot but during peak we are processing about 60k messages an hour (across 4 frontend machines).

Re: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread nigel
here is the debug output [EMAIL PROTECTED] postfix]$ sa-learn -D --force-expire debug: SpamAssassin version 3.0.1 debug: Score set 0 chosen. debug: running in taint mode? yes debug: Running in taint mode, removing unsafe env vars, and resetting PATH debug: PATH included '/usr/kerberos/bin',

Re: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:04:19PM -0800, nigel wrote: debug: failed to load Net::DNS::Resolver: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC You should get Net::DNS properly installed. It's good stuff. debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: ARE Adult Ruleset for SpamAssassin

spampd

2007-01-19 Thread tom
I was looking at using spampd for my content_filter in postfix and found a comment in the debian package description that this is not suitable for use with a per-user Bayesian filtering configuration. I wanted to confirm that this was still valid or not. I eventually intend on setting up a

Re: spampd

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:09:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at using spampd for my content_filter in postfix and found a comment in the debian package description that this is not suitable for use with a per-user Bayesian filtering configuration. I wanted to confirm that

Re: spampd

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
(I assume this message was also supposed to goto the users list since there was nothing private in it, so cc'ing there.) On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:33:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thought I was struggling with is that in the MTA the content_filter is told who the email is going to

use or not use awl

2007-01-19 Thread Andy Figueroa
I'm growing increasingly wary of running with AWL enabled (I am). When I see AWL invoked on particular messages, the score seems to push as often in the wrong direction as in the nominal right direction. What is the evolving conventional wisdom regarding using AWL? Andy Figueroa

Re: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread nigel
so if it created a DB for me, how do i get rid of the 4.4GB of tokens that exist in /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin? thanks Nigel Theo Van Dinter-2 wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:04:19PM -0800, nigel wrote: debug: failed to load Net::DNS::Resolver: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC

No text parts

2007-01-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
Are there any rules in the current release (or in updates) to score a message that contains no text parts? I just got a message that had image/jpeg as its top-level MIME component. But it's almost as bad to get a multipart that contains neither text/plain nor text/html (or any other text

Error after running sa-update

2007-01-19 Thread tekmonster
I am running fedora 6 and it spamd seemed to be running ok. After restarting though I now get the following error Jan 19 17:55:05 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 50439 Jan 19 17:55:05 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded Jan 19

Re: spampd

2007-01-19 Thread Tom Allison
Theo Van Dinter wrote: (I assume this message was also supposed to goto the users list since there was nothing private in it, so cc'ing there.) On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:33:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thought I was struggling with is that in the MTA the content_filter is told who

Re: Runing out of Disk Space

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:50:10PM -0800, nigel wrote: so if it created a DB for me, how do i get rid of the 4.4GB of tokens that exist in /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin? You need to properly use the right DB path. Either a) run as the correct user, b) if you have privs use --dbpath, c)

Re: Error after running sa-update

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 06:01:06PM -0500, tekmonster wrote: After restarting though I now get the following error These have nothing to do with sa-update fwiw. Jan 19 17:55:05 nj1hqls01 spamd[19756]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 50439 Jan 19 17:55:05 nj1hqls01

Re: No text parts

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:59:29PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: I just got a message that had image/jpeg as its top-level MIME component. 0.068 0.0776 0.1.000 0.500.00 TVD_WHAA_CONTENT This looks for mails that have a Content-Type specified, and it's not text or

Re: Error after running sa-update

2007-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
(cc'ing users list since there's nothing private in here) On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:55:14PM -0500, Brian Z wrote: I thought it was safe to run spamd as root? Running the spamd parent as root is fine, but the children won't run a message through as root as a security paranoia measure. So if

Re: use or not use awl

2007-01-19 Thread Matt Kettler
Andy Figueroa wrote: I'm growing increasingly wary of running with AWL enabled (I am). When I see AWL invoked on particular messages, the score seems to push as often in the wrong direction as in the nominal right direction. What is the evolving conventional wisdom regarding using AWL?