Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Thank you for this... i've added that line to /etc/apt/sources.list, and run an apt-get update. However, when i then run apt-get install spamassassin it says: spamassassin is already the newest version. As mentioned before, i'm actually running 3.0.3-2sarge1. Any ideas? The source

Re: Trusted networks and SPF

2007-02-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Mon, February 26, 2007 17:01, Ben Wylie wrote: [snip] Is there any way that I can tell SpamAssassin to trust the X-Envelope-From or Return-Path information in the headers as it is merely an AV gateway and not going to change the X-Envelope-From headers? This way I could get SPF checks on

Re: SA as postfix policy service?

2007-02-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sun, February 25, 2007 20:43, Len Conrad wrote: Anybody got any links / how-to for setting up SA as postfix policy service? nope properly not I want SA policy service to perform only envelope checks, not content scans. why ? postfix policy have nothing to do with spamassassin -- This

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Adam Wilbraham
Yupp - try giving apt-get the -t sarge-backports switch to force it to download from that repository, eg: apt-get install -t sarge-backports spamassassin spamc Adam. On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:32:39 + Richard Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thank you for this... i've added that

Using sa-learn and fetchmail

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew Bickerton
Hi all, As described in the SA wiki, I have set up fetchmail to read a mail folder in to sa-learn. However I get the following error: /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --uidl --keep --folder LearnAsSpam -m '/usr/local/bin/sa-learn --spam' archive-iterator: invalid (undef) format in target list,

Re: forcing lower score

2007-02-27 Thread Justin Mason
Mark Martinec writes: perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf, look for whitelist. This topic reminds me of my occasional desire to be able to supply individual score points (optional, overriding a default) with each whitelist_from* and whitelist_from_dkim entry, taking into account reputation

copy bayes or something like that

2007-02-27 Thread Linus Stehr
Hallo, i have already a server with spamassassin. Everything is perfect. Now i have an other new mail server with spamassassin and co. Is it possible to copy the database from the old to the new server, so that the new one must not learn things, which the old server already knows. I think a

Re: Using sa-learn and fetchmail

2007-02-27 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 27, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Matthew Bickerton wrote: Hi all, As described in the SA wiki, I have set up fetchmail to read a mail folder in to sa-learn. However I get the following error: /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --uidl --keep --folder LearnAsSpam -m '/usr/local/bin/sa-learn

RE: copy bayes or something like that

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Aviles
Linus, yes there is a dump command. Take a look there. http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/sa-learn.html Paul Aviles Nickel Networks _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linus Stehr Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:06 AM To:

per user scanning

2007-02-27 Thread #Ronan McGlue
I currently use exim on the MTAs and have SA using MySQL with the following data_acl entry warnmessage = X-Spam-Score: $spam_bar ($spam_score)\n\ X-Spam-Score-Int: $spam_score_int condition = ${if {$message_size}{80k}{1}{0}} set

Re: copy bayes or something like that

2007-02-27 Thread Linus Stehr
Great, it works perfect! Thanks a lot! 2007/2/27, Linus Stehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hallo, i have already a server with spamassassin. Everything is perfect. Now i have an other new mail server with spamassassin and co. Is it possible to copy the database from the old to the new server, so that

per user bayes db: auto_expiry problem, spamd child timeout, very long scantimes

2007-02-27 Thread mailinglists
Hi all I run a site for more than 2000 mailboxes with Postfix, SA 3.1.8 and procmail. Every user has his own bayes db. Allow_user_rules is deactivated. I have a number of problems: A number of emails passes spamd unfiltered due to spamd child timeout. Looking at the scantime it often is far

Re: per user scanning

2007-02-27 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, #Ronan McGlue wrote: I am looking to move to peruser scanning, so I would need to change only one line of the above to spam = $local_part:true which will use the local part of the email address as the username. This won't work because there may be multiple

Odd Issue with Unfiltered Email

2007-02-27 Thread David Goldsmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After doing the various tuning steps yesterday, our server is running much better right now. Currently, our max spamd child processes value is set to 60. I have a message that came through completely unfiltered a short while ago. It was a drug spam

veryfing the score of a message

2007-02-27 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Hello, I would like to verify the score of a message that sendmail left in queue for some reason. Normally, I have two messages in queue directory: - qfX - dfX Could I 'cat' qfX and dfX in a temp file 'tmp' and than calculate the score so: spamassassin -t tmp ? Or I will

Locales and Languages

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Aviles
I am using http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php to see how the configuration of ok_locales and ok_languages changes and my brain is getting stuck on it. Shouldn't they both match? If I select that I want to only exclude from scoring say en de es and run the configuration, then it generates

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Thank you :-) Once i've run the command below, is there anything i need to do, other that restart the spamassassin daemon? Thanks again, Hobbs. Adam Wilbraham wrote: Yupp - try giving apt-get the -t sarge-backports switch to force it to download from that repository, eg: apt-get

RE: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 5:47 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Mail Appliances? Appreciate this may not be 100% the best place to ask, but I'm struggling to think of anywhere better other

Re: per user scanning

2007-02-27 Thread #Ronan McGlue
Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, #Ronan McGlue wrote: I am looking to move to peruser scanning, so I would need to change only one line of the above to spam= $local_part:true which will use the local part of the email address as the username. This won't work because there

Re: Trusted networks and SPF

2007-02-27 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Ben Wylie wrote: but then refuses to do any more, as it claims not to be able to trust the X-Envelope-From header because it has been through my AV gateway: [2408] dbg: spf: relayed through one or more trusted relays, cannot use header-based Envelope-From, skipping Similarly: [2408] dbg:

Re: per user scanning

2007-02-27 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, #Ronan McGlue wrote: what information is available during the DATA_ACL eg to perform lookups on to get the username to use for SA? The only thing that Exim provides is the list of all recipients, $recipients (plural). What I would recommend that you do is use an ACL

Re: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-27 Thread John Rudd
Paul Aviles wrote: There are are bunch of them about there. If someone is concern about Paul getting hit by a bus, there are several thousands (literally) good admins for hire on the net and several companies providing SA services. I always wonder how the bosses got their jobs. If they

RE: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Hutchings
I'm slightly cautious myself tbh. I'm not a *nix admin by profession I'm a Network Admin who managed to install Suse and postfix/spamassassin etc. It's great when it works, if it ever breaks I suspect it'll be a case of unplug it and change the MX record pretty damned quick whilst I most likely

Re: Trusted networks and SPF

2007-02-27 Thread Ben Wylie
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Assuming you've got your trusted_networks (and possibly internal_networks) setup, you just need to add always_trust_envelope_sender 1 to your local.cf. Thanks for the help. It now gives me the error [3952] dbg: spf: cannot get Envelope-From, cannot use SPF [3952]

RE: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Aviles
Paul, even with the best appliance if the hard drive goes there is no such thing as a reset. Sure, you can maybe cluster them, but if the fiber, san or whatever critical component goes, there is no reset. The easier the better sure, many times the easier does not have the features you are looking

which spam databases to copy to new server

2007-02-27 Thread Bazooka Joe
My SA runs as one user for the server sa-milt. I just recently built a new server and copied the .spamassassin dir for sa-milt to the new server but I am not getting near the results I was getting w/ the old server (it is catching about half of the spam it used to). Am I missing some other

RE: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-27 Thread Per Jessen
Paul Aviles wrote: If they want zero admin, check Postini or MessagesLabs, I prefer ML, Seeing we're doing a tiny bit of advertising, I'll toss in a good word for Spamchek - they're in Switzerland: http://www.spamchek.com/. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: per user bayes db: auto_expiry problem, spamd child timeout, very long scantimes

2007-02-27 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some emails have a scantime of more than 900 seconds. I do not see a relation to a huge load on the SpamAssassin Servers (I have 2 of them). The timeout problems happen when there is small load (10 out of 20 spamds marked Busy) as well as when

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2007-02-27 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to godfella.seaan.net.: DATA 550 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table 550 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown 554

Re: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-27 Thread JamesDR
Paul Aviles wrote: There are are bunch of them about there. If someone is concern about Paul getting hit by a bus, there are several thousands (literally) good admins for hire on the net and several companies providing SA services. I always wonder how the bosses got their jobs. If they

Re: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-27 Thread Freddie
Paul, even with the best appliance if the hard drive goes there is no such thing as a reset. Sure, you can maybe cluster them, but if the fiber, san or whatever critical component goes, there is no reset. The easier the better sure, many times the easier does not have the features you are

Re: veryfing the score of a message

2007-02-27 Thread Kelson
maillist wrote: I believe that sendmail doesn't have the headers assembled at that point. So, if you do what you mentioned above, then you will not get the correct score. Sort of. The df file contains the message body, and the qf file contains the headers... but they're not in the normal

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Gary V
Richard Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd! Hello, Thank you :-) Once i've run the command below, is there anything i need to do, other that restart the

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread Adam Wilbraham
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:36:32 + Richard Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd! Hello, Thank you :-) Once i've run the command below, is there anything i

False positive on LONGWORDS

2007-02-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
A technical newsletter about transistors contains the introductory paragraph Use of gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors in microwave applications is expected to increase significantly with recent technology improvements, but lateral double diffuse metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS)

Re: Locales and Languages

2007-02-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Paul Aviles wrote: I am using http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php to see how the configuration of ok_locales and ok_languages changes and my brain is getting stuck on it. Shouldn't they both match? No. ok_locales doesn't support nearly as many different options as ok_languages.

RE: Locales and Languages

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Aviles
I got it now, it does makes sense. Hmmm, did you unchecked Use Language Testing? If I do that, I only get ok_languagesall ok_locales en Paul -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 7:31 PM To: Paul

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-27 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd! Consider: 1) Run sa-update -D so you can see what it does or tries to do and what modules you might be missing and

Re: veryfing the score of a message

2007-02-27 Thread Kelson
maillist wrote: Well what puzzles me is, is the message in queue, waiting to be sent to someone within your domain, or is it outbound? Why are you wanting to manually scan it? I think you're confusing me with the person who originally posted the question. Putting this thread back on the

Re: Trusted networks and SPF

2007-02-27 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 2/27/2007 12:45 PM, Ben Wylie wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Assuming you've got your trusted_networks (and possibly internal_networks) setup, you just need to add always_trust_envelope_sender 1 to your local.cf. Thanks for the help. It now gives me the error [3952] dbg: spf: cannot

Re: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-27 Thread Bob Proulx
John Rudd wrote: b) Don't joke about your sysadmins, or other critical resources, being hit by busses or trucks. It happens. Plan accordingly. I had a manager once who went through a similar situation where tragedy struck and the person really was hit by a bus. So now she always says

Re: Undefined subroutine Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DBI::dbi

2007-02-27 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 2/24/2007 6:30 PM, Michael Parker wrote: Michael Monnerie wrote: Either a) you have something goofed up there or b) something is goofed in how we setup the INC path for plugins. Something must have changed that breaks DBIPlugin, because at 3.1.7 I don't have that error. Please file