RE: Outbound spam filtering for a large ISP

2007-09-03 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Hello, I maintain a large webmail host (I bet you can figure out which one) for free/paid accounts that sends out tens of thousands of emails a day. We're not quite Yahoo Mail or Hotmail, but we're pretty big. We're looking to scan outbound mail using SpamAssassin and I'm hoping that

RulesDuJour

2007-09-03 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Hello, It is some weeks that I get errors while I try to updates the SA rulesets. For example recently I get an error after the update of TripWire and SARE rulesets: ***WARNING***: spamassassin --lint failed. Rolling configuration files back, not restarting SpamAssassin. Rollback command is:

Re: RulesDuJour

2007-09-03 Thread Matthias Haegele
Rocco Scappatura schrieb: Hello, It is some weeks that I get errors while I try to updates the SA rulesets. For example recently I get an error after the update of TripWire and SARE rulesets: ***WARNING***: spamassassin --lint failed. Rolling configuration files back, not restarting

Re: spamd keeps running at 99% CPU until i kill the process

2007-09-03 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Why is that? Surely updates are released for current, stable versions of spamassassin? Most of the world can't run SVN version! lol Any ideas why this might be? Thanks again, Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if there are no updates Which I bet you will be surprised to

RE: RulesDuJour

2007-09-03 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Using sa-update is the suggested method now: http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt I don't think that this is related to the error discussed in this thread. rocsca

Re: Parsing Received Headers

2007-09-03 Thread Mark Martinec
Bret, I'm trying to get received headers to parse correctly because the ones from CommuniGate Pro don't always. And, since I'm already modifying the headers in my connector due to the MTA not being able to do RDNS without rejecting based on it, I'm not aware that certain types of headers

Re: RulesDuJour

2007-09-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Using sa-update is the suggested method now: http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt I don't think that this is related to the error discussed in this thread. rocsca But it is. RulesDuJour delivery is broken, and it gives only HTTP-error page, which causes the

Re: spamd keeps running at 99% CPU until i kill the process

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Mason
Rules for the SVN version are promoted and demoted automatically, and updates are generated without human intervention. However, it's potentially unstable, and could cause false positives. We haven't yet had the time to work out an agreed way to implement a safe version of automatic update

FuzzyOcr score limit

2007-09-03 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Dears, I would like to limit the maximum score a message would get by hitting FuzzyOcr words. I have v. 3.5.1 installed. Do you know of any suitable setting? I put a glance at the source but I didn't find anything suitable. Thanks, Giampaolo

RE: FuzzyOcr score limit

2007-09-03 Thread Gary V
Dears, I would like to limit the maximum score a message would get by hitting FuzzyOcr words. I have v. 3.5.1 installed. Do you know of any suitable setting? I put a glance at the source but I didn't find anything suitable. Thanks, Giampaolo You can limit the total score with this patch

R: FuzzyOcr score limit

2007-09-03 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Gary V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dears, I would like to limit the maximum score a message would get by hitting FuzzyOcr words. I have v. 3.5.1 installed. Do you know of any suitable setting? I put a glance at the source but I didn't find anything

RE: R: FuzzyOcr score limit

2007-09-03 Thread Gary V
Dears, I would like to limit the maximum score a message would get by hitting FuzzyOcr words. I have v. 3.5.1 installed. Do you know of any suitable setting? I put a glance at the source but I didn't find anything suitable. Thanks, Giampaolo You can limit the total score with

Re: spamd keeps running at 99% CPU until i kill the process

2007-09-03 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Richard Hobbs wrote: Hello, Michael Parker wrote: Richard Hobbs wrote: Hello, Could the size of bayes_seen and bayes_toks be causing this timeout? No, those aren't really that big, but it does look like you have an expiration problem. I've heard that this file should be around 10MB on a

Re: spamd keeps running at 99% CPU until i kill the process

2007-09-03 Thread jidanni
JM the stable tree is reliant on committers hand-copying the rules -- JM and this hasn't been happening much recently. Idea: hand copy them anyway once a month or less in the interim.

autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
I'm setting up a new server. However, email sent to the server keeps getting autolearn=failed. I don't seem to be able to figure out is causing that. -- Raquel Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:31:03 -0700 Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new server. However, email sent to the server keeps getting autolearn=failed. I don't seem to be able to figure out is causing that. -- Raquel I should say that this server is Debian Etch

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Matt Kettler
Raquel wrote: I'm setting up a new server. However, email sent to the server keeps getting autolearn=failed. I don't seem to be able to figure out is causing that. Generally speaking, that means SpamAssassin can't write to the bayes database. The most common cause of this is a spamd

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:39:40 -0700 Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:31:03 -0700 Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new server. However, email sent to the server keeps getting autolearn=failed. I don't seem to be able to figure out is causing that.

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:40:44 -0400 Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raquel wrote: I'm setting up a new server. However, email sent to the server keeps getting autolearn=failed. I don't seem to be able to figure out is causing that. Generally speaking, that means

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Matt Kettler
Raquel wrote: I created a new user spamassassin, with a password. I call spamassassin-milter using the new user. However, I'm still getting autolearn=failed. Interesting.. Could you detail how you called spamassassin-milter using that new user?

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Matt Kettler
Raquel wrote: I created a new user spamassassin, with a password. I call spamassassin-milter using the new user. However, I'm still getting autolearn=failed. Wait.. Do you actually have the optional DB_File perl module installed? (required to support bayes unless you set it up using SQL)

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:30:16 -0400 Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raquel wrote: I created a new user spamassassin, with a password. I call spamassassin-milter using the new user. However, I'm still getting autolearn=failed. Interesting.. Could you detail how you called

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:34:01 -0400 Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raquel wrote: I created a new user spamassassin, with a password. I call spamassassin-milter using the new user. However, I'm still getting autolearn=failed. Wait.. Do you actually have the optional DB_File

RE: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Rob Sterenborg
Raquel wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:30:16 -0400 Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raquel wrote: I created a new user spamassassin, with a password. I call spamassassin-milter using the new user. However, I'm still getting autolearn=failed. Interesting.. Could you detail how

Re: autolearn=failed

2007-09-03 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Raquel wrote: I'm setting up a new server. However, email sent to the server keeps getting autolearn=failed. I don't seem to be able to figure out is causing that. Run a message that hasn't been learned through spamassassin manually as the user who you normally scan as (ie. 'spamassassin'