Re: sa-update failed, dns: query failed: 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org = no nameservers

2008-06-12 Thread Vinogratzky
Nobody has a hint? Chris On Mo, Jun 02, 2008 at 04:56:25 +0200, Vinogratzky wrote: Hi, i have a installation of spamassassin with postfix and amavis. sa-update brings up an error: dns: query failed: 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org = no nameservers which is strange. DNS is working. Here

Re: trusted_networks

2008-06-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 11.06.08 21:11, Chris wrote: If I do not control any mail servers is it necessary for the trusted networks line to be set in my local.cf? If so, what addresses would I enter there? I'm asking this because of this line in the Wiki: Generally you want trusted_networks set to contain all

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Matthias Leisi wrote: 1) This advice: | Tue Jun 10 14:55:36 2008 [72096] dbg: conf: trusted_networks are not | configured; it is recommended that you configure trusted_networks manually should not be ignored. Setting trusted_networks would slightly reduce the number of DNS lookups and can

Re: HELP!! spamassasssin killing my server

2008-06-12 Thread Matthias Leisi
Consequently I disabled the checks. Now, using spamhaus.org and spamcop the overload has disappeared. Be careful with using the Spamcop blacklist to reject messages -- while it is perfectly fine as a blacklist to use in a scoring scheme such as SpamAssassin, I found it to have too many false

Re: HELP!! spamassasssin killing my server

2008-06-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Consequently I disabled the checks. Now, using spamhaus.org and spamcop the overload has disappeared. On 12.06.08 10:16, Matthias Leisi wrote: Be careful with using the Spamcop blacklist to reject messages -- while it is perfectly fine as a blacklist to use in a scoring scheme such as

make SA remove X-Spam-Flag

2008-06-12 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
Hi, just 10 minutes ago i received a false positive. First i was confused then i figured that my SA setup didn't actually flag it, but the senders SA. So, how could i tell SA to remove any X-Spam flags in case the mail has been identified as non spam? -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards

out-of-office replies are being catched by VBOUNCE

2008-06-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, It seems that many Out of office messages are being catched as VBOUNCE_MESSAGE (virus bounces). Is that designed to be like that? I have no objections for catching out-of-office messages by VBounce ruleset, but shouldn't they be marked as BOUNCE_MESSAGE instead of VBOUNCE_MESSAGE? The

MailChannles SPAMMING List Members?

2008-06-12 Thread Dave Koontz
All, I never heard of mailchannels.com until it was a discussion here a few weeks ago. Now, auto-magically I get a feedback for free coffee offer? Interesting... a supposed anti-spam company gleaning addresses from an anti-spam list to spam them. What ever others thought of them before, I

Re: out-of-office replies are being catched by VBOUNCE

2008-06-12 Thread Henrik K
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:06:37AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hello, It seems that many Out of office messages are being catched as VBOUNCE_MESSAGE (virus bounces). Is that designed to be like that? I have no objections for catching out-of-office messages by VBounce ruleset, but

not scanning

2008-06-12 Thread nitin joshi
Dear all i am using spamassassin 3.2.4 and integrated it with procmail but some of my mails are not scanning properly. It tagging mails with Possible spam even some of mails are local internal mails. In header i found X-Scaninfo: Scanning. Scanning ...

Re: out-of-office replies are being catched by VBOUNCE

2008-06-12 Thread Justin Mason
Henrik K writes: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:06:37AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hello, It seems that many Out of office messages are being catched as VBOUNCE_MESSAGE (virus bounces). Is that designed to be like that? I have no objections for catching out-of-office messages

Re: whitelist_auth problem

2008-06-12 Thread Larry Nedry
On 6/7/08 at 3:19 PM -0500 Larry Nedry wrote: Hi All, A few days ago whitelist_auth and whitelist_from_dkim stopped working. Everything else seems to be working well. I haven't made any changes to the server recently so I find this puzzling. neither of these rules work: whitelist_from_dkim

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread Alex Woick
Linda Walsh schrieb am 12.06.2008 02:46: 1) This advice: | Tue Jun 10 14:55:36 2008 [72096] dbg: conf: trusted_networks are not | configured; it is recommended that you configure trusted_networks manually How does one decided on 'trust'? For trusted_network in SpamAssassin, the

Re: make SA remove X-Spam-Flag

2008-06-12 Thread D Hill
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 at 10:54 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hi, just 10 minutes ago i received a false positive. First i was confused then i figured that my SA setup didn't actually flag it, but the senders SA. So, how could i tell SA to remove any X-Spam flags in case the mail has been

Re: MailChannles SPAMMING List Members?

2008-06-12 Thread Joseph Brennan
Dave Koontz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I never heard of mailchannels.com until it was a discussion here a few weeks ago. Now, auto-magically I get a feedback for free coffee offer? I got one too, but I wasn't sure it was connected to this list. We had heard from Mailchannels a year or

Re: out-of-office replies are being catched by VBOUNCE

2008-06-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:06:37AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: It seems that many Out of office messages are being catched as VBOUNCE_MESSAGE (virus bounces). Is that designed to be like that? I have no objections for catching out-of-office messages by VBounce ruleset, but

ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.5 available

2008-06-12 Thread Justin Mason
Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.5 is now available! This is a maintenance release of the 3.2.x branch. Downloads are available from: http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi The release file will also be available via CPAN in the near future. md5sum of archive files:

best combinations of plugins for SA

2008-06-12 Thread Ms.Engineer
What is the best combinations of SA plugins that can work together and gives near perfect results?

Re: HELP!! spamassasssin killing my server

2008-06-12 Thread Rob McEwen
Matthias Leisi wrote: Be careful with using the Spamcop blacklist to reject messages -- while it is perfectly fine as a blacklist to use in a scoring scheme such as SpamAssassin, I found it to have too many false positives to use it for outright blocking. If you use it for blocking, then you

Re: sa-update failed, dns: query failed: 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org = no nameservers

2008-06-12 Thread Theo Van Dinter
My guess is that your assertion that DNS is working is false. :) What does dig 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org ANY return for you? Ought to be a TXT record and then numerous NS records for spamassassin.org. Perhaps your resolv.conf has multiple nameservers and the first one is having issues?

Re: Replies to this list

2008-06-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Chris, Am 2008-06-10 13:43:07, schrieb Chris Hoogendyk: hmm. Didn't notice upbrade rather than upgrade until I was actually replying. ;-) :-) Now I had to look into me German-English dictionary... Hmmm, maks no snese... brad is a Drahtstift but then a Reverse- Lookup give me

Re: HELP!! spamassasssin killing my server

2008-06-12 Thread Matthias Leisi
Rob McEwen schrieb: http://www.dnsbl.com/2007/05/spamcop-bl-another-look-its-accurate.html Therefore, when you said, too many false positives, are you referring to FPs from *before* that transformation of SpamCop? Or, are these *recent* FPs, spotted after that transformation? It's

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, SM wrote: At 17:46 11-06-2008, Linda Walsh wrote: How does one decided on 'trust'? I.e. I think it would be useful to assign a probability to Trust at the least. I mean do I put my ISP in my trusted server list? -- suppose they start partnering with It could be

Re: trusted_networks

2008-06-12 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: You may put other servers, not under your control, to trusted_networks, if you trust them not to originate spam. ^ Matus, I believe that assertion is incorrect... -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Replies to this list

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi Chris, Am 2008-06-10 13:43:07, schrieb Chris Hoogendyk: hmm. Didn't notice upbrade rather than upgrade until I was actually replying. ;-) :-) Now I had to look into me German-English dictionary... Hmmm, maks no snese... brad is a Drahtstift but then

Re: not scanning

2008-06-12 Thread nitin joshi
I am using spamassassin as a spam filtering tool with sendmail. Spamassassin is filtering at MDA level with procmail. No other filtering or scaning tool attached with sendmail or at any other level. On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Evan Platt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread mouss
Linda Walsh wrote: Matthias Leisi wrote: 1) This advice: | Tue Jun 10 14:55:36 2008 [72096] dbg: conf: trusted_networks are not | configured; it is recommended that you configure trusted_networks manually should not be ignored. Setting trusted_networks would slightly reduce the number of DNS

best combinations of plugins for SA

2008-06-12 Thread Ms.Engineer
What is the best combinations of SA plugins that can work together and gives near perfect results?

Re: MailChannles SPAMMING List Members?

2008-06-12 Thread mouss
Dave Koontz wrote: All, I never heard of mailchannels.com until it was a discussion here a few weeks ago. Now, auto-magically I get a feedback for free coffee offer? Interesting... a supposed anti-spam company gleaning addresses from an anti-spam list to spam them. What ever others thought

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread SM
At 10:22 12-06-2008, John Hardin wrote: Probability of what, exactly? It can be a probability based on historical data of the sender or an arbitrary score. Bear in mind, trusted means does not forge Received: headers, not does not send or relay spam. My answer was more about levels of

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, SM wrote: At 10:22 12-06-2008, John Hardin wrote: Probability of what, exactly? It can be a probability based on historical data of the sender or an arbitrary score. That's not the what that you're measuring with the probability factor, that's the how you're

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread SM
Hi John, At 13:07 12-06-2008, John Hardin wrote: That's not the what that you're measuring with the probability factor, that's the how you're measuring it. Right. It's been a long day. I'll refrain from elaborating or else I'll say another blunder. :-) Was the OP _not_ talking about trust

Spam getting scored but not tagged -- redux

2008-06-12 Thread Chris St. Pierre
About a year ago, I started this thread: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-users/200708.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I kind of forgot about the issue, but it's cropping up again; we're now on 3.2.4, and still having the problem. New logs: Jun 12 08:04:02 vostok spamd[1299]:

Re: trusted_networks

2008-06-12 Thread Chris
On Thursday 12 June 2008 2:16 am, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 11.06.08 21:11, Chris wrote: If I do not control any mail servers is it necessary for the trusted networks line to be set in my local.cf? If so, what addresses would I enter there? I'm asking this because of this line in the