Re: Bayes Auto Learn

2007-05-16 Thread JamesDR
Daniel Aquino wrote: Is spam assassin smart enough to not auto-learn (bayesian) spam if the default tests allready detect it as spam... ? What I'm wondering is if the other tests have allready deamed it to be spam, then why would you want to increase the size of your bayesian db... Bayesian

Re: plugin for use of spamc -d

2007-05-15 Thread JamesDR
Peter Mikeska (MiKi) wrote: Hello All, I would like to ask for help ;) I have relay server which is overloaded already and I have second server which is powerfull. I want to use spamc -d ... used as plugin so score which SA get from this (conenct to powerfull server to get score) will be

Re: Setting up an email rule for these posts

2007-05-15 Thread JamesDR
Chris wrote: Hi all, I'm new to this board, so please go easy on me ;-) I can see that this forum is an excellent source of useful information with some very helpful members, but am having a bit of a problem at my end, with organising the emails coming in from the forum. Been using

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 available

2007-05-04 Thread JamesDR
Anders Norrbring wrote: I just ran into a big problem.. [25735] warn: bayes: database version is different than we understand (3), aborting! at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/SQL.pm line 136 Any ideas please? Anders What version did you upgrade

Re: Increase of spam?

2007-05-03 Thread JamesDR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Not sure if it's entirely on-topic, but at least I want to monitor it closely. A while ago I implemented graylisting, which works quite well. But since 2 days ago I'm seeing loads of mails which are passing by the greylisting (so they are being sent

Re: Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

2007-04-30 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: As you know SA reports spam to various service like Pyzor, Razor, Spamcop, etc. Why not have a module that sends messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. If we had such a module then these free email services could automatically shut down

Re: IP - Responsible Person

2007-04-25 Thread JamesDR
Chris St. Pierre wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: I agree it would have to be done right. Here's what I'm thinking is that autoreporting could go to a screening system that would track these auto generated complaints. A few complains wouldn't cause anything to happen but lest

Re: CentOS 5 with FuzzyOCR

2007-04-17 Thread JamesDR
Spamassassin List wrote: Spamassassin List wrote: I am getting some errors when try to spamassassin -t email.txt Subroutine FuzzyOcr::O_CREAT redefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter.pm line 65. at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/POSIX.pm line 19 Subroutine FuzzyOcr::O_EXCL

Re: Spamassassin is useless

2007-04-17 Thread JamesDR
jpff wrote: Much to my regret I am having to abandon use of spamassassin. If I include it in my mix (exin/spamassassin/clamav) then as soon it there is a flurry of mail I get timeouts from spamd, and then errors about deleteing unallocated memory in spamassassin, and no mail is delivered.

Re: Block a user based on content

2007-04-04 Thread JamesDR
dougp23 wrote: I have a user IN the company, who loves to forward these large messages, things like Check out these so cute puppies, and Photoshop Magic and what not. Pure drivel. Anyway, Can I tell SA to block sending email from jsmith when mutliple jpgs attached or something like that?

Re: Things I would change to stop spam

2007-03-30 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: There is a huge amount of traffic on the internet from bots that are sending email to and from email addresses that don't exist and if that could be eliminated then everyone would be ahead. I have a few ideas myself on some evolutionary changes in the way mail is delivered

Re: Things I would change to stop spam

2007-03-30 Thread JamesDR
Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Friday 30 March 2007 15:39, Marc Perkel wrote: So - what I propose is a addition to the IMAP/POP protocols that allow email to be sent out over IMAP/POP and eliminate SMTP for the end user. NO, NO, NO! What is it, the tenth time you bring up this theme? Every time

Re: Anyone else seeing a large rise in spam?

2007-03-26 Thread JamesDR
Nigel Frankcom wrote: Hi All, As per the title, I'm seeing a pretty big rise this last week. So far this week has seen the most spam I've ever had to deal with in over 10 years. RBLs and SA are catching more, as is greylisting. That said, yesterday saw double my 'usual' amount of spam.

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: Precleaning SA market spam from Mbox?

2006-12-28 Thread JamesDR
David Flanigan wrote: James, Thanks for the reply. I was not planing on double scanning, the BCC idea is basically the same, though I would be doing it vial the /etc/aliases mapping to make it transparent. I am running Sendmail as the MTA. The real question is how do to the spam check,

Re: whitelisting from and not return path addresses

2006-12-28 Thread JamesDR
Paul Andrews wrote: HI, After whitelisting my own email address, it seems that spammers will frequently put my own email address in the return path but not in the from. Is it possible for Spam Assassin to make a distinction between the two so that it will block such messages? Below is an

Re: Precleaning SA market spam from Mbox?

2006-12-27 Thread JamesDR
David Flanigan wrote: Spam Guru’s: I have a question that I am hoping one of you may be able to answer. We run the latest version of SA running spamc/spamd with a global (not per user) config, and tag messages as spam for latter filtering by the mail client, as is appropriate. However, now

Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan

2006-12-13 Thread JamesDR
Phil Barnett wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2006 07:28, JamesDR wrote: There is nothing in SPF to keep a spammer with a botnet from putting 0.0.0.0/0 as their approved domain limit. Sounds like a good spam sign to me. Let the spammers put 0.0.0.0/0 in their spf records, I'll pop in 3 points

Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan

2006-12-13 Thread JamesDR
James Davis wrote: JamesDR wrote: Even better. If they give me a giant subnet of SPF records, I know exactly what IP's I don't want connecting to my mail server. If a spammer sends a spam from a subnet, passes SPF. I will and have gone, looked at their record and blocked what they say

Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan

2006-12-13 Thread JamesDR
John D. Hardin wrote: What if they include the subnet containing AOL's outbound MX hosts? Waitaminit, bad example... :-D What if they include the subnet containing Apache's outbound MX hosts? As I said before, score on the total number of the hosts matched by the SPF record. Anything

Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan

2006-12-12 Thread JamesDR
Phil Barnett wrote: On Monday 11 December 2006 16:50, JamesDR wrote: Would you care to elaborate on why SPF doesn't work for sender verification? Its pretty simple, doesn't get much more simple that what SPF does... If SPF doesn't work, nothing will. There is nothing in SPF to keep a spammer

Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan

2006-12-11 Thread JamesDR
Robert LeBlanc wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: Robert LeBlanc wrote: Connections arriving on port 25 can be assumed to come from servers with MX records, so that becomes a testable assumption and a precondition for connection. There are two things that

Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan

2006-12-11 Thread JamesDR
John Rudd wrote: JamesDR wrote: SPF already does this poorly. We need something that actually works. Would you care to elaborate on why SPF doesn't work for sender verification? Its pretty simple, doesn't get much more simple that what SPF does... If SPF doesn't work, nothing

Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan

2006-12-11 Thread JamesDR
Matthias Keller wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Matthias Keller wrote: I'm curious.. as someone who ALSO runs a home mail server... What's wrong with evolving best practices to require that our outgoing email be channeled through our ISP's mail server, instead of having

Re: Best Choice for Bayes filtering on SpamAssassin

2006-12-03 Thread JamesDR
there are the box independent configs -- name ip etc. But I'm sure with that volume of mail, you have a system to keep all servers the 'same') -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Email Probs

2006-11-25 Thread JamesDR
rtartar wrote: I have some type of email mining where they send to a dictionary of names and combos to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the best way to combat this? Thanks Don't accept mail for invalid users. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: RFC: spam trapping with policyd-weight and DNSBLs?

2006-10-25 Thread JamesDR
Christian Quest wrote: Are statistics that important ? My setup is using only 2 RBLs directly in sendmail to reject connections: dynablock and opm. This stops the zombies and home-made spam delivery. Then I use greylisting to block other fake SMTP servers. Then I use spamassassin (thru

Re: problem with RX subjects

2006-08-28 Thread JamesDR
, but I've heard a couple of people on the list mention it. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Allowing IMAP/POP to Send Email

2006-08-03 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: Spam is never eliminated - just reduced. Most spam comes from virus infected zombies that talk SMTP. If end users were by default set up so that they can only send email by IMAP then you can block off SMTP ports for end users isolating them from the SMTP world. That would

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:37:32 -0700, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just eliminate the SMTP protocol for end users and keep SMTP as a server to server protocol and have users send theit email to the server by extending POP/IMAP to

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:37, Marc Perkel took the opportunity to say: Why not just eliminate the SMTP protocol for end users and keep SMTP as a server to server protocol and have users send theit email to the server by extending POP/IMAP to

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: SMTP passwords go away because SMTP goes away. If the user doesn't store the password then they would type it in when say Thunderbird first starts. At that point obly thunderbird, not the virus program would have access to the IMAP port. If the

Re: SA not tagging subject

2006-07-17 Thread JamesDR
tomcatf14 wrote: I am using the following: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 running on Perl version 5.8.7 rewrite_subject 1 is not recognise when running spamassassin -D --lint You will want rewrite_header Subject your message your message without the and . -- Thanks, James

Re: score's and custom rules

2006-07-17 Thread JamesDR
Jimmy Stewpot wrote: Hello, I am currently trying to configure spam assassin with some custom rules to block certain words which are being used in a large amount of spam that the email servers receive. When I put the following rules into the local.cf file body VIjAGRA /\bVIjAGRA\b/i score

Re: score's and custom rules

2006-07-17 Thread JamesDR
Jimmy Stewpot wrote: Hello, How do you clear the AWL and Bayes Lists is that just a case of deleting the files or is there some special command to do that ? Regards, Jimmy JamesDR wrote: Jimmy Stewpot wrote: Hello, I am currently trying to configure spam assassin with some custom rules

Re: SA not tagging subject

2006-07-17 Thread JamesDR
tomcatf14 wrote: rewrite_header Subject your message-- this is my 1st line in the local.cf file and it's uncommented. I call SA from qmail-scanner. I used the whole package from qmailrocks. In this page: http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/clamspam.htm The instruction is add: rewrite_subject

Re: mangled uris

2006-07-13 Thread JamesDR
. It goes back to what users will do, and what they won't. Seems some will do what the spamer wants :-D -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Image only spam

2006-07-12 Thread JamesDR
Jack Gostl wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 running on Perl version 5.8.2 under AIX 5.3. Starting a few months ago, I have been absolutely inundated with image only spam. I've gone from catching 99% of the spam with almost no false positives to less than 85%. I asked about this

Re: Spamassassin fail to start invalid option a

2006-06-22 Thread JamesDR
aren't using SpamC? The normal spamassassin script doesn't call SpamD. SpamC is the tool to use to send mails to SpamD. Also, post the command line options for SpamC as well (may help in showing why it isn't working like you think it should.) -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: DNS Whitelists

2006-06-22 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: I'm not thinking links, What I want to do is whitelist based on the host name of the server connecting to my server. Why use the host name? They way I see it is you want to whitelist a server, there already exists a way for SA to do a lookup based upon IP, why not go that

Re: Is it possible ?

2006-06-19 Thread JamesDR
boka wrote: Hello, is it possible to store global white/black lists in sql ? I know that it is possible for users. Yes, see the wiki pages for the sql userprefs. There is a query that allows you to do Global, Domain, and User based prefs -- all depending on how SA is getting the user of

Re: SPF SOFTFAIL definition

2006-06-18 Thread JamesDR
) are for sites who are 'testing' (majority of the records are this) and is (from my understanding) supposed to allow the mail to be still delivered. -all (hardfail) is more aggressive, but may cause lost mail ... http://www.openspf.org/whitepaper.pdf -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S

Re: SPF SOFTFAIL definition

2006-06-18 Thread JamesDR
in mind, it seems most servers that implement SPF use softfail (~all). HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: New Spam Assassin user

2006-06-15 Thread JamesDR
to configure per user or domain scoring. I haven't seen any specs on your system, can you post the MTA and how you are calling SpamAssassin? This will help us help you. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Lint error

2006-06-05 Thread JamesDR
Jim Knuth wrote: Hallo und Guten Tag spamassassin-users, I suddenly get the following error spamassin --lint [8123] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: auto_whitelist_factory Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList [8123] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: user_awl_dsn

Re: Stock Spams; aka Pump and Dump

2006-06-02 Thread JamesDR
and above.) -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A domain blocked but not listed on any RBL or SURBL

2006-05-19 Thread JamesDR
Irina wrote: Hello all, Really strange about this. A message was marked as spam with URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist * [URIs: mcleishorlando.com] Checked at http://www.rulesemporium.com/cgi-bin/uribl.cgi it says it is not listed there. I even went

Re: SA scores 9, 13, or 19 but places message in Inbox

2006-04-18 Thread JamesDR
in the dark I know, but SA isn't a MDA or a MUA, but a scanner. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: its not spam

2006-03-24 Thread JamesDR
JuNiOx wrote: hi all my spamassassin is adding *SPAM* in some messages witch isnt one!! how can i fix it? i would like configure to say it: hei, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is not spam, stop to change its subject =) Whitelist them. -- Thanks, James

Re: its not spam

2006-03-24 Thread JamesDR
JuNiOx wrote: right... i saw something about that.. but... in my spamassassin there isnt whitelist or blacklist how do i create them? - Original Message - From: JamesDR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:58 AM Subject: Re: its not spam

Re: Training SA with Thunderbird Junk folder

2006-03-22 Thread JamesDR
Edward Diener wrote: Does anybody know the instructions for training SA with the contents of the Thunderbird Junk folder ? My web host, where SA is tunning, suggests I do this in order to reduce the amount of spam I get, and I can login to my web host, transfer files from my local machine to

Re: 3.1.1: make: Nothing to be done for `Makefile.PL'.

2006-03-22 Thread JamesDR
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Want to install/compile 3.1.1 the first time. I tried on two different linux systems and get make: Nothing to be done for `Makefile.PL'. make Makefile.PL for 3.1.0 is still okay. I assume I'm missing something obvious? Nothing about different configure instructions in the

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working for me

2006-03-13 Thread JamesDR
When doing a lookup this is what I get (your internal DNS may be diff.): Name:ns.museum.rain.com Address: 65.75.198.49 HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR Thanks for your reply. My understanding is that 65.75.198.48/28 means that all IPs in that subnet will be trusted. Your DNS server returns

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working for me

2006-03-12 Thread JamesDR
a lookup this is what I get (your internal DNS may be diff.): Name:ns.museum.rain.com Address: 65.75.198.49 HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: pharma spam still coming

2006-03-08 Thread JamesDR
Matt Kettler wrote: Payal Rathod wrote: Hi, I am still getting many spams with Subject: The Ultimate Online Pharmaceutical. Can someone suggest anything for them? I canot attach the body here because then the list is rejecting my mail. With warm regards, -Payal Here's a simple rule I use:

Re: (OT, but relevant) Playing with AOL?

2006-02-23 Thread JamesDR
Vivek Khera wrote: On Feb 23, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Mike Jackson wrote: So, I suppose the question is: How do you deal with getting forwarded mail through to AOL without being branded as a spammer? You stop forwarding email to AOL... really. Other option is to crank up the SA pickiness and

Re: lots of new spam

2006-02-09 Thread JamesDR
Payal Rathod wrote: Hi, From 4-5 days I have been receiving a lot of spams, 100s of them with weird subjects like, Re: a f news 141, Re: K R news 721, Re: B l news 203 etc. I have with bayes learned alteast 200 of them, but they are still pouring in. Any ideas on their blocking? With warm

Re: SA or Commercial AntiSpam products

2006-01-06 Thread JamesDR
Clay Davis wrote: My ONLY gripe is the setup routine for SA. I don't know if the commercial products have the SA code embedded so that the setup is masked. But for less technical types (me), SA's setup is a bit complicated. Has anyone rolled the SA setup into something similar to Windows

Re: Load issue

2005-12-06 Thread JamesDR
, JamesDR

Re: is teaching SA ham it already marked as ham bad?

2005-11-28 Thread JamesDR
Mike Pepe wrote: I've been feeding messages from my inbox into a folder that SA reads as ham for quite some time now. Suddenly it occurs to me that this may be a bad idea, and I should only have SA learn messages as ham that it believes is spam. This strikes me as being as bad as forcing SA

Re: Just scan one e-mail address

2005-11-21 Thread JamesDR
M Bernasconi wrote: Hello! I want use SA on one e-mail address and not the hole domain. Let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be scanned through SA. I know I can give the all_spam_to parameter to the hole domain [EMAIL PROTECTED] But then also [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not going to be checked for spam.

Re: User_Scores SQL database not working??

2005-11-14 Thread JamesDR
Matthew Yette wrote: I currently am using SA 3.1.0 with ClamAV 0.87.1 and Qmail-scanner 1.25st. I use SQL for my bayes as well as my user scores preferences databases. When testing the whitelist_from preference, mail comes through just fine and is recognized to be part of that preference and is

Re: 3.1.0 upgrade

2005-10-31 Thread JamesDR
Mark Merchant wrote: upgraded 3.0.4 to 3.1.0, spamassassin --lint produces: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spamassassin]# spamassassin --lint [1257] warn: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, /home/bayes/ is not valid for bayes_path, skipping: bayes_path _/home/bayes/ [1257] warn: config: failed to

Re: Using spam tools for viruses

2005-10-24 Thread JamesDR
notifications -- these are spam. I don't want to hear if someone spoofed my address, and sent you a bazillion emails with a virus attached -- not my problem. Check my SPF records, that sender is not in the allowed list to send mails from. These I do report. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S

Re: Lint issues

2005-10-23 Thread JamesDR
- use add_header pyzor_add_header - not sure -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Stopping Rules

2005-10-22 Thread JamesDR
, that if some RBL's hit, there are enough neg. scoring rules to get that mail through, on time, where it needs to be (we are talking $1K/hr here if that mail is NOT delivered because our spam filter decided a good mail was bad because of a miss-configured remote server) -- Thanks, JamesDR

Re: Spam with graphic and hotspots, no text.........

2005-10-20 Thread JamesDR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok...I've been properly chastised. Forgive the resurgence of newbie-ism on my part. :) I've started getting complaints about e-mails that are are just a graphic and a couple of hot spots, no text. Does anyone know how to mark those as spam without whacking all of

Re: The Ultimate Online Pharmaceutical

2005-10-10 Thread JamesDR
Pierre Thomson wrote: Aha, I was about to post something about that exact spam. We have been receiving them in big batches, and some of the recipients have hardly got any spam before. I'm guessing it's a new operator with a fresh list of addresses from *somewhere*. They always use this

Re: server reached --max-clients setting

2005-10-04 Thread JamesDR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I got a lot of this messages in my maillog. Oct 4 08:27:13 server spamd[482]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it Oct 4 08:27:13 server spamd[482]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it Oct 4

Re: server reached --max-clients setting

2005-10-04 Thread JamesDR
Robert Blayzor wrote: JamesDR wrote: I got a lot of this messages in my maillog. Oct 4 08:27:13 server spamd[482]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it Oct 4 08:27:13 server spamd[482]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it Oct 4

Re: SA tags above header info

2005-10-02 Thread JamesDR
), this should give you more available 'connections', but watch mem usage etc. These are all in the man spamd page. HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR

Re: SA tags above header info

2005-10-01 Thread JamesDR
-- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA tags above header info

2005-10-01 Thread JamesDR
Chris wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 09:34 pm, JamesDR wrote: Chris wrote: I may have missed a thread on this but is there a reason that SA is now placing its tags above the headers: X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Seen: Tokens 251 X-Spam-New: Tokens 446 X-Spam-Remote: Host

Re: problem with ok_laguages option?

2005-09-30 Thread JamesDR
Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm getting some warning about the ok_languages config option. Did this parameter has changed? I couldn't find it in the notes for upgrading to SA 3.1.0 This is the output of spamassassin -D --lint: [27255]

Re: subject rewrite

2005-09-23 Thread JamesDR
and I use spamassassin 3.04 on redhat 9 with spamd/spamc.. Robert Peace he would say instead of goodbyepeace my brother. RTFM for rewrite_header, via the html doc pages, the answer is in the first paragraph HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description

Re: Problems getting blacklist_From to work

2005-09-21 Thread JamesDR
'localbl.cf' where I have a line for each blacklist entry. It would be good to show the list some headers where the blacklist_from is not hitting. Also, be sure you restart spamd each time you add/change a setting from any file. HTH -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: 3.1.0 X-headers

2005-09-18 Thread JamesDR
anything in man or in the upgrade notes. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA 3.0.4 ingnores bayes

2005-09-09 Thread JamesDR
(dir: /etc/mail/spamassassin) and use_bayes is set explicit to 1. How can I figure out my problem? Thanks Mathias Do a spmamassassin --lint -D and look for any bayes errors/calls. Post back what you find. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Rules Help please

2005-09-03 Thread JamesDR
don't hit on it. Next give your self a 'real name', you'll see I use JamesDR. These few things will also help reduce your score to other persons who may be running spamassassin. This is what your mail scored (subject Rules Help Please) No, hits=0.7 required=10.0 tests=HTML_20_30

Re: reporting spam/non-spam for those mis-identification of spam email

2005-08-31 Thread JamesDR
would like to see any of these scripts, let me know, I'll be more than happy to share them with the community. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Trojan infected FN

2005-08-19 Thread JamesDR
seeing these as well, ClamAV does the catching tho (before SA). Think about at least installing ClamAV (FREE/OSS.) -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: When is Bulk Bulk

2005-08-09 Thread JamesDR
Rob McEwen wrote: OBSERVATION: Could some of us be treating unsolicited Business-to-Consumer and unsolicited Business-To-Business the same? Should they be treated the same? If not, the perhaps some people's irritation about getting called at dinner-time for the 10th time by the same phone

Re: Trying to id spam

2005-07-29 Thread JamesDR
Dr Robert Young wrote: But you can use milter-spamc to direct all identified spam to an acct such as [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then simply 'dump' the acct's email periodically. Hence the inquiry On Jul 28, 2005, at 8:14 PM, jdow wrote: Please check with the ClamAV people. There is

Re: Bayes question

2005-07-27 Thread JamesDR
Robert Swan wrote: I have a pair of Spamassassin servers filtering e-mail (Spamassassin 3.0.4, spamd/spamc, Postfix, redhat 9) I was wondering if I could share the bayes database between the two server rather than having each with its own and having to do the salearn process twice. Any

Re: [FW: spam control

2005-07-27 Thread JamesDR
The Doctor wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:48:22PM -0400, Jim Maul wrote: The Doctor wrote: SNIP irate customer message All right, the short and simple is that Spam-Assassin may not be doing the correct job. This user has a whitelist in place and some e-mail are getting the label of

Re: spamd not keeping up

2005-07-26 Thread JamesDR
Frank M. Cook wrote: I run spamd on a machine of it's own. the spamc is on a separate windows computer (actually it's winspamc). it's version 3 of spamd. everything was working fine until a week or so ago and then things started to back up regularly. I'd look in the morning and thousands of

Re: GIF attachments

2005-07-15 Thread JamesDR
Dr Robert Young wrote: Is there a good way to handle spam where the bulk of the ad is a image file (jpg, gif, etc) that is attached to the email so that it displays when the user opens the email? Dr. Robert Young ALI Database

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread JamesDR
jdow wrote: From: Aecio F. Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been trying to post to this list using my original subscriber email address. Unfortunately, It has been not possible up to now. I am using a personal and secondary address to workaround a dumb rule, assuming that all hosts under a

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread JamesDR
Keith Ivey wrote: JamesDR wrote: If you want to post to aol, your HELO MUST match your rdns (has been in my case and a few others.) Not true. I send messages to AOL all the time from a machine whose HELO does not match its rDNS. Perhaps you mean that the HELO must be a valid hostname

Re: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-14 Thread JamesDR
List Mail User wrote: [snip] Absolutely incorrect! Your HELO/EHLO must match your rDNS or the rDNS needs to match an MX RR for your argument or a few other cases. AOL is quite strict, but you have misinterpreted either their stated policy and/or RFCs 2821 and 2822. In particular,

Re: simultaneous sa-learn processes

2005-07-11 Thread JamesDR
Chavdar Videff wrote: Hi List, Our mailserver server serves about 100 users. Our config: Sendmail+Procmail+SpamAssassin. The question is: If I got it right, we should run sa-learn for each user in order to benefit from bayes. We intend to run a cron job for each user and do it at night by

Re: SURBL, SA 3.0.4, and firewalls

2005-07-10 Thread JamesDR
is port 53 TCP and UDP open (outbound), depending on what firewall product you use, depends on how. A bit of Google with what ports on what product will yield what you should need. -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA training

2005-07-07 Thread JamesDR
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to SA so I need a bit of help in configuring /training SA- The problem I have is that I do not keep any mail in the SA box- it forwards to my mail server- What method can I use to train it? Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator

Re: SA training

2005-07-07 Thread JamesDR
analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description I'm also curious as to why a 0 would get flagged as possible spam? -Original Message- From: JamesDR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:53 PM To: users

Re: How to log negatives as well?

2005-07-06 Thread JamesDR
Felix Natter wrote: I am experimenting with spamassassin (3.0.x) settings and for this purpose I would like to see why some messages were not recognized as spam (which tests matched and how many points total), just like the information I get to see for positives. Is there a way to achieve

Re: How to log negatives as well?

2005-07-06 Thread JamesDR
the return info discarded. I could be totally wrong however -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: trying to get the spamassassin to work properly

2005-07-01 Thread JamesDR
Michael wrote: [snip] config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 1 config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag [SPAM] ^ these are depreciated, see the conf. for what to use. [snip] Net::DNS version is 0.31, but need 0.34dnsavailable-1 at

Re: trying to get the spamassassin to work properly

2005-07-01 Thread JamesDR
Michael wrote: [snip] config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 1 config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: subject_tag [SPAM] ^ these are depreciated, see the conf. for what to use. [snip] Net::DNS version is 0.31, but need 0.34dnsavailable-1 at

-d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
It seems, at least from here, that -d doesn't remove markup. I run: spamassassin -d testspam.mail and what's given back is exactly the mail put into it. man spamassassin says that this should remove any spamassassin markup and return the message to it's almost org. state. spamassassin -d

Re: -d (remove markup) failing to remove markup

2005-06-29 Thread JamesDR
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:12:05PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: Hey, I'm just quoting Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf.. It doesn't make much sense to me either, but that's what the docs say. /me makes commit Well now the documentation says the right thing. ;) Perhaps it's

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