Re: HTML to text

Sam Gundry writes: Hi, Has there even been work/consideration to convert HTML _as it is rendered_ into plain-text such that it can then be scanned using non-html rules? For example, using 'w3m -dump' in linux (although using this would probably be too slow). Just curious since we've

Re: forward the spam to another mailbox

mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Zeuxi Gau wrote: hello, i would like to get some infos about spamassassin. problem: version 3.1.7 SpamAssassin with Fedora Core 2 I got SA to work fine, but i would like the mails detected as spam to be forwarded to a special email address instead of the

Re: HOME of non-existing users

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have some addresses that are forwarded to different machines, so they do not belong to real user on my system. I would like to process mail for such users as if it belongs to one special user which I created for this reason, to allow BAYES filter to take

spamd autolearn fails, spamassassin autolearn works??

Hello Users, i have a problem with the autolearning function on my server. Mails submitted to spamd get autolearn=failed, but mail sent to spamassassin or sa-learn will get learned correctly. I am running SA 3.2.3 with Bayes and AWL on the MySQL backend. The server is running as user vscan with

Re: spamd autolearn fails, spamassassin autolearn works??

Stefan Osterlitz wrote: Hello Users, i have a problem with the autolearning function on my server. Mails submitted to spamd get autolearn=failed, but mail sent to spamassassin or sa-learn will get learned correctly. I am running SA 3.2.3 with Bayes and AWL on the MySQL backend. The server

Re: Bayesian filtering not kicking in, but it's trained.

On 05.09.07 08:28, RinkWorks wrote: I'm trying to run Spam Assassin 3.1.7 as root on a Linux machine (Debian Etch, Perl 5.8.8), with individual user Bayes databases. Everything seems to be working except that I'm getting no BAYES_* scores for anything. So, when reading mail for the 'ss1'

FPs for SUBJECT_FUZZY_MEDS

Hello, I noticed that subjects containing word Medzinarodny (which means international in slovak language) are hitting SUBJECT_FUZZY_MEDS (medz =~ medz). Does anyone thing that SUBJECT_FUZZY_MEDS (and probably others) should be a bit modificated not to hit this word? For example by requiring

Re: FPs for SUBJECT_FUZZY_MEDS

noticed that subjects containing word Medzinarodny (which means international in slovak language) are hitting SUBJECT_FUZZY_MEDS (medz =~ medz) Depending on how often you see spam that hits SUBJECT_FUZZY_MEDS you could either lower the score or create a meta rule that checks for Medzinarodny

Re: Bayesian filtering not kicking in, but it's trained.

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: don't you have turned bayes filtering off somewhere? use_bayes_rules 0? No. That's what's so confusing. But there's an update now. Apparently at some point yesterday, BAYES tests just suddenly started showing up. I wasn't doing anything at the time; it

Re: Bayesian filtering not kicking in, but it's trained.

Hi, RinkWorks wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: don't you have turned bayes filtering off somewhere? use_bayes_rules 0? No. That's what's so confusing. But there's an update now. Apparently at some point yesterday, BAYES tests just suddenly started showing up. I wasn't doing

Who wants my spam - seriously!

I'm now capturing 2 separate spam feeds and I want to share it with anyone who can use it. I'll forward it to you in real time. First - the spambot feed. This is spam that is mostly spambot generated targeted at email addresses that never existed and identifying virus infected computers by

do I need to adjust something on AWL

I just got a message back that I sent to a mailing list. It came back to me marked as Spam. So I looked at what caused it here is the headers X-Spam-ASN: AS1784 199.232.0.0/16 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (2007-05-01) on u15209210.onlinehome-server.com

AW: spamd autolearn fails, spamassassin autolearn works?? - SOLVED

Hello Matt, thanks for your answer! I have found the source of the problem - strange matter. There is a require PerMsgStatus.pm on line 508 of SpamAssassin.pm - if you replace that with a use statement, the server is fine again! I just happened to find that by putting my own debug output

RE: Who wants my spam - seriously!

snipsnipsnip None of this spam is the really easy to catch stuff. We all can block the easy stuff. I hate spam and spammers. I'm already sending these feeds to several URIBL lists and IP Blacklists. Many of the blacklists you use is running off of this data. But - if anyone else wants some of

Re: Who wants my spam - seriously!

Please do not feed the trolls. Michael

AW: do I need to adjust something on AWL

Hi Tim, Why do you assign a positive score to the AWL? Do you have such a score statement in you config? Cheers, Stefan Stefan Osterlitz - Agentur für Neue Medien Hengeberg 2, 33790 Halle tel 05201-859424 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.osterlitz-medien.de Meine Daten als VCard -Ursprüngliche

Re: autolearn=failed

As you want a site-wide Bayes, you also need the bayes_path parameter. What setting do you have for bayes_path (note it isn't a simple directory name). bayes_path /usr/spamassassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 0777 OK, is the directory /usr/spamassassin writable by the user-ID that you are

[OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a new crop of spamming tools? I am attaching

Re: Bayesian filtering not kicking in, but it's trained.

RinkWorks wrote: I'm trying to run Spam Assassin 3.1.7 as root Let me stop you right there. You cannot run spamd as root. It drops privs, and runs as user nobody. /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid It would be best to create a

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

Quoting Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

Rajkumar S wrote: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a new crop of spamming

Re: Bayesian filtering not kicking in, but it's trained.

maillist wrote: RinkWorks wrote: I'm trying to run Spam Assassin 3.1.7 as root Let me stop you right there. You cannot run spamd as root. It drops privs, and runs as user nobody. Not quite correct... spamd will drop privs to nobody *for that call* if spamc is run by root without -u

RE: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

It's interesting you say that I don't give a response (most of the time they're not there to receive it anyway and it clogs up my server with undeliverable email - especially in BIG spam attacks). I have not experienced this with my servers at all. Last week, a friend of mine that owns a very

Maybe I'm dense...

but I cannot find anything to tell me whether I can use SpamAssassin in my situation. I download my messages from my ISP. I don't have my own server or anything like such. Can I use SpamAssassin to filter/score my incoming e-mail or does it need to be installed on my ISP's server to work?

Re: Maybe I'm dense...

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:44:27AM -0700, winkerbean wrote: but I cannot find anything to tell me whether I can use SpamAssassin in my situation. I download my messages from my ISP. I don't have my own server or anything like such. Can I use SpamAssassin to filter/score my incoming e-mail

Re: Maybe I'm dense...

I don't know. Can you? Are you able to install SpamAssassin on whatever machine you use, and somehow feed SpamAssassin the messages? If so, sure. Your question is extremely vague and you provide absolutely no information on your system. Windows? Dos? Linux? Macintosh? And, again,

is spamassassin using both processors?

We are running spamassassin on a Dual processor P4 Dell. How can I make sure that spamassassin is using both processors. Top is showing spamd using between 39% and 89% of the processor constantly. there are times during the day when we are processing 1800+ email per hour after RBLs strip off

Re: is spamassassin using both processors?

We are running spamassassin on a Dual processor P4 Dell. How can I make sure that spamassassin is using both processors. Top is showing spamd using between 39% and 89% of the processor constantly. there are times during the day when we are processing 1800+ email per hour after RBLs strip

RE: Maybe I'm dense...

-Original Message- From: winkerbean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:44 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Maybe I'm dense... but I cannot find anything to tell me whether I can use SpamAssassin in my situation. I download my messages from my

Re: Maybe I'm dense...

Fetchmail, procmail, dovecot are the three other things I use for that sort of situation. Fetchmail pulls in the mail from the ISP. It feeds off directly to procmail. Procmail feeds the mail through SpamAssassin for markup. Then procmail feeds it off to the standard /var/spool/mail/XXX

Re: Maybe I'm dense...

The one thing he does NOT want to do is what seems to be most common with Fedora Core - use it for filtering each email as you fetch it using evolution. You find yourself with long delays in an interactive situation. Turn off any SpamAssassin access in evolution and tell it to fetch from a pop3

RE: Who wants my spam - seriously!

Please do not feed the trolls. Michael I understand... One problem though, filtering, ignoring, or not feeding the trolls doesn't change their purposing, thinking, or behaviors (plural) Can I be list daddy? ;- - rh

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

Rajkumar S wrote: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a new crop of spamming

Re: is spamassassin using both processors?

Tim Litwiller wrote: We are running spamassassin on a Dual processor P4 Dell. How can I make sure that spamassassin is using both processors. Top is showing spamd using between 39% and 89% of the processor constantly. there are times during the day when we are processing 1800+ email per

Re: Maybe I'm dense...

The one thing he does NOT want to do is what seems to be most common with Fedora Core - use it for filtering each email as you fetch it using evolution. You find yourself with long delays in an interactive situation. Turn off any SpamAssassin access in evolution and tell it to fetch from a

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

Johnson, S wrote: It's interesting you say that I don't give a response (most of the time they're not there to receive it anyway and it clogs up my server with undeliverable email - especially in BIG spam attacks). I have not experienced this with my servers at all. Last week, a friend of

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

On 9/6/07, Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not

Re: Maybe I'm dense...

The one thing he does NOT want to do is what seems to be most common with Fedora Core - use it for filtering each email as you fetch it using evolution. You find yourself with long delays in an interactive situation. Turn off any SpamAssassin access in evolution and tell it to fetch from a

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

Aaron Wolfe wrote: Same problem here on several servers. Reducing the timeout helps, but violates RFC and is simply reducing the effects rather than fixing the issue. Is there any RFC valid way for a server to hang up on a client, especially after a 5xx? What if SMTP servers report a 5XX

Re: HOME of non-existing users

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have sendmail with spamass-milter and run mail through spamd. It works good, I even have default user for mail which is send to more users (-u option) but this is used only when multiple recipients are used. I would like to use this one (not nobody) for

Re: do I need to adjust something on AWL

Tim Litwiller wrote: I just got a message back that I sent to a mailing list. It came back to me marked as Spam. So I looked at what caused it here is the headers X-Spam-ASN: AS1784 199.232.0.0/16 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (2007-05-01) on

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

Aaron Wolfe wrote: On 9/6/07, Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The

eval method to add RHSBL

Hi, In 20_dnsbl_tests.cf file, to add a DNSBL, eval method eval:check_rbl() / eval:check_rbl_txt() is used. I understand that these methods are used to add specifically DNSBL zones Am i correct ? eval:check_rbl_envfrom() is used to add some zones. Is this the method to add specifically

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

On 9/6/07, Rick Macdougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For qmail I added the file timeoutsmtpd in /var/qmail/control with a value of 180 inside it (default is 7200) and it seems to have fixed the problem without causing any new problems. Thanks, I have changed timeoutsmtpd to 60 and the server is

Re: Maybe I'm dense...

Jari Fredriksson wrote: The one thing he does NOT want to do is what seems to be most common with Fedora Core - use it for filtering each email as you fetch it using evolution. You find yourself with long delays in an interactive situation. Turn off any SpamAssassin access in evolution and tell