Re: Limit SA to scan messages 100k and below

2010-04-01 Thread Keith De Souza
Hi Guys, Firstly, many thanks for all your replies. I've now made some changes to my spamd conf file (/etc/conf.d/spamd) based on the replies given. This is what it looks like now: == SPAMD_OPTS=-m 6 -H -u mail -D --timeout-child=60 # spamd stores its pid in this file. If you use the

Re: Limit SA to scan messages 100k and below

2010-04-01 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Keith De Souza wrote: I've now made some changes to my spamd conf file (/etc/conf.d/spamd) based on the replies given. This is what it looks like now: == SPAMD_OPTS=-m 6 -H -u mail -D --timeout-child=60 You don't need -D (debugging output) unless you're actively

Re: [sa] Re: Confused about how to use sa-update

2010-04-01 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Phill Edwards wrote: actually posting to the right place! Is this the official spamassassin mailing list? Your own spam filter might be eating a lot of the messages? Try setting a rule to score -100 on mail received from apache.org... - C

Problem creating RPM for 3.2.5

2010-04-01 Thread David Gibbs
I'm trying to create a RPM for my Fedora 10 system and have encountered a problem. I run the command: rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5.tar.gz It seems to run OK until this point ... -- Requires(post): /bin/sh Requires(preun): /bin/sh Requires(postun): /bin/sh Requires: /bin/sh

Re: Is report_safe broken?

2010-04-01 Thread Michael Weber
Greetings, again. spamassassin --lint runs clean. I re-entered the line by hand and deleted the original so that shouldn't be an issue. I also reviewed the configuration file location list and there are no other local.cf files or user_prefs files in the list of directories. Thanx! -Michael

meaning of child cleanup

2010-04-01 Thread Micah Anderson
Since upgrading to the new spamassassin, I'm seeing the following two log entries related to cleanup of child PIDs: 1. Apr 1 08:26:38 spamd2 spamd[396]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid [31720] due to SIGCHLD: INTERRUPTED, signal 2 (0002) 2. Mar 28 18:00:15 spamd2 spamd[17562]: spamd:

Re: meaning of child cleanup

2010-04-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 11:52 -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: Since upgrading to the new spamassassin, I'm seeing the following two log entries related to cleanup of child PIDs: 1. Apr 1 08:26:38 spamd2 spamd[396]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid [31720] due to SIGCHLD: INTERRUPTED, signal 2

sa-update.cron

2010-04-01 Thread Andrea Bencini
I installed postfix, amavisd, spamassassin and clamav I don't understand when I must comment/uncomment the line SAUPDATE=YES in the file /etc/sysconfig/sa-update. Can you help me? Thanks Andrea

on greylisting...

2010-04-01 Thread Adam Katz
On 2010-03-30 01:29, Brent Kennedy wrote: Graylisting does work. Jonas Eckerman wrote: I know it works. That's why I said I like it because it stops spam. Been using my own implementation for years. For what it's worth, I reconfigured my greylisting relay from a blanket delay to delaying

Re: [SA] on greylisting...

2010-04-01 Thread Adam Katz
Adam Katz wrote: matching p0f's results with the (perl-compatible) regular expression /Windows (?:XP|2000(?!SP4)|Vista)/ will safely block only desktops. Oops, that lost a space after the 2000 part. That should read: /Windows (?:XP|2000 (?!SP4)|Vista)/ Also note that p0f is currently

Re: on greylisting...

2010-04-01 Thread Ned Slider
Adam Katz wrote: For what it's worth, I reconfigured my greylisting relay from a blanket delay to delaying only spamcop neighbors, anything that hits a DNSBL, and any Windows *desktop* (using p0f). The move reduced the fatal delay of 80-90% of my incoming mail down to 64%, which is pretty

Re: Is report_safe broken?

2010-04-01 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/04/01 11:38 AM, Michael Weber wrote: spamassassin --lint runs clean. I re-entered the line by hand and deleted the original so that shouldn't be an issue. I also reviewed the configuration file location list and there are no other local.cf files or user_prefs files in the list of

Re: on greylisting...

2010-04-01 Thread Matt
For what it's worth, I reconfigured my greylisting relay from a blanket delay to delaying only spamcop neighbors, anything that hits a DNSBL, and any Windows *desktop* (using p0f). The move reduced the fatal delay of 80-90% of my incoming mail down to 64%, which is pretty reasonable given

Re: on greylisting...

2010-04-01 Thread Adam Katz
Ned Slider wrote: Some implementations, postgrey for example, keep a whitelist of servers known to retry, so once a small number of mails (3 by default iirc) have been successfully delivered from a given server (or servers in the same /24 subnet), it is auto-whitelisted on the basis that

Re: Is report_safe broken?

2010-04-01 Thread Michael Weber
I tried all the things that were mentioned without any luck. So, I got out my sledgehammer. I removed SA from my system and deleted every SA directory, reinstalled 3.3.1 from the RPM's I had just created, ran sa-update, and copied over the old local.cf file. It now works. I'm not sure where

Re: on greylisting...

2010-04-01 Thread Adam Katz
Matt wrote: I wrote a perl script that whitelists any servers from greylisting for 6 months that send a message that scores less then 1 by spamassassin. If it later sends a message that scores greater then 5 it is removed from the whitelist. Works great. After having a few months to learn

Re: Is report_safe broken?

2010-04-01 Thread Matt Kettler
On 4/1/2010 11:38 AM, Michael Weber wrote: eetings, again. spamassassin --lint runs clean. I re-entered the line by hand and deleted the original so that shouldn't be an issue. I also reviewed the configuration file location list and there are no other local.cf files or user_prefs files