Rare (?) error message

2010-04-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Apr 7 10:07:41 lancaster check[1339]: Use of uninitialized value $origip in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/AutoWhitelist.pm line 346. 3.3.1 in Debian Lenny, compiled via CPAN. I have not seen this message before, but now it came. I have no idea of

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Justin Mason
he doesn't take FPs into account. this is a very serious problem with the methodology. --j. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 03:41, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Last October Marc posted the following URL that compared the various RBLs: http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html It seems

Re: Freemail Rule help

2010-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Ned Slider wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Ned Slider wrote: uriLOCAL_URI_BITLY m{https?://bit\.ly/\w{6}} describe LOCAL_URI_BITLY contains bit.ly link bit.ly is a legitimate URL-shortening service. Are you sure

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
Alex wrote: Hi, Last October Marc posted the following URL that compared the various RBLs: http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html It seems barracuda is still leading, but is that also everyone's experience? Can anyone provide details on how Jeff computed this information and is it as

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread corpus.defero
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 11:38 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: Alex wrote: Hi, Last October Marc posted the following URL that compared the various RBLs: http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html It seems barracuda is still leading, but is that also everyone's experience? Can anyone

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Mike Cardwell
On 07/04/2010 12:01, corpus.defero wrote: During the last year I don't think I've seen a single FP hit against barracuda :surprised: That said, I still haven't found the confidence to implement it at the smtp stage for outright rejection but the numbers I'm seeing do tend towards telling me the

Re: on greylisting...

2010-04-07 Thread Jonas Eckerman
On 2010-04-01 19:06, 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). I once tried that, had had to refrain from it. The groupware system

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk: Last year when the barracuda config was first posted to this list, I implemented it on my personal mail server with a very high score so as to trigger automatic quarantines for all mail hitting the list, and have since checked all hits by hand. I currently

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 7 of April 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: Here's another good list that rates quality. http://www.intra2net.com/en/support/antispam/index.php The methodology behind this rating is kinda peculiar. What good is counting messages hit by lists? If I make a DNSBL which just marks gmail as

Re: non-existing rule with sa-update

2010-04-07 Thread Cecil Westerhof
Matt Kettler mkettler...@verizon.net writes: On 4/4/2010 12:35 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: When running sa-update with -D I see when there are updates the folowing lines: Apr 4 18:26:15.954 [12630] dbg: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule SHORTCIRCUIT Apr 4

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html It seems barracuda is still leading, but is that also everyone's experience? Can anyone provide details on how Jeff computed this information and is it as cut-and-dried as this makes it seem? IOW, barracuda, the free service, is better than all the

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Alex
Hi, http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html [...] Setup a blacklist blocking ANY ip and you are ranked #1 in this test. Its of no use at all IMHO. Yes, certainly, and I guess it was a loaded question of me to ask, because it was almost too obvious that I thought I was missing something. I

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Setup a blacklist blocking ANY ip and you are ranked #1 in this test. Its of no use at all IMHO. Yes, certainly, and I guess it was a loaded question of me to ask, because it was almost too obvious that I thought I was missing something. I don't think it's _completely_ useless though,

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread corpus.defero
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 15:14 +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html It seems barracuda is still leading, but is that also everyone's experience? Can anyone provide details on how Jeff computed this information and is it as cut-and-dried as this

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Alex wrote on Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:41:18 -0400: http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html This list is not useable for choosing your preferred RBL. It doesn't take false positives into account. apews.org for instance is not usable at all and sorbs is only usable when you exclude their spamtraps

Re: Reject mail

2010-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Thomas Höhlig wrote on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:24:58 +0200: Can anyone tell me where i can find the option to deactivate the answer-mail. Ask on the sa-exim list. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: Domain specific configuration files??

2010-04-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
I think you intended this for the list. Rajesh M wrote: hi there is a work around for this if you standard score is say : 5.0 you can write a header rule to allocate a positive or negative score if the to field contains the specific domain example required_score 5 header header1 To

Re: Rare (?) error message

2010-04-07 Thread Mark Martinec
Jari, Apr 7 10:07:41 lancaster check[1339]: Use of uninitialized value $origip in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/AutoWhitelist.pm line 346. 3.3.1 in Debian Lenny, compiled via CPAN. I have not seen this message before, but now it came. I

Re: skipping dynamic tests for ISP's own dynamic networks?

2010-04-07 Thread Royce Williams
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Kris Deugau kdeu...@vianet.ca wrote: Royce Williams wrote: Some new information.  In this 2008 thread: http://old.nabble.com/ALL_TRUSTED-and-DOS_OE_TO_MX-td15659736.html ... Daryl says: So if (and I'll admit I don't think this occurred to me before) you're

Re: Domain specific configuration files??

2010-04-07 Thread Charles Gregory
Rajesh M wrote: if you standard score is say : 5.0 you can write a header rule to allocate a positive or negative score if the to field contains the specific domain example required_score 5 header header1 To =~ /example1\.com/i score header1 -1 Your rule would not work with Bcc mail (for

Re: skipping dynamic tests for ISP's own dynamic networks?

2010-04-07 Thread Royce Williams
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Royce Williams royce.willi...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I think that an example snippet of.cf illustrating and briefly explaining each of the three _networks options might be in order, and might make the reading, re-reading, and re-reading of the docs a little less

newbie for spam optimisation

2010-04-07 Thread ram
Hi i have installed spamassassin 3.2.5 with qmail i would like to configure site wide so iam following this URL http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SiteWideBayesSetup I have added bayes_path /var/spamassassin/bayes/bayes bayes_file_mode 0777 lines to my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/7/2010 7:41 AM, corpus.defero wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 15:14 +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html It seems barracuda is still leading, but is that also everyone's experience? Can anyone provide details on how Jeff

Re: newbie for spam optimisation

2010-04-07 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, ram wrote: sa-learn --spam --showdots --dir /path/to/directory/full/of/spam/msgs sa-learn --ham --showdots --dir /path/to/directory/full/of/ham/msgs i have not able to understand this path ? i need to created seperate user for this like s...@domain.com, is this correct.

Re: Reject mail

2010-04-07 Thread mouss
Kai Schaetzl a écrit : Thomas Höhlig wrote on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:24:58 +0200: Can anyone tell me where i can find the option to deactivate the answer-mail. Ask on the sa-exim list. yes. and make sure not to confuse reject (say go away) with bounce (accept message, then later send a

Re: Rare (?) error message

2010-04-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 7.4.2010 19:12, Mark Martinec wrote: Jari, Apr 7 10:07:41 lancaster check[1339]: Use of uninitialized value $origip in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/AutoWhitelist.pm line 346. 3.3.1 in Debian Lenny, compiled via CPAN. I have not seen

Re: newbie for spam optimisation

2010-04-07 Thread ram
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:27 AM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, ram wrote: sa-learn --spam --showdots --dir /path/to/directory/full/of/spam/msgs sa-learn --ham --showdots --dir /path/to/directory/full/of/ham/msgs i have not able to understand this path ? i need