sa-update is failing on users.spamassassin.org

2007-07-24 Thread Gary W. Smith
Running the below command starting failing in the last couple days saying it can't find updates.spamassassin.org DNS entry /usr/bin/sa-update --nogpg --channel updates.spamassassin.org --channel saupdates.openprotect.com saupdates.openprotect.com is working fine though. Are we having a DNS

RE: sa-update is failing on update.spamassassin.org

2007-07-24 Thread Gary W. Smith
Sorry, should have been update instead of users in subject... From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 7/24/2007 7:25 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: sa-update is failing on users.spamassassin.org Running the below command starting

RE: sa-update is failing on update.spamassassin.org

2007-07-24 Thread Gary W. Smith
.updates.spamassassin.org 1.1.3.updates.spamassassin.org descriptive text 555165 On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 07:34:44AM -0700, Gary W. Smith wrote: Sorry, should have been update instead of users in subject... From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 7/24

RE: perldocs Mail::SpamAssassin

2007-01-22 Thread Gary W. Smith
See the thread SA/Perl question that I asked on Saturday. It should be in the archives. I did just what you are trying to do now (though I was trying to do something different). -Original Message- From: Tom Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:11 AM

SA/Perl Question

2007-01-20 Thread Gary W. Smith
Hello, I'm working on a perl script that will check some emails. I had a question though (based on an earlier question). If SA is on a different box how do I tell the perl code to use a different host and port? Given something like the code below how do I specific a non-default backend?

RE: SA/Perl Question

2007-01-20 Thread Gary W. Smith
Never mind. I just realized that this module does the full SA execution. Mail::SpamAssassin:Client seems to work but is alpha. Any ideas on the status of this? Gary Wayne Smith From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January

multiple different copies of spamd running

2007-01-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
For the purposes of development, I would like to run 5+ separate copies of spamd on the same host to test different settings. I would like to be able to have a different config for each instance. It this possible? More specifically, I would like to test different threshold levels, different

RE: multiple different copies of spamd running

2007-01-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
More specifically, I would like to test different threshold levels, different rule sets, tie some of the instances into lookup's, etc. My goal is to process each incoming email against each of these instances to see what the primary differences are. It sounds more like you want to use

RE: multiple different copies of spamd running

2007-01-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
copies of spamd running On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:31:49AM -0800, Gary W. Smith wrote: With that said, does anyone know how I would run 5 different copies of spamd on the same box? Run on different ports w/ different startup parameters pointing at different config copies. Better

RE: Image spam and Bayes problem

2006-12-14 Thread Gary W. Smith
, 2006 at 08:55:26PM -0800, Gary W. Smith wrote: The image contained the OB stock ticker and the text was random, but coherent sentences. What's the best course of action to block these now. I'm running a couple rules from SARE. Are there some specific ones that will help on this? Use

Image spam and Bayes problem

2006-12-13 Thread Gary W. Smith
I haven't been watching the list much lately so I apologize if this topic has been kicked to death. I've seen a sharp increase in our OB Ticker spam's that consist of an image and some text. It passed the greylist just fine and was labeled as bayes_00. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.5

RE: Don't use bl.spamcop.net (Re: mail bounce warning for the list)

2006-11-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
on the list turn into flame war asses? I've been on this list prior to it being an apache list and it seems to be degrading more and more. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:57 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users

mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-06 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: mail bounce warning for the list Was the SA group listed by spamcop last month? I just now received this for messages from October 26th. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 209.209.82.24 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [140.211.11.2] blocked

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
spelled wrong at the time). So this is a completely valid spam account. There's no grey area around that one. -Original Message- From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:11 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Psst

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
, this whole story is also in the SA archives... -Original Message- From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:27 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Psst! Gary W. Smith wrote: Jo, please read in entirety... Sure. Um

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
mentioned them as they were on the top of my list of offenders spam on my end. -Original Message- From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:43 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Psst! So how does Lending Tree come

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
list). I've been around this list for some years now so this really isn't a noob scenario. -Original Message- From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:16 PM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Psst! Gary W. Smith

RE: slow sql bayes store

2006-08-10 Thread Gary W. Smith
In the past we have seen some slowness for bayes and AWL (mostly AWL). We found after a couple million rows in AWL that the system starts getting real slow. We setup a script to prune records that have a high bayes threshold but a count of 1 (usually anonymous spammers). They will not use that

RE: slow sql bayes store

2006-08-10 Thread Gary W. Smith
as well. -Original Message- From: David Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:39 PM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: slow sql bayes store -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This has been seen on a variety of systems

Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4

2006-08-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4 Hello, I cant remember smoking crack when copying the config files over but anythings possible. I built out a new machine today and installed SA. We have a list of CPAN modules that were installed (same list as from the 3.1.3 servers). I copied

RE: Bayes errors...

2006-08-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
This is because your database is in UTF8 format. As a result SA cannot read it (though it can write it). Drop the database and recreate it and the tables in latin and it will work just fine. You will have to retrain after that though. -Original Message- From: Hamish Marson

RE: Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4

2006-08-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
| +--+---+ | VERSION | 3 | +--+---+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql -Original Message- From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:38 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4

RE: Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4

2006-08-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:06 AM To: Daryl C. W. O'Shea Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4 Daryl, Thanks for the info. I will update the .8. As for the database, which is the primary concern, the user

RE: Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4

2006-08-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
(latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' Any help would be greatly appreciated. Gary Wayne Smith -Original Message- From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:06 AM To: Daryl C. W. O'Shea Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject

RE: RE: Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4

2006-08-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
out two of my 4 other 3.1.3 and upgrade those in a couple days after it has ran for a while. Gary Wayne Smith -Original Message- From: Nigel Frankcom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:03 PM To: Gary W. Smith Subject: Re: RE: Bayes DB version issue 3.1.3 = 3.1.4

RE: bayes sql error.

2006-07-20 Thread Gary W. Smith
Ross, You're not the only one to run into the problem. I had converted out database over to UTF8 and didn't think anything about it until about a week later when the spam started pouring in. It still seemed to learn, it just couldn't select (i.e. compare). I figured maybe it was the upgraded

RE: ham and spam

2006-06-20 Thread Gary W. Smith
Michael, There are a couple ways of doing. It really depends on how easy you want to make it for your users/admins. It also depends on your configuration. We use MySQL for bayes and awl. This make it easy for us as we have an internal machine running Cyrus and SA. We have a local account

RE: For those who are considering a Barracuda Network Device server

2006-06-12 Thread Gary W. Smith
But isn't that that beauty of SA. You don't have to be a Linux guy to install it. -Original Message- From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 7:35 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: For those who are considering a Barracuda Network Device

RE: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Gary W. Smith
with for some time. -Original Message- From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:05 PM To: Marc Perkel Cc: Gary W. Smith; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: The Future of Email is SQL On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:50:03PM -0700, Marc Perkel

RE: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-09 Thread Gary W. Smith
lock them into something. That's the easiest way to drive them away from supporting it. -Original Message- From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:21 PM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: Marc Perkel; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: The Future

RE: Spam assassin and postfix..

2006-06-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
There are a few things that you can do a little differently. You can return the status of the spam check as well as the marked up message. Then just check if $? -ne 0 (or whatever logic you like). This is what we do. In the event that the message is marked as a spam we try to insert it into a

RE: is there a way to block email coming from

2006-06-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
SORBS decided last week to list all of the IP's in my ISP's range as Dailup. SORBS removed them without any problem but these IP's are provisioned to my ISP from Level-3. They've done this twice in two years now. How do they decide to change the status of these IP's on a given day? The IP's

RE: Suing Spammers

2006-05-13 Thread Gary W. Smith
On another paw, Craig, do consider who is the injured party. Marc is not. The final recipient, the addressee, is an injured party for the spam in her mailbox. The addressee's ISP is also an injured party due to the (vastly) increased mail volume her servers must handle. They have a tort

RE: Spamd Children

2006-05-12 Thread Gary W. Smith
I got flak for top posting one day. I went over to the archives and found out that I did not top post but apparently when he received the email it was missing some header and it was miss filed in his email client. The person sent me two paragraphs of ranting about top posting... As you did, I

RE: Logging from Mail::SpamAssassin

2006-05-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
Note sure if this will help. /etc/syslog.conf: local5.*;-/var/log/spamassassin /etc/init.d/spamassassin: daemon $NICELEVEL spamd -s local5 .other options. This is on RHEL4. Gary -Original Message- From: Rick Measham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-02 Thread Gary W. Smith
We use this as well for some stuff. We purchased it because of the simplicity of implementation with postfix. In our case its just another filter in the chain. Also, the overall price didnt have sticker shock associated with it. Postfix - Vexira - SA From: Alejandro Lengua

RE: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-02 Thread Gary W. Smith
How does ClamAV catch them if they cannot unzip them? Or do they just assume they are a virus because its protected? I believe you can set a rule up in Vexira that will block protected zip files as well. From: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006

RE: Spam filters

2006-04-14 Thread Gary W. Smith
Curtis, It doesn't matter if the server name matches the domain name at all for the domains that you are using. In fact, this is quite common in very large installs (such as ISP's). The only thing that is critically important is that each machine involved in the processing of email have a

RE: Internal email marked as spam...

2006-04-10 Thread Gary W. Smith
I second that. -Original Message- From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:29 PM To: spam mailling list Subject: Re: Internal email marked as spam... Screaming Eagle wrote: All, Emailing with outlook and from internal network is marked

RE: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
Now we get to watch the body part's fly across the room. :) You know there are 3 things in life which you never ever talk about in public; religion, politics and what OS is best. -Original Message- From: Ryan Kather [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:24 AM

RE: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
enough (ok, I'm sucking my thumb right now, so I guess I'm out) to give the OP some good insight into our experiences. Just my 2 (fill in the currency of your choice) :-) Dimitri On Friday April 07 2006 2:51 pm, Gary W. Smith wrote: Now we get to watch the body part's fly across the room

RE: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-06 Thread Gary W. Smith
I think this was covered in the archives last year. My opinion is use the one that you are most comfortable with. I personally use RedHat Enterprise, not because it better than the rest because thats what I know. I think that most of the headaches happen around the MTA/MTUs rather than

RE: Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-06 Thread Gary W. Smith
Better question, what do you want to run? This might better help us address the pros/cons. -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ask List Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:54 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Which Operating Systems Do

RE: Postfix/SpamAssassin Integration

2006-04-05 Thread Gary W. Smith
James, Timeout is 600 seconds. If spamd doesn't have respond in that amount of time them there is something else is wrong. I suppose that if all of the spamd threads are clogged then you might find a waiting list but 600 seconds is a lifetime. We had a misconfigured DNS once that slowed all

RE: SQL Bayes

2006-03-21 Thread Gary W. Smith
It appears that you are user per user bayes. If you have a large number of users and performance is becoming an issue you might want to change over to site wide bayes and disable per user. As for user purging, no, there is no user detection to process users that are no longer in the system.

RE: AWL growing too large

2006-03-21 Thread Gary W. Smith
We use AWL via SQL. We wrote a script that will prune certain records from the database weekly to keep AWL small. Basically we delete any entries with a positive score and a count of 1 (as these are mostly randomly generated addresses that will never happen again). -Original Message-

RE: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-15 Thread Gary W. Smith
It shouldn't be a problem as long as the outgoing SMTP host has a valid domain name and the machine name also resolves. So if the machine name is blah.yourdomain.com you should still have an A record for it in your DNS. Without it many mail applications will reject the email at the MTA level (I

RE: AWL growing too large

2006-03-15 Thread Gary W. Smith
We use a MySQL backend (partly because we have multiple front end servers). This has worked well as we have a cronjob that runs a script and purges several awl entries that fall into a certain criteria. This works well to keep the database small, tidy and fast. Gary Wayne Smith -Original

RE: AWL growing too large

2006-03-15 Thread Gary W. Smith
I do as well. I usually take the RH SRPM, replace the source file, update the spec and then build. In most cases, it's up to date. In the case of SA I just use CPAN. It seems to work well for our organization. Gary Wayne Smith -Original Message- From: mouss [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Amavisd replacement suggestion

2006-03-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
Shane, We use Vexira from centralcommand.com for our own company mail. It seems to work fairly well and isnt that tricky to setup. We had a bear of a time getting amavisd working with postfix a couple years back so we decided to go commercial. Gary Wayne Smith From:

RE: Amavisd replacement suggestion

2006-03-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
PM, Gary W. Smith wrote: We use Vexira from centralcommand.com for our own company mail. It seems to work fairly well and isnt that tricky to setup. We had a bear of a time getting amavisd working with postfix a couple years back so we decided to go commercial. heh

RE: Commercial SA packages?

2006-03-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
John, I think the group is of the opinion that these commercial apps aren't anything more than glorified SA installs with a huge price tag. Huge being more than the cost of a good SA box plus your time... We just recently upgraded our Dell 4600's to Dell 5150's (4 of them) for under $3000.

RE: Commercial SA packages?

2006-03-06 Thread Gary W. Smith
John, I saw several at Linux world but I think that the biggest problem is that each one will require care and feeding when the day is done. The only difference is they provide and instant on facility whereas you will need to configure you're from scratch (which equates to an extra 30 minutes or

RE: intimidation from spammer

2006-03-04 Thread Gary W. Smith
Rob, I'm not an attorney so this isn't real legal advice but what are False Sp*am accusations. Block them for being a Spammer not a Sp*ammer. I highly doubt that even in the remote possibility that this was opted into that they could even remotely take any legal action against you. You should

RE: bayes DBM versus SQL

2006-03-02 Thread Gary W. Smith
DBM is fine for small installations but if you need to scale up then SQL will allow for a consolidate database across multiple machine. We use it on a decent size platform (multiple front end relays, multiple sa boxes and a clustered MySQL instance). It works well for us. For bayes training, we

RE: Couple of newbie questions... (repost)

2006-02-06 Thread Gary W. Smith
Philip, From what I have read, people have given you complete and logic advice on how to do this properly. Yeah, the US has laws regarding SPAM. They also have laws on drinking and driving. Law's are reactive. But, if you wish to forego the advice of list members then you should probably

RE: McDonalds

2006-02-04 Thread Gary W. Smith
Craploads... They are scoring .2 under my threshold. But I haven't seen any decrease in the level. I was meaning to train these into bayes... X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.8 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SBL,URIBL_SBL autolearn=no version=3.1.0 -Original

[OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: [OT] Paypal scam emails Hello, I received a typical paypal email today and wanted to ask this question of the group before looking too deep into the matter. I normally get at least one a day in my personal account. This is normal. Two weeks ago I setup a new account for purchasing

RE: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Gary W. Smith
the probably is of being randomly spammed over that of someone in the company selling a list. -Original Message- From: List Mail User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gary W. Smith; users@spamassassin.apache.org

RE: Spamassassin Distro

2005-11-12 Thread Gary W. Smith
Tony, One thing that you need to keep in mind with the question as well. All distro's are thoroughly tested and sometimes custom compiled. That isn't necessarily bad but it means that whatever you get out of the box isn't new. As mentioned you can go with bleeding edge (opensuse, fedora, etc)

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-09 Thread Gary W. Smith
, November 09, 2005 1:54 AM To: Gary W. Smith; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice? Our production database for a large number of emails (but using site wide) is about 40mb. What is your bayes_expiry_max_db_size set to? Do you feel that it has been

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-09 Thread Gary W. Smith
You're right, my guy gave me the size of bayes + awl. The real number is 14.5mb. (with an overhead of 3.2mb). -Original Message- From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:00 AM To: email builder; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: HUGE

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
I'd also through www.linux-ha.org into the mix. We use that to manage the cluster for the SA database and use DRBD for the filesystem. We also use the same concept backend email stores as well. It's more open source to complement this open source. -Original Message- From: Michael

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
Default. Gart -Original Message- From: email builder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:58 PM To: Gary W. Smith; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice? Our production database for a large number of emails (but using

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-08 Thread Gary W. Smith
To: Gary W. Smith; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice? Our production database for a large number of emails (but using site wide) is about 40mb. What is your bayes_expiry_max_db_size set to? Do you feel that it has been enough to effectively

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
Just my $0.02 but if it's in MySQL then you really don't need to expire each one. You can write a custom script that will do this. When you break it down, expire is really just finding those tokens that are beyond the threshold where id=x and time=y. The resultant would be where time=x. But

RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-07 Thread Gary W. Smith
We run a linux-ha cluster. Works out well. -Original Message- From: email builder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 6:51 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice? From what I understand, MySQL cluster design is

RE: MySQL server resolution

2005-10-31 Thread Gary W. Smith
You are thinking to hard on this problem. You create a MySQL cluster and point local.cf to that. Restart SA and it works. If you pull the plug on the first clustered node the other one will automatically take over. That's the purpose of the cluster... automating the failover. host files,

RE: MySQL on multiple servers

2005-10-30 Thread Gary W. Smith
Marc, Simple, create a MySQL cluster using two servers. I would recommend using Linux HA with DRBD for the database. This is simple enough to configure. Then point all of your servers to that cluster. We have 4 SA daemon servers pointed to one of these clusters. Unless you don't configure

AWL maintenance...

2005-10-17 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: AWL maintenance... I just though Id share this with everyone. I noticed that our backend MySQL data instance was running a little slow recently with more of a load on it. This instance is shared between 4 front end servers so I figured maybe we were getting a little more of a load.

RE: NFS and SA/Bayes DB

2005-09-20 Thread Gary W. Smith
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:39 AM To: Dean Baldwin Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: NFS and SA/Bayes DB -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Baldwin writes: Hi, I

RE: Net::DNS install assistance

2005-09-10 Thread Gary W. Smith
You mentioned firewall. Is it possible that you are not opening up the right connections to localhost or to the 192.x.x.x machine? We tend to mix firewall and server software on the same machine from many small small clients. I'm assuming that you are using iptables. Did you open up lo for

RE: Net::DNS install assistance

2005-09-10 Thread Gary W. Smith
of getting the proper information for resolv.conf. HTH, Gary -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:16 AM To: Gary W. Smith; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Net::DNS install assistance I'm running firestarter, I have

RE: Net::DNS install assistance

2005-09-10 Thread Gary W. Smith
If it's just one of the test that's failing then you might just want to try installing it anyways. It could be that the particular test is buggy. Gary -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 2:32 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org

RE: /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin restart

2005-08-06 Thread Gary W. Smith
I have seen this before as well. I think that it assumes that the process is dead after it tries to kill and but in reality it's not because it's still processing an email. I put a sleep 10 in right after the $RETVAL=$? in the SA init script. I think the reason is that the init script tries to

RE: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-03 Thread Gary W. Smith
How do you (make and) balance the calls to the AV servers? How do you (make and) balance the calls to the spamd machines? I am very interested in these details! We just call them in order case on the connection line. On two of the 4 SMTP gateways we use node 1 as the primary and node

RE: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-02 Thread Gary W. Smith
PM To: Jason Frisvold Cc: Gary W. Smith; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Load balancing spamd --- Jason Frisvold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/05, email builder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if I had forgotten the -A, I think I would have been seeing connection

RE: Load balancing spamd

2005-08-01 Thread Gary W. Smith
Do you happen to have any firewall rules in place on the LVS instance? Have you specified which IP's are allowed to access the instance? Both of the above are what I ran into on the default RH build (even though I don't run LVS). spamd -s local5 -d -c -m10 -H -A 10.0.8.0/21 I believe without

RE: AWL whaaat

2005-05-04 Thread Gary W. Smith
I second. HSA (Historical Score Averager) might be reasonably accurate, but unless you think about the math, it's purpose isn't clear. (And in my experience, most people don't enjoy thinking about math. ) Got any better suggestions for a name? Average Scoring System or ASS :) --Chris

RE: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-23 Thread Gary W. Smith
Since 3.0.1 we have had great success with SA and MySQL. In production we have a decent MySQL server serving two separate Servers running SA which in turn are used by 4 frond end relays. All in all I think it's a good solution if you need a central database shared between multiple instances. It

RE: SQL install with mSQL driver

2005-04-13 Thread Gary W. Smith
spamassassinpass -Original Message- From: alan premselaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:12 PM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SQL install with mSQL driver Gary, I'm not a database expert by any means, but I've done a bit

RE: SQL install with mSQL driver

2005-04-13 Thread Gary W. Smith
the instance to production and used a bogus username and it created it in the bayes_vars database. I'll need to check into why the database isn't cooperating. Gary -Original Message- From: Michael Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:10 PM To: Gary W. Smith

RE: SQL install with mSQL driver

2005-04-13 Thread Gary W. Smith
- From: Michael Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:10 PM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SQL install with mSQL driver This is a pretty good indication that you did not use the supplied bayes_mysql.sql file to create your database

SQL install with mSQL driver

2005-04-12 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: SQL install with mSQL driver Hello, Im using 3.0.x on RHEL 3 right now in our production environment and was looking at setting up a new test environment. We use MySQL for the common bayes DB which is working well for us in production. Today I tried installing the same packages for

RE: Effectiveness

2005-03-28 Thread Gary W. Smith
Using a script and a crontab. That's about as automatic as you can get. For example, we have several account aliases that we have intentionally signed up on the remove lists and they all end up in a user account called spam. There will never be any legitimate email going to this account. So

RE: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-23 Thread Gary W. Smith
And what is the dummy record? If it's not valid (i.e. and unroutable IP such as the 10,192, 172 blocks, then it might get routed back to the client's internal network. If it's a public IP it can be worse. Say you route it to a dummy IP owned by you and there isn't anything on there and one day

RE: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-22 Thread Gary W. Smith
I've used a different approach, IN MX 10 primary.domain.com (4 machines) IN MX 20 primary1.domain.com (2 of those 4) IN MX 30 primary1.domain.com (the other 2 of those 4) IN MX 20 backup.domain.com IN MX 30 primary.domain.com Seems to force most of the spam through the primary. Very little

RE: sa-learn help

2005-03-18 Thread Gary W. Smith
The problem is that when they forward the email you will loose the headers and it will think they are the spam/hammers. -Original Message- From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sa-learn help I am running a Directadmin

RE: Spamd stops responding...???

2005-03-04 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: Spamd stops responding...??? Sure it could. How many spamd processes do you have running? How much time is each taking? What do your custom rulesets look like? What's the CPU speed? These are all factors. If you have a bunch of machines hitting the same box and there are a bunch

RE: Porn E-Mail

2005-03-01 Thread Gary W. Smith
No really as it was marked at spam to being with. It only scored 9.1 because of AWL... * -20 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Are you trying to skew my bayes or something :). Gary -Original Message- From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28,

RE: Porno

2005-02-24 Thread Gary W. Smith
, but ended up in myinbox. I am running amavisd-new with Postfix, how do I tell ifspamassassin is even working?Gary W. Smith wrote:You might want to collect some additional information from the clientsuch as the headers. This is where I would start.Gary-Original Message-From: Robert

RE: Porno

2005-02-23 Thread Gary W. Smith
You might want to collect some additional information from the client such as the headers. This is where I would start. Gary -Original Message- From: Robert Fitzpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:54 AM To: SpamAssassin Subject: Porno I have

No subject header then no tag rewrite

2005-01-17 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: No subject header then no tag rewrite I have been getting a couple blank emails lately and looking into the headers I find that its clearly marked as spam but the subject hasnt been rewritten because it doesnt exist in the header. Is there a way to force SA to put a subject header in

RE: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-11 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: RE: spamassassin + filter.sh If the call to spamd fails then the message is passed back. Basically if it fails it just isn't scanned. But there usually aren'y many problems with SA. Many of us are running it on high volume systems in complex configurations with no problems. Gary

RE: Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2

2005-01-01 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2 New host? Your ISP shouldn't have any problems installing modules like that. Gary From: Geoff Soper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sat 1/1/2005 10:50 AMTo: users@spamassassin.apache.orgSubject: Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2 I run

RE: Interesting NW article

2004-12-21 Thread Gary W. Smith
-Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:16 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: Jerry Bell; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Interesting NW article Gary W. Smith wrote: The article mentions that they reached out to the SA

Re: Interesting NW article

2004-12-21 Thread Gary W. Smith
-Original Message- From: Joel M Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:26 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: Joel M Snyder; Keith Shaw Subject: Re: reach out to the SA community Gary: OK. What we need to do is figure out how to handle the 'tool-based' approach

RE: Unsubscribe?

2004-12-21 Thread Gary W. Smith
Ironically, that's one thing that Joel said in his email (regarding some of the venders using SA). It's got to be said. Dude, tell your management that they are stupid and if they still need help we can offer the clueX4 to assist in their learning... This was just referenced only 7 emails

RE: Bayes Database

2004-12-18 Thread Gary W. Smith
Its in the archives. Check the permissions on the /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes_* files to ensure that the user trying to issue the update (in my case, its filter) has access to the file. If you do an sa-learn as root or another use then the files will be created and locked un their

RE: Equifax/NCR partnership in spam???

2004-12-17 Thread Gary W. Smith
Looks like the first attempts at some phishing. The domain name and everything look like NCR BUT the DNS servers are NCRWEBHOST.COM with what looks like a bogus email address for admin contract. Gary -Original Message- From: Michael Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

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