Re: What happened to SOUGHT rules' server?

On Monday 15 March 2010, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: >On 15/03/2010 11:07 PM, j wrote: >>> I've been having the same problem from several locations/ISPs, since >>> mid-Saturday. >>> "500 Can't connect to yerp.org:80 (connect: timeout)" >>> >>> Dave >> >> Anyone figure this out? I have received the sa

Re: Most hilarious spam ever

On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Igor Chudov wrote: >This is a very funny spam, takes the title of "dumbest spam of Feb 2010". > > http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/spam010.txt > >The person who sent it, probably thinks that he is the best phister in >the world. > >i > Yeah I got one of those last week,

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong >>>> command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to >>>> Hollywood. >>> >>>No age

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: >jd wrote: >> Kurt Buff さんは書きました: >>> Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier >>> description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This >>> probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about >>> compute

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: >jd wrote: >> A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong >> command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to >> Hollywood. It seems that Hollywood is still doing that. > >Electronics generating sparks when ove

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

On Wednesday 10 February 2010, te...@cnysupport.com wrote: >Quoting jd : >> Kurt Buff さんは書きました: >>> Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier >>> description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This >>> probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are abou

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Mike Cardwell wrote: >On 09/02/2010 22:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >I sometimes send email without adding a Subject line. I guess that makes >me "moronic" in your eyes. Oh well. Chuckle, so do I, entirely too often, Mike. But kmail checks before sending it, and if

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: >> On 02/09, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> Thunderbird. There must be a bug in T-bird that is tickled >> >> Submit a bug report against thunderbird. > >I don't want to have to play wack-a-mole with every mail >client

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Put a valid subject line required into your TOS, mail it to everybody, & >> then do it a day later, bounce it at them if no subject line content. >> They will either jump ship in which

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >OK All, > > Please let me know if anyone has seen this one before. > > We have SA configured to insert "*SPAM* in the >beginning of the subject lines of spams before sending them on to >customers, then mail the message as an attachme

Re: [sa] Re: semi-legit senders in DNSWL and habeas - a hard problem

On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Charles Gregory wrote: >On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, J.D. Falk wrote: >: On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: >: > Once again I went to returnpath and senderscorecertified's web pages, >: > and found no link to an email address to report being spammed by one of >: > th

Re: Latest 419 variant?

On Wednesday 23 December 2009, John Hardin wrote: >Just saw this email posted to a forum: > > Hey, {name withheld}, I am emailing to you for very important > information about your life. There is secret information that has a > lot to do with your life. I came across this secret accidentally.

Re: Dear Santa

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Dave Pooser wrote: >> Love that quote. Think I'll steal it. > >It's worth stealing. Charles A. Oriez, aka "Socks the Whitehouse Cat," used >that .sig file on some mailop/anti-spam lists I frequented back in the day. >He died back in September of '05, and I later learne

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Gene Heskett" >Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:25 > >> On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote: >>>hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: >>>> re: CP/M >>>> >>>> No S-100 bus syste

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote: >hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: >> re: CP/M >> >> No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? >> >> My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual >> 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was >> going to be CP/M 8

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Friday 18 December 2009, John Hardin wrote: >On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I got to work for several months as a bench tech for an outfit building >> the first pair of the then smallest tv cameras in the world. >> >> Later I found out that one of those

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Gene Heskett" >Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21 [...] > >Now, if you want to "get me rolling" about an incompetent computer >company just mention GRiD and their Compass not really a laptop computer. >Ev

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Thursday 17 December 2009, R-Elists wrote: >> The absolute, without a doubt, biggest POS I ever had to live >> with was an >> 11/23 that had more hdwe bugs than all issues of windows >> combined since DOS5.0. Dec field engineers changed every >> piece in that thing except the frame rail with th

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Thursday 17 December 2009, R-Elists wrote: >as far as museum pieces go, i submit that my first was an Apple 2E if i >remember correctly.. > >BRUN BEERRUN > >was an interesting game, or something to that effect... ;-) > >...and (snore) i also programmed a helicopter to fly across the top and >

Re: OT: Museum piece...

On Thursday 17 December 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >On 17.12.2009 23:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: >>> On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote >>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> http://ww

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Thursday 17 December 2009, Robert Ober wrote: >hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: >> My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual >> 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was >> going to be CP/M 86. > >You and Jerry Pournelle :-) Yeah, but Jerry is

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Thursday 17 December 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Chris Hoogendyk" >Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07 > >> Steve Lindemann wrote: > I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere... > > Kevin >>> >>> I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh >>> th

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

On Thursday 17 December 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: >re: CP/M > >No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? Sorry, my omission. The first gizmo I ever built, in 1979, was a Quest Super Elf, which has an expansion connector on its board that allowed an s-100 buss backplane to be plugged into it.

Re: OT: Museum piece...

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Dave Pooser wrote: >On 12/16/09 8:20 PM, "Gene Heskett" wrote: >> I agree Benny. To demo that, I have the old coco2 that acted like a >> $20,000 dollar Grass Valley Group E-Disk for the production video >> switchers in the 300 seri

Re: OT: Museum piece...

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote: >On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: [...] >>>kids need to know how little is needed to do simple things, and when >>>thay have seen it, thay wi

Re: Project Honeypot URLs

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, John Hardin wrote: >On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, James Butler wrote: >> Fire a photon torpedo and wait about 5 minutes to find out if you hit >> anything. > >"High Realism" mode? > Speed of light limitations you know. ;) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in d

Re: OT: Museum piece...

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: >On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote > >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: >>> Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml >>> >>> There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house

Re: New image spam

On Saturday 14 November 2009, Alex wrote: >Hi all, > >Has anyone else seen an increase in image spam lately? > >http://pastebin.com/m47617898 > >The LOC_IMGSPAM is a local rule I created that simply checks for >/inline/ content disposition. I've changed the @ to # to pass the >pastebin filters. > >

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

On Saturday 31 October 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Gene Heskett" >Sent: Saturday, 2009/October/31 13:10 > >> On Saturday 31 October 2009, Karl Pearson wrote: >>>On Sat, October 31, 2009 7:16 am, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> Greetings; >>>>

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

On Saturday 31 October 2009, Karl Pearson wrote: >On Sat, October 31, 2009 7:16 am, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the >> checks, >> and one that handles the clamav output to /dev/null the

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

On Saturday 31 October 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Adam Katz" >Sent: Saturday, 2009/October/31 10:50 > >> Yet Another Ninja wrote: >>> On 10/31/2009 2:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> This looks like what I had in mind. But since I don't have that

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

On Saturday 31 October 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Gene Heskett" >Sent: Saturday, 2009/October/31 06:16 > >> Greetings; >> >> Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the >> checks, >> and one that handles the clamav output t

Re: outlook 2007 "Test" email scores 30+

On Saturday 31 October 2009, Bart Schaefer wrote: >On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM, John Hardin wrote: >> Here is a site that gives you your IP address and lets you check it >> against DNSBLs: >> >> http://cqcounter.com/rbl_check/ > >Just as a word of warning, that site is still checking >blackl

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

On Saturday 31 October 2009, Adam Katz wrote: >Yet Another Ninja wrote: >> On 10/31/2009 2:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> This looks like what I had in mind. But since I don't have that part >>> checked out yet, would it then delete the mail because clamdscan ha

Re: outlook 2007 "Test" email scores 30+

On Saturday 31 October 2009, John Hardin wrote: >On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, djjmj wrote: >> one small clarification, which didnt come to me until after I went to >> IPchicken. Our ISP is NOT our EmailSP > >That is a pretty critical part of the equation. Having problems with an >ESP changes many of the as

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

On Saturday 31 October 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: >On 10/31/2009 2:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 31 October 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: >>> On 10/31/2009 2:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> Greetings; >>>> >>>> Does anyone ha

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

On Saturday 31 October 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: >On 10/31/2009 2:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the >> checks, and one that handles the clamav output to /dev/null the viri etc? >

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

On Saturday 31 October 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the >> checks, and one that handles the clamav output to /dev/null the viri etc? > >amavisd handles both

bringing clamav into the loop?

Greetings; Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the checks, and one that handles the clamav output to /dev/null the viri etc? At least I assume clamav doesn't auto-delete, I've not yet studied all the docs, but do have freshclam running apparently ok. Thanks everybo

Re: Pulling my hair out

On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 01:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> >[getmail] does the same job as fetchmail, but without some of the bugs >> > and with better documentati

Re: Pulling my hair out

On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 17:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Slightly off-topic interjection, though it may help other fetchmail >users. > >> What can I use to replace fetchmail with then? > >getmail > >> Fetch

Re: Pulling my hair out

On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> Since your not the recipient mailserver, (your upstream server is) and >>

Re: Pulling my hair out

On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: [...] >Since your not the recipient mailserver, (your upstream server is) and >I presume that your upstream is NOT running SA or doing any filtering >(otherwise you are effectively wearing 2 condoms, on on top o

Re: Pulling my hair out

On Monday 19 October 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >amadis wrote: >> I usually think of myself as pretty capable with a computer but >> Spamassassin and it's website have made me think twice. I took me 20 >> minutes just to figure out where this forum was. I feel like Apache is >> trying to weed ou

Re: KHOP_NO_FULL_NAME

On Sunday 18 October 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Nix" >Sent: Sunday, 2009/October/18 13:24 > >> On 18 Oct 2009, Henrik K. said: >>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 07:22:19PM -0400, Adam Katz wrote: Keep in mind that this rule is only worth 0.259. >>> >>> Sorry but it's not worth that either.. it's not

Re: Constant Contact

On Saturday 17 October 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: >On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 07:26 -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:47 AM, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk >> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 13:29 -0700, John Hardin wrote: >> >> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, John Rudd wrote: >> >> > M

Re: Constant Contact

On Friday 16 October 2009, R-Elists wrote: >> That domain name should earn an email that came through their >> servers an additional 2.5 points IMO. It has been a thorn in >> my side since 3, maybe 4 years now. > >snip > >> -- >> Cheers, Gene > >Gene, > >and anyone else that cares to share please.

Re: Constant Contact

On Friday 16 October 2009, Adam Katz wrote: >Does anybody here know anything about the legitimacy of Constant >Contact ? > >In preparing a list of HOSTKARMA_W violators for Marc, I noticed a >very large amount of spam, coming from completely different

Re: Non scoring 'Bank Deposit' spam

On Monday 14 September 2009, Bill Landry wrote: >Clunk Werclick wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 08:05 -0600, LuKreme wrote: >>> On 14-Sep-2009, at 05:24, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: If the OP cannot refrain from that sort of foul language when presented with counter arguments then please ban. T

Re: Checking external mail

On Saturday 05 September 2009, Dave wrote: >Hello, > I'm not sure if this is a function of postfix for delivery or >spamassassin to check the incoming mail. I've got a centos 5.3 machine >running postfix, amavisd-new and spamassassin. Another account one that is >separate from this machine, i

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update [fixed, thanks]

On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Mark Martinec wrote: >Gene, > >> But, I had installed all the perl stuff that a spamassassin -D --lint run >> had complained about, and I just noted in the email sa-update sent me >> that 3 more bits of perl were on the missing list, and the final piece I >> can't fi

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update [fixed, thanks]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> dbg: gpg: found signature made by key >> 8D25B5E91DAF0F715F60B588DC85341F6C6191E3 [25964] dbg: gpg: key id >> 6C6191E3 is not release trusted > > ^^^ >You failed to provide the obligato

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Toni Mueller wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, 19.08.2009 at 13:33:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> In /var/lib/sa/keys > >I have neither such a directory, nor any keys in either of > >/var/lib/spamassassin nor /var/db/spamassassin (depending on whic

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Toni Mueller wrote: >Hello, > >On Wed, 19.08.2009 at 12:09:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> >[2] http://taint.org/2007/08/15/004348a.html >> >> This site has the procedu

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > General advice: Post the error messages. Do a debug run. Post the >> > relevant parts of the debug info. >> > >> > Gene -- with your headstrong, infamous around here user setup, you >> > should first check exactly that -- users. Which one

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> >On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 06:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my >> >> importation of that key. Several times. > >On 18.08.09 21:4

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 06:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my >> importation of that key. Several times. >> >> How should I proceed? > >General advi

gpgkey failures with sa-update

Greetings; One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my importation of that key. Several times. How should I proceed? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt

Re: Error msgs Q

On Tuesday 11 August 2009, John Hardin wrote: >On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >> How can I make it verbose enough to tell me which 'channel' is failing >> the check? > >Run sa-update in debugging mode with -D Thank you, I'll do that. -- Cheers, Gene

Error msgs Q

Greetings all; My sa-update script, set for 3 channels, is returning this email when it runs: error: GPG validation failed! The update downloaded successfully, but the GPG signature verification failed. channel: GPG validation failed, channel failed I have

Re: Lotto/Money & email address spam

On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I found the SOUGHT_FRAUD rules in jm's sandbox. Are those the proper ones to use? Are the testing ones safe? >>> >>> Sandbox rules are not proper ones. >>> >>> Add >>> >>>sought.ru

Re: Lotto/Money & email address spam

On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> I found the SOUGHT_FRAUD rules in jm's sandbox. Are those >> the proper ones to use? Are the testing ones safe? > >Sandbox rules are not proper ones. > >Add > >sought.rules.yerp.org > >to your sa-update channels.txt file. > >My channels.txt

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> make sure that you are running sa-learn as the same user SA is running >>> as. A classic mistake is to run SA as one user and then run sa-learn as >

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> If permissions are 0700 and sa-update cannot read the directory, then >>> sa-update is not running as the user "saupdate". Double-check which

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: >>> * Gene Heskett [2009-07-21 14:11]: >>>> The gist is: >>>> gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/var/lib/spamassassin/

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: >* Gene Heskett [2009-07-21 14:11]: >> The gist is: >> gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/var/lib/spamassassin/keys' >> >> And ls -l returns: >> [r...@coyote linux-2.6.30.2]# ls -l /var/lib/sp

Newly made warning from saupdate

Greetings all; I've just started to get an email from saupdate, mainly because I didn't have a forwarding alias properly setup before. The gist is: gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/var/lib/spamassassin/keys' And ls -l returns: [r...@coyote linux-2.6.30.2]# ls -l /var/lib/spamassass

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Damian Mendoza wrote: >> Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam >> filtering? It’s odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup >> Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 pe

Re: perms problems galore

sa-update.dostech.net >70_sare_adult.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net >90_2tld.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net > >They never seem to update, however. Am I doing something wrong? Are there >others I should consider? > >Thanks, >Alex > >On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: and sn

Re: perms problems galore

On Saturday 04 July 2009, Matt Kettler wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Ok, I'll fix that, thanks. >> >>> That said, why give the saupdate user the ability to add keys at all? >>> Import them as root and only give the saupdate user read access. >> >

Re: perms problems galore

On Friday 03 July 2009, Matt Kettler wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I _thought_ I had sa-update running ok, but it seemed that the >> effectiveness was stagnant, so I found the cron entry that was running >> as-update & discovered a synt

perms problems galore

Greetings all; I _thought_ I had sa-update running ok, but it seemed that the effectiveness was stagnant, so I found the cron entry that was running as-update & discovered a syntax error there, which when I fixed it, disclosed that I had all sorts of perms problems that I don't seem to be able

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

On Tuesday 12 May 2009, LuKreme wrote: >On 11-May-2009, at 17:20, Marc Perkel wrote: >> mouss wrote: >>> Is phishing really a problem for banks? I don't think so. >> >> You're kidding right? > >No, he has a point. The people with the problem are the customers. The >bank is at best neutral and at wo

Re: Restarting bayes

On Saturday 02 May 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Saturday 02 May 2009, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >>bayes_seen is rather irrelevant. > >To this problem, or generally? > >>bayes_toks is very binary-oriented, and uses lots of pack() calls. >> >>There is no SA-based &q

Re: Restarting bayes

76 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pmline 1883. bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pmline 1883. Note the 76 in the 2nd line. >On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM,

Re: Restarting bayes

ete/move the DB file before >restoring, c) make sure the data you're restoring is valid (gigo and >all that). > >On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> 1. The suggestions to rebuild the bayes db didn't make any difference. >

Restarting bayes

Greetings; 1. The suggestions to rebuild the bayes db didn't make any difference. 2. The error complains about the packing format of the db, when as near as I can tell, it isn't packed, its plain text, or at least the bayes_seen file is. And its nearly 9 megabytes. bayes_toks, OTOH, is inscrut

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

On Friday 01 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 11:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at >> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line >> 1883. >> >

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

't help, maillog is still about 2 screens full of this error for every message processed. Next? Thanks. >On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> The error: >> bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at >> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_per

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

. > >You can try to do a dump/verify/restore ... ala: > >sa-learn --sync >sa-learn --backup > db-dump >vi db-dump [... make sure things look as expected, etc ...] >[... backup your db, however appropriate, depending on your setup ...] >sa-learn --restore db-dump > &g

Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

Greetings all; I have a script that runs daily against whatever I put in the spam folder, and it is suddenly having a hard time. The error: bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 1883. This

Re: sa-learn

On Tuesday 21 April 2009, alexus wrote: >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:03 PM, alexus wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Tuesday 21 April 2009, alexus wrote: >>>>On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Gene Heskett >>> >>&

Re: sa-learn

On Tuesday 21 April 2009, alexus wrote: >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 20 April 2009, alexus wrote: >>>i'm trying to teach my SA whats spam >>> >>>it's a brand new out of box SA, i have few domains that i dont g

Re: sa-learn

On Monday 20 April 2009, alexus wrote: >i'm trying to teach my SA whats spam > >it's a brand new out of box SA, i have few domains that i dont get >anything but a spam and on the top seems like from same spamers as >they "picked" emails that they thought would be good to spam and keep >on spaming t

Re: "This is your" spam

On Saturday 28 March 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 28 March 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: > >[snippage] > >> >Total mail 2968 messages >> >Spam198 messages >> &g

Re: "This is your" spam

On Saturday 28 March 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 07:48 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone had an incantation for this one. > >I see that the message is there to punt a spaces.live.com website. > >I'm using a meta rule to recognise messages containing a

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Chris wrote: >On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 12:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I never claimed to understand regex's. I know the ^ anchors the start of >> the search to the start of the line, and that the first * is needed to >> into a recipe,

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 01:08 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 24 February 2009, SM wrote: >> > You could add a rule to catch the "no To-header" comment. >> >> Humm, if it can't find the u

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, SM wrote: >At 22:08 23-02-2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >>Not that I know of. Fetchmail occasionally squawks about a race in the >>PEEK_MSG function, maybe a couple times a day. ~/.procmailrc has no such >>edit line in it. Obviously it did com

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, SM wrote: >At 18:38 23-02-2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >>The input line looks like this: >> >>To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@gmail-pop.l.google.com > >Is your MTA or POP3 client adding the @gmail-pop.l.google.com at the >

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

On Monday 23 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > > [...] by doing a copy/paste from the kmail displayed line when in >> > > show all headers mode. > >On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 18:52 -0500, The

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

On Monday 23 February 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 17:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Anybody got an idea how the spammers have managed that? > >Sorry, I can't help with the invisible stuff, but I do know a little > >about the other part of your q

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

ted' bit. >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I've had zip luck getting a trigger line based on Undisclosed >>> Recipients:, or Unlisted Recipients: here, so I called up my .procmailrc >>> and tried to enter the check phrase by

Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

Greetings; Using fetchmail->procmail | spamc |procmail -> user mailbox or /dev/null. I've had zip luck getting a trigger line based on Undisclosed Recipients:, or Unlisted Recipients: here, so I called up my .procmailrc and tried to enter the check phrase by doing a copy/paste from the kmail di

Re: cpan question

On Saturday 21 February 2009, Bill Landry wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Using cpan, trying to install Net::Ident (the other bits except razor were >> nominal from the same source) >> >> Checking for Apache.pm... not found >> Writing Makefile for Net::Ident >

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > > drwx-- 2 gene mail 4096 2009-02-21 10:17 >> > > /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys >> > >> > >> > Yup, as I expected. :) Err, remembered from previous discussions >> > regarding ownership of files with you.

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:10 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > > [28466] dbg: diag: module not installed: Net::Ident ('require' failed) >> > &

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 11:46 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > > I have also fed probably 10

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 11:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > > gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir >> > >> > ls -ld /etc/mail/spamass

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> From an sa-update -D: > >According to a quick grep, initially to verify my recollection of the >IP::Country usage, turns out I did remember correctly...

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