Re: upgrad spamassassin

2009-05-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
hateSpam wrote: Dear All, I have spamassassin 3.1.9 I want to upgraded it with new version 3.2.5 I will appreciate if any one can tell me how can I upgrade it? Where should i put new version files and which command should I run? I looked at upgrade documentation but I didn't understand what

Re: upgrad spamassassin

2009-05-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
hateSpam wrote: I haven't installed it. it was already installed. Do you mean I should delete the current spamassassin and reinstall new version? To upgrade SpamAssassin, you normally just install the new version on top of the old one. But if you install with different settings or a

Re: upgrad spamassassin

2009-05-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
Ned Slider wrote: hateSpam wrote: Thanks for reply. Sorry, I should say that before. I am using CentOS Linux 5. For mailing delivery we are using Postfix version 2.3.3 and Procmail. In that case you need to update your CentOS system as CentOS is using the latest SpamAssassin. 'yum

Re: upgrad spamassassin

2009-05-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
hateSpam wrote: Thanks for reply i used (yum list installed 'spamassassin*') command and I got Loading installonlyn plugin Installed Packages spamassassin.x86_64 3.1.9-1.el5installed Does it mean it has installed via rpm? Exactly. It should update

Re: my AWL messed up?

2009-05-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
Linda Walsh wrote: I got a really poorly scored piece of spam -- one thing that stood out as weird was report claimed the sender was in my AWL. Any sender who has sent mail to you previously will be in your AWL. This is probably the most misunderstood component of SA. Read the wiki.

Re: AWL functionality messed up?

2009-05-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
Linda Walsh wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: I got a really poorly scored piece of spam -- one thing that stood out as weird was report claimed the sender was in my AWL. Any sender who has sent mail to you previously will be in your AWL. This is probably the most

Re: my AWL messed up?

2009-05-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
Linda Walsh wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: I got a really poorly scored piece of spam -- one thing that stood out as weird was report claimed the sender was in my AWL. Any sender who has sent mail to you previously will be in your AWL. This is probably the most

Re: Email from myself to myself

2009-05-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
hateSpam wrote: I have spamassassin installed in my server but I have never had an email wht [SPAM] in the subject. I get lots of spam. I think it is not checking properly. anybody know how to solve the problem please? There are lots of different ways to use SA with your email. We can't

Re: Identifying Source of False Positives

2009-06-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
Rich Shepard wrote: Here are all headers from the mail log summary: From r...@salmo.appl-ecosys.com Mon Jun 1 11:25:44 2009 Return-Path: r...@salmo.appl-ecosys.com X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5-ph20040310.0 (2008-06-10) on salmo.appl-ecosys.com X-Spam-Level:

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: this is an example of var / log / qmail / spamd 2009-06-03 12:00:16.531889500 [19168] info: prefork: child states: BB 2009-06-03 12:00:16.531949500 [19168] info: prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising

Re: Identifying Source of False Positives -- RESOLVED

2009-06-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
Rich Shepard wrote: The empty body problem is a more difficult problem. Have procmail save a copy of the raw message somewhere and take a look at it. Make sure there is a blank line between the headers and the body. Run 'spamassassin -D' on this saved message and look for anything unusual

Re: sa-update error

2009-06-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Mon, June 8, 2009 14:41, snowweb wrote: Then I tried again with sa-update and got the following: [r...@s1 spamassassin]# sa-update Can't locate Archive/Tar.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/per

Hostkarma whitelist problem

2009-06-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
I couldn't find any place on junkmailfilter website to report this, so I'll put it here. I received a 419 scam email with this whitelist hit: * -3.0 RCVD_IN_JMF_W RBL: Sender listed in JMF-WHITE * [213.4.129.18 listed in hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com] -- Bowie

Re: Hostkarma whitelist problem

2009-06-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
. Bowie Bailey wrote: I couldn't find any place on junkmailfilter website to report this, so I'll put it here. I received a 419 scam email with this whitelist hit: * -3.0 RCVD_IN_JMF_W RBL: Sender listed in JMF-WHITE * [213.4.129.18 listed in hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com]

Re: Hostkarma whitelist problem

2009-06-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
for automation I'm interested. Bowie Bailey wrote: That one also hit DNSWL_MED and actually ended up with a negative score. I reported to dnswl via their website. It would be useful to have a reporting mechanism on your website so we don't have to send these to the list. Bowie Marc Perkel wrote

Re: ending rule score result

2009-07-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
Daniel Schaefer wrote: Also, can someone explain or send me a link to a *full* explanation of the 4 different scores (local, net, with bayes, with bayes+net)? It's fairly simple. Here is the description from the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf man page: If four valid scores are

Re: ending rule score result

2009-07-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
, is that used for all four scenarios? Dan Schaefer Application Developer Performance Administration Corp. Bowie Bailey wrote: Daniel Schaefer wrote: Also, can someone explain or send me a link to a *full* explanation of the 4 different scores (local, net, with bayes, with bayes+net)? It's fairly

Re: ending rule score result

2009-07-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Tue, July 7, 2009 19:53, Jari Fredriksson wrote: Reply button replies only to the sending individual. should be okay thunderbird can have a plugin to fix this problem ? The plugin is called Reply to mailing list. It adds a Reply list button that works

Re: ending rule score result

2009-07-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
Daniel Schaefer wrote: I just installed that and it works nicely. However, we're getting off track a little... My second question was answered with RTFMP, but my first question about a script that will show me the ending score after all config files have been read, has not been answered. If

Re: SpamAssasin .pm .cf file

2009-07-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jonas Eckerman wrote: chauhananshul wrote: I'm new to linux world can some one please help in understanding .cf .pm files. Neither of those files are specific to linux. The .pm files are perl modules. To understand how those works in detail you need to learn perl. You don't need to know

Re: Never ending spam flood www.viaXX.net?

2009-07-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Fri, July 10, 2009 18:17, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Anyway, as I've told you before with some hastily scribbled logic, you seriously should read up on De Morgan's law. The above meta equals ! ( __URIBL_BLACK __URIBL_GREY ) are you sure this logic holds in

Re: trusted_networks and internal_networks

2009-07-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jari Fredriksson wrote: I tried with this: -(local.cf)--- internal_networks 10.0.0.0/8 trusted_networks 10.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.1 trusted_networks 212.16.98.0/24 212.16.100.0/24 62.142.0.0/16 195.197.172.98 trusted_networks 195.74.0.0/16 213.192.189.2/24 217.30.188.0/24 65.54.0.0/16

Re: Spamassassin rules in a mysql database

2009-07-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Patrick Saweikis wrote: Has anyone had any experience trying to make spamassassin use a mysql database for it’s ruleset instead of text files? We are planning on making our anti-spam solution redundant, and it would be nice to have this in a database instead of copying files around when we

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

2009-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: * Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net [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

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

2009-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
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 user sa-update runs as and chown the directory to that user. Here is the line

Re: auto learn threshold

2009-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dan Schaefer wrote: Clip of /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf __ required_score 7 ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AutoLearnThreshold bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.1 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 10.0 endif __ Some messages with a SA score of

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

2009-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: First off, sa-learn and sa-update have absolutely nothing to do with each other. sa-update downloads new rules and sa-learn trains the Bayes subsystem. Just wanted to clarify this since your last message seemed to imply

Re: Spamcheck and how it affects bayes question

2009-07-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matt Kettler wrote: Gary Smith wrote: We have a process in place using the perl CPAN module for invoking SA. This is outside of the scope of the normal mail system. Basically we use this to see what scores emails would generate for some statistical stuff. The spam engine this calls is

Re: I want to use RelayCountry

2009-07-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, July 22, 2009 12:41, snowweb wrote: - PackageKit as the Gnome (GUI) package manager. Its in the Gnome menu as System|Administration|Add/Remove software Thanks Martin. I'll remember to use Yum from now on. Cheers mate.

Re: I want to use RelayCountry

2009-07-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Joao Neves wrote: At 22-07-2009 14:56, Bowie Bailey wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: http://www.google.dk/search?q=cpan2distie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:da-DK:unofficialclient=firefox-a if some rpm is missing, then use the url to make native rpm from cpan before install them

Re: whitelist_from questions

2009-07-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
MySQL Student wrote: Hi all, Some time ago someone had mentioned to never use whitelist_from but instead use whitelist_from_rcvd. Where is whitelist_from_rcvd documented? It doesn't appear in the SA docs in the same place that whitelist_from is listed. So, forever I have been using

Re: sa-stats.pl and SpamAssassin 3.2.4

2009-07-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
MySQL Student wrote: Hi, Are spamd and amavisd-new mutually exclusive? Yes. amavisd-new uses the Perl API directly, so it does not talk to spamd. I'm also trying to use sa-stats.pl, and it is reporting zeros because I've just learned it relies on spamd, which I'm apparently not using.

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dan Schaefer wrote: It means that if you were using BL at MTA level your SA might never have seen the message at all. No your rule would not be overlooked 'because the site is in a blacklist' *unless* you were using the BL in your MTA and rejected the transaction from a blacklisted IP

Re: DKIM-Reputation list

2009-08-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:36:28 +0200, Mark Martinec mark.martinec...@ijs.si wrote: Does perl complain? $ perl effectiveTLDs.pm no errors so 'bar' = {}, foo' = {}, 'bar' = {}, is valid for perl ? example in line around 2106 but perl accept it, imho this

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855?

2009-08-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Toni Mueller wrote: I'm open to ideas about what else to do. For me, the Sought rules catch more than anything other than the Zen blacklist. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SoughtRules -- Bowie

Re: Assistence needed with spamassasin under RedHat 5.2

2009-08-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
Erik Bloodaxe wrote: I have a default install of Redhat 5.2. I have mail scanner using it and it appears to be creating a large number of false positives. The version of SpamAssassin is version 3.2.4 which is running on Perl version 5.8.8. I am using the latest version of mail scanner. I

Re: i need your indulgence

2009-08-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dan Schaefer wrote: Any ideas about this one, besides adding a score to match the subject? I have 4 in my inbox this morning with scores no more than 5. http://pastebin.com/m561b461b Scored pretty high here. DCC and JMF-BLACK account for quite a bit, but it would have scored 5.0 and been

Re: Payment/gift card spam

2009-08-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
MySQL Student wrote: Hi all, I'm having difficulty catching spam with subjects that include Home Depot $100 Gift Card type of mail, and wondered if anyone had any ideas: http://pastebin.com/m57dc753b What rules exist that I might be missing? They don't seem to do well with bayes, and

Re: Understanding SpamAssassin

2009-09-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
poifgh wrote: I am trying to understand inner workings of spam assassin and would be great if someone can answer my questions. I have read online documentation but there are still some questions left unanswered or I am not sure about. I'm not an expert, just a long-time user, but I can

Re: RBL error with SA

2009-09-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Luis campo wrote: hi, I set to work with RBL Spamassasin by skip_rbl_checks option 0. But in my statistics were not reporting any RBL test Run spamassassin-D-lint http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-ussource=wlmailtagline One of the side-effects of

Re: Problems with high spam

2009-09-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote: Dear Sirs. Thank you for your answers Qmail-Smtpd have the following RBL configured: * bl.spamcop.net cbl.abuseat.org combined.njabl.org * You might want to try zen.spamhaus.org. That is the only one I trust enough to block mail on my MTA. These are the

Re: Understanding SpamAssassin

2009-09-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
poifgh wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: For auto-learning, the high and low scoring messages are fed to Bayes. However, for an optimal setup, you should manually train Bayes on as much of your (verified) ham and spam as possible. The more of your mail stream Bayes sees, the better the results

Re: Understanding the hostKarma Lists

2009-09-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
Warren Togami wrote: On 09/30/2009 12:18 AM, R-Elists wrote: warren, marc already decided once, please dont give more choices... you should have thought that out before putting the list in a minor tiz on it. - rh I'll note that he's the one that said he prefers HOSTKARMA names,

Re: SpamAssassin Ruleset Generation

2009-10-06 Thread Bowie Bailey
poifgh wrote: RW-15 wrote: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:08:28 -0700 (PDT) poifgh abhinav.pat...@gmail.com wrote: I have a question about - understanding how are rulesets generated for ... a. Is it done manually with people writing regex to see how efficiently they capture spams? b. Is

symlink for spamassassin directory

2009-10-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
I have several virtual users and I want them to all use the same Bayes DB (and user_prefs, etc). The are all using the same UID/GID. Is it safe to make all of the $HOME/spamassassin directories symlinks to a common directory? I can't think of a problem with this, but I wanted to check before I

KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST

2009-10-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
After testing the khop rules for a few days, I noticed one oddity. TOP HAM RULES FIRED RANKRULE NAME COUNT %OFRULES %OFMAIL %OFSPAM %OFHAM 8

Re: Problems with high spam

2009-10-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Luis campo wrote: * skip_rbl_checks 1 * RBL checks are quite useful. Why are you skipping them? *#Con esto evalua cada mensaje, se requiere un 5.0 para marcarlo como spam required_hits 3 * Spamassassin is designed to score spam at 5 points. If you lower this score, you are risking

Re: specified setup

2009-10-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 03:43 +0800, Care4U wrote: I would like to host some virtual domains. I had decided to install qmail, vpopmail, simscan, clamav, spamassassin and maildrop. I will be providing 2 types of mail packages. The first package comes with filtering,

Re: Pulling my hair out

2009-10-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 20-Oct-2009, at 17:03, Evan Platt wrote: At 03:58 PM 10/20/2009, you wrote: Domains cost about $10 a year. Static IP addresses depend on your ISP. Some are cheap, some are not, and some won't do it at all. However, you do not have to have a static

Re: specified setup

2009-10-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
LuKreme wrote: On 21-Oct-2009, at 14:31, Bowie Bailey wrote: If you can do the spam and virus scanning during the original smtp transaction, you can reject viruses and high-scoring spam with a 5xx error at that point, but once your server accepts the mail, your choices are to deliver

Re: Auth questions

2009-10-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alex wrote: Anyone can add a Habeas header. At best, it means they've got an outdated configuration; at worst, it means they're spammers trying to get past filters. https://senderscore.org/lookup.php?lookup=208.85.50.30 reveals that the 208.85.50.30 is not currently accredited under the

Re: Development dead

2009-11-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
polloxx wrote: Hi, Is the spamassassin development dead? On the website there's: 2008-06-12: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 has been released. Not quite. If you look at svn, you'll see this: spamassassin_20091103151200.tar.gz03-Nov-2009 15:122.1M Doesn't look dead to me! :) -- Bowie

Re: Development dead

2009-11-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kent Borg wrote: I admit I have been ignoring Spamassassin because it seems to work. I have been pleased that Spamassassin has been regularly flagging over 94% of my spam. And this list seems active (if mostly ignored by me). But this e-mail caught my eye. Indeed, the version on

Re: what about blacklist.spambag.org?

2009-11-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
Luigi Gasbarro wrote: I checked my mailserver vs http://cqcounter.com/rbl_check/ and the only negative response comes from blacklist.spambag.org I try same other IP (randomly) and have found the same RBL marking all the address as negative The spambag.org domain is expired. It gives the

Re: sought rules

2009-11-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
Charles Gregory wrote: On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: The SA core rules are not updated very often. For the most part, they just work. If you are not already doing so, you may want to consider Justin's Sought ruleset. It is dynamically generated and updated every 4 hours or so

Re: sought rules

2009-11-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
john ffitch wrote: Have I missed something? I used to pull the sought rules daily, but nothing seems to have changed since 2 Nov. Is that expected behaviour? ==John ffitch No, that's not expected behavior... On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Justin Mason wrote: Right now, SOUGHT appears to be

Re: sought rules

2009-11-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
Justin Mason wrote: Yep -- sorry -- I got to reboot the server, but it appears to have not fixed the problem. Right now I'm not likely to be able to perform more investigation for a week or two. :( Sorry about this -- the perils of volunteer infrastructure! No problem. I've set scores for

Re: spamd SIGCHLD

2009-11-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote: Dear Sir, Some additional data. I am running debugging and got these messages: @40004afb1ab22375c434 [12572] info: prefork: child states: III @40004afb1ab22375d7bc [12572] dbg: prefork: child 13018: entering state 3 @40004afb1ab22375e75c [12572]

Re: spamd SIGCHLD

2009-11-12 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote: Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:30:58 -0500 From: bowie_bai...@buc.com To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamd SIGCHLD This is just the normal child cleanup. You have set a maximum of 2 idle children, so when there were 3, it killed one. This

Re: How to check if SpamAssassin works

2009-11-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
Michael Schmid wrote: Hi!I checked if SpamAssassin works with GTUBE. GTUBE was recognised... So far, so good.Then I added to one cf-File a Test like this:**header L_TO_ME ToCc =~ /gord...@csse\.uwa\.edu\.au/describe L_TO_ME Email addressed to mescore L_TO_ME

khop-sc-neighbors problems

2009-12-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
I have been seeing this output from sa-update recently: http: request failed: 404 Not Found: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN htmlhead title404 Not Found/title /headbody h1Not Found/h1 pThe requested URL /home/katz/sa/khop-sc-neighbors/2009120306.tar.gz was not found on this

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED SPAMMER

2009-12-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
LuKreme wrote: On 4-Dec-2009, at 01:18, jdow wrote: With all the animosity on this issue I decided to give the HABEAS rules a score, a negligible score to be sure, just to see what the state of HABEAS is for me today. In the last four days - nothing either spam or ham. I tend to

Re: Suggestion for use by ANY whitelist service....

2009-12-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: That to one side, the default for a spam filter should not be to give any weight to a white list unless the user modifies the config themselves specifically. It can be seen to be suspicious and offering a pecuniary advantage to those involved and using it. I

Re: Suggestion for use by ANY whitelist service....

2009-12-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jason Bertoch wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: In this case, there are a few people complaining about the Habeas rules, but just as many people who do not see any problems. Silence does not necessarily mean assent. I disabled the Habeas rules long ago and therefore have no useful data to add

Re: Fw: users specific configuration

2009-12-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
bernics.gabor wrote: I use spamassassin 3.2.5 on the Debian 5.0, it#8217;s great, because I have a problem: My SP dont view the users specific configuration (/home/$user/.spamassassin/user_prefs) only the main configuration (/etc/spamassassin/*). SP? Are you saying it is not configured

Re: Setting Up Additional User with SA

2009-12-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
Rich Shepard wrote: I've read the FAQ and Wiki without seeing an answer to my question. The answer may very well be in a document I've not examined; if it is, please point me to it. Here's the situation: SpamAssassin-3.2.5 is installed here and works well for me with our postfix MTA. We

Re: Setting Up Additional User with SA

2009-12-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
Rich Shepard wrote: We use POP3 here (qpopper, in fact). If I correctly understand your suggestion, I add a subdirectory to her ~/ called, like mine 'spam-uncaught'. She saves spam messages there, then cron will scp that file to the server where I can run sa-learn on them (or have

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Christian Brel wrote: The point comes back to this and it has *not* been answered sensibly; WHY DOES SPAMASSASSIN DEFAULT INSTALL WITH A NEGATIVE SCORING RULE THAT FAVOURS A COMMERCIAL BULK MAILER. Namely the negative score for Habeas? This point has been answered. SA ships with that rule

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
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 drop a bomb on a space invader

Re: A little help with a local.cf rule... please!

2009-12-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
JPP100 wrote: 1. English URL 2. Double words separated with a '-' 3. Rarely a 'www' at the front - usually 4 or more random letters 4. Always (for now) 4 numbers at the end Example: http://llhti.tour-traveled.com/4651/ So my rule: # hotmail drug spam uri MY_HOTMAIL_SPAM

Re: [SPAM:9.6] semi-legit senders in DNSWL and habeas - a hard problem

2010-01-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
Christian Brel wrote: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:10:28 -0500 Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Does anyone have any ideas of what else might help? #ADD TO THE END OF local.cf at your own risk score RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED 0 4.3 0 4.3 score RCVD_IN_SSC_TRUSTED_COI 0 3.7 0 3.7 score

Re: Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now! (custom sa-update script from howtoforge)

2010-01-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
Larry Starr wrote: From my install there is a /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin which I'm not using, that provides none of that information. I believe I will have to implement a wrapper script to, at least, notify me when updates have been applied. I patched sa-update to add a verbose

Re: Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now! (custom sa-update script from howtoforge)

2010-01-06 Thread Bowie Bailey
Mark Martinec wrote: On Tuesday January 5 2010 22:47:42 Bowie Bailey wrote: I patched sa-update to add a verbose option which outputs all the channel names that had changes. Very simple patch if anyone is interested. It installs cleanly on 3.2.5, I haven't tried 3.3. This looks

Re: newbie: configure SA to reject spam

2010-01-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
tonjg wrote: On 01/13/2010 07:22 PM, tonjg wrote: thanks for your response Ned. your last line describes exactly what I want to do - reject mail, do it at the smtp stage in sendmail - but I don't know how to achieve this. Take a look at the Sendmail section of this page:

Re: is bayes enabled by default?

2010-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
tonjg wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: ls -l /root/.spamassassin this command gives: total 0 So there are no files in that directory. Are you going to be running SA as root on a general basis? If so, you need to make sure you have permission to write in that directory.

Re: Size of Bayes data and possible mysql storage?

2010-01-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kārlis Repsons wrote: Hello spam assassins, The question, which bothers me is about Bayes data size. How much is a typical size of those data and what mechanisms are there to limit growing of it? Can mysql be used for storage and would you recommend it (well, maybe it can then be easier

Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: MM == Michael Mansour m...@npgx.com.au writes: MM Why couldn't the mailing list filters simply whitelist your email address or MM whitelist people automatically subscribed to the mailing list? Yes, but that's beside the point. That is not solving the bad thing

Re: how can i finetune to spamassassin to handle spams

2010-01-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
ram wrote: * 3.4 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future. This rule started causing problems at the beginning of the year and was fixed. Have you run sa-update to get the latest rules? -- Bowie

Re: how can i finetune to spamassassin to handle spams

2010-01-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
ram wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com mailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: ram wrote: * 3.4 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future. This rule started causing problems at the beginning of the year

Re: blog article on 3.3.0

2010-01-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alex wrote: Hi, http://www.returnpath.net/blog/2010/01/spamassasin-rarely-misses.php Yeah, it's partly self-serving, but that's what corporate blogs are for. The people who read this blog are mostly marketers with very little exposure to the open source community, so this should

Re: blog article on 3.3.0

2010-01-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
Noel Butler wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 12:53 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Alex wrote: Hi, http://www.returnpath.net/blog/2010/01/spamassasin-rarely-misses.php Yeah, it's partly self-serving, but that's what corporate blogs are for. The people who read this blog are mostly

Re: Whitelists in 3.3.0

2010-01-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
McDonald, Dan wrote: Please excuse the top-post. This truly brain-damaged mua does not allow me to edit the body. Easiest way to disable whitelists is: grep -E score\ RCVD.+- /var/lib/spamassassin/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf | cut -d\ -f1-3

Re: how can i finetune to spamassassin to handle spams

2010-01-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
ram wrote: The rules in /usr/share/spamassassin are the original rules from the install. If /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002.005 exists, those rules will be used instead. You can verify which rules are being used by running this command: $ spamassassin

Re: painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush

2010-01-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Charles Gregory wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, LuKreme wrote: $ bzgrep dynamic.hinet.net /var/log/maillog.?.bz2 |\ grep -i reject |\ awk -F: {'print $9'} |\ awk -F';' {'print $1'} |\ sort -u Client host rejected Helo command rejected Recipient address rejected Relay access

Re: Whitelists in 3.3.0

2010-01-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 09:18 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: McDonald, Dan wrote: Please excuse the top-post. This truly brain-damaged mua does not allow me to edit the body. Easiest way to disable whitelists is: grep -E score\ RCVD.+- /var/lib/spamassassin

Re: how can i finetune to spamassassin to handle spams (not latest 72_active.cf)

2010-01-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Eddy Beliveau wrote: Hi! Interesting subject... which make me checked my 3.3.0 installation I did update spamassassin to version 3.3.0 Then I erased /var/lib/spamassassin/* did a sa-update --verbose /Update available for channel updates.spamassassin.org Update was available, and was

Hostkarma whitelist FP

2010-02-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
This was listed in the Hostkarma whitelist: [198.217.64.52 listed in hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com] Can we get this IP removed? (I was going to report this directly, but I lost the email address and wasn't able to find anything on the junkemailfilter website.) -- Bowie

Re: how can i finetune to spamassassin to handle spams

2010-02-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
ram wrote: hi what i am looking is iam looking sitewide, not userwide so if the user feel its spam mail, he will send that mail to another email of local account, from there i want to choose the bayes learn and decide what is spam and what is not spam hope i explained well i

Re: Hostkarma whitelist FP

2010-02-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
Even if they are emailing me regarding the amazingly large sum of money some unknown person apparently left me in his will? :) Marc Perkel wrote: That's the outgoing email gateway for a hospital. It stays whitelisted. Bowie Bailey wrote: This was listed in the Hostkarma whitelist

Re: how can i finetune to spamassassin to handle spams

2010-02-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
ram wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com mailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: ram wrote: hi what i am looking is iam looking sitewide, not userwide so if the user feel its spam mail, he will send that mail

Re: permission denied error keeps coming back

2010-02-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
tonjg wrote: ever since I did a bayes learn on 200 spams and 200 hams a couple of days ago I've had the following error appearing in my mail log: 'mimedefang-multiplexor[13951]: Slave 0 stderr: bayes: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile

Sought rules not doing so good

2010-02-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Since the sought rules have been updating for a while now, I took a look at my stats to see how they were doing. They used to be one of my most useful rules, but recently, they don't seem to be doing so good. Here are the stats for the last month: TOP SPAM RULES FIRED

Re: Sought rules not doing so good

2010-02-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Adam Katz wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Since the sought rules have been updating for a while now, I took a look at my stats to see how they were doing. They used to be one of my most useful rules, but recently, they don't seem to be doing so good. Here are the stats for the last month

Re: My Outgoing Email is Flagged as ***SPAM***?

2010-02-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
Carlos Williams wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Mike Cardwell spamassassin-us...@lists.grepular.com wrote: The error message, gpg required but not found, means that gpg was required, but was not found. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe gpg wasn't found, but

Re: My Outgoing Email is Flagged as ***SPAM***?

2010-02-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
Carlos Williams wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: Sounds to me like you need to install the actual gpg package. Installing the keys doesn't do much if the program that uses them doesn't exist. Yes this was 1/2 my problem

Re: My Outgoing Email is Flagged as ***SPAM***?

2010-02-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
Carlos Williams wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: I'm not sure why root would have a problem writing to the file. sa-update-keys IS a directory, right? Try removing the sa-update-keys file/directory and then running the command again

Re: My Outgoing Email is Flagged as ***SPAM***?

2010-02-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
Carlos Williams wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: sa-update-keys should default to the same location as your local.cf file. On my system, that is /etc/mail/spamassassin. Create the directory and try the import again. I created

Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken I think your auto-quote program is trying to tell you something... :) -- Bowie

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

2010-02-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
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 overloaded? Yes. Generating smoke? Yes. Flames? Yes.

Re: MTX plugin created (Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage)

2010-02-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 02/11, Henrik K wrote: What a complex scheme you invented for a simple problem. All you have to do is to require legimate relays to have a FCrDNS entry with an actually identifiable name, like starting with smtp. Much simpler to take advantage of that and

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