RE: SA not using SARE rules?

2005-12-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi So a spamassassin -D --lint for a first stab at debugging. You don't mention how you are calling SA, so maybe there's file permission issues? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 -Original Message- From: JP Kelly

Re: perm probs with SA (repost as gmail accnt didn't get there)

2005-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Gene Heskett wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:27:48 -0500: Now the one remaining error being logged for every session called is this: *Is your spamd running as non-root now?* Check with ps. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Gene Heskett wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:15:27 -0500: Where the he!! are the docs that explain this, I've been beating myself half to death for at least a week on this. There is a readme, there's man spamd, there's http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SpamdReadme?highli

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Anthony Peacock
On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:50, Matt Kettler wrote: Brian Kendig wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: I'm running spamd as spamd -d -x -u nobody, I've commented out AWL from v310.pre, and I set bayes_auto_learn 0 so

Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread Søren Therkelsen
Title: Message Hi, I'm not running a mail server but just a annoyed receiver of spam. It seems to me that a lot of spam is send through mail servers disguised adifferent mail server (possibly acknowledged as trustworthy) I get to that conclusion from reading the mailheader and comparing

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread Rob Skedgell
On Friday 16 Dec 2005 10:30, Søren Therkelsen wrote: Hi, I'm not running a mail server but just a annoyed receiver of spam. It seems to me that a lot of spam is send through mail servers disguised a different mail server (possibly acknowledged as trustworthy) I get to that conclusion from

Re: Scoring for MAPS

2005-12-16 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Matt Kettler wrote on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:17:04 -0500: Using greylisting you'd delay their mail, but they'd be able to deliver even if they still are in the RBL if they retry after the greylist timer expires. That makes only sense if you greylist *only* hosts on these

Re: perm probs with SA (repost as gmail accnt didn't get there)

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 04:55, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Gene Heskett wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:27:48 -0500: Now the one remaining error being logged for every session called is this: *Is your spamd running as non-root now?* Check with ps. The children are, Kai. Which there seems to be only 2

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 04:55, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Gene Heskett wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:15:27 -0500: Where the he!! are the docs that explain this, I've been beating myself half to death for at least a week on this. There is a readme, there's man spamd, there's

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Søren Therkelsen wrote on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:30:10 +0100: Received: from [218.65.120.230] (helo=uwo.ca) --Why should a Canadian university have there mail server in China? Why not? The answer may be obvious in this case, but if you try to generalize that this

Lower initial spam score if authenticated

2005-12-16 Thread David Hollis
I'm running Spamassassin via amavisd-new on my postfix MTA. I have users that are using Verizon Aircards at times to connect and some of those IPs are now starting to show up in RBLs, leaving them unable to send email without it bouncing as spam. All users sending email authenticate via SASL so

Re: Scoring for MAPS

2005-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Patrick von der Hagen wrote on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:02:24 +0100: However, I'm usually told greylisting is great, but without whitelisting you will have to many false-positives, eg. newsletter, etc.. If you use SPF-autowhitelisting and host-based autowhitelisting (in contrast to using tuples)

Re: Lower initial spam score if authenticated

2005-12-16 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
David Hollis wrote: I'm running Spamassassin via amavisd-new on my postfix MTA. I have users that are using Verizon Aircards at times to connect and some of those IPs are now starting to show up in RBLs, leaving them unable to send email without it bouncing as spam. All users sending email

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Brian Kendig
Just for the record, in case it helps anyone else - I found a workaround to my problem. The problem is that spamd 3.1.0 insists on trying to create per-user config files in its user's home directory, even when I tell it not to, and this causes errors if its user has no home directory. I

Re: Lower initial spam score if authenticated

2005-12-16 Thread Gareth
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:13, David Hollis wrote: I'm running Spamassassin via amavisd-new on my postfix MTA. I have users that are using Verizon Aircards at times to connect and some of those IPs are now starting to show up in RBLs, leaving them unable to send email without it bouncing as

Re: Lower initial spam score if authenticated

2005-12-16 Thread David Hollis
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:28 -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: David Hollis wrote: I'm running Spamassassin via amavisd-new on my postfix MTA. I have users that are using Verizon Aircards at times to connect and some of those IPs are now starting to show up in RBLs, leaving them unable to

Re: perm probs with SA (repost as gmail accnt didn't get there)

2005-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Did you see Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of today? It may help you with root user_prefs problem if it is not related to the user running spamd. I'm using only 2.64 spamd or 3.1 SA in combination with mailscanner, so I don't know how the current spamd behaves in this respect. Kai -- Kai

Re: Running sa-learn

2005-12-16 Thread Jim Maul
Scott Broderick wrote: When using sa-learn like the following, will it learn server wide or just for that user? sa-learn --spam --mbox /home/virtual/removed.com/home/datona/mail/spam Scott Broderick It will learn for the current user running the sa-learn command. -Jim

Re: Running sa-learn

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Broderick
So this may sounds like a silly question but. Does this mean that SA will only become affective and good at catching a high percentage of spam IF sa-learn is run on all clients pop3 accounts? How do the masses out there do it then? If you have over 1000 users on the box (say 100 domains all

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 09:49, Brian Kendig wrote: Just for the record, in case it helps anyone else - I found a workaround to my problem. The problem is that spamd 3.1.0 insists on trying to create per-user config files in its user's home directory, even when I tell it not to, and this causes

Re: Running sa-learn

2005-12-16 Thread Jim Maul
Scott Broderick wrote: So this may sounds like a silly question but. Does this mean that SA will only become affective and good at catching a high percentage of spam IF sa-learn is run on all clients pop3 accounts? How do the masses out there do it then? If you have over 1000 users on the

Re: Scoring for MAPS

2005-12-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Matt Kettler wrote on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:17:04 -0500: Using greylisting you'd delay their mail, but they'd be able to deliver even if they still are in the RBL if they retry after the greylist timer expires. That makes only sense if you greylist *only* hosts on

Re: Lower initial spam score if authenticated

2005-12-16 Thread David Hollis
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:28 -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DynablockIssues I believe there's a patch to add the required tokens to Postfix, but I can't remember for sure where it is or who wrote it at the moment. The name Erwin Hoffmann comes to mind

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2005-12-16 Thread Thomas Manson
Hi, spamassassin replace these kind of character by X in mail subject, how can i correct this? (by specifing a charset?) Thanks

server hit by SIGCHLD

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Broderick
Running SA 3.0.2 Does anyone know a cure for this error I am getting in my maillog files? In the file: /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin I have: SPAMDOPTIONS=--max-conn-per-child=1 -d -c -m5 -H Scott Broderick

Re: server hit by SIGCHLD

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 14:05, Scott Broderick wrote: Running SA 3.0.2 Does anyone know a cure for this error I am getting in my maillog files? In the file: /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin I have: SPAMDOPTIONS=--max-conn-per-child=1 -d -c -m5 -H Why just one session? The common usage is to

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread hamann . w
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Re: X-Spam headers placement issue

2005-12-16 Thread Nix
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stipulated: Don't bother to try to report spam with that header placement if you expect outfits that use DCC to respond. Placing the headers at the bottom that way will screw up the DCC hash they can use to identify the message details as truth. AIUI,

Re: server hit by SIGCHLD

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Broderick
so are you stating it would be better to set that to 50? Scott Broderick - Original Message - From: Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 1:04 PM Subject: Re: server hit by SIGCHLD On Friday 16 December 2005 14:05, Scott

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on 16 Dec 2005 16:22:29 -: what is the problem with putting a single computer into a hosting center, name it mycompany.com, and also let it helo as mycompany.com? It's not considered an FQDN, it's a domain. Depending on how strict the helo syntax test is it will fail at this

Re: server hit by SIGCHLD

2005-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 December 2005 16:50, Scott Broderick wrote: so are you stating it would be better to set that to 50? Or something in that area. Memory usage of a spamd process seems to grow forever, and limiting the child process to 50 invocations seem to control that rather nicely. After that

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread List Mail User
... Hi, what is the problem with putting a single computer into a hosting center, name it mycompany.com, and also let it helo as mycompany.com? Of course it should have reasonable dns entries but that's a different story Wolfgang Hamann None. In the last year I have received valid

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread List Mail User
wrote on 16 Dec 2005 16:22:29 -: what is the problem with putting a single computer into a hosting center, name it mycompany.com, and also let it helo as mycompany.com? It's not considered an FQDN, it's a domain. Depending on how strict the helo syntax test is it will fail at this