Re: spamd and SQL

2006-02-09 Thread Randy Smith
-q -u vmail -r /var/run/spamd/spamd.pid -m 5 Then I run spamc like so: spamc -s 512000 -u $RECIPIENT $RECIPIENT is set by my MTA and is replaced with the user's account name. [snip] -- Randy Smith http://perlstalker.amigo.net/ Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface

SA frequently skipping rules

2006-02-09 Thread Jim Smith
favorite sigh. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jim Smith

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

2006-02-06 Thread Gary W. Smith
really think about the next question. Is the mini-flame war you're tying to conduct productive to the preventing of spam, i.e. this group? I'd check the archives... Matt's been around for a while. He's advice is usually on the money. Gary Wayne Smith -Original Message- From: Philip

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

Re: rbldnsd on FreeBSD

2006-01-21 Thread Randy Smith
server that my mail servers talk to. -- Randy Smith http://perlstalker.amigo.net/ http://vuser.org

[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

Blank Messages

2005-12-13 Thread Iain Smith
Hi, I'm currently getting FPs from users sending themselves mail from personal accounts with blank message bodies. Many times these messages are presumably reminders, and as such have valid subject lines. Often these messages contain attachments with the same filename as the subject, such as I

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: rejectlog

2005-11-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:08:56PM +0100, nick wrote: Rejecting the mail after DATA? Spamassassin runs behind my MTA, if the sender passes blacklist checks and any other obvious no-nos, it's then passed to spamassassin which NEVER discards email, but places them in a spam folder.

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
an opinion. Gary Wayne Smith -Original Message- From: email builder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice? Well, I know there have to be some admins out

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
, crontabs, time. These are all things that Murphy keeps in his pocket. Gary Smith -Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:09 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: MySQL server resolution ok - here's what I'm thinking. I want

Re: MySQL on multiple servers

2005-10-30 Thread Randy Smith
up if the primary is down. (Note: I am not currently using AWL or Bayes so the 2nd server is read-only. You can get around this by using a chained replication thing so A-B-A but that can be hairy to setup.) -- Randy Smith http://perlstalker.amigo.net/

RE: MySQL on multiple servers

2005-10-30 Thread Gary W. Smith
the cluster correctly you shouldn't have any real downtime. It takes 15 seconds max to fail over (that's pulling the plug on the main node). Why replicate... WE tried that with limited success. Do it right from the beginning. Gary Wayne Smith -Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto

Re: Stopping Rules

2005-10-22 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:05:07AM -0400, Chris L. Franklin wrote: For starters AWL, white lists and black lists in my option ar ethe worst things ever. I disable them from the start. If your going to whitelist some one, why would you want them to even go though SA. (I don't) Because a

Accessing descriptions of spam tests

2005-10-21 Thread Iain Smith
Perhaps this might be a better one for the developers list... I'm writing a small reporting (perl) script to parse the syslog entries produced by spamd and produce a report based on its findings. One of the reports is the top n most triggered spam tests. Does anyone know of an easy way to access

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.

Individual timings of spamassassin rules?

2005-10-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On one of my machines I'm running v3.0.3 under spamd with a fairly default config for debian sarge. This is a reasonable spec machine, a 3GHz P4 that is not swapping, but I'm seeing that each message seems to take quite a while to check, between 3.5 and 15 seconds each (I'd say averaging at

Re: Individual timings of spamassassin rules?

2005-10-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:17:49AM -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: On one of my machines I'm running v3.0.3 under spamd with a fairly default config for debian sarge. This is a reasonable spec machine, a 3GHz P4 that is not swapping, but I'm seeing that each message seems to take quite a

Re: handle_user unable to find user

2005-09-29 Thread Randy Smith
but it should give you an idea. Thanks, Dan Horne -- Randy Smith http://perlstalker.amigo.net/ Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-28 Thread NFN Smith
combinations of acceptable return addresses matched with server names. Many thanks to all, especially Bowie, who patiently walked me through this one. I really appreciate it. Smith

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-27 Thread NFN Smith
Alan Premselaar wrote: NFN Smith wrote: Following up on my own post. I'm still thrashing, and not getting any difference in results. ...snip... Sorry, I just have to ask. Since you're using MIMEDefang... you are remembering to restart (or reload) mimedefang after making your changes

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-27 Thread NFN Smith
with SpamAssassin (2.64 2004-01-11); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:24:16 -0700 From: NFN Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: *SPAM* Sequential test #12a Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:21:15 -0700 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-26 Thread NFN Smith
Following up on my own post. I'm still thrashing, and not getting any difference in results. NFN Smith wrote: You really do HAVE to trust all your own mail relays. Anything else is just broken. Agreed. OK, I've expanded my settings, but I'm still not making any progress

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-23 Thread NFN Smith
PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:03:32 -0700 From: NFN Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPAM: 7.737] Spam test #6 X-Spam-Status: Yes X-Spam-Score: 7.737 (***) (required=4) tests=BLANK_LINES_70_80,CLICK_BELOW,E XCUSE_3,FREE_CONSULTATION,MAILTO_TO_REMOVE,NO_OBLIGATION

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-23 Thread NFN Smith
, and its internal IP address is 10.10.10.91 - lacecmmtao05.coxmail.com is 68.99.120.79 - 24.249.175.230 (wsip-24-249-175-230.ph.ph.cox.net) is the network that I'm sending my mail from. What else am I missing? Smith

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-22 Thread NFN Smith
,REMOVE_IN_QUOTES,REMOVE_SUBJ,RISK_FREE Sep 22 13:57:21 alpha sendmail[19879]: j8MKvFC4019879: Milter change: header Subject: from Spam test #4 to [SPAM: 6.87] Spam test #4 Smith

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-22 Thread NFN Smith
there is the suggestion of doing it via MIMEDefang, and bypassing the call to SA altogether if the message is coming from a trusted (but non-local) server. Thanks for taking the time to help on this one. I really appreciate it. Smith

RE: NFS and SA/Bayes DB

2005-09-20 Thread Gary W. Smith
per day. HTH... Gary Smith

Re: trusted_networks use

2005-09-19 Thread NFN Smith
really trust those servers not to relay any spam. The trusted_networks setting does not give quite that level of trust. Still something to consider. In this case, the servers in question are really trusted. Is there something else I might be missing? Thanks for your help. Smith

trusted_networks use

2005-09-16 Thread NFN Smith
as spam. Thus, it appears that SA is ignoring my designation of trusted_networks. Is there something else that I have to make sure is enabled (such as skip_rbl_checks), is it something that's not functional when I'm running from MIMEDefang, or something else that I'm missing? TIA, Smith

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

Very long scan times - Finding the culprit rule

2005-08-15 Thread Paul J. Smith
Hi, We are currently seeing scan times of 60-90 seconds on a P4 3Ghz box after adding some new rules emporium rules to try to increase the effectiveness of spamassassin. Is there a way to list the timing for each test rather that the total scan time so I can see which parts are taking

RE: Very long scan times - Finding the culprit rule

2005-08-15 Thread Paul J. Smith
if you are seeing long delays. You probably have a half dozen or more DNS based rules setup and DNS is not working. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Paul J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, We are currently seeing scan times of 60-90 seconds on a P4 3Ghz box after adding some new rules

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: generating rule stats from spamd logs

2005-07-27 Thread martin smith
M 10BAYES_9915351 4.46% 45.42% 60.57% M 19BAYES_50 6443 1.87% 19.06% 25.42% M 31BAYES_80 1154 0.34% 3.41% 4.55% M 32BAYES_60 1147 0.33% 3.39% 4.53% M 38

RE: Re[2]: Uri rules

2005-06-15 Thread martin smith
MHello martin, M M MSARE has been playing around with URI rules lately, and when Mwe need to test for something in the host/domain area, we use Msomething like: M uri rule_name m'(?:https?://)?[^/]*testgoeshere' MIn other words, the test must precede any/all slashes except Mfor those that

RE: Uri rules

2005-06-14 Thread martin smith
MNot that I'm aware of. To my knowledge the URI rule always Mmatches the full URL. There are several SA and/or SARe rules Mwhich depend upon this. M MOr do you mean something different by URI and URL than I do. MI generally use the definitions found at

Uri rules

2005-06-12 Thread martin smith
Has the behaviour of the uri rule been changed at some point to match the whole of the URL? I have just noticed I am getting some FP when one of my uri rules matches against the URL rather than URI. To prevent FP would be very difficult, I think to match the whole of the URL with uri rules is not

3.0.4 bug 4111

2005-06-11 Thread martin smith
For those thinking of upgrading who have patched earlier versions of 3.0. you will need to do it again after upgrading. I was disappointed to see the fix for the above bug was not included in 3.0.4, just had to apply the fix again to get the surbl to work with caps in the URI. Martin

possible memory memory with SA 3.0.3 under Debian Linux

2005-06-01 Thread David W Smith
install. Regards, David Smith Systems Administrator University of Oxford

Re: possible memory memory with SA 3.0.3 under Debian Linux

2005-06-01 Thread David W Smith
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Michael Parker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David W Smith wrote: So I reverted to SA 3.0.2 and the memory leak ceased rapidly plus the load on the server normalized. The SA 3.0.3 install had both the URIDNSBL and the SPF module enabled

RE: problem with split line URL's

2005-05-31 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 31 May 2005 17:45 MTo: Robert Menschel MCc: SpamAssassin Users MSubject: Re: problem with split line URL's M MRobert M Mjust got one in - no matches... M MIf anyone wants an example let me know.. M M-- MMartin

RE: problem with split line URL's

2005-05-31 Thread martin smith
-Original Message- MFrom: Martin Hepworth MSent: 31 May 2005 17:45 MTo: Robert Menschel MCc: SpamAssassin Users MSubject: Re: problem with split line URL's M MRobert M Mjust got one in - no matches... M MIf anyone wants an example let me know.. M M-- MMartin Hepworth Ok just got a spam

RE: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 30 May 2005 04:00 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: cannot open bayes databases M MWhile running my sa-learn script I'm suddenly getting the below: M Mdebug: lock: 26313 Mcreated

SA and Imail

2005-05-17 Thread Robert Smith
I was curious if anyone had used Spamassassin caller for Imail? One of my clients is currently running Imail 8.05 on a windows 2000 machine. I installed Perl 5.8.4 (downloaded recommended modules), SA 3.0.1, and SAC 1.1.0. Spamassassin sample-spam.txt return everything that it should,

RE: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-15 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 15 May 2005 10:46 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MCc: Loren Wilton MSubject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam M Mnpd.de is Nazi political party M M M Kanzler erleichtert Visaverfahren für Golfstaaten:

RE: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Valery V. Bobrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 14 May 2005 13:36 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 M MHello! M MI upgraded to SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 from 2.64 and I Mnoticed the amount of spam

RE: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Dan Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 14 May 2005 18:13 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes? M MHi All, M MI am having an issue with the following DRUG related spam. Does Manyone have any rules to catch this?

RE: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 14 May 2005 18:37 MTo: Dan Simmons MCc: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: Re: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes? M MDan Simmons wrote: M Hi All, M M I am having an issue with the following DRUG related spam.

RE: spammer is using html code for spamming

2005-05-12 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Eddy Beliveau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 12 May 2005 16:49 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: spammer is using html code for spamming M MHi! M MI'm using spamassassin 2.64 with success M MI'm having problem catching some specific spammer. M MHe

RE: spammer is using html code for spamming

2005-05-12 Thread martin smith
Whoops outlook capitalised this wrong with an I instead of i at the end. This is what it should have been; body MS_Body_Hide_DRUG /\b(?:R[!a-z]?eta il|P[!a-z]?ri ces|V.?I RA|C[!a-z]?I S|(?:V|U)L AM|U[!a-z]?LTRAM|S[!a-z]?MA)\b/i

RE: Way to evade URI checks

2005-05-07 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Rakesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 07 May 2005 07:41 MTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: Way to evade URI checks M MSeems Spammers have found a way to evade the URI checks M Mthe domain coolestrxever.com is listed in

RE: [SURBL] how to report

2005-05-04 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 04 May 2005 02:29 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: Re: [SURBL] how to report M MOn Monday, May 2, 2005, 11:34:14 PM, hamann w wrote: M I just came across this website M

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: Blacklists entries not getting blocked

2005-04-28 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Antonio DeLaCruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 28 April 2005 23:12 MTo: Pettit, Paul MCc: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: RE: Blacklists entries not getting blocked M MAttached is a file that contains the header information and Mthe preview of the

RE: SA config recommendations to block these spammers?

2005-04-26 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: ROY,RHETT G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 26 April 2005 14:51 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: SA config recommendations to block these spammers? M MI have two spammers that consistently get messages through to Mmy inbox. MBased on the

RE: SA config recommendations to block these spammers?

2005-04-26 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 26 April 2005 21:26 MTo: 'martin smith'; Spamassassin MSubject: RE: SA config recommendations to block these spammers? M M MMartin, could we get permission to put this in a SARE file? MFull credit to you obviously

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: Does -r reject or discard

2005-04-15 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Steven Stern MSent: 15 April 2005 15:56 MTo: spamass-milt-list@nongnu.org; spamass MSubject: Does -r reject or discard M MWe're using spamass-milter with -r 10. Does this reject Mthe message (causing Sendmail to send a reject) or just Mdiscard it? If it's a

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
Michael, You're 100% on the money. I went back and found that the version table was empty. I populated it with 3 and it magically works. One more item for our intrawiki. That's curveball with the missing entry just had me all messed up. Thanks, Gary Wayne Smith -Original Message

RE: Need for a new rule?

2005-04-13 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Andreas Davour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 13 April 2005 21:23 MCc: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: Need for a new rule? M M MThe following message have many characteristics in common with much Mspam I've been getting lately. It's about investments,

RE: about SPF

2005-04-12 Thread martin smith
MI had the same problem. It turns out that if the email is being Mrelayed through trusted or internal hosts, SA will skip the MSPF checks on the belief that it cannot trust that one of Mthose hosts hasn't Mchanged the envelope headers.I ended up opening an enhancement Mrequest to allow

RE: about SPF

2005-04-12 Thread martin smith
: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:08:04 -0400 From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: martin smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Spamassassin users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: about SPF References

SQL install with mSQL driver

2005-04-12 Thread Gary W. Smith
read recommend that we use DBD::mysql instead of DBD::mSQL. Does anyone know if this will work in place of the other package? Gary Wayne Smith

Sender Base

2005-03-30 Thread martin smith
Hi, I have been playing about with senderbase a bit and have noticed that SB_NSP_VOLUME_SPIKE is looking for S5 to be NSP but have also noticed that they use unknown and in the case of my provider NTL the field is blank. I tried: header SB_NSP_VOLUME_SPIKE eval:check_rbl_sub('sb', 'sb:S5 =~

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
they decided to compare the IP's in the future. That's what we have done to manage the situation. Gary Wayne Smith -Original Message- From: Menno van Bennekom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 3:05 AM To: Jeff Chan Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re

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: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-07 Thread martin smith
I managed to write a metarule for anyone interested, to catch a URL with trailing : without a port specified, without FP on a 4 digit port. uri __SpoofPort_URL /.*\:.*|.*\...:.*/ uri __OkPort_URL /.*\:[0-9]|.*\:[0-9].+\/.*|.*\...:[0-9]|.*\...:[0-9].+\/.*/ meta Spoof_Port_URL

RE: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread martin smith
|-Original Message- |From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 05 March 2005 01:27 |To: SpamAssassin Users |Subject: Re: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam | |On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:23:35PM -0800, Jeff Chan wrote: | Given that it's apparently fixed in 3.1 should we make a

RE: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread martin smith
|-Original Message- |From: martin smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 05 March 2005 11:41 |To: Spamassassin |Subject: RE: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam | |Is there a uri rule we could use to catch e.g. .com: or .uk: |in the mean time untill 3.1 becomes available

RE: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread martin smith
| |uri SpoofPort_URL /.*\:.*|.*\...:.*/ score SpoofPort_URL 1 | Ok MK2 that one could FP on genuine URLs with a port specified uri SpoofPort_URL /.*\:.*|.*\...:.*/ score SpoofPort_URL 1 uri OkPort_URL /.*\:|.*\...:./|/.*\:\/.*|.*\...:.\/.*/ score OkPort_URL -1

RE: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread martin smith
|-Original Message- |From: Duncan Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 05 March 2005 15:02 |To: users@spamassassin.apache.org |Subject: Re: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam | |On Saturday 05 March 2005 14:49, martin smith wrote: | |uri SpoofPort_URL /.*\:.*|.*\...:.*/ score

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

SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-04 Thread martin smith
I must have received this spam 12 times or more in the last 24 hours and even though its listed on the SURBL, spamassassin fails to match it against them. When I submit the spams to spamcop it parses the url everytime. SURBL seems to work on all other spams, just wondering if they have found a way

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: pyzor

2005-02-28 Thread martin smith
Just found this, could be the cause of some of the problems. 2005-02-04 The public server changed its address; please re-run 'pyzor discover' to find the new server. http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/ Martin

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

RE: Auto learning

2005-02-22 Thread Paul J. Smith
Message- From: Richard Ozer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 February 2005 21:58 To: Paul J. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Auto learning I had a similar issue and noticed that my bayes database files did not have the proper owner or permissions. That prevented auto

RE: Auto learning

2005-02-22 Thread Paul J. Smith
. From: Andy Jezierski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 February 2005 15:19 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Auto learning Paul J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/22/2005 01:41:28 AM

RE: Auto learning

2005-02-22 Thread Paul J. Smith
the help! -Original Message- From: Richard Ozer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 February 2005 15:19 To: Paul J. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Auto learning Can you post your local.cf? Paul J. Smith wrote: Still nothing. I set the owner on the bayes

Auto learning

2005-02-21 Thread Paul J. Smith
Still setting up spamassassin. I've got it running and auto learning is enabled. It's been running all yesterday and over night. I can see it has tried to auto learn a lot of ham/spam and I've fed it a load of spam as well. Bayes doesn't seem to have kicked in though and if I do a sa-learn

RE: Auto learning

2005-02-21 Thread Paul J. Smith
Thanks for that. Just reset the permissions and the owner to 'spamd' which spamd is running under. I'll see if anything has changed in the morning. -Original Message- From: Richard Ozer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 February 2005 21:58 To: Paul J. Smith Cc: users

Making spamd listen on another IP

2005-02-19 Thread Paul J. Smith
Hello, I'm trying to setup spamassassin (for the first time) and using spamd over a network. The problem I'm getting is that no matter what I do I can only get spamd to listed on 127.0.0.1. I'm testing with spamc -c -d 192.168.0.80 test.msg If I run spamd from the prompt with no arguments

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