[Assp-user] 1.3.2 (55) unstable

2007-05-21 Thread Pascal Dreissen
Hi, 1.3.2 (build 55) keeps crashing on Lin and Win machines. Log doesn't tell that much but it keeps crashing at delay greeting as far as i can see: May-22-07 07:30:29 Delaying greeting for 68.201.127.191 - duration 10 seconds May-22-07 07:30:39 Connected: 68.201.127.191:3475 -> xx.xxx.x.162:25

Re: [Assp-user] Beta trials

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Daniel L. Miller wrote: > How do I download/install the beta versions? > Is there an easier way than individually downloading each file from http://www.magicvillage.de/~Fritz_Borgstedt/assp/S05D636E1?WasRead=1 -- Daniel --

Re: [Assp-user] email whitelist addition is not working in 1.3.2(52)

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Emory
Kevin wrote: > Dave Emory wrote: >> Dave Emory wrote: >>> Version 1.3.0 has these lines in the log when it receives a >>> whitelist addition message: >>> >>> May-20-07 12:30:58 Connected: 192.168.0.6:2210 -> 192.168.0.5:25 -> >>> 192.168.0.1:25 >>> May-20-07 12:30:59 192.168.0.6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Assp-user] email whitelist addition is not working in 1.3.2(52)

2007-05-21 Thread Kevin
Dave Emory wrote: > Dave Emory wrote: >> Version 1.3.0 has these lines in the log when it receives a whitelist >> addition message: >> >> May-20-07 12:30:58 Connected: 192.168.0.6:2210 -> 192.168.0.5:25 -> >> 192.168.0.1:25 >> May-20-07 12:30:59 192.168.0.6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> email whitelist >> ad

Re: [Assp-user] whitelist symlink is deleted when assp is updating whitelist

2007-05-21 Thread Kevin
Fritz Borgstedt wrote: >> If the whitelist is modified, ASSP seems to delete the >> whitelist file (which is in fact a symlink) and creates a new one >> with >> the modified data in it. > > You are sure this is done by ASSP? > > rebuildspamdb.pl is "repairing" the whitelist in every run. It's

Re: [Assp-user] email whitelist addition is not working in 1.3.2(52)

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Emory
Dave Emory wrote: > Version 1.3.0 has these lines in the log when it receives a whitelist > addition message: > > May-20-07 12:30:58 Connected: 192.168.0.6:2210 -> 192.168.0.5:25 -> > 192.168.0.1:25 > May-20-07 12:30:59 192.168.0.6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> email whitelist > addition May-20-07 12:30:59

Re: [Assp-user] : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

2007-05-21 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
>Is there an easy way to tell? > >I downloaded ASSP_1.3.1-Install.zip from sourceforge > >it says it's platform-independent. I looked into the distribution, assp.pl is a file with DOS-endings, most of us have obviously no problems with that. (I deliver always with *ix endings) fritz On my site

Re: [Assp-user] : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

2007-05-21 Thread Jason Pruim
On May 21, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Fritz Borgstedt wrote: > Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy > schreibt: >> I try to run the assp.pl script and get the error: ": bad >> interpreter: No such file or directory". > > Bad line endings in pl file? > windowsformat instead of *ix

Re: [Assp-user] : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

2007-05-21 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy schreibt: > I try to run the assp.pl script and get the error: ": bad >interpreter: No such file or directory". Bad line endings in pl file? windowsformat instead of *ix format? fritz

[Assp-user] : bad interpreter: No such file or directory

2007-05-21 Thread Jason Pruim
Hi Everyone, Been lurking for a little bit trying to see if ASSP might work good for stopping spam on my server, and I believe it will... I tried to set it up today, and ran into a little trouble, after installing all the required and recommend perl modules, editing /etc/services and / etc

Re: [Assp-user] ASSP and IMail Web Messaging

2007-05-21 Thread Mark G
Hi Folks I Switched DEBUG mode on and noticed the difference about mails send from imails web messaging and mails from client app. ASSP does not see added emails as email addresses. Messages sent from web messaging is seen like this "testi=40testi22.com=" as it should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] I teste

[Assp-user] Re-classification

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On receiving a message to the asspspam/asspnotspam addresses, how does ASSP handle that message in the spam/notspam/okmail stores? Is there a signature it recognizes and moves them? Or are they ignored and overridden with the correctedspam/correctednotspam stores? -- Daniel ---

[Assp-user] Beta trials

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel L. Miller
How do I download/install the beta versions? -- Daniel - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to ge

Re: [Assp-user] Response Delay After Greeting

2007-05-21 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy schreibt: >I suggested a few >hours ago to bypass nodelay.txt, ipwl.txt and ipnp.txt (and maybe >more), and >.51 has a bypass for nodelay. It had the bypass for nodelay (and more "bypasses") from the beginning. fritz -

Re: [Assp-user] Response Delay After Greeting

2007-05-21 Thread Marrco
> I'm anxious to try this in ASSP. I've used Response Delays with other software and > found it very effective. But I've used much longer delays (up to 40 seconds) and > I've also used delays after every command. One feature that I've found > works very well and helps to reduce the amount of tim

Re: [Assp-user] Crawling URL's in messages and then doing Bayesiananalysis

2007-05-21 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
>The paper mentioned another interesting idea about >this...if a spammer was to send out tens of thousands of messages, and >everyone was hitting the spamertised web server to analyze the >content, >it >may act as a DoS against that web server, sort of causing the spammer >to >shoot himself in his

Re: [Assp-user] Best Practice to train Bayesian filter

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Parker
Or http://www.asspsmtp.org/wiki/ASSP_Toolbar_for_Outlook > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=assp+toolbar&btnG=Google+Search > > third link. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FRE

Re: [Assp-user] Crawling URL's in messages and then doing Bayesiananalysis

2007-05-21 Thread Dickson, Paul
Sounds like a bandwidth hog. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Bahrami Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:56 AM To: assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Assp-user] Crawling URL's in messages and then doing Bayesiananalysis I read a whi

Re: [Assp-user] Best Practice to train Bayesian filter

2007-05-21 Thread Dickson, Paul
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=assp+toolbar&btnG=Google+Search third link. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Bahrami Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:58 AM To: assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Best Practice to

Re: [Assp-user] Best Practice to train Bayesian filter

2007-05-21 Thread Barry Bahrami
Ideally, you should let your users report spam and not spam. One of the greatest things about assp is it lets you delegate that task to the users, who really are the ultimate authority in regards to what is spam and what is not. That being said, there is a recent post about an Outlook toolbar fo

[Assp-user] Crawling URL's in messages and then doing Bayesian analysis

2007-05-21 Thread Barry Bahrami
I read a white paper several weeks ago in which someone (I don't remember who) was discussing anti-spam ideas. One of the ideas he proposed was for a spam filter to identify the URL's in a message and then crawl the page and perform Bayesian analysis on the page content. The score is passed to t

Re: [Assp-user] Response Delay After Greeting

2007-05-21 Thread Ken Eisman
I'm anxious to try this in ASSP. I've used Response Delays with other software and found it very effective. But I've used much longer delays (up to 40 seconds) and I've also used delays after every command. One feature that I've found works very well and helps to reduce the amount of time you ar

Re: [Assp-user] Response Delay After Greeting

2007-05-21 Thread Marrco
A few consideration : since we already have the connecting IP address we could skip the check for known good hosts, that is : IP addresses in nodelay.txt, ipwl.txt and ipnp.txt And (optional, I'm not sure if it makes sense or that's a plain wrong idea) skip also for : -) PB autowhitebox (don't

[Assp-user] [v1.3.2(53)] prob with message scoring RBL

2007-05-21 Thread larsneo
it seems to me that there is a (minor) problem with message scoring in (53) at least for the RBL hits: May-21-07 12:51:30 id-97446900 84.144.243.64 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RBLCache:scoring: - 84.144.243.64 rejected by combined.njabl.org (07-05-21/12:44) > May-21-07 12:51:30 id-97446900 84.144.243.64

[Assp-user] [v1.3.2(53)] prob with InvalidAddress check

2007-05-21 Thread larsneo
it seems that there is a (minor) problem within logging in (53) - at least those entries are new to me... May-21-07 12:44:51 Message-Score: 0+InvalidAddress (2) > May-21-07 12:44:51 id-97442883 189.3.83.81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PB: > 45.0.0.0 score: 0+InvalidAddress => 0 reason:2 > May-21-07 12:4

[Assp-user] Best Practice to train Bayesian filter

2007-05-21 Thread Gauthier DELERCE
Hi, I wonder which mail client I could use to manually process the spam folder and move the false-positive to notspam folder. Is there any possibilities to use thunderbird like software , maybe with two-ways conversions tools . Does anyone have good experience with this ? Thanks Gauthier -

Re: [Assp-user] Response Delay After Greeting

2007-05-21 Thread Marrco
>>> Please try it. > >> Huge load on my server. I lowered to 3 seconds, but still heavy load. I fear >> I could not resist a dictionary attack or some large spam storm, so I turned >> that off > Strange, i did see the huge load on the first implementation, but with the > new version i do not get h

Re: [Assp-user] Response Delay After Greeting

2007-05-21 Thread Fritz Borgstedt
>Strange, i did see the huge load on the first implementation, but >with the new version i do not get high loads (tested it on linux and >win) ASSP will accept *more* connections in the same timeframe and it may be wise to set maxconnections to 64 or 96. Nevertheless the statistics should show a

Re: [Assp-user] Response Delay After Greeting

2007-05-21 Thread Pascal Dreissen
Please try it. Huge load on my server. I lowered to 3 seconds, but still heavy load. I fear I could not resist a dictionary attack or some large spam storm, so I turned that off Strange, i did see the huge load on the first implementation, but with the new version i do not get high load

Re: [Assp-user] Response Delay After Greeting

2007-05-21 Thread Marrco
> Please try it. Huge load on my server. I lowered to 3 seconds, but still heavy load. I fear I could not resist a dictionary attack or some large spam storm, so I turned that off - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Expr

Re: [Assp-user] Differing weight scores for multiple RBL hits?

2007-05-21 Thread Matti Haack
Hello, Couldn't it be easyly implemented if ASSP takes - as before RBLmaxhits as limit, but allow to add only a score (from 0 to 1), which you specify behind (or in a second list for compatibility) the Blacklist-name to the hits counter? Fritz, do you think this will rise the CPU load or memory