Re: trunk date

2023-04-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I believe if you read the build/README there is instructions about how the date is pulled for a release version. On Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 12:57 Benny Pedersen wrote: > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0-r1906050 (2022-12-17) > > seems old with that date ? > > i have maybe just missed it in

Re: problems with dns

2023-01-31 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
That's an RBL in KAM ruleset. I'll encapsulate it as I'm not sure why it's being refused but it should be going to the public DNS servers donated from Linode. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail

Re: Spam from Google bypass filters due to USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
is surgical and correct. -KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Spam from Google bypass filters due to USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Based on the ease of abuse, and samples in the wild, I am also plus one to remove the drives no reply email address from the default dkim welcome list. Regards, KAM On Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 06:16 Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Giovanni Bechis wrote on 28/12/22 11:43 pm: > > Hi, > > recently I started

Re: Question about branching svn

2022-12-18 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
might have better pointers. I am happy to help though. On Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 22:19 Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Kevin A. McGrail wrote on 18/12/22 3:45 pm: > > One con is that we do need to get masscheck and various tools on the > > server to work with the new 4.0 release. I'm not s

Re: Question about branching svn

2022-12-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
have to be reverted as part of the process of creating a branch. Thoughts on this? Branch now or branch later?  Sidney -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: [VOTE] Release of 4.0.0 - vote will close on Saturday, December 17, 2022 09:00am UTC

2022-12-14 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
this year, but I did watch.. Now, really only poking my nose in to say Merry Xmas and happy holidays... It is a time for rest and relaxation, so you MAY want to delay 4.0 release until after the holidays ;) On 2022-12-14 08:40, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: +1 for the release. (Binding) Tested

Re: [VOTE] Release of 4.0.0 - vote will close on Saturday, December 17, 2022 09:00am UTC

2022-12-14 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
in production and previous RCs/Trunk in production for years. It's production ready and amazing. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 5:42 AM Giovanni

Re: In RTC mode for RC4 and hopefully for release

2022-12-05 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
+100 On Mon, Dec 5, 2022, 19:05 Sidney Markowitz wrote: > The remaining issues targeted for 4.0.0 have been closed. > > I'm declaring us in R-T-C mode now while I get an RC4 building. If it > looks good, we can go right on to the 4.0.0 release. > > I'm not calling for a formal vote on R-T-C.

Re: Next steps for RC4

2022-12-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
to a future 4.0.1 release. The goal will be to really be finished with 4.0.0 after 8078 is finally done. Of course, that's a goal. We should not ignore anything truly serious that shows up at the last minute. Regards,  Sidney -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software

Re: Can someone explain what happened to my rules?

2022-11-05 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
wrote: > On 2022-11-04 at 12:48:00 UTC-0400 (Fri, 4 Nov 2022 09:48:00 -0700) > Kevin A. McGrail > is rumored to have said: > > > Are your rules still in the sandbox? They're just not getting > > promoted? > > Everything is still in the sandbox. Some rules in the same file h

Re: Can someone explain what happened to my rules?

2022-11-04 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Are your rules still in the sandbox? They're just not getting promoted? On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 09:21 Bill Cole wrote: > I recently added multiple rules to my sandbox (in 80test.cf) and tweaked > them over the space of a few weeks, including renaming some to remove > the leading 'T_' > > And QA

Re: New Release Candidate 4.0.0-rc1 Testers Needed

2022-08-26 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
in the .asc files: Install files: D8099BC79E17D7E49BC21E31FDE52F40F7D39814 Rule files:    5E541DC959CB8BAC7C78DFDC4056A61A5244EC45 Regards, Sidney Markowitz Chair, Apache SpamAssassin PMC sid...@apache.org -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache

Re: In RTC mode, looks like we can go straight to a release candidate

2022-08-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Thanks. I think Upgrade and Announcements in the Google Docs are good to go now! -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 6:29 PM Sidney Markowitz wrote

Re: Ready to move to RTC mode and produce a pre-3?

2022-08-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
THanks. I'm +0.5 on RTC if you feel it's a good idea, do it ;-) -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 7:28 PM Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Kevin A. McGr

Re: Ready to move to RTC mode and produce a pre-3?

2022-08-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
it better. Sorry, the conversion back to ASCII and word wrapping will be a pain here but best done when the editing is done. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail

Re: Masscheck corpus graph defunct?

2022-07-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
That's not a project domain. I think it might be Darxus' who always had some helpful scripts. On Sun, Jul 17, 2022, 18:08 John Hardin wrote: > > My browser home page included the masscheck corpus size chart, but it's no > longer displaying: > > >The following error was encountered while

Re: HashBL enabled by default?

2022-05-26 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I've been using HashBL for eons so if Gio wants to consider whether his BTC RBL can handle the load, I'm +1 for enabling it by default. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Thu

Re: DecodeShortURLs rules

2022-05-25 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
think of. Do you agree? Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 1:16 AM Henrik K wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 03:12:33PM -0400, Ke

Re: DecodeShortURLs rules

2022-05-24 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
While you may say it's a stretch, it is the best list I know of that exists and we've kept it up adding additions and removing things when needed. Unfortunately, I have no genesis information on lat.ms being listed. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair

Re: DecodeShortURLs rules

2022-05-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi Henrik, Take a look at KAM url shorterners file and rules in KAM.cf: https://mcgrail.com/downloads/KAM.cf search Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DecodeShortURLs for example https://mcgrail.com/downloads/KAM_urlshorteners.cf is the list the KAM project maintains. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail

Re: svn commit: r1900464 - in /spamassassin/trunk: UPGRADE lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DecodeShortURLs.pm

2022-05-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
not think that changing database schema only for MySQL is a good idea, better to have a similar database schema for all DBI providers to prevent possible future issues. I would send an email to users@ just to be sure. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair

Re: svn commit: r1900446 - in /spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin: Message/Node.pm Plugin/DecodeShortURLs.pm Plugin/OLEVBMacro.pm

2022-05-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
in list context, since what it is returning is (a pointer to) an Encode object. And a pointer isn't going to cause any heavy computation.  Perhaps just a cleaner comment then and we are good or just ignore it because we have bigger fish to fry! -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member

Re: svn commit: r1900446 - in /spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin: Message/Node.pm Plugin/DecodeShortURLs.pm Plugin/OLEVBMacro.pm

2022-05-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
ot;.  That comment worries me that the return undef was purposeful. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: svn commit: r1900446 - in /spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin: Message/Node.pm Plugin/DecodeShortURLs.pm Plugin/OLEVBMacro.pm

2022-05-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 5/1/2022 1:28 PM, Michael Storz wrote: Am 2022-05-01 18:22, schrieb Kevin A. McGrail: Morning Hege, This change worries me.  What does the comment "let per figure it out from the BOM" mean and does the change on the return undef change that? Worried that Perl Critic is complai

Re: svn commit: r1900446 - in /spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin: Message/Node.pm Plugin/DecodeShortURLs.pm Plugin/OLEVBMacro.pm

2022-05-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
# avoid scan if BOM present if( $data =~ /^(?:\xff\xfe|\xfe\xff)/ ) { dbg( "message: detect_utf16: found BOM" ); - return undef; # let perl figure it out from the BOM + return; # let perl figure it out from the BOM }

Re: Back to CTR after all?

2022-05-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I'd recommend the next build is a prerelease build instead of an RC build until a few people report they are running it in production.  I'm working hard to get it into production at PCCC. On 5/1/2022 2:54 AM, Sidney Markowitz wrote: Ok, back to CTR we go! -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr

Re: Back to CTR after all?

2022-05-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
AM, Henrik K wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 06:07:12PM +1200, Sidney Markowitz wrote: Do I get to just declare that we are back since I declared the switch to R-T-C? Does anyone disagree? +1 -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache

Re: Problems in make test

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
comments. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Problems in make test

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 4/30/2022 10:08 PM, Sidney Markowitz wrote: Do you mean 20_aux_tlds.cf? I did install SpamAssassin on the box and ran sa-update. The file is in /var/lib/spamassassin/4.00/updates_spamassassin_org/20_aux_tlds.cf The file is not in the 4_0_0_rc_1 tar. If I run make test in the svn

Re: Problems in make test

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Sidney, do you have SA rules installed on the box? Might be a chicken/egg issue but sounds like you don't have the 20 TLD files. -KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Sat

Re: Moving to R-T-C mode for 4.0.0 release - No commits without review

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
es. > > This has only reinforced the decision to go R-T-C: I certainly don't > want to see this turn into a commit war between everything that Henrik > has done in the past days vs an entire independent set of patches > completed in the dark in parallel. We can hash it out in Bugzi

Re: Moving to R-T-C mode for 4.0.0 release - No commits without review

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
ated, but as you went silent for year or > two, why would anyone expect there's some pending diffs. > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:03:55PM -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > Well it was out fault for working on diffs and not giving visibility. > Others > > then did work on some

Re: Moving to R-T-C mode for 4.0.0 release - No commits without review

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I don't understand > why even waste time posting something vague like this. > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 09:50:15AM -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > Should we delay RTC? I know there are some bugs being worked on in some > of the > > bugs that have been closed. I als

Re: Moving to R-T-C mode for 4.0.0 release - No commits without review

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Should we delay RTC? I know there are some bugs being worked on in some of the bugs that have been closed. I also know there's some patches that Giovanni might or might not have gotten to for the WLBL. We had a giant diff for that was collided. On Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 05:55 Axb wrote: > Doh!

Re: Preparing a 4.0.0 release

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
The build readme file should have some information on release candidates and where they need to be placed. They should not be advertised on the user's list only the dev list. More here: https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html No vote is required to create a release candidate that I

Re: bayes_auto_learn default value

2022-02-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Auto learning is something that should never of existed. All it does is reinforce misclassification and slowly spirals the database into having wrong answers be more wrong. Since we don't seem to have consensus on changing the default does anybody object to a pre-file that disables it? That would

Re: new Pyzor implementation

2021-10-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
No worries there that I know of. cPanel has the paperwork for CCLA on file and several people with ICLA's as well.  They've given us permission to commit the code too. I think it will be better than any dependency on external binaries. Regards, KAM On 10/14/2021 10:37 AM, Henrik K wrote:

Re: wide charter today

2021-09-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
KAM channel miss ifplugin for mimeheader Please let me know if this is resolved tomorrow.  I made a number of additions of ifplugin checks for MIMEHeader. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https

Re: svn commit: r1891986 - /spamassassin/trunk/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf.pm

2021-08-03 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
pms->get() list context -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: ruleqa broken?

2021-07-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
og/basic_lint.ka1zlw/localrules/60_whitelist_dkim.cf (line 94): def_welcomelist_from_dkim  *@ebay.com Is this due to Giovanni's welcomelist change a day or so back? -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.link

Looking for a sample of the Microsoft zero day print nightmare

2021-07-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-shares-mitigations-for-windows-printnightmare-zero-day-bug/ Anyone know if this is delivered via email? I'm trying to make sure I block the payload if it is. Would appreciate anyone reaching out to me off or on list. Regards, KAM

Re: header address parser changeset committed

2021-05-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I'll get a fire under the wlbl changes. Glad we are moving towards a 4.0 release.-KAM On Sun, May 2, 2021, 04:32 Giovanni Bechis wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 04:57:21PM +0300, Henrik K wrote: > > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 06:38:38AM -0700, John Hardin wrote: > > > > > > Would we be in

Re: Rewrite of SecurityPolicy page on SpamAssassin wiki

2021-03-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
+1 On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 17:53 Sidney Markowitz wrote: > I've completely rewritten the wiki page describing our project's process > for > handling reports and fixes of security vulnerabilities because it did not > match what we actually do. > >

Re: New Release Candidate: 3.4.5-rc2 - Testers Needed

2021-03-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Thanks Sidney, I have checked the bz2 download, the sha256 and 512 checksums I have also done make and make test All tests successful. Files=175, Tests=2449, 740 wallclock secs ( 1.00 usr 0.23 sys + 129.33 cusr 23.35 csys = 153.91 CPU) Result: PASS Looking good! -- Kevin A. McGrail Member

Re: Need for util_rb_4tld?

2021-03-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Can you put a T_ rule in your sandbox or send me something to grep and I'll search my ham/spam? -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:38 PM John Hardin

Re: Need for util_rb_4tld?

2021-03-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
If you have spamples and they aren't able to be blocked otherwise, a 4tld is certainly something to consider. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:55 AM

Free Registration for Inbox Expo 2021 for people who register with @apache.org email addresses

2021-03-12 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
://inboxexpo.com Here's the registration link: https://hopin.com/events/inbox?code=104CoP3ZwCY19ASBFkw5pfGq7 NOTE: Make sure to register with your @apache.org address so your free registration is approved. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin

Re: Freeze on 3.4 branch (RTC mode)

2021-03-09 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Thanks Sidney. Good reminder. Those bugs were discussed informally and approved by me as RM. All, unless there are objections, Sidney and I are going to meet soon to hand off the 3.4.5 release manager duties so it can get it built. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software

Re: sa-channel or kam-channel

2021-01-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Great! On Fri, Jan 8, 2021, 17:51 Benny Pedersen wrote: > On 2021-01-08 23:34, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > hi Benny, The new rule is in sa-update. Does it work for you and > > resolve the issue? > > yes yesterday it failed, today its resolved >

Re: sa-channel or kam-channel

2021-01-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
hi Benny, The new rule is in sa-update.  Does it work for you and resolve the issue? Regards, KAM On 1/7/2021 7:43 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Good morning Benny, the lints are done against a stock install with all the default modules. I agree it was an oversight that the v-bounce rules did

Re: sa-channel or kam-channel

2021-01-07 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
/lib. Also, the KAM ruleset is available as a channel. Please see www.mcgrail.com for more information. There's a news article from November with more details and instructions on how to use it. Regards, KAM On Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 06:13 Benny Pedersen wrote: > On 2021-01-07 03:28, Kevin A. McGr

Re: sa-channel or kam-channel

2021-01-06 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 1/6/2021 7:11 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2021-01-07 01:06, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Benny Pedersen wrote: does not --lint currently All of my pre-commit lint tests pass, base tests (for the stuff I have installed) pass. Base SA looks OK. Don't have KAM's stuff so I

Re: Rules failing lint urg biz and advanced fee?

2021-01-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Yes, I probably shouldn't have done an svn update in the root. Luckily I don't think 3.4.5 is much different than 3.4. On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 21:51 John Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 2021, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > > Well I think it's tied to 3.4.4s release so I don't think I

Re: Rules failing lint urg biz and advanced fee?

2021-01-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
ck.t > > At/blocklist_autolearn.t > > Ut/data/01_test_rules.cf > > At/freemail_welcome_block.t > > UMANIFEST > > UNOTICE > > Updated to revision 1885008. > > > > > > > > [2] > > automc@sa-vm:~/svn/trunk$ ~/svn/trunk/build/mk

Re: Rules failing lint urg biz and advanced fee?

2021-01-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
That output to let you know is from the SA-VM server for the rule build and so it might be different than just doing it on a checkout. On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 10:27 John Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 2021, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > > Does anyone have some time to look into this error

Rules failing lint urg biz and advanced fee?

2021-01-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Does anyone have some time to look into this error? It's why I wanted to fix the server sending logs because I didn't think rules were being published. t/basic_lint.t .. ok t/basic_lint_without_sandbox.t .. ok __ADVANCE_FEE_2_NEW depends on __URG_BIZ which is nonexistent

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-12-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:56 PM John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, bugzilla-dae...@spamassassin.apache.org wrote: > >

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-12-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
OK, looking at it now! -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:30 AM Giovanni Bechis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 05:55:02PM -0800, John Hardin wr

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-12-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I will take a look tomorrow am but how can i re-create your error? On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 20:55 John Hardin wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, bugzilla-dae...@spamassassin.apache.org wrote: > > > https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7826 > > > > --- Comment #

Hackathon to work on 3.4.5 release

2020-12-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
when the pandemic is behind us, we can setup a hackathon at the next ApacheCon! Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Happy Thanksgiving and Announcing the Apache SpamAssassin Channel for the KAM Rule Set

2020-11-26 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
to improve Apache SpamAssassin installations for going on 17 years now. It includes rules for common spam as well as contributed rules plus tweaks to help make things faster and more efficient with the stock rules without lowering the efficacy. The KAM rule set is authored by Kevin A. McGrail

Re: Review request for bz #7871

2020-11-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
It was already done: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision=1883660 -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:05 PM Philip Prindeville < philipp_s...@redf

Re: Fwd: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

2020-09-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
'<<>>': No such file or directory >> cat: @localhost: No such file or directory >> cat: spamassassin.org <http://spamassassin.org>: No such file or >> directory >> cat: ns: No such file or directory >> cat: +short.out: No such file or directory >> /etc/cro

Re: [Bug 7857]

2020-09-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
ove my > head. :( > > Should I revert that from the 3.4 branch pending review and approval > by others? -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Announcement of the passing of Jari Fredriksson

2020-09-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Definitely.  For those who have inquired, that was supposed to read "I am sorry to announce that Jari Fredriksson died on July 25th.  He..." On 9/21/2020 11:36 AM, Axb wrote: > Sad news. My thoughts are with his family. > > On 9/21/20 4:31 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >&

Announcement of the passing of Jari Fredriksson

2020-09-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
community. On behalf of the entire project, I'd like to extend our condolences to him and his family.  He will be missed. If anyone wishes to send a note of condolences it can be done through Jouni, his employer. http://www.jounivirtanenconsulting.com/contact/ Sincerely, Kevin A. McGrail

Re: [Ticket#2020091764000125] Apache SpamAssassin updates mirror at SECNAP is down

2020-09-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
me. We are grateful for this long support of > the SpamAssassin community and hope it can continue. Please let us know > whether and when you intend to resume mirroring service. > > -- > Bill Cole on behalf of the Apache Spamassassin Project > billc...@apache.org -- Kevin

Re: [Bug 7844] U+1D5B5 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF...

2020-08-06 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I agree that some users shouldn't play with fire. I recommend you look at a remote tool such as splashtop, lmi or zoom pro to support your users and get a sample. Without it and frankly your changing story, you wasted a lot of people's time on wild goose chases. There is still zero.idea if this

Re: svn commit: r1880308 - /spamassassin/trunk/masses/hit-frequencies

2020-07-26 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Nice! On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 01:50 wrote: > Author: hege > Date: Sun Jul 26 05:50:00 2020 > New Revision: 1880308 > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1880308=rev > Log: > Tweaks to increase speed, cut runtime in half > > Modified: > spamassassin/trunk/masses/hit-frequencies > >

Re: Proposed new "alias" directive (was: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed)

2020-07-25 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I think putting it in 4.0 pre makes a lot of sense. I will look at how to do that. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 17:06 John Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > > > >> The intent was to avoid breaking existing production configurations > >&

Re: Proposed new "alias" directive (was: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed)

2020-07-24 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
o disable it to stay with the old rules.  I think that's simpler than the alias functionality. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Proposed new "alias" directive (was: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed)

2020-07-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 7/23/2020 5:39 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: >> The "alias" directive should not affect RE rules at all, other than >> perhaps removing one if the alias is defined after a RE rule having the >> same name was defined. > > I would hope another use of ALIAS would be to redirect a subsequent > SCORE or

Re: Why the new changes need to be "depricated" forever

2020-07-22 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 7/22/2020 1:45 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > >> Don't let a vocal minority drive change. > > Your saying this is painfully ironic to me, because for many of us a > vocal minority *is* what is driving this change. Actually,

Re: Why the new changes need to be "depricated" forever

2020-07-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
ished so we can make sure it does what we want for 3.3.x to 3.4.x as well as 4.0.0. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Why the new changes need to be "depricated" forever

2020-07-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
ucts and companies in the ecosystem that will be supporting the change and they represent a statistically substantial portion of the users.  Don't let a vocal minority drive change.  To paraphrase Henry Ford, if you asked people what they want in a car, they'd have said a faster horse. Regards, KAM --

Re: Why the new changes need to be "depricated" forever

2020-07-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
> **THIS** is why I called a vote for publicly committing to permanent > backwards compatibility and why I am so painfully dismayed that Kevin > seems to be so set against it. > > Kevin, will you *please* reconsider your position, in the interests of the > *USERS*? > > Would offering backwards

More Responses about Various Questions revolving around WelcomeLIst/BlockList changes

2020-07-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hello, all, with so much volume on the list, I thought it would be helpful to touch on a number of topics in one email. Regards, KAM *> if you are running 3.X not trunk* The rule renaming and scoring and description issues shoule be resolved as soon as the automated system publishes the

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
OK, can you ask for specifics on their use case because if the post-sa work is not involving these rules or trivial to update, it might be best to follow KISS. On 7/19/2020 10:39 PM, Luis E. Muñoz wrote: > On 19 Jul 2020, at 19:17, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > >> Ahh yes, good point.

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
lint warning for other rule types. Ahh yes, good point.  Do we know of anyone with this parsing report template type of use case?  -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
hat alias idea do you think?  > There is the use case of post-SA message processing looking for > specific rule name hits - I can see custom post-SA message processing > looking for a hit on "USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO" et al. To avoid breaking > that we could add a "report" option to

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
TELIST_TO   userconf nice noautolearn   score USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO    -6.0 endif Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
itelist > will become welcomelist and blacklist will become blocklist. More > changes will be coming for this with these small changes in the stock > ruleset. > Apologies for the disruption and thanks to those who are reporting > issues as we work through the changes. > >

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
t, you should get just a warning.  If so, changing that one meta and those two scores preemptively will prepare you for the change.  e.g. meta CUST_SHORTCIRCUIT1 (ALL_TRUSTED || USER_IN_ALL_SPAM_TO || USER_IN_WELCOMELIST || USER_IN_WHITELIST || ... I think you said you were on fedora 3.4.4, so please

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
the eval or unknown rule for descriptions. The issue this morning is dealing with local rescoring or local rules that use rules that are being renamed in stock ruleset.  Do you have any local rescoring or local rules built on *WHITELIST* or *BLACKLIST*?  If not, the issue should be minor.  Regards

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Rules referencing WHITELIST or BLACKLIST in process of being Renamed

2020-07-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
changes will be coming for this with these small changes in the stock ruleset. Apologies for the disruption and thanks to those who are reporting issues as we work through the changes. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache

Re: Backwards compatibility in rule names?

2020-07-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
score    USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO  0.001 > > -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
first update fails to process emails. Thanks. How does a change on the svn trunk stop your system from processing an email? If you are using trunk on a production system, do so from a snapshot.  Are you interested in routine 4.0.0-pre releases? Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.o

Re: Vote for creating 4.0 branch

2020-07-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
in. But I don't think it "fixes" what you all are worried about. Perhaps give it a few days to discuss before calling for a formal vote? Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmc

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 3:10 AM Henrik K wrote: > Sorry but I still don't agree at all. First and most important tester is > _you_. Don't commit stuff that may break things in production. I thought active.list might break but otherwise thought it was a good patch. I forgot about eval rules.

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:12 AM wrote: > https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7826 > > --- Comment #34 from Henrik Krohns --- > (In reply to Kevin A. McGrail from comment #32) > > > > Please remember with votes being made on this thread, you should b

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi Loren, yes, I did notice that and sorry it broke. Are you using trunk on a production system? If so, you might consider downgrading to 3.4.4 released or 3.4.5-pre1 for a little while. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin

Re: 3.4.5 Pre-Release 1 Built

2020-07-09 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Yep, I'll build a 3.4.5-pre2 soon and send a list of things that I could use help with so we can release it. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:44 PM Bill

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-03 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
. If you are using trunk, there may be disruption since routines, plugins and rule changes will all interweave. Please let me know if you have any questions! Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com

3.4.5 Pre-Release 1 Built

2020-06-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kmcgrail kmcgrail 163 Jun 22 01:00 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.5-pre1.zip.sha512 Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171Hi

Off-Topic: Pastebin kills search

2020-04-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Don't think this really affects us much but thought I would bring it up: https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/pastebin-kills-search-and-that-s-okay-no-really-john-turnbull -- *Kevin A. McGrail* kevin.mcgr...@mcgrail.com <mailto:kevin.mcgr...@mcgrail.com> 703-798-0171 (wireless)

Re: Refreshing the IRC channel

2020-03-12 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
The issue is that the project isn't monitoring the IRC and needs someone who can do so. If you have Op, please email me off list and I'll work with you to get someone on the project with op status and discuss further. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache

Re: Default Whitelist Auth - How to edit/override locally?

2020-03-07 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
> An entirely sufficient cause for removing a default whitelist entry. > Thank you on both counts -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Default Whitelist Auth - How to edit/override locally?

2020-03-07 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Morning All: How do I: A) override this setting: def_whitelist_auth *@*.bridgestonegolf.com B) remove it from the stock rules? They have been spamming me and don't deserve a whitelist. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus

Re: Refreshing the IRC channel

2020-03-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I'd vote for shutting it down and notifying freenode. No one has ops or monitors it for a decade. Thanks Joe, for that link. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Fri, Feb 28

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