Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-28 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 February 2005 07:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:51, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 22:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:51, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 22:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:50 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Spamc is just a wrapper for spamd, so spamd has to be up and running. But if you want real email filtering you really need to be running spamassassin with more than just the basic rules. That caused me to

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread David Anderson
Derek, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 1:24:13 AM, you wrote: The service is called 'spamd' I'll correct the document. derek But I don't have a spamd service there either. On searching the system for spamd I only find a perl program called spamd, and not the c-wrappered spamd you mention in a

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread David Anderson
Fajar, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 2:00:22 AM, you wrote: Did you successfully install Spamassassin? If so, you should be able to run it by: service spamassassin start There was nothing to say that the installation had not been successfull. Using service spamassassin gives: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread Saul Arias
On February 27, 2005 09:19, David Anderson wrote: But I don't have a spamd service there either. On searching the system for spamd I only find a perl program called spamd, and not the c-wrappered spamd you mention in a later posting. You may need to install additional packages:

Re[2]: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread David Anderson
Saul, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 3:18:49 PM, you wrote: You may need to install additional packages: spamassassin-spamc-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk spamassassin-spamd-3.0.2-0.1010.1mdk Thanks very much - that did the trick! -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread David Anderson
Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake Control CentreSystemServices. Unfortunately there is no entry

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in Mandrake

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Saturday 26 February 2005 11:06 pm, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to install the RPM, and then start the spamassassin service in

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 February 2005 5:29 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, I'm still running v9.2 here so some things may be different, and if they are, I apologise for wasting the bandwith but... here...if I use spamd it takes a lot longer to d/l my e-mail. If I use spamc on the other hand, all is

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:50:44 -0800 Rob Blomquist wrote: The checking of each email with this setup is about 1 to 2 seconds each with my XP-2100, so the hit on Kmail would be serious. I have nothing against spamassassin But if when you look at the CPU usage required and the time for

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 February 2005 22:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server

[newbie] Spamassassin

2004-08-12 Thread Ralph Utbult
Hi, I've installed Spamassassin (SA) from Mandrakce Control Center (MCC) package handler. I also use Webmin. When I try to administer SA, it tells me that [it] isn't set up in Procmails (PM) config. What do I needPM for? Doesn't SA work without PM? I would like to run Postfix (with MLs pop3),

[newbie] Spamassassin and Bayes: I must be missing something

2004-04-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
Hi: I am using Spamassassin version 2.63 (spamd and spamc invoked by procmail) installed from 10CE cd and it is only catching around 20% of spams, which in my case means that is missing between 60-70 spams a day. Since missing that large percent of spams is something that is only happening to me,

[newbie] Spamassassin acting funny

2004-04-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
When I request kmail to check in messages it may run a while or hang almost instantly. I traced the problem to spamassassin using 94.7 % of the cpu using top. When I kill the PID assigned to spamassassin with signal 15 things work well until done with spamassassin using from 0.3 to 25.7 % of

[newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile

2004-03-07 Thread Chris
While looking through my syslog I found the following entry: Mar 7 04:20:47 dhcppc0 spamd[24012]: bayes: lock: 24012 cannot create tmp lockfile /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes.lock.dhcppc0.24012 for /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied I'm assuming from the line below, I have

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile

2004-03-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 17:58, Chris wrote: While looking through my syslog I found the following entry: Mar 7 04:20:47 dhcppc0 spamd[24012]: bayes: lock: 24012 cannot create tmp lockfile /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes.lock.dhcppc0.24012 for /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile

2004-03-07 Thread Chris
On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:53 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: The solution is to either put the line bayes_path /path/to/file in the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file where the path points to a directory with 666 permissions, or else create a ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file in

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile

2004-03-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 21:13, Chris wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:53 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: The solution is to either put the line bayes_path /path/to/file in the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file where the path points to a directory with 666 permissions, or else

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile

2004-03-07 Thread Chris
On Sunday 07 March 2004 04:27 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 21:13, Chris wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:53 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: That would not help because msec would come along and change the perms back to 660. You could always use drakperm to override msec, but

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile

2004-03-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 22:42, Chris wrote: That would not help because msec would come along and change the perms back to 660. You could always use drakperm to override msec, but my experience with msec is that its best not to try to fight it. Just set the path to /home/chris/something

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile

2004-03-07 Thread Chris
On Sunday 07 March 2004 04:52 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 22:42, Chris wrote: Ok Derek, does this look any better? If not I guess maybe I'd just better go bury my head somewhere. bayes_path /home/chris/.spamassassin bayes_file_mode 0666

[newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question

2004-03-06 Thread Chris
I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be appreciated. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question

2004-03-06 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be appreciated. I am pretty sure that

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question

2004-03-06 Thread Chris
On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:32 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed.

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-03-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 05:23, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 16:55, Derek Jennings wrote: Tks, Derek! but ONE more question! (see below, pls) On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:40, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I've been using

[newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-02-29 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi! I've been using spamassassin for a while, but I must have missed some detail on the config process! It's configured system wide. And as I use procmail and kmail, the spamassassin insist on putting the lock file at ~/Mail/ (kmail directory). How can I change this? I have set two

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:40, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I've been using spamassassin for a while, but I must have missed some detail on the config process! It's configured system wide. And as I use procmail and kmail, the spamassassin insist on putting the lock file

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-02-29 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Sunday 29 February 2004 16:55, Derek Jennings wrote: Tks, Derek! but ONE more question! (see below, pls) On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:40, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I've been using spamassassin for a while, but I must have missed some detail on the config process!

[newbie] Spamassassin resistance

2004-02-11 Thread Olivier Esser
Hello, Spamassassin is installed in the central server where I receive mail. I have not installed it locally. Almost no spam are caught anymore; all spams seems to have understand the trick and to hide somehow the significant word (writing v.ia.gr@ for example). Has anyone experienced this

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin resistance

2004-02-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 16:45, Olivier Esser wrote: Hello, Spamassassin is installed in the central server where I receive mail. I have not installed it locally. Almost no spam are caught anymore; all spams seems to have understand the trick and to hide somehow the significant word

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin resistance

2004-02-11 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 11:45 am, Olivier Esser wrote: Hello, Spamassassin is installed in the central server where I receive mail. I have not installed it locally. Almost no spam are caught anymore; all spams seems to have understand the trick and to hide somehow the significant word

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin resistance

2004-02-11 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:45:46 + Olivier Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Spamassassin is installed in the central server where I receive mail. I have not installed it locally. Almost no spam are caught anymore; all spams seems to have understand the trick and to hide somehow the

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin resistance

2004-02-11 Thread Beppe
I use annoyance filter and it works great too, it's another bayesian filter and you can find a complete howto on making it work on http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/10/24/2046238.shtml?tid=74 and http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/10/27/1533240.shtml?tid=74tid=82 have fun :) Beppe --

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin resistance

2004-02-11 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 08:45 am, Olivier Esser wrote: Hello, Spamassassin is installed in the central server where I receive mail. I have not installed it locally. Almost no spam are caught anymore; all spams seems to have understand the trick and to hide somehow the significant word

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2004-01-16 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:43 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: In case anyone is using SpamAssassin and wants to increase their use of the available DNS Blacklists, I have a configuration file that I can make available that includes connections to some of the blacklists that I find to be more

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2004-01-16 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 16 January 2004 09:29 pm, Chris wrote: Brian, question on running spamassassin. There are two files to run spamc and spamd. Should they both be running together? I have spamc set to start at boot and its running, spamd I find has to be started from a root terminal. I figured I'd

[newbie] SpamAssassin Question

2004-01-10 Thread E. Hines
I've been running SA for several months now, and it has been extremely successful. My wife get's dozens of spams a day, and the filtering has gotten better as more spams get added to the database. Now I want to move her account to a different machine, but I don't want to start the sa-learn

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin Question

2004-01-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:58:33 -0800 E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been running SA for several months now, and it has been extremely successful. My wife get's dozens of spams a day, and the filtering has gotten better as more spams get added to the database. Now I want to move

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 1:43 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: In case anyone is using SpamAssassin and wants to increase their use of the available DNS Blacklists, I have a configuration file that I can make available that includes connections to some of the blacklists that I find to be more valuable.

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:04 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Later:- I tried out your rules and get these errors when I run spamd -D debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: tflags RCVD_IN_EASY Possible that additional CR/LF have been introduced by my posting. I

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 2:42 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:04 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Later:- I tried out your rules and get these errors when I run spamd -D debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: tflags RCVD_IN_EASY Possible

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:23 am, Derek Jennings wrote: No still the same. Reading 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' it looks as if the tflags statement should always assign a test type to a test. I made them all test type 'net' and now the config files parse OK. Now to see if they will

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 3:42 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:23 am, Derek Jennings wrote: No still the same. Reading 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' it looks as if the tflags statement should always assign a test type to a test. I made them all test type 'net' and

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 13 November 2003 01:03 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: OK I have adjusted some of the scores and it is all working nicely, but I have a question? What is the difference between RCVD_IN_SORBS and the specific Sorbs tests like X_SORBS_SOCKS ? RCVD_IN_SORBS is triggered when any one of

[newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists

2003-11-12 Thread Bryan Phinney
In case anyone is using SpamAssassin and wants to increase their use of the available DNS Blacklists, I have a configuration file that I can make available that includes connections to some of the blacklists that I find to be more valuable. These include SPEWS, SORBS, Easynet, Blackholes.us,

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin

2003-10-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 20 Oct 2003 4:46 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 19 October 2003 07:56 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Don't know if anyone else is running this, but I just upgraded to the 2.6 version of SpamAssassin. My message processing time has dropped from an avg of about 30 seconds to an avg of

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin

2003-10-20 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 19 October 2003 08:42 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 19 October 2003 08:56 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Don't know if anyone else is running this, but I just upgraded to the 2.6 version of SpamAssassin. In my opinion, the jump from 2.55 to 2.6 is worlds better and very much worth

[newbie] SpamAssassin

2003-10-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
Don't know if anyone else is running this, but I just upgraded to the 2.6 version of SpamAssassin. My message processing time has dropped from an avg of about 30 seconds to an avg of 5 seconds with the new version. Also, my spam trigger score is set to about 8 and I used to get about 1 or 2

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin

2003-10-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 19 October 2003 08:56 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Don't know if anyone else is running this, but I just upgraded to the 2.6 version of SpamAssassin. In my opinion, the jump from 2.55 to 2.6 is worlds better and very much worth doing the upgrade. Just figured I would mention it for

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin

2003-10-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 19 October 2003 07:56 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: Don't know if anyone else is running this, but I just upgraded to the 2.6 version of SpamAssassin. My message processing time has dropped from an avg of about 30 seconds to an avg of 5 seconds with the new version. Also, my spam

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin

2003-10-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 19 October 2003 07:56 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: In my opinion, the jump from 2.55 to 2.6 is worlds better and very much worth doing the upgrade. Just figured I would mention it for anyone else on the list that runs SA. On Sunday 19 October 2003 11:46 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I

[newbie] Spamassassin Configuration

2003-10-10 Thread Erylon Hines
Anyone have some tips on this? It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other distros that place the configuration files in /home/~/.spamassassin, which I don't

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Configuration

2003-10-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 10 Oct 2003 6:04 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: Anyone have some tips on this? It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other distros that place the

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Configuration

2003-10-10 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 10 October 2003 01:04 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: Anyone have some tips on this? It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other distros that place the

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Configuration

2003-10-10 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 10 October 2003 05:35 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 10 October 2003 01:04 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: It appears that this /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf will do the trick, but I may be missing something to make this Mandrake specific (the how-to's seem to be written for other

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder in my kmail setup. I have given the command spamassassin --log-to-mbox=Spam in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the job. Should I have used the -l switch first

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder in my kmail setup. I have given the command spamassassin --log-to-mbox=Spam in a console but it doesn't

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:59 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Thanks Derek, that was exactly what I needed. Who knew that . was a regular expression? I don't seem to get much spam from any source, maybe once a month, but I know that sooner or later it will come. Your help is appreciated. So much to learn, so little time. : ) 1 a month! I get

[newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-08 Thread Dennis Myers
I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder in my kmail setup. I have given the command spamassassin --log-to-mbox=Spam in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the job. Should I have used the -l switch first or just how does one get it to filter and send to a