[SAtalk] Postfix-related stuff

2002-09-18 Thread Ian R. Justman
Hi, all. Just thought I would interject something about my work as published as part of the SA sources, being a fellow Postfix user (or should that be "junkie"? *pats a vein in his forearm* :) ). I would imagine that a lot of the "pipe" methods that are used with various other MTAs, such as Exi

RE: [SAtalk] Razor2 method not found

2002-09-18 Thread Caines, Max
> > Ok, that's valid as long as your perl knows to look there. Is the > directory listed under "@INC" in "perl -V"? > Yes. > You installed the CVS version of SA? That's correct. "spamd" in 2.41 wouldn't recognize the -H option, and I couldn't find it in the documentation, so I tried 2.50, wh

[SAtalk] spam assassin with vpopmail howto

2002-09-18 Thread Jeremy Kister
With so many people asking how to use spamassassin for Individual users when you're using qmail and vpopmail, i decided to implement it, and here are the results: # add a user to the domain > ~vpopmail/bin/vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] passwd then you have to decide if you want to deliver all mail

[SAtalk] messages produced by 'at' command at local host

2002-09-18 Thread Noord G.J.M. van
If I run the UNIX 'at' command on the machine on which my mail is delivered, then the message that 'at' sends is classified as spam. An example is attached below. Is there a simple setting that will alter this? It appears that I can't use the value of 'From:' in user_prefs since it's not well

[SAtalk] spamc and DCC

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Gardener
Hi -   I upgraded to 2.40 (now 2.41) last week and the messages which are definitely in the DCC database aren't being marked as such by spamassassin when connected to via spamc. Interestingly it is detected when running spamassassin -t < sample-spam.txt (using the same userid incidentally).

Re: [SAtalk] messages produced by 'at' command at local host

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Leone
Noord G.J.M. van said: > > If I run the UNIX 'at' command on the machine on which my mail is > delivered, then the message that 'at' sends is classified as spam. An > example is attached below. > > Is there a simple setting that will alter this? It appears that I can't > use the value of 'From:

Re: [SAtalk] checking out Razor2 (and SA 2.41) install - Net::DNS:Resolver problem?

2002-09-18 Thread Justin Mason
Gary Funck said: > I thought the ">> /perllocal.pod" line looked odd. Is it normal to write > documentation into the root directory? (). Is there some Make parameter, o > r > environment variable that should've been set when I ran "make"? an issue for Razor folks I think. > It seems that by reg

[SAtalk] SA-2.41 installation problems

2002-09-18 Thread Brad Koehn
Hey all, While trying to upgrade to SA-2.41 via CPAN, I get the following error: t/spamd_maxchildren.ok 27/33# Failed test 28 in t/spamd_maxchildren.t at line 44 # t/spamd_maxchildren.t line 44 is: ok (spamcrun ("< data/spam/001", \&patterns_run_cb)); I've verified that I have the la

[SAtalk] problem with outlook ?

2002-09-18 Thread silas
hi, my old message got no response, maybe i'm misunderstood (i'm french, i know i know :) ) i need some help because i have successfully installed SA + qmail-scanner, to work with qmail (of course) and vpopmail... i've installed SA site-wide, and it seems to works well when i send by the shell

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.41 installation problems

2002-09-18 Thread Andrew Burgess
Brad Koehn wrote: > > While trying to upgrade to SA-2.41 via CPAN, I get the following error: > > t/spamd_maxchildren.ok 27/33# Failed test 28 in > t/spamd_maxchildren.t at line 44 > # t/spamd_maxchildren.t line 44 is: ok (spamcrun ("< data/spam/001", > \&patterns_run_cb)); I tried the

[SAtalk] Trouble with non-english mails.

2002-09-18 Thread LuChris
Does SA support languages other than english? I have problem with the scores on 8-bit characters. Some emails i recieve all purely chinese, even the header is in chinese which caused very high score. Is there a way i can work around to accept chinese language in the header, subject and body?

Re: [SAtalk] messages produced by 'at' command at local host

2002-09-18 Thread Justin Mason
> If I run the UNIX 'at' command on the machine on which my mail is > delivered, then the message that 'at' sends is classified as spam. > An example is attached below. > Is there a simple setting that will alter this? It appears that I > can't use the value of 'From:' in user_prefs since it's

[SAtalk] RE: spamc and DCC

2002-09-18 Thread Ray Gardener
This problem was caused not by the upgrade to 2.4x but to the coincidence of rebooting the server near the time of the upgrade.   Looks like the problem below was due to trying start spamd before dcc could be contacted. Not unreasonably spamc caches the results of a attempt to contact this s

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble with non-english mails.

2002-09-18 Thread Matt Sergeant
LuChris wrote: > Does SA support languages other than english? I have problem with the > scores on 8-bit characters. Some emails i recieve all purely chinese, > even the header is in chinese which caused very high score. Is there a > way i can work around to accept chinese language in the heade

[SAtalk] '-W' not seeing site-wide auto-whitelist

2002-09-18 Thread Richard Frewin - QMUL Starlink
Hi All, This could just be brain-fade on my part, but ... I've just installed SpamAssassin version 2.41 and want to have a site-wide auto-whitelist, so I've added auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_file_mode 0777 to my '/etc/mail/spamass

Re: [SAtalk] spamc and DCC

2002-09-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:44:14PM +0100, Ray Gardener wrote: > I upgraded to 2.40 (now 2.41) last week and the messages which are definitely in the >DCC database aren't being marked as such by spamassassin when connected to via spamc. >Interestingly it is detected when running spamassassin -t <

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble with non-english mails.

2002-09-18 Thread LuChris
> Basically this email would have gotten through if your correspondee > wasn't trying to send you email through some sort of broken mail system > (is he using an open relay?) and used a proper SMTP compatible mail > client. Emails can't have 8 bit characters in the headers, not without > encoding

Re: [SAtalk] Razor2 method not found

2002-09-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:10:39AM +0100, Caines, Max wrote: > That's correct. "spamd" in 2.41 wouldn't recognize the -H option, and I > couldn't find it in the documentation, so I tried 2.50, where it worked > OK. Errr, then you didn't have 2.41 installed. :| I personally wouldn't run 2.50 ye

[SAtalk] ANNOUNCE: new SpamAssassin announcements site

2002-09-18 Thread Justin Mason
This is now set up, thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for all the help! It's at: http://news.spamassassin.zawodny.com/ (it will eventually move to news.spamassassin.org, but it's not there yet ;) Please take a look -- and if you have an SpamAssassin MTA-level integration, keep a HOW-TO, or know of a g

Re: [SAtalk] RE: postfix issues (was: No Subject)

2002-09-18 Thread dogface
hey mike, SA works Great with postfix. what i am looking for is a web interface for each user to be able to change their SA preferences with. there is already something for this called user-admin but it was made for qmail + vpopmail. this is where i run into a problem. i do not use either of thos

[SAtalk] Building for Cygwin fails

2002-09-18 Thread sa
Hi, I am trying to build SA-2.41 for Cygwin (on Win 98). I tried the list-archives but only found something relating to a previous version, and which anyway was not related to my problem. perl Makefile.PL seems to go okay, but the make process then fails as follows: make -f binaries.mk spamd/sp

Re: [SAtalk] RE: postfix issues (was: No Subject)

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Leone
dogface said: > hey mike, > > SA works Great with postfix. > what i am looking for is a web interface for > each user to be able to change their SA preferences So what you want really has nothing to do with postfix, or whatever MTA you are running. I got it now. > i actually have 2 postfix's ru

[SAtalk] spamassassin 2.41 - INSTALL or perl not working

2002-09-18 Thread Anne M. Hammond
Using instructions in INSTALL (have to admit this is the second time through this): lcd 242# fg cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61) ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN') cpan> install Bundle::CPAN CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /usr2/src/.c

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin with vpopmail howto

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Weiner
> With so many people asking how to use spamassassin for Individual users when > you're using qmail and vpopmail, i decided to implement it, and here are the > results: > > # add a user to the domain > > ~vpopmail/bin/vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] passwd > > > then you have to decide if you want to d

[SAtalk] Ignore System Messages - How?

2002-09-18 Thread vernon
Some of my "Security Violations" and "Unusual System Events" are being tagged as SPAM by SpamAssassin. How do I get SA to ignore these messages? Thanks -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Webb Solutions' MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --

RE: [SAtalk] spam assassin with vpopmail howto

2002-09-18 Thread Jeremy Kister
That's interesting, because I don't use the seekable patch... and, my vpopmail v5.2.1 configure settings are simply ./configure \ --enable-defaultquota=10485760 \ --enable-many-domains=n \ --enable-logging=v I'm not quite sure what the seakable patch does, but information found at http://www.the

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin with vpopmail howto

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Weiner
> That's interesting, because I don't use the seekable patch... > > and, my vpopmail v5.2.1 configure settings are simply > ./configure \ > --enable-defaultquota=10485760 \ > --enable-many-domains=n \ > --enable-logging=v > > I'm not quite sure what the seakable patch does, but information found a

Re: [SAtalk] Ignore System Messages - How?

2002-09-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Since those messages are generally sent from some dedicated account on a server, Whitelist_from is probably your best option. whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another would be to add a body rule of your own that has a string highly unique to those messages and give it a negative score

RE: [SAtalk] Ignore System Messages - How?

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Thomas
| Some of my "Security Violations" and "Unusual System Events" are being | tagged as SPAM by SpamAssassin. How do I get SA to ignore these messages? "man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Used to specify addresses which send mail that is often

[SAtalk] restart spamd after edit local.cf

2002-09-18 Thread Quentin Krengel
Title: Message Do I need to restart spamd (ie /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart) after editing /etc/spamassassin/local.cf?   Thanks in advance, Quentin Krengel

Re: [SAtalk] restart spamd after edit local.cf

2002-09-18 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 16:32, Quentin Krengel wrote: > Do I need to restart spamd (ie /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart) after > editing /etc/spamassassin/local.cf? YES. > > Thanks in advance, > > Quentin Krengel > > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 9

[SAtalk] Razor 2 + SpamAssassin Error

2002-09-18 Thread Cari D. Burstein
I've just upgraded to SpamAssassin 2.41 and Razor 2.14 and since then sometimes when a mail message hits the server I'm getting this error message: razor2 check skipped: No such file or directory Can't call method "log" on unblessed reference at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Razor2/Cli

Re: [SAtalk] (No Subject) is there a user-admin for SA with postfix

2002-09-18 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Option 5. Post a rude message postulating that the SA developers have > "an issue" with postfix and are unhelpful. Add further > encouragement by repeatedly asking the same question and see > how developers respond to thr

RE: [SAtalk] (No Subject) is there a user-admin for SA with postfix

2002-09-18 Thread Stewart, John
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -Original Message- > From: dogface [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] (No Subject) is there a user-admin for SA > with postfix > > > i just thought i'

Re: [SAtalk] New user RBL question

2002-09-18 Thread Tom at ATT
Thanks for the help, and sorry for my slow response. I wanted to move my SpamAssassin equipped server into production to see if that made any difference with the RBL lookups. But I still don't see any indication that RBL is being performed. How would I tell if RBL lookups are being performed?

[SAtalk] latest stable version?

2002-09-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I've been running spamassassin 2.20, and been waiting to upgrade to 2.41 until it seems stable. At this point, I've been seeing a lot fewer bug reports, and a variety of references to patches, but... I don't see either a patch directory or a 2.42, and all the development seems to be fo

[SAtalk] doing business with eNom Inc, do or don't?

2002-09-18 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
Would anyone care to share their thinking regarding doing business with eNom? A quick google seems to indicate that they're a really bad spamming company going after just about anyone, but AFAIK their services are exactly what I want and at a price that I'm comfortable with; so... before ignori

Re: [SAtalk] pop3proxy site?

2002-09-18 Thread Dan McD
A KXDBFAN wrote: > I was trying to get the pop3proxy software mentioned in the Spamassassin > "where" page, but it appears that the site is down. (Some type of > Dynamic DNS site). Space on that site is offered gratis to various Perl Monks, I really can't complain about uptime. :-) It's ba

Re: [SAtalk] latest stable version?

2002-09-18 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been running spamassassin 2.20, and been waiting to upgrade to 2.41 > until it seems stable. At this point, I've been seeing a lot fewer bug > reports, and a variety of references to patches, but... I don't see either > a patch directory or a 2.4

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble with non-english mails.

2002-09-18 Thread Daniel Quinlan
"LuChris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just like to turn off the rules for 8-bit characters. Is it possible? Just assign them a score of 0.0 in a local rules file (with a higher number than 50 so it loads after 50_scores.cf). Dan --- This S

Re: [SAtalk] doing business with eNom Inc, do or don't?

2002-09-18 Thread Daniel Quinlan
"Tony L. Svanstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would anyone care to share their thinking regarding doing business > with eNom? > > A quick google seems to indicate that they're a really bad spamming > company going after just about anyone, but AFAIK their services are > exactly what I want and

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble with non-english mails.

2002-09-18 Thread LuChris
Daniel Quinlan wrote: >> Just like to turn off the rules for 8-bit characters. Is it possible? > > Just assign them a score of 0.0 in a local rules file (with a higher > number than 50 so it loads after 50_scores.cf). Can you tell me what should i do exactly? Thanks -

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble with non-english mails.

2002-09-18 Thread Daniel Quinlan
>>> Just like to turn off the rules for 8-bit characters. Is it >>> possible? Daniel Quinlan wrote: >> Just assign them a score of 0.0 in a local rules file (with a >> higher number than 50 so it loads after 50_scores.cf). "LuChris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you tell me what should i

Re: [SAtalk] doing business with eNom Inc, do or don't?

2002-09-18 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Some interesting data on market share: http://www.zooknic.com/zaps/zooknic_zaps-SAMPLE.pdf Gandi is the 15th largest registrar for com/net/org and Dotster is 10th. Dan --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven.

[SAtalk] Some can say me something about whitelist_to and all_spam_to ?

2002-09-18 Thread Francesc Guim Bernat
Hi, I want that spamd don't scan emails send to some address, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] I supose that I've to added in my conf spamassassin file (/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf) the next line: whitelist_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I've seen an email about spamassassin

[SAtalk] Wrong (false positives) Razor entries?!

2002-09-18 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, who on earth registers all these false positives in Razor?! Each day I get a couple of false positives over the Debian-User mailing list, messages that are CLEARLY NO SPAM: >Message-ID: <007901c25f5d$d31aa050$805b4181@damien> >From: "Joe Emenaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PRO

[SAtalk] SA Results

2002-09-18 Thread Pawel Wojnicki
Hi all I'm new to this group and here's my first question: Why does SpamAssassin tag my spam messages about 22 times in the message's body? Here's an example: BEGIN QUOTE From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: *SPAM* Eurosport Newsletter - 18/09/2002 Date: Wed, 18 Se