Re: [SAtalk] This is interesting... Any idea where to report this?

2002-11-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:25:08PM -0600, Scott A Crosby wrote: > I got the following message in my inbox. Its not spam per-se, but > something I probably do want to filter. It's one of the stupid blackmusic.ch things. I just blocked them and the hosting.ch or whatever it's called and called it g

[SAtalk] This is interesting... Any idea where to report this?

2002-11-01 Thread Scott A Crosby
I got the following message in my inbox. Its not spam per-se, but something I probably do want to filter. *** From: Yahoo!Member Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Newsletter] Registration confirmation - Yahoo! Mail To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:13:13 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: [EM

[SAtalk] Re: Razor2 logging and SA

2002-11-01 Thread Rob Mangiafico
I'll answer my own question :) Create a razor-agent.conf file in each user's .razor directory that contains the line: logfile= /dev/null That seems to be the best way to get rid of razor logs. Rob M. On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Rob Mangiafico wrote: > Hello: > > If we are using razo

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users. Theo

2002-11-01 Thread gagel
What about mail servers that don't? Or situations where SA is run on a standalone in a gateway configuration and relaying to the actual server? SpamD/SpamC is perfect for that as it is. So would MySQL type of configuration, no? As it is my setup has all email scanned at the gateway and then passed

Re: [SAtalk] How do I know if razor-checking is active?

2002-11-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Well, it's a wide variety of IP's, but it is client-only type traffic. The razor servers do not need to initiate connections to port 2703 on your machine, so is there any significant risk in allowing your machine to initiate client connections to any outside machine on port 2703 (provided there

RE: [SAtalk] How do I know if razor-checking is active?

2002-11-01 Thread Matthew Prentice
I have the same question about whether Razor is working for our installation. When I run the spamassassin -tD < sample-spam.txt it does say Razor is detecting the message. However, when I run the message through a telnet to port 25 the SA report comes back without Razor2 in it. We are running R

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users. Theo

2002-11-01 Thread Chris Santerre
Sorry gagel, I'm having trouble following you. How are you doing your config? Are all your users local, aliased, virtual, database stored, or combo? > -Original Message- > From: gagel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:18 PM > To: Chris Petersen; Chris Santerre

Re: [SAtalk] How do I know if razor-checking is active?

2002-11-01 Thread Matt Kettler
At the command line run: spamassassin -tD < sample-spam.txt At the top will be extensive debug output including any problems reading the rules file, any lack of DNS support, etc, as well as debug status while running razor. At 11:34 AM 11/1/2002 -0800, Henry Kwan wrote: Hi. Have been using SA

Re: [SAtalk] How do I know if razor-checking is active?

2002-11-01 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Henry Kwan wrote: > Hi. > > Have been using SA for a little while and with the 2.43 update, finally > decided to install razor as well. But when I do 'make test', it reports > back that both razor tests have been skipped with no r

Re: [SAtalk] Older Versions

2002-11-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:30:30PM -0500, Frank Pineau wrote: > Same download link as on the website, just change the version number. I also have an archive at http://www.kluge.net/ftp/pub/spamassassin/old_versions -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Now they show you how detergents take out bloodst

Re: [SAtalk] How do I know if razor-checking is active?

2002-11-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:34:06AM -0800, Henry Kwan wrote: > run the razor-client, it appears to be working so how can I tell if SA is > utilizing razor for checks? Run spamassassin or spamd with -D. If you haven't turned it off, you could also check your razor log file. :) -- Randomly Genera

[SAtalk] How do I know if razor-checking is active?

2002-11-01 Thread Henry Kwan
Hi. Have been using SA for a little while and with the 2.43 update, finally decided to install razor as well. But when I do 'make test', it reports back that both razor tests have been skipped with no reason given. When I run the razor-client, it appears to be working so how can I tell if SA

Re: [SAtalk] why

2002-11-01 Thread Evan Platt
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RE: [SAtalk] spamd runs up CPU then dies

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Fries
Here is the result of running spamd under debug (-D) mode. I ran a spamc -c < sample-spam.txt, and the spamd process spun up the CPU to 100%. I then ctrl-c'd the spamc command, and this caused spamd to seg fault. debug: ignore: test message to precompile patterns and load modules debug: using "/

RE: [SAtalk] spamd runs up CPU then dies

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Fries
Yikes... sorry for the double post... Forgot to attach the file.. :( -Paul --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users. Theo's link?

2002-11-01 Thread Chris Petersen
> Problem: Use SA on Aliases and / or virtusers AND real users combined. yup, that one exactly. > So far the only solution looks like using MySQL. (Which for reasons of my > own I don't want to do right now.) >From what I've seen, a simple solution would be to get spamc to pass a couple more bi

Re: [SAtalk] perfmance and machine sizing

2002-11-01 Thread Gustave Eiffel
I have found spamd and spamc to be quite effective and fairly low load with a high volume. I scan over 2 million messages a month on each of 4 mail servers with almost 30 being marked as spam. The machines I have are Dual xeon 1.8GHZ boxes with a GIG of RAM each. Mark Quoting gagel <[EMAIL PROT

[SAtalk] spamd runs up CPU then dies

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Fries
Greetings, I have been using SpamAssassin for quite some time. Today, I attempted to upgrade from v2.42 to v2.43. I am using qmail + qmail-scanner (with sophos) + spamassassin. Perl v5.6.1 I am using a RedHat 7.3 system. Everything had been running properly until I tried to upgrade to 2.43. Now

[SAtalk] spamd runs up CPU then dies

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Fries
Greetings, I have been using SpamAssassin for quite some time. Today, I attempted to upgrade from v2.42 to v2.43. I am using qmail + qmail-scanner (with sophos) + spamassassin. Perl v5.6.1 I am using a RedHat 7.3 system. Everything had been running properly until I tried to upgrade to 2.43. Now

Re: [SAtalk] Older Versions

2002-11-01 Thread Frank Pineau
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:18:06 -0800, you wrote: >Where can I find an older version of SpamAssassin? I'm looking for a >2.3x version. My false negative rate on 2.43 is through the roof. Same download link as on the website, just change the version number.

RE: [SAtalk] Rules for not alphanumeric characters

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Thomas
It looks like you're looking for SUBJ_FULL_OF_8BITS. See if these messages are triggering that rule. I /dev/null anything that hits on that one. | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harry | Putnam | Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:12 A

[SAtalk] Older Versions

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Evans
Where can I find an older version of SpamAssassin? I'm looking for a 2.3x version. My false negative rate on 2.43 is through the roof. Steve Evans SDSU Foundation (619) 594-0653 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungste

[SAtalk] why

2002-11-01 Thread Oliver Fuchs
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Re: [SAtalk] perfmance and machine sizing

2002-11-01 Thread gagel
We had performance problems using spamassassin on our mail machine. Mostly because it was a windows box calling a perl script which called spamassassin. I setup a linux box and use spamd/spamc on it. I've gone from well over a minute to process a single email to an average of about 1/10th of a sec

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users. Theo's link?

2002-11-01 Thread Chris Santerre
I've been looking into this problem for a while now. I've searched the archives and found many questions but little answers. Problem: Use SA on Aliases and / or virtusers AND real users combined. So far the only solution looks like using MySQL. (Which for reasons of my own I don't want to do righ

Re: [SAtalk] SA knocked out my maching and "killed" my email!

2002-11-01 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jeff Burstein wrote: > You seem to be running into two main problems: > > 1) Your mail traffic is extremely bursty (it all comes at once!). > > 2) Your MTA doesn't seem to do anything to limit resource consumption. (I'm > not fam

RE: [SAtalk] spamd/spamc and J.Hardin Email-Sanitizer

2002-11-01 Thread Smart, Dan
Classification: PUBLIC I should note that I snipped off all the variable assignment for clarity... |-Original Message- |From: Smart, Dan |Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:55 AM |To: 'Thomas Nyman'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [SAtalk] spamd/spamc and J.Hardin Email-Sanitizer | | |Cl

Re: [SAtalk] perfmance and machine sizing

2002-11-01 Thread Jeff Engelhardt
Great thanks to all those who have helped with our problem. I should have done some more checking before I posted to the list. We were initially not using spamd/spoamc when I posted. After changing it to spamd/spamc it is able to process much more mail without as much CPU overhead, but we are

RE: [SAtalk] spamd/spamc and J.Hardin Email-Sanitizer

2002-11-01 Thread Smart, Dan
Classification: PUBLIC Here's my Procmail that runs like a champ. = procmailrc == # Run Sanitizer INCLUDERC=${BINDIR}/local-rules.procmail INCLUDERC=${BINDIR}/html-trap.procmail # Run SpamAssassin Daemon Client # Calling SpamAssassin D

[SAtalk] Rules for not alphanumeric characters

2002-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: RedHat 7.3 Spamassassin 2.50 (Running as daemon) In the many rules that spamassasin parses for each message, are some of them devoted to identifying a subject line that has too many non-alphanumic characters? Some kind of percentage deal... Can someone identify any such rule

Re: [SAtalk] perfmance and machine sizing

2002-11-01 Thread Lars Hansson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:39:10PM -0600, Jeff Engelhardt wrote: > We are looking into spamassassin, but after minimal testing it looks > like we will grind our machine to halt if we have many people using it. > Our mail server is a Sun Ultra60 with 2x450MHz CPUs and 1.2GB RAM. > That machine is

Re: [SAtalk] Perspectives on (not) using SA

2002-11-01 Thread Justin Mason
Daniel Quinlan said: > A few of their rules were quite good though and I got more than one idea > during the process. I'm not quite ready to attempt it again, though. Yep, it was clearly a herculean task, I can understand being averse to doing it again soon ;) Great results, though! --j. -

Re: [SAtalk] spamd -Q?

2002-11-01 Thread Justin Mason
Kelsey Cummings said: > > Do you know if "spamd -Q" is 2.44/2.50? > > It doesn't look like my patches have made it into a release yet -- I just > patched 2.43 this morning and attached the diffs. (Of course, I didn't > patch spamd.raw let me fix that.) It's in HEAD (2.50), which will be the basi

[SAtalk] spamd/spamc and J.Hardin Email-Sanitizer

2002-11-01 Thread Thomas Nyman
Hi I've just implemented spamd/spamc however it seems that when I do my email-sanitizer rules are ignored...does anyone know why this might be? Thomas --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Colo

Re: [SAtalk] Perspectives on (not) using SA

2002-11-01 Thread Daniel Quinlan
SpamTalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Might worthwhile to peruse his regex and see if there is anything > there to incorporate in SA rules. I did recently test and slowly integrate a huge number of Postfix regular expressions that I found in various places. I tested over 2000 expressions (in va

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Reports = Spam?

2002-11-01 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Descriptions like 'Contains "My wife, Jody" testimonial' have the words > "My Wife, Jody" and will trip that filter. I don't think that spam > descriptions should be identified as spam traits. I wonder if there's a > way to describe the spam trait with

Re: [SAtalk] perfmance and machine sizing

2002-11-01 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Jeff Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are looking into spamassassin, but after minimal testing it looks > like we will grind our machine to halt if we have many people using it. > Our mail server is a Sun Ultra60 with 2x450MHz CPUs and 1.2GB RAM. > That machine is server incoming mai