Re[2]: [SAtalk] Base-64 encoded HTML and text spam

2003-06-18 Thread Abigail Marshall
AF> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:54:26PM +1000, Robin Whittle AF> wrote: >> Thanks for this Abigail: >> >> > I have yet to see a >> > *valid* email that is Base-64 encoded. >> AF> Lucky you. I see quite a few. The crappy e-mail client "Incredimail" AF> that is unfortunately quite popular likes t

Re: [SAtalk] Is there a way to filter mail that's forwarded?

2003-06-18 Thread Ryan Nelson
> From: Peter Campion-Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 6/18/2003 11:34:50 AM > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Is there a way to filter mail that's forwarded? > > > Hi all. Trying to use my home mail server to filter my dad's mail for > > spam. What I'm doing is I'm pulling it

[SAtalk] Re: No X-Header

2003-06-18 Thread Fuzzy Fox
Jack Gostl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using Pine, I checked the message ID and scanned the syslog (which > includes both spamd and sendmail entries) and located the message > being handed off to procmail. It wasn't even slightly busy at that > time. Presumably procmail calls spamc? If so, th

Re: [SAtalk] Base-64 encoded HTML and text spam

2003-06-18 Thread Alain Fauconnet
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:54:26PM +1000, Robin Whittle wrote: > Thanks for this Abigail: > > > I would simply recommend that you raise the score in the > > local.cf file for the SA test BASE64_ENC_TEXT to near or > > above your minimum spam threshhold. I have yet to see a > > *valid* email that

Re: [SAtalk] Problem trying to install on new server

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
unset LANG or set LANG=C and then start again. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Jody Cleveland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "spamassassin_list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesda

Re: [SAtalk] Is there a way to filter mail that's forwarded?

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
Use the spamass-milter rpm and sendmail.mc mod at ftp://mail.camerontech.com/pub/spam -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Dragoncrest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SAtalk] Base-64 encoded HTML and text spam

2003-06-18 Thread Robin Whittle
Thanks for this Abigail: > I would simply recommend that you raise the score in the > local.cf file for the SA test BASE64_ENC_TEXT to near or > above your minimum spam threshhold. I have yet to see a > *valid* email that is Base-64 encoded. Indeed. From now on such messages have a one-way tick

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Reijo Pitkanen
- Original Message - From: "Jack Gostl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SpamAssassin listserve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:38 AM Subject: [SAtalk] Max children > > I've seen this two or three times now, and I'm not sure what to make of > it. > > Outward appearance is t

Re: [SAtalk] Still can't report spam

2003-06-18 Thread Cam Ellison
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have Razor 2.22 and spamassassin 2.55 on a Debian box. When I run > razor-report, it goes on through the routine until the point below: SORRY! Wrong list! I wasn't thinking while I was typing. Cam -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek o

[SAtalk] Still can't report spam

2003-06-18 Thread Cam Ellison
I have Razor 2.22 and spamassassin 2.55 on a Debian box. When I run razor-report, it goes on through the routine until the point below: Jun 18 18:54:48.263365 report[31030]: [ 6] response to sent.7 -nsl=? conceit.cloudmark.com joy.cloudmark.com . Jun 18 18:54:48.263532 report[31030]: [ 8] Discove

[SAtalk] How to ignore an email with existing SpamAssasin tags and rescan

2003-06-18 Thread ODC
Hi, One of the email domains that's coming through for us is currently being filtered by SpamAssassin. We also check messages via SpamAssasin, but there is a discrepancy between theirs and our rules, scores, and grading. I was wondering what configuration syntax is needed to tell SpamAssassin

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
> > based on what you wrote, I added a "-m 2" option to my call of spamd, to > > limit the number of children to 2. > > This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was > > "unlimited". If that's wrong, could one of the developers or someone with > > more insight set us strai

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Theo, Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 7:03:30 AM, you wrote: RM>> I'm limited to ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, and by design in the RM>> current versions I can change rule scores, but I can't add even the RM>> simplest of rules. TVD> Please RTFM: TV

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
> based on what you wrote, I added a "-m 2" option to my call of spamd, to > limit the number of children to 2. > This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was > "unlimited". If that's wrong, could one of the developers or someone with > more insight set us straight? As a

[SAtalk] Re: spamassassin Bugzilla Bug 2027: spamassassin -r does "learning ham" instead of "learning spam" ?

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:18:39PM -0400, jeff covey wrote: > in the meantime, my bayesian database is contaminated with 75 spam > messages which were recorded as ham because i reported them. how can > i keep my spam data, erase my ham data, and start training with ham > from scratch? I think som

Re: [SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.. updated.

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:12:53PM -0400, Steve Fulton wrote: > An update: I removed the old and incorrect entries from my local.cf file, > and the problem continues. When the whitelist_from entries are used in the > local.cf file, spam is delivered even though it is marked as spam and the > h

Re: [SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.. updated.

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Fulton
An update: I removed the old and incorrect entries from my local.cf file, and the problem continues. When the whitelist_from entries are used in the local.cf file, spam is delivered even though it is marked as spam and the hit rate is about the threshold. When those are removed, the same spam

RE: [SAtalk] Auto-learn vs sa-learn?

2003-06-18 Thread Mathew Hendry
Simon Byrnand wrote: > At 16:38 14/06/03 +0100, Mathew Hendry wrote: > >> No, auto-learn learns only from mails with particularly high or low >> scores. The default thresholds are >> >> auto_learn_threshold_nonspam-0.5 >> auto_learn_threshold_spam 10 > > In fact the default settings ar

Re: [SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Fulton
At 08:23 PM 18/06/2003 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: 1) what ancient version are you running? auto_report_threshold has been dead since something like 2.31. v2.55. However, I did copy the original configuration from the Qmail-Scanner site based on that authors experience. Obviously he ran a much

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:59 PM 6/18/2003 -0700, Mike Batchelor wrote: Received: from unys-2.namewithheld.com (webmail2.usainteractive.com [209.11.17.108]) by lax1msa1.tmcs.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/200306171005) with ESMTP id h5IJZO0q028359 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed 18 Jun 2003 12:35:24 -0700 "unys-2.n

Re: [SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:44 PM 6/18/2003 -0400, Steve Fulton wrote: Hi all, I recently installed SA on a mail server, only applying globally right now -- no individual user configurations. I've discovered that when I add "whitelist_from ..." entries to the local.cf file, SA let's spam in that is marked above the

Re: [SAtalk] SA is running, but no tests...? (running as postfix-filter)

2003-06-18 Thread Justin Mason
Michael Boettjer said: > No Test, No Hits. What's going wrong? SpamAssassin is not finding the rules directory. Use the "-C" switch, or make sure "/usr/share/spamassassin" is available nad contains the rules files. --j. --- This SF.Net emai

[SAtalk] SMTP Proxy for Win?

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Martinec
Hi list, Would anyone be able to please point me to a place where I can get a SMTP proxy that will run on Win2K please? I have managed to compile and setup SA on the box, now I just need to intercept the email and pass it onto it. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers! M. --

[SAtalk] SA hit threshold and whitelist_from problem.

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Fulton
Hi all, I recently installed SA on a mail server, only applying globally right now -- no individual user configurations. I've discovered that when I add "whitelist_from ..." entries to the local.cf file, SA let's spam in that is marked above the hit threshold. With the entries removed from th

Re: [SAtalk] Base-64 encoded HTML and text spam

2003-06-18 Thread Abigail Marshall
RW> Does this mean that SpamAssassin is blind to the contents of base-64 RW> encoded HTML? Apparently so; but it does correctly identify the email as being base-64 encoded. I would simply recommend that you raise the score in the local.cf file for the SA test BASE64_ENC_TEXT to near or above your

[SAtalk] SA Libmilter patch + help request

2003-06-18 Thread Corwin Grey
Ok, I have done everything withing my power to figure this out. I got one thing fixed so that the libmilter lowercases the username prior to passing it to spamd which fixed one problem. The patch is listed below. (I know, my C sucks but it works... :) The other issue appears to be beyond my C++

[SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Batchelor
We get mail that I want to whitelist using whitelist_from_rcvd. The Received header I am trying to match is like this: Received: from unys-2.namewithheld.com (webmail2.usainteractive.com [209.11.17.108]) by lax1msa1.tmcs.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/200306171005) with ESMTP id h5IJZO0q028359 for <[EMA

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelisting Certain Domains for Single User?

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Morris
Since it sounds like you don't have per-user prefs set up (but I could be wrong about that), your best bet would probably just use all_spam_to in your SA config, and pass *all* the spam to him. Without per-user prefs, that's about as good as your going to get without some fairly tricky custom

RE: [SAtalk] Installing SpamAssassin, Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at ...

2003-06-18 Thread Anitech Systems
-Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:57 PM To: Anitech Systems Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Installing SpamAssassin, Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at ... > Actual: perl /home

Re: [SAtalk] Installing SpamAssassin, Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at ...

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
> Actual: perl /home/anitech/cgibin/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55/Makefile.PL > PREFIX=/home/anitech/cgibin/sausr SYSCONFDIR=/home/anitech/cgibin/saetc are you in /home/anitech/cgibin/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55 when you run this? If not, that's your problem. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Cats, proof tha

Re: [SAtalk] Help

2003-06-18 Thread Krishna
Hi, You have to use procmail for that; This is what I have done, here I am reading user preferences from a Mysql Database. Run Spamd with the -q & -x option spamd -C /etc/mail/spamassassin -d -q -x -a -u spamd Note: you have to add a user "spamd" on the system After starting spamd, crea

[SAtalk] Installing SpamAssassin, Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at ...

2003-06-18 Thread Anitech Systems
Installing SpamAssassin for Personal Use, Warning: the following files are missing in your kit Could not open 'lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm': No such file or directory at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm line 2903. Note: That's because it is in /home/anitech/cgibin/Mail-SpamAss

[SAtalk] SA is running, but no tests...? (running as postfix-filter)

2003-06-18 Thread Michael Boettjer
Hi list, i've installed SA 2.55 as filter in my postfix-installation on a SuSE 7.2-Box. SA is running as daemon (ps ax: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/spamd -u filter -a -x). First On Port 25 my Antivirus-Service is waiting; then the mail is routing to postfix, waiting on port 825. The outcut of my mas

[SAtalk] Whitelisting Certain Domains for Single User?

2003-06-18 Thread Maxwell, Michael
Has anyone come across a way to whitelist certain domains for a single user? Note that our SA installation is running on a store/forward server - no local accounts on the machine. I have one user that is complaining that he *wants* to receive certain spam (yeah, I know...) I cannot simply whi

Re: [SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:47 PM 6/18/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:19:53AM -0600, Lucas Albers wrote: It sees your entries correctly. > spamassassin -D, against a test message and I get the following errors: > > debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: > RCVD

RE: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (wasWe TEACH you how to ...)

2003-06-18 Thread Alan Leghart
What? Those weren't more pictures of Anna Kournikova? I re-tasked my entire network of SETI machines to decrypt those files! What a waste of 214.7 years of computing power. --On Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:32 PM -0400 Shayne Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that what this fine fello

Re: [SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, You want score RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 ^ Regards, Rick Lucas Albers wrote: I am trying to set the values for rbl checks. I add the following entries to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 #no longer in service RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4.0 RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 4.0 RCVD_IN_RELAYS_O

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes learning "sudden death" ..

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Schulz
> First, a big "thank you" to the developers! > > Using the bayes learner, starting it with several 100 spams > and about 1000 hams, and then mainly feeding it spam that > wasn't caught in the past had a tremendously positive effect here. > At the momemnt, spamassassin is almost perfect for us. >

RE: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was We TEACH you how to ...)

2003-06-18 Thread Shayne Lebrun
I think that what this fine fellow is talking about is when you say to somebody "do NOT open an email with 'ILOVEYOU' as the subject!" Then they say, literally, 'Ok, I won't. Hey, a new email! Wow, somebody loves me! *click click*' Implementing a properly fascist IT environment is damn hard when

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin causing procmail failure?

2003-06-18 Thread James Gorham
I've just had to move my mail to a new host. Both have identical versions of procmail and spamassassin, both installed from the FreeBSD Ports collection. SpamAssassin version 2.55 procmail v3.22 2001/09/10 There are no system-wide config files installed for either program. I have identical copi

RE: [SAtalk] We TEACH you how to SPAM and make a Fortune!!

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Vanasco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:38 PM > To: Jim Ford > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] We TEACH you how to SPAM and make a Fortune!! > > > > > I've been looking at Sugarplum spam poison and > tee

Re: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was We TEACH you how to ...)

2003-06-18 Thread Jeremy Oddo
[SNIP] > > Sorry Dave, I have to disagree with you here. As an admin who provides > in-house support, I lose respect for the average human being. I cannot > tell you how many times I have to remove virii, reinstall s/w or entire > OSen, or remove spyware. These are adult who repeat their actions

RE: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread Marek Dohojda
Your method doesn't work in Outlook 2002+ Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided that re-sent no longer should send full headers. -Original Message- From: Martin Bene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:25 AM To: David Prall; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi David, >>

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Bores
management wants me to set up an auto-reply to mails marked as spam by SA. I told them that this is a very bad idea, since a.) reply addresses are fakes and not working most of the time anyway b.) if they DO work, we will just notify the spammers that the address they bought/harvested is working

Re: [SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:19:53AM -0600, Lucas Albers wrote: > RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 #no longer in service > RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4.0 > RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 4.0 > RCVD_IN_RELAYS_ORDB_ORG 4.0 > > It appears to not see my entries correctly. It sees your entries correctly. > spamassassin -D, against a

[SAtalk] SA CVS mirror

2003-06-18 Thread Andrew A. Vasilyev
Hi! Is there any CVS mirror for SA project? Probably the cvs.sourceforge.net is overloaded, too often aborting the connections. ANDY --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Bec

[SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Lucas Albers
I am trying to set the values for rbl checks. I add the following entries to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 #no longer in service RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4.0 RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 4.0 RCVD_IN_RELAYS_ORDB_ORG 4.0 It appears to not see my entries correctly. When I run: spamassassin

Re: [SAtalk] OK, this Nigerian takes the cake, hands down!

2003-06-18 Thread Benjamin A. Shelton
> no, this guy takes the cake > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/31270.html That's what I call "having your cake and eating it, too." That is FUNNY! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Thanks to everyone contributing thoughts about this matter. I can say, that I was able to convince management to refrain from this, using all the facts stated here Cheers Ralf G. - Original Message - From: "Roedel, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> Jack, > > based on what you wrote, I added a "-m 2" option to my call of spamd, to > limit the number of children to 2. > This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was > "unlimited". If that's wrong, could one of the developers or someone with > more insight set us str

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Oleg, Direct replies to you get rejected: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host localhost[127.0.0.1] said: 550 5.7.1 Message content rejected, UBE, id=30091-03 > I understood that Bayesian will start work automatically as soon as he >will have enough information. This is correct, is not it? Yes, it is.

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
I think its wrong. I'm thinking of removing the "-m". But I'm guessing. On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Ralf Guenthner wrote: > Jack, > > based on what you wrote, I added a "-m 2" option to my call of spamd, to > limit the number of children to 2. > This should solve at least my problem, since the default

Re: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 & Spamassassin 2.55

2003-06-18 Thread Justin Mason
Warren Togami said: > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:03, Clement wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Someone must have asked this, I cannot install Spamassassin 2.55 > > in RH9.0. When doing the make, this is the error message: > > > > Makefile:72: *** missing separator. Stop. > > > > Trying 2.53 gets the

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Justin Mason
Ralf Guenthner said: > management wants me to set up an auto-reply to mails marked as spam by SA. I > told them that this is a very bad idea, since > > a.) reply addresses are fakes and not working most of the time anyway > b.) if they DO work, we will just notify the spammers that the address t

Re: [SAtalk] OK, this Nigerian takes the cake, hands down!

2003-06-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
no, this guy takes the cake http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/31270.html --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You G

Re: [SAtalk] We TEACH you how to SPAM and make a Fortune!!

2003-06-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I've been looking at Sugarplum spam poison and teergrube/tar pitting, but the gurus on this list seem to thing neither is a good thing. fuck that. how about this? 1) hack their server 2) upload a shitload of metallica tracks 3) call the riaa ---

RE: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Roedel, Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Ralf Guenthner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not > replying to spam > > > Fellow spam-fighters, > > management wants me to set up an auto-repl

Re: [SAtalk] Everyone running PYZOR read

2003-06-18 Thread Kelson Vibber
Jorge =?iso-8859-1?q?F=E1bregas?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll just keep watching the spam reprots regularly and If I see something strange with Pyzor I now probably know what it is. Better yet, subscribe to pyzor-announce. People on the list got notified ahead of time. It's very low traffic:

Re: [SAtalk] Is there a way to filter mail that's forwarded?

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Campion-Bye
> Hi all. Trying to use my home mail server to filter my dad's mail for > spam. What I'm doing is I'm pulling it in off of his netzero account (oh > yeah, spam heaven) and it's supposed to be filtered as it goes through my > server and off to the dumping account I have setup for delivering

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Alan Leghart
--On Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:58 PM +0200 Ralf Guenthner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apologies to list members! I am very sorry for confusing anyone's message threading. Since I am stuck with an employer that uses mostly MS stuff, I didn't notice myself. I wasn't aware that anything remains, w

Re: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was We TEACH you how

2003-06-18 Thread Jim Ford
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:54:25AM -0300, Luis Hern?n Otegui wrote: > Well, Ben, what I do is reject spam-tagged messages with a beautiful > "data, reject=550 5.7.1 Blocked by Anti-Spam Filter", What does the above line do, or is it just text you manually insert at the top of the message? Also

[SAtalk] DCC use with SA?

2003-06-18 Thread Jim Ford
Hi, I've installed dcc_proc as per the spamassassin readme and I get a response from various servers when I do cdcc 'info'. To get it to work with SA, do I just put use_dcc 1 in my user_prefs? How will I tell if it's working OK? I guess the answer's somewhere in the DCC docs, but there's a lot of

Re: [SAtalk] LDAP Storage instead of SQL Storage

2003-06-18 Thread J. S. Townsley
LDAP Storage for spamassassin has been on my 'todo' list for some time now. I still don't have time to get involved with the development of this, but I could devote some time with testing and feedback if it is warranted. Very interested in seeing this come to life! --JST * Colin Dean [Wed, 18

[SAtalk] Re: spamassassin Bugzilla Bug 2027: spamassassin -r does "learning ham" instead of "learning spam" ?

2003-06-18 Thread jeff covey
on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:59:22PM -0400%, Theo Van Dinter said: theo> found the bug, fixed the bug for 2.60. thanks! i'll start reporting spam again after i upgrade to there. in the meantime, my bayesian database is contaminated with 75 spam messages which were recorded as ham because i re

[SAtalk] with MIMEDefang

2003-06-18 Thread Dana Holland
I just installed SpamAssassin with MIMEDefang. I see in the message headers that MIMEDefang is scanning, but I don't see anything to indicate that SpamAssassin is working with it. I checked the mimedefang filer in /etc/mail and see that it has the Spam Assassin code in it. I'm thinking I must

Re: [SAtalk] unlearning a lot of ham

2003-06-18 Thread jeff covey
on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:50:22AM -0400%, Ross Vandegrift said: ross> if you retrain Bayes with the messages in question apparently, this thread has wandered far enough that my original message has been forgotten. it's here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-talk&m=1055869669284

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Apologies to list members! I am very sorry for confusing anyone's message threading. Since I am stuck with an employer that uses mostly MS stuff, I didn't notice myself. I wasn't aware that anything remains, when one takes an existing posting, removes the body and subject and changes them to somet

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:51 AM 6/18/2003 -0500, Oleg Aronov wrote: Hello, I have question and hope that somebody will help me. Please... So, few days ago I installed and configured SpamAssassin on Linux. The SA is works fine, but he is catching only about 20% of spam emails. I believe that I should

[SAtalk] Is there a way to filter mail that's forwarded?

2003-06-18 Thread Dragoncrest
Hi all. Trying to use my home mail server to filter my dad's mail for spam. What I'm doing is I'm pulling it in off of his netzero account (oh yeah, spam heaven) and it's supposed to be filtered as it goes through my server and off to the dumping account I have setup for delivering all mail

Re: [SAtalk] Problem trying to install on new server

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Wilson
I had that same Pod2man problem on a stock RH9 system a couple of weeks ago. The (much appreciated) advice I got was to: Download the tarball. Unpack it - (tar -xzvf ) change to the dir it unpacked in, and instead of running "perl Makefile.PL" , run "LANG=C perl Makefile.PL" Worked like a charm f

[SAtalk] Can't compile

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Covell
Posted this before without any responses, but I am stuck. Trying to build SA on a RH 7.1 box and I get: C compiler cannot create executables I know some rpms are missing that are required to build executables but for the life of me can't remember which. Would anybody have any idea what extra r

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
- Original Message - From: "D'Alessandro, Arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:07 PM Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin > That feature is enabled by default, however, it is not activated until it > has been

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes with SQL preferences?

2003-06-18 Thread freebsd
Thus spake Rick Macdougall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13/06/03 19:49]: > Works globally without any hacks, but per user is a little more > difficult to implement. Hrmmm... I was hoping for per-user, as we have a rather large and diverse user base. I can only see a global Bayes causing more harm than

Re: [SAtalk] SA-LEARN

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:06 AM 6/18/2003 -0400, Mike Wagner wrote: I have a RedHat 9 box with sendmail and spamassassin running. I installed both from the redhat cd and have done no additional configuration, other than setting up procmail to feed to spamc. Spamassassin works great, it detects spam and marks it as s

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Jack, based on what you wrote, I added a "-m 2" option to my call of spamd, to limit the number of children to 2. This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was "unlimited". If that's wrong, could one of the developers or someone with more insight set us straight? Thanks R

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Please don't thread steal. You replied to an existing thread of conversation and changed the subject line. That is impolite. Now your message right in the middle of Martin Bene's thread about "Learning from forwarded mail". How are they related? Many people won't even read your message because

RE: [SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread D'Alessandro, Arthur
That feature is enabled by default, however, it is not activated until it has been seeded with enough entries, off the top of my head, I cannot remember the count. -Art D'Alessandro -Original Message- From: Oleg Aronov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:51 AM To:

[SAtalk] Problem trying to install on new server

2003-06-18 Thread Jody Cleveland
Hello, I'm trying to install the latest SA on Redhat 9. I type in (as root): perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf prerequisites_policy ask install Mail::SpamAssassin Everything seems ok for a while, then this comes up: CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JM/JMASON/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55.

[SAtalk] Bayesian and SpamAssassin

2003-06-18 Thread Oleg Aronov
Hello, I have question and hope that somebody will help me. Please... So, few days ago I installed and configured SpamAssassin on Linux. The SA is works fine, but he is catching only about 20% of spam emails. I believe that I should configure Bayesian with SA. Is it correct? How c

Re: [SAtalk] unlearning a lot of ham

2003-06-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:43:55PM -0400, jeff covey wrote: > while the side issues are interesting, does anyone have answers for > the actual questions that started this thread? :) LOL, yes - if you retrain Bayes with the messages in question and specifically mention that it's spam, they should

[SAtalk] Re: SA-LEARN

2003-06-18 Thread Tom Diehl
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Mike Wagner wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a RedHat 9 box with sendmail and spamassassin running. I installed > both from the redhat cd and have done no additional configuration, other > than setting up procmail to feed to spamc. Spamassassin works great, it > detects spa

Re: [SAtalk] SA-LEARN

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:06:17AM -0400, Mike Wagner wrote: > I have a RedHat 9 box with sendmail and spamassassin running. I installed ... > run the sa-learn command, it says that command not found. I've done a > whereis and locate on sa-learn and can't find it anywhere. Anyone have > any idea

Re: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:47:31AM -0700, Robert Menschel wrote: > I'm limited to ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, and by design in the current > versions I can change rule scores, but I can't add even the simplest of > rules. Please RTFM: allow_user_rules { 0 | 1 } (default: 0)

[SAtalk] SA-LEARN

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Wagner
Hi Everyone, I have a RedHat 9 box with sendmail and spamassassin running. I installed both from the redhat cd and have done no additional configuration, other than setting up procmail to feed to spamc. Spamassassin works great, it detects spam and marks it as so. However, when I ssh into my se

Re: [SAtalk] Help

2003-06-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Norberto: Probá con el tutorial que te adjunto, te dice cómo correrlo con un milter para el sendmail, y con un antivirus, pero lo podés poner con SA solo, y anda diez puntos. El howto es bastante completo, creo que lo actualicé para que comprenda el spamass-milter, que es el milter que estoy us

Re[3]: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Abigail, Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 10:41:46 PM, you wrote: AM> The reason the spam in your case bypassed SA but got caught AM> when you had others run it is here: >> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=9.0 >> tests=BASE64_ENC_TEXT, ..

Re: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was We TEACH you how

2003-06-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
But _does_ it really hurt them. They don't get any feedback - users that install spam filters wouldn't have responded to to the spam anyway, other than deleting it manually. The only difference is that the deletion process is automated by a spam filter. I reckon spammers don't really care about th

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
> I think, RBL is not the cause for this. I run RBL via qmail, not SA and > sometimes there are 4/5 spamd processes when I run "ps aux" in the morning. > I usually stop the original spamd and kill the others, then restart spamd. > Running SA 2.54 on Suse 8.0. > If someone could explain this, it'd

[SAtalk] Slightly OT: Arguments needed for not replying to spam

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Fellow spam-fighters, management wants me to set up an auto-reply to mails marked as spam by SA. I told them that this is a very bad idea, since a.) reply addresses are fakes and not working most of the time anyway b.) if they DO work, we will just notify the spammers that the address they bought

Re[3]: [SAtalk] Frustrating spam

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Abigail, Thanks for the guidance, but Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 10:30:10 PM, you wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> 1) SA Developers: PLEASE provide some method whereby end-users like me can implement header, body, and uri rules

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with spamd as non-root user

2003-06-18 Thread Kim Bisgaard
Hi Michael, Tanks for your help! I took your advice and raised the port number, and it helped but not on the problems I reported in this thread. These problems seemed to be old rule files from the prior installation of SA. The reason for running SA as a non-root was to have a home dir. with al

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with spamd as non-root user

2003-06-18 Thread Kim Bisgaard
Hi Theo, Tanks for your help! You where correct that it was due to old rule files from the prior installation of SA. Regards, Kim. On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:45:26PM +0200, Kim Bisgaard wrote: I am trying to run spamd a non-root user. I am using global SA filtering, and run both spamd and sp

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Jack, I think, RBL is not the cause for this. I run RBL via qmail, not SA and sometimes there are 4/5 spamd processes when I run "ps aux" in the morning. I usually stop the original spamd and kill the others, then restart spamd. Running SA 2.54 on Suse 8.0. If someone could explain this, it'd be g

AW: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Bene
Hi Tom, >Drag & drop it into a public folder, hit the public folder from your >Spamassassin machine using IMAP, save it as an MBOX on your SA machine, >learn it from there. Sorry, all clients are currently using POP3; there's no exchange server and no public folders. getting all useres to setup

[SAtalk] Bayes DB corruption

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Yrabedra
My bayes database(s) are constantly getting corrupted. IS there anything I can do to prevent this? SA 2.5.5 OSX 10.2.x CGATE 4.06 ++ Mike Yrabedra (President) 323 Incorporated Home of MacDock, MacAgent and MacSurfshop +-

[SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Jack Gostl
I've seen this two or three times now, and I'm not sure what to make of it. Outward appearance is that we get hit with a ton of spam, or perhaps that an RBL goes out. I wind up with many copies of spamd running, many more than the -m parameter should allow. (And forget about procmail and sendmail

AW: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread Martin Bene
Hi David, >> Using bayes in a windows/outlook environment without central exchange >> server, it's rather difficult to get at spam/ham messages for >> learning. >> > >Outlook is rather convoluted, but can be done. Open the message in its >own window, rather then viewing in the preview window. Ac

RE: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail

2003-06-18 Thread David Prall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote: > Subject: [SAtalk] Learning from forwarded mail > > Using bayes in a windows/outlook environment without central exchange > server, it's rather difficult to get at spam/ham messages for > learning. > Outlook is rather convoluted, but can be done. Open the message in

[SAtalk] sa-learn (auto-learn)

2003-06-18 Thread ODHIAMBO Washington
I am missing something small, maybe. This is what I see: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-cvs (1.193-2003-06-13-exp) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=no version=2.60-cvs X-Spam-Level: When does autolearn=yes happen??? -Wa

Re: [SAtalk] Everyone running PYZOR read

2003-06-18 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 5:14 am, Brian Read wrote: > Thanks for this. When is "pyzor discover" normally run? You're welcome. I didn't know the "discover" argument existed at all ! I thought they had a better|elegant way of doing this switch but that's not the case. I've been thinking about

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