RE: [SAtalk] Bayes and IMAP

2003-07-07 Thread AJ Willmer
Absolutely, Use --mbox to point to IMAP folder with sa-learn command AJ Willmer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 7:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Bayes and IMAP Hi, I just installed SA

[SAtalk] How can I receive spam?

2003-07-07 Thread Izquierdo, Raul
Title: How can I receive spam? Hi, I have installed spamassassin with MySQL based preferences. It works fine and each user can modify his preferences with a web interface. Tought it could seem incredible, my problem is to receive spam!. I know people who receives it but I think that bayes

Re: [SAtalk] How can I receive spam?

2003-07-07 Thread Matthew Cline
On Monday 07 July 2003 12:41 am, Izquierdo, Raul wrote: Hi, I have installed spamassassin with MySQL based preferences. It works fine and each user can modify his preferences with a web interface. Tought it could seem incredible, my problem is to receive spam!. I know people who

[SAtalk] amavisd-new - spamassassin does not create/update bayes db

2003-07-07 Thread Branko F. Granar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there... I'm using amavisd-new-20030616 with spamassassin 2.55 on freebsd 5.1 platform. My problem is, that spamassassin does not create or update bayes db. If i manually issue command spamassassin mymail.txt bayes db is created in

Re: [SAtalk] How can I receive spam?

2003-07-07 Thread Yuval Kojman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are sites like http://www.spamarchive.org/ which exist to collect spam. Additionally you may want to put that address down in many forums, websites and so forth as possible. Newsgroups don't get you spammed as much as publicizing does. Try

RE: [SAtalk] problem filtering all mail to single spam mailbox

2003-07-07 Thread Richard Humphrey
How can I tell if what user procmail is running as? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Byrnand Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:40 PM To: Richard Humphrey; Spamassassin-List Subject: Re: [SAtalk] problem filtering all mail to single spam

[SAtalk] Embedding Perl (Mail::SpamAssassin) in a C program

2003-07-07 Thread Joe Flowers
Help please. I'm trying to embed the following very few Perl lines in a Microsoft Visual C++ v6 C program. //use Mail::SpamAssassin; //my $spamobj = Mail::SpamAssassin-new(); //my $status = $spamobj-check_message_text($input); //my $spamstr = (($status-is_spam()) ? Yes : No); //my $output =

[SAtalk] Getting Spamassassin and a Anti-Virus working

2003-07-07 Thread Christopher Lyon
I was looking to get spamassassin and an anti virus program, sophos, openantivirus, or anything that would work in conjunction with spamassassin as a mail gateway. I have a production mail server and I want to create just a SMTP relay to protect the production mail server and have spamassassin and

Re: [SAtalk] Getting Spamassassin and a Anti-Virus working

2003-07-07 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:21:27AM -0700, Christopher Lyon wrote: I was looking to get spamassassin and an anti virus program, sophos, openantivirus, or anything that would work in conjunction with spamassassin as a mail gateway. I have a production mail server and I want to create just a SMTP

RE: [SAtalk] problem filtering all mail to single spam mailbox

2003-07-07 Thread Nichols, William
ps -aux | grep procmail -Original Message- From: Richard Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 6:35 AM To: Spamassassin-List How can I tell if what user procmail is running as? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SAtalk] Hoping that whom ever runs SA Site will get this

2003-07-07 Thread Ben Johansen
Hi, This is for the admins of the SpamAssassin site. if I go into account options https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/spamassassin-talk and give it my email address and click Email My Password to Me I never receive it. At first I thought it may be blocked by my mail server but checked

[SAtalk] Consumer Reports on spam

2003-07-07 Thread Balam Willemsen
I'm sure all the developers are already aware of it, but I haven't seen it mentioned on the list. Congratulations are in order! SAProxy is Consumer Reports' highest rated spam-blocking software in the Aug 2003 issue! I quote: This outperformed the others and it's free. But you must have

Re: [SAtalk] Two new techniques or old hat?

2003-07-07 Thread Vivek Khera
KS == Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KS Kris Deugau wrote on Wed, 02 Jul 2003 18:03:05 -0400: Worse, a few will send directly to an A record- KS I think that is okay. If you remove all MX records for a domain No, this is *never* OK if the MX records exist. The standards define that

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and IMAP

2003-07-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
Hi On Sunday, Jul 6, 2003, at 08:37 US/Mountain, Mark wrote: Hi, I just installed SA 2.55, so I am rather new to Bayes. And I was wondering whether Bayes learning will work on IMAP folders too. Depends on how the server stores the mail on the IMAP server side but in most cases it should be

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes and IMAP

2003-07-07 Thread Joe Julian
I'm using Cyrus IMAP and it stores the messages as individual files. I just use sa-learn on the messages in the public.spam folder (and I have a public.ham as well). Since I have to use cyrus' deliver to feed the imap folders, I am using mimedefang to call SA and have a global bayes database.

[SAtalk] strange behaviour

2003-07-07 Thread Angel Todorov
Hi list, i am using mailscanner, exim and spamassassin and sometimes i can see that not all the emails are checked by spamassassin, some of them are, some aren't, i was wondering what could be the reason - can there be something wrong in some exim/mailscanner conf file (some timeout

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Spammers using SpamAssassin to tailor their emails?

2003-07-07 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Jack, Saturday, July 5, 2003, 6:50:05 PM, you wrote: Train bayes. Everyone has a different bayes db, and they can't work around that centrally. JG The problem I'm seeing is that I'm getting messages with a Bayes of JG 90% but it still

RE: [SAtalk] Spammers using SpamAssassin to tailor their emails?

2003-07-07 Thread Mathew Hendry
Tony Earnshaw wrote: But my Norwegian daughter, running Win 98 and getting her mail with Outlook Express, finds that most of her mail is spam and she has to pay her Norwegian ISP extra for filtering her mail, or pay for a commercial spam filter. She could always use SAproxy, very easy to set

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and IMAP

2003-07-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Sunday, Jul 6, 2003, at 23:17 US/Mountain, AJ Willmer wrote: Absolutely, Use --mbox to point to IMAP folder with sa-learn command Or --dirif it is in maildir format. If you use uw-imap then --mbox is more likely while courier and several others use maildir format Chad AJ Willmer

[SAtalk] Need help for spamassassin in conjunction with postifx/cyrus/mysql/virutal-hosts/amavis-new

2003-07-07 Thread Christian B.
Hello, I'm configured my RedHat 7.3, as it is described in the web-cyradm-howto. So, if I get a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it will be deliverd to cyrus-mailbox user.testdomain.at To achieve this, I have a mysql-table with the alias and the destination. For the postfix I had a virtual-maps, which

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Trying to compile 2.55

2003-07-07 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Re: Trying to compile 2.55 Mark wrote: I am still using SA 2.44. But after recent reports how much better de 2.55 edition with Bayes is, I thought I'd

[SAtalk] Bayesian filtering question

2003-07-07 Thread Matthew Thomas
Greetings, I'm using 2.53 spamassassin (with Mimedefang and sendmail). I've got my bayes database seeded. When I test spam using spamassassin -tD sample-spam, I get accurate bayes information. But I have yet to see the bayes result to show up on a tagged incoming spam. Do I have something

[SAtalk] Bayes Error

2003-07-07 Thread Richard Humphrey
I posted this a week or so ago and didnt get much in the way of a response. Figured I would try again. I enabled bayes in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and when I run spamassassin -D --lint as any user, I get the following error: Cannot open bayes_path /home/richard/.spamassassin/bayes R/O:

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers using SpamAssassin to tailor their emails?

2003-07-07 Thread Justin Mason
Jim Ford writes: On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:03:38PM -0700, Abigail Marshall wrote: I think the only way to avoid the problem is to use the Bayes, Auto-whitelisting, and RBL features that come with SA. I'm finding that RBL, DCC and Razor are very powerful features and often enough on their

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes Error

2003-07-07 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:50:46PM -0500, Richard Humphrey wrote: I posted this a week or so ago and didnt get much in the way of a response. Figured I would try again. I enabled bayes in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and when I run spamassassin -D --lint as any user, I get the following

[SAtalk] SAproxy v1.2.0 + Norton Antivirus 2002 + Outlook 2000

2003-07-07 Thread Ashley Collins
I need help.I finally got fed up with the ever increasing mountain of spam hitting myPOP3 account that I had to do something about it. I came across SAproxy,which is a POP3 proxy-based spam filter wriiten in Perl which internallyruns Spam Assassin. I tried it at work and it seems to work

[SAtalk] Re: Hormel sues

2003-07-07 Thread Chris Barnes
Liudvikas Bukys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55892-2003Jul1.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/135144116_spamhormel02.html http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/07/02/1453254.shtml?tid=111tid=126 I think Hormel is in for an uphill

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers using SpamAssassin to tailor their emails?

2003-07-07 Thread Greg Cirino
| had 2 FPs that were obvious as to why. (Still tweaking catching this base64 | junk/) Isn't base64 what exchange/outlook uses in valid email? G - Original Message - From: Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Spam Assassin' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07,

[SAtalk] Reject based on SA score

2003-07-07 Thread Mike Vanecek
Running RH 9, SA 2.55 w/spamc/d, Postfix, procmail, ... Q1. Does a configuration exist (mailscanner, or such utilities) that would allow one to do a standard reject based on the hit score? Based on my existing setup, by the time the message goes through SA via spamc, it is already out of

[SAtalk] BASE64_ENC_TEXT messages of course are UPPERCASE_25_50

2003-07-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
UPPERCASE_25_50 message body is 25-50% uppercase why of course, it is BASE64_ENC_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base-64 encoding --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce,

Re: [SAtalk] Re: FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!

2003-07-07 Thread Kris Deugau
Bob Sully wrote: It looks like this thread is dying off but I've just gotten through reviewing two days' worth of messages. I have to admit that I agree with Abigail on the premise of the thread. If I can run clam-antivirus and mime-defang on my mail servers (including one on which I run

[SAtalk] Mail::SpamAssassin memory requirements?

2003-07-07 Thread SpamAssassin
Anyone have an idea of the Mail::SpamAssassin memory requirements? I realize it will vary depending on configuration / options / rules / ... in use. (SpamAssassin 2.55 on a per user install through IMAPAssassin. {perl 5.008})) Current config # ok_languagesen ok_locales en

[SAtalk] Razor2 vs DCC vs Pyzor ?

2003-07-07 Thread Simon Byrnand
Hi People, I wonder if anyone has any stats or anecdotal evidence on the relative effectiveness of Razor2, DCC, and Pyzor ? At the moment I just use Razor2, (and RBL and Bayes) and I'm interested to know whether also running DCC and/or Pyzor at the same time might be beneficial...(the answer

Re: [SAtalk] Reject based on SA score

2003-07-07 Thread Abigail Marshall
Hello Mike,. MV Q1. MV Does a configuration exist (mailscanner, or such utilities) that would allow MV one to do a standard reject based on the hit score? Based on my existing MV setup, by the time the message goes through SA via spamc, it is already out of MV postfix. I assume that means that

Re: [SAtalk] Reject based on SA score

2003-07-07 Thread alan premselaar
On 7/8/03 8:11 AM, "Mike Vanecek" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running RH 9, SA 2.55 w/spamc/d, Postfix, procmail, ... Q1. Does a configuration exist (mailscanner, or such utilities) that would allow one to do a standard reject based on the hit score? Based on my existing

Re: [SAtalk] Re: FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!

2003-07-07 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, But the hardware to run the software is not free- and handling really large volumes of email takes *big* hardware. Think cluster of 4-way Xeon-2GHz/16Gmem. Or whatever. I've been pushing ~1.5GB+ (~30K+ messages) inbound and outbound relay mail per week through a PII/400 (recently upgraded

Re: [SAtalk] Hoping that whom ever runs SA Site will get this

2003-07-07 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:54 AM 7/7/03 -0700, Ben Johansen wrote: if I go into account options https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/spamassassin-talk and give it my email address and click Email My Password to Me I never receive it. At first I thought it may be blocked by my mail server but checked the logs

[SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter for another mail server.

2003-07-07 Thread mwestern
Hi All, I've got spam assassin working like a dream on our small sendmail box. works like a bought one.what i want to do is setup a gateway arrangment for an Exchange Server (everyone shudders, i know). like so: Internet - Linux Sendmail with SpamAssasin - Exchange Server has anybody

Re: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter f or another mail server.

2003-07-07 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:42:33AM +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Internet - Linux Sendmail with SpamAssasin - Exchange Server has anybody attempted such a thing? i've been searching google for quite a while and not found any howtos...on the sendmail box i'm attempting: yeah, it's

Re: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter f or another mail server.

2003-07-07 Thread Alain Fauconnet
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:42:33AM +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got spam assassin working like a dream on our small sendmail box. works like a bought one.what i want to do is setup a gateway arrangment for an Exchange Server (everyone shudders, i know). like so: Internet -

Re: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter f or another mail server.

2003-07-07 Thread Thomas Cameron
If you are using Red Hat or an RPM based distro, I have posted source RPMs for SpamAssassin and spamass-milter along with a sample sendmail.mc file at ftp://mail.camerontech.com/pub/spam. I use these tools on several relay-only servers in front of Exchange and Notes servers. The customers love

Re: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spamfilter f or another mail server.

2003-07-07 Thread tnelson
We accomplish the internal relay a bit differently, but works very nicely. Instead of creating user accounts on the sendmail relay for every user, we create aliases.. for example, I have tnelson: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tony.nelson: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tony_nelson: [EMAIL PROTECTED]