RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin at Redhat 7.2?

2003-07-17 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Hi Klaus! > Hi List, > > I have an older Redhat 7.2 mail/web server and want to > install SpamAssassin. > > On this system I cannot upgrade to perl 5.6.1... > Some other tries didn't work. > > Is someone here who has some experiences about this? > Or solved this problem? > > I read about the

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.60cvs (todays) "undefined value as an ARRAY reference"

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Jason Haar wrote: I'm trying out the new RBLPLUS code in 2.60cvs, and get the following error on *some* RBL-matched msgs: debug: RBL: success for 5 of 6 queries Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 305, line 412. debug:

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60-cvs problem with dial-up RBLs?

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Earnshaw
David B Funk wrote: OK, I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough about the environment. The AOL client was using a web browser (HTTP not SMTP) to sent the message, via a webmail (HTTP-2-IMAP/SMTP) gateway (running 'IMP'). I understand about requiring dial-up clients using their ISP for SMTP transactions, b

[SAtalk] SA and message size limit?

2003-07-17 Thread Tomas Pluskal
Hello, I am using SpamAssassin system-wide (I use qmail, so I run spamassassin in place of qmail-queue). It's great, but it often consumes a lot of resources (I see processes of SA that consume 200+ MB of memory etc.). I suppose that this is because of large messages (e.g. with attachments). Is t

[SAtalk] spamstats and amavisd-new

2003-07-17 Thread Alain Fauconnet
Hello, Before I re-invent the wheel, has anyone added support for amavisd-new logs to spamstats? (http://www.gryzor.com/tools/#spamstats) Nice tool (merci Vincent) but doesn't seem to grok log entries generated by amavisd-new. If no one has yet, I'll do it shortly. Greets, _Alain_ ---

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin Whitelisting when I don't want it to

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Staver
Ok, I think I see what you man here - saying that I could use this procmail filter... and I could then blacklist fimble.com so any external mail from fimble.com gets blocked. My issue still is though that fimble.com is whitelisted, so blacklisting it sets the score back to 0, and not 100 like

Re: [SAtalk] China

2003-07-17 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Sunday, Jul 13th 2003 at 16:52 -0400, quoth Joe Nicholson: =>I just started using spamassassin via Saproxy. It's great. Much of my spam =>comes from china (chinanet etc..) ISP's whos IP addresses resolve to .cn =>domains. Is there any way to set this as an item to be tested and marked. I =>g

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin at Redhat 7.2?

2003-07-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 6:31 AM +0200 Klaus Pforte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an older Redhat 7.2 mail/web server and want to install SpamAssassin. > > On this system I cannot upgrade to perl 5.6.1... What prevents the Perl upgrade? I updated to perl-5.6.1-34.99.6 to get the newer M

Re: [SAtalk] auto_learn problem

2003-07-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 12:52 14/07/03 -0600, Mike Mills wrote: I am experiencing weird and inconsistent behavior with the auto_learn feature of spamassassin. I set the following in my local.cf file: auto_learn 1 auto_learn_threshold_spam 4.3 auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.0 In my user_prefs I have: required_hits

Re: [SAtalk] Vexira antivirus

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi, > yes. we use the command line vexira product in conjunction with > amavisd-new to manage calling it and SA. If you bought the vexira mail > server version, you have to daisy chain it with amavisd-new, > which is a lot of duplicated effort. I'm also using the command line version of Vexira

RE: [SAtalk] How to get SAproxy to work with Outlook Express - my configuration

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Steve, I found a link some time ago. http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html I have not tried it yet myself as I have SA running on my Linux box which relays for Exchange. I was hoping it might help you. --Larry --- This SF.net email

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Trouble training bayes ?

2003-07-17 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Justin, SB> At 16:58 17/07/03 -0700, Justin Mason wrote: >>> My hunch is that auto-learning waters down the effectiveness of >>> manual training. ... >>However, I'd say at that kind of volume, there really isn't much need >>to keep auto-learni

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Trouble training bayes ?

2003-07-17 Thread Justin Mason
Robert Menschel writes: >Wouldn't this be easily accomplished by just increasing the auto-learn >safety margin? Raise the score at which spam is auto-learned, and lower >the score at which ham is auto-learned, and you'll auto-learn fewer >messages. If I understand how this works, the manual teach

Re: [SAtalk] spam-echo service?

2003-07-17 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Michael, Thursday, July 17, 2003, 12:44:57 PM, you wrote: MW> How about setting up a service where we can send an email to MW> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will get back an MW> email that should trigger your SA viagra tests. I know there are MW>

[SAtalk] auto_learn problem

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Mills
I am experiencing weird and inconsistent behavior with the auto_learn feature of spamassassin. I set the following in my local.cf file: auto_learn 1 auto_learn_threshold_spam 4.3 auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.0 In my user_prefs I have: required_hits 4.3 It seems that not all of the

[SAtalk] Why won't this auto-learn?

2003-07-17 Thread Joe Julian
Title: Message I have a list of specific trusted addresses in my whitelist, but it still won't autolearn from them. Why not? Their scores are quite negative, way below -2, but it still won't autolearn from them. It looks like it's ignoring the whitelist when checking whether or not it should

RE: [SAtalk] (OT) DSL/DIALUP manual BL Catch 22

2003-07-17 Thread Alan Leghart
--On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:56 AM -0400 Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your access file Pat!! Your list was great help. I wanted to let you know how I'm handling this as it may be of some help. Some quick info: The access file you sent me with blocked IPs had some class

[SAtalk] attachments again

2003-07-17 Thread Normunds
Hi! there are so many questions about spamassassin and attachment filtering, but no usable answer. May be you should put that answer in faq... how can I filter attachment headers, why my rules don't work? full UNSAFE_ATTACHMENT /Content- (Disposition|Type):.+file.+="?.+.(pif| com|scr|ln

Re: [SAtalk] /kernel: spamd ?

2003-07-17 Thread Klaus Heinz
sorin wrote: > Can anybody tell me what is this message about and why I wasn't > getting this message only now after a month of running spamassassin ? Maybe you changed your syslog.conf file recently so those messages go now to your console? ciao Klaus

[SAtalk] FW: qmail smtp-auth bug allows open relay

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Thomas
Heads up to all qmail users out there... - Forwarded message from John Brown - Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:34:00 -0600 From: John Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: qmail smtp-auth bug allows open relay seems that there are installs of the smtp-auth patch to qmail th

Re: [SAtalk] Advice

2003-07-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:30 PM -0700 Marek Dohojda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it seems a lot of resumes are marked spam! It would be useful to build a corpus of these for GA training. Are they confidential? Are they triggering particular rules? -

[SAtalk] China

2003-07-17 Thread Joe Nicholson
I just started using spamassassin via Saproxy. It's great. Much of my spam comes from china (chinanet etc..) ISP's whos IP addresses resolve to .cn domains. Is there any way to set this as an item to be tested and marked. I get no legitimate mail from servers in China. Does spamassassin as down

[SAtalk] install procedure failed

2003-07-17 Thread Frederic
Hi all, I am new with spamassassin. I try to install it : I got Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55.tar.gz I untared it I jumped to the path Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55 I checked INSTALL file I launched perl Makefile.PL $ perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Warning: I could not locate

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin at Redhat 7.2?

2003-07-17 Thread Klaus Pforte
Hi List, I have an older Redhat 7.2 mail/web server and want to install SpamAssassin. On this system I cannot upgrade to perl 5.6.1... Some other tries didn't work. Is someone here who has some experiences about this? Or solved this problem? I read about the 7.3 rpms and that some changes in a

[SAtalk] SA 2.60cvs (todays) "undefined value as an ARRAY reference"

2003-07-17 Thread Jason Haar
I'm trying out the new RBLPLUS code in 2.60cvs, and get the following error on *some* RBL-matched msgs: debug: RBL: success for 5 of 6 queries Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 305, line 412. debug: cleaned up kid 64

[SAtalk] How to get SAproxy to work with Outlook Express - my configuration

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Miller
No doubt - like the rest of you I HATE spam, to that end I have been using SpamCop.net for the last 6 months or so. Then I read Consumer Reports and found out about SAproxy - just what I was looking for! It installed in 5 minutes like an earlier emailer said - but it doesn't work, I followed all of

Re: [SAtalk] Vexira antivirus

2003-07-17 Thread Vivek Khera
> "WN" == William Nichols writes: WN> ANyone using vexira antivirus with spamassassin and Postfix?  If so can you WN> respond I have a couple of questions to ask, namely the order that you have WN> things happening, and how you go about the process. yes. we use the command line vexira produ

[SAtalk] msgid added by mta?

2003-07-17 Thread Will Yardley
Was testing out our recent install of Squirrelmail (web based IMAP MUA) and noticed the SA results: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=6.0 tests=MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_3,NO_REAL_NAME,USER_AGENT version=2.50 Squirrelmail generates its own Message-ID - I didn't look in the source to

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin at Redhat 7.2?

2003-07-17 Thread Klaus Pforte
Hi List, I have an older Redhat 7.2 mail/web server and want to install SpamAssassin. On this system I cannot upgrade to perl 5.6.1... Some other tries didn't work. Is someone here who has some experiences about this? Or solved this problem? Thanks in advance, greetings from Black Forrest, Germ

[SAtalk] Blocking during MTA

2003-07-17 Thread Jason Jordan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy, Has anyone integrated SpamAssassin into Postfix such that any high scoring spam can be rejected during MTA rather than this process of simply categorizing? I use lots of RBL's and header_check/body_check to reject during the delivery process..

[SAtalk] Should I move all my SPAM that got through to the SPAM folder I created during setup?

2003-07-17 Thread GYANDELL
Great product! However, I am not clear on how to help SAproxy learn from my spam that made it through. I clicked on the election "automatically learn..." during configuration, however, I am wondering how I teach it to catch the spam that it missed. Do I leave all the spam I receive in the spam f

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble training bayes ?

2003-07-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 17:19 17/07/03 -0700, Justin Mason wrote: Simon Byrnand writes: > What I was starting to think about, is maybe there could be a different > weighting for auto-learning as compared to manual learning ? > > EG, the ability to give manual learning a lot stronger weight. > > I'm not sure how you'd

[SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin Whitelisting when I don't want it to

2003-07-17 Thread Fuzzy Fox
Mike Staver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm seeing a new kind of spam issue this week - where these evil, evil > bastards are now sending me mail from some made up user @fimble.com I solved this issue at a site, by only selectively scanning messages (using procmail). Procmail would only call s

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble training bayes ?

2003-07-17 Thread Justin Mason
Simon Byrnand writes: > What I was starting to think about, is maybe there could be a different > weighting for auto-learning as compared to manual learning ? > > EG, the ability to give manual learning a lot stronger weight. > > I'm not sure how you'd go about that exactly, but maybe a --weigh

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble training bayes ?

2003-07-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 16:58 17/07/03 -0700, Justin Mason wrote: >My hunch is that auto-learning waters down the effectiveness of manual >training. Our Bayes database is now up to nearly 60,000 spam and 60,000 >ham, and I suspect that the token numbers for common words are quite large, >therefore training on individ

[SAtalk] Re: SA with Communigate Pro 3.5.9

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Friday 18 July 2003 01:38 CET Simon Byrnand wrote: > I should point out that Envelope-To is not a standard header, its being > added to the messages by your mailserver, and your mailserver happens to > rely on that header after the message is filtered by SA, to know what to > do with the message

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble training bayes ?

2003-07-17 Thread Justin Mason
Simon Byrnand writes: >At 14:16 17/07/03 -0400, Barry McLarnon wrote: >>On Jul 16, 2003 09:34 pm, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> > Anybody have any suggestions why almost all the ham I manually >> > train won't budge below BAYES_30 ? >> >>I think you should suggest to your correspondents that they become

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin log file

2003-07-17 Thread mwestern
you can turn on log all spam in your spamassassin tho. and you'll see stuff in your /var/log/maillog that's not too bad... -Original Message- From: YoloIts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Spamassassin log file Doe

[SAtalk] MailScanner opinion & Razor setup q.

2003-07-17 Thread mwestern
Hi All, I tried to get amavis-new going with spamassassin but got a little bogged down when it came to reconfiguring sendmail (call me lazy or dumb or whatever). i tried MailScanner and it was _absolutly_ brilliant. all i had to do what basically untar and run ./install.sh it did all the good

Re: [SAtalk] SA with Communigate Pro 3.5.9

2003-07-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 16:17 17/07/03 -0500, Todd Schuldt wrote: I have found out through other sources that SA strips out the envelope-to header when it creates its new message when report-safe is turned on why in heaven does it do that  Its not like SA needs to strip it out in order to change the message&.  

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60-cvs problem with dial-up RBLs?

2003-07-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 15:29 17/07/03 -0500, David B Funk wrote: If you look closely at the headers, you'll see that the first 'Received:' header is tagged as using HTTP (not SMTP) protocol. Received: from localhost (webmail2-maint.its.uiowa.edu [128.255.56.154]) by day.its.uiowa.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/ns-mx

[SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin, Perl 5.8.1-rc2 and has randomization (was: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!)

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Friday 18 July 2003 01:08 CET Scott A Crosby wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:55:06 +0200, "Malte S. Stretz" writes: > > Found it in perlrun. I'm currently doing some runs, but till now no > > problems. I can't think of any code in there which relys on the > > ordering on hashes anyway... > > Tha

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble training bayes ?

2003-07-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 14:16 17/07/03 -0400, Barry McLarnon wrote: On Jul 16, 2003 09:34 pm, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Anybody have any suggestions why almost all the ham I manually > train won't budge below BAYES_30 ? I think you should suggest to your correspondents that they become more literate. :-) I just took a lo

[SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin, Perl 5.8.1-rc2 and has randomization (was: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!)

2003-07-17 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:55:06 +0200, "Malte S. Stretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Found it in perlrun. I'm currently doing some runs, but till now no > problems. I can't think of any code in there which relys on the ordering on > hashes anyway... Thats what they thought, until the fireworks b

[SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin, Perl 5.8.1-rc2 and has randomization (was: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!)

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Friday 18 July 2003 00:14 CET Scott A Crosby wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:26:46 +0200, "Malte S. Stretz" writes: > > *sigh* So I've got to compile another Perl. I'll have a try. But could > > give a short explanation (or pointer) on how to use it? The second mail > > you referred to uses diff

[SAtalk] Re: Need a procmail recipe to redirect spam.

2003-07-17 Thread Fuzzy Fox
Yorkshire Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > :0fw > > * < 256000 > > * ! ^X-Spam-Status: > > | spamc > > That will work, but if everyone starts doing it then spammers will start > forging X-Spam-Status lines into their spam. I suggest this: :0fw * < 256000 * ! ^X-Spam-Status: Yes

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Re[2]: Re: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!

2003-07-17 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 12:52 17/07/03 -0500, Scott A Crosby wrote: I will make my best effort to inform you developers directly, but the more hoops I have to go through, the less likely that I will... and I'm probably not the only one. What hoops ? You're already subscribed to the list or you wouldn't be able to se

[SAtalk] RE: spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread Hill, John
I moved the directory and ran cvs I then built and compiled. I did not see a new Utils.pm install. is it in the cvs package? Do I need to cpan the cvs? --john -Original Message- From: Malte S. Stretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

[SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin, Perl 5.8.1-rc2 and has randomization (was: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!)

2003-07-17 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:26:46 +0200, "Malte S. Stretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 17 July 2003 20:56 CET Scott A Crosby wrote: > > In any case, if 5.8.1 it goes out with the fix, its going to be > > interesting how many latent bugs the fix exposes. The perl core has > > fixed 4 so fa

[SAtalk] Re: spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Friday 18 July 2003 00:01 CET Hill, John wrote: > Here you go > (Line 154) ${$_}{untaint_var($k)} = untaint_var(${$_}{$k}); Ah, that's indeed my code :o) And now I know how there can be an undef. Thanks Malte P.S.: I though you were using 2.60-cvs from some Slackware repository, ruling

[SAtalk] RE: spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread Hill, John
Here you go unless (ref) { /^(.*)$/; return $1; } elsif (ref eq 'ARRAY') { @{$_} = map { $_ = untaint_var($_) } @{$_}; return @{$_} if wantarray; } elsif (ref eq 'HASH') { foreach my $k (keys %{$_}) { (Line 154) ${$_}{untaint_var($k)} = untaint_var(${$_}{$k});

[SAtalk] RE: spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread Hill, John
I have the latest (I think cvs) I could delete the directory and let it update it all? It is the %{$_} weird? --john -Original Message- From: Malte S. Stretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Hill, John Subject: Re: spamd 2.60-cvs

[SAtalk] Re: spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 17 July 2003 23:29 CET Justin Mason wrote: > Hill, John writes: > >Error on start up: > >Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at > >/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/Spamassassin/Util.pm line 154 > > not an error, just a warning -- nothing serious, but should probably

Re: [SAtalk] blacklist with ip address

2003-07-17 Thread Greg Cirino
I messed up and did not reply all (just a habit) Actually, if you want to have a black list (rbl) you can find rbldns (part of the package djbdns) found at djbdns.com that works very well and is very fast. Certainly much faster than an Access db, MySql db et al. We use it and have complete cont

Re: [SAtalk] Re: spam-echo service?

2003-07-17 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 02:32 PM, Malte S. Stretz wrote: On Thursday 17 July 2003 21:44 CET Michael Weber wrote: How about setting up a service where we can send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will get back an email that should trigger your SA viagra tests. I know there are test mes

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin Whitelisting when I don't want it to

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Staver
I'm seeing a new kind of spam issue this week - where these evil, evil bastards are now sending me mail from some made up user @fimble.com - so Spam Assassin automagically assumes it's clean by assingning it a score of -100 when it comes from fimble.com - and then all the tests get run, and it

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60-cvs problem with dial-up RBLs?

2003-07-17 Thread Justin Mason
David B Funk writes: >On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > >> David B Funk wrote: >> >> > For example, in the attached message the source was an AOL >> > dialup "AC826956.ipt.aol.com [172.130.105.86]" which hit >> > 6 RBLs ;() (with 'dnsbl.njabl.org' being added TWICE). >> >> You don't seem

[SAtalk] NEVERMIND!! (was: Interesting...empty message returned.)

2003-07-17 Thread Greg Webster
Was just some incorrect paths. :) I'll update the doc. Greg Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:15:24 -0700 From: Greg Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Interesting...empty message returned. Hi all, Here's an interesting one... Using my own docs (avai

[SAtalk] SA with Communigate Pro 3.5.9

2003-07-17 Thread Todd Schuldt
I have found out through other sources that SA strips out the envelope-to header when it creates it’s new message when report-safe is turned on – why in heaven does it do that  It’s not like SA needs to strip it out in order to change the message….   Todd   -Original Message

Re: [SAtalk] which is 'better' for reporting/learning? sa-learn+razor vs. spamassassin -r

2003-07-17 Thread jvanasco
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 04:26 PM, Nix wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered drunkenly: but by doing sa-learn, one has the option to skip rebuilding the bayes database after the scan -- which has significantly reduced my execution time and resources used spamassassin -r doe

RE: [SAtalk] spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread Hill, John
Thanks It just started with the last two cvs upgrades. --John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:30 PM To: Hill, John Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spamd 2.60-cvs Hill, John writes: >Error on start up:

Re: [SAtalk] spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread Justin Mason
Hill, John writes: >Error on start up: > >Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at >/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/Spamassassin/Util.pm line 154 not an error, just a warning -- nothing serious, but should probably be fixed. Malte, if you throw in lots of "if (defined(foo))"

[SAtalk] Interesting...empty message returned.

2003-07-17 Thread Greg Webster
Hi all, Here's an interesting one... Using my own docs (available on the Documentation page on SpamAssassin.org), I've set up Postfix+SpamAssassin site-wide on a number of machines (Debian Woody and Redhat 9). Today I went to do another machine and when emails are sent to it they come out empty,

Re: [SAtalk] spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:51:00PM -0500, Hill, John wrote: > Error on start up: > > Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/Spamassassin/Util.pm line 154 > > Latest spamd-cvs Slackware 8.1 perl 5.8.0 kernel 2.4.21. > > It works but I get th

[SAtalk] Postfix 2 RBL vs SA 2.55 RBL checks Question

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Vanecek
I recently installed Postfix 2 RBL checks. I have been watching my mail log looking for a reject. I know the tests are working since spamcop was down for a while and I got a warning message in my log. I think I understand what is happening, but would appreciate a confirmation. Postfix checks the c

RE: [SAtalk] Emails to undisclosed showing up blank.

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Gilson
It is very difficult for me to believe that Postfix or SpamAssassin would chew up the body of messages. Are you using anything to filter like Procmail? Is it possible that the sender is the problem? --Larry > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

[SAtalk] spamd 2.60-cvs

2003-07-17 Thread Hill, John
Error on start up: Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/Spamassassin/Util.pm line 154 Latest spamd-cvs Slackware 8.1 perl 5.8.0 kernel 2.4.21. It works but I get this message when I stop then start it. I have looked in the docs and the arc

Re: [SAtalk] blacklist with ip address

2003-07-17 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Aldo Mari wrote: > Thanks...but I have understood the theory ..but how I can create a DNSBL ..please > give me some link or idea to howto and how I could permit to spamassassin to connect > to my own DNSBL.. > thanks > - Original Message - > From: Ernest W. Lesse

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-07-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:47 PM 7/17/2003 -0600, Eric wrote: when I try to install digest-sha1 I am getting errors. What is the best way to install digest::sha1 from cpan it hangs on ftp If CPAN's ftp is hanging, you probably need passive mode to get through a firewall.. one site with a bit of reference on how to d

Re: [SAtalk] spam-echo service?

2003-07-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:44 PM 7/17/2003 -0500, Michael Weber wrote: How about setting up a service where we can send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will get back an email that should trigger your SA viagra tests. I know there are test messages that you can send though manually, but this would be a quick way

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60-cvs problem with dial-up RBLs?

2003-07-17 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > David B Funk wrote: > > > For example, in the attached message the source was an AOL > > dialup "AC826956.ipt.aol.com [172.130.105.86]" which hit > > 6 RBLs ;() (with 'dnsbl.njabl.org' being added TWICE). > > You don't seem to be studying what is reporte

[SAtalk] Re: spam-echo service?

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 17 July 2003 21:44 CET Michael Weber wrote: > How about setting up a service where we can send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will get back an > email that should trigger your SA viagra tests. I know there are test > messages that you can send though manually, but this would b

Re: [SAtalk] which is 'better' for reporting/learning?sa-learn+razor vs. spamassassin -r

2003-07-17 Thread Nix
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] muttered drunkenly: > but by doing sa-learn, one has the option to skip rebuilding the bayes > database after the scan -- which has significantly reduced my > execution time and resources used > > spamassassin -r doesn't seem to do that spamassassin -r alway

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin log file

2003-07-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:57 AM 7/17/2003 -0700, YoloIts wrote: Does Spamassassin keep a log file and where is it located? In general no, although depending on how you are set up spamd may be using syslog to log some information. It will by default log using the facility mail. What file that winds up in is dependant

[SAtalk] Re: 2 Feature suggestions for spamd

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 17 July 2003 21:33 CET Michael Weber wrote: > I have a pid file running with my SA. It is a very minor hack to the > /etc/init.d/spamd file. Look for the two lines that reference > /var/run/spamd.pid and add them to your spamd (or spamassassin) init > file. > > case "$1" in > start)

Re: [SAtalk] Razor2 scores?

2003-07-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:06 PM 7/17/2003 -0700, John Birkhead wrote: Hi, I installed SA 2.55 along with Razor2 earlier this week and I am going through the process of fine tuning by using sa-learn etc. I was looking through the tests performed and noticed that "RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_n_n" tests give a score of 0.001

Re: [SAtalk] unsubcribe

2003-07-17 Thread William Stearns
Good afternoon, Knom, On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, knom wrote: Every mail from this mailing list includes unsubscribe information in the headers. Please look there for the URL to use to unsubscribe. Cheers, - Bill -

[SAtalk] spam-echo service?

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Weber
Most of us know about the very helpful virus echo service by mimesweeper. (If you don't, send an empty email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will get back an email containing the virus test file called eicar.com. VERY useful for testing e-mail anti-virus setups.) How about setting up a service wher

[SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-07-17 Thread Eric
when I try to install digest-sha1 I am getting errors. What is the best way to install digest::sha1 from cpan it hangs on ftp from source it wont pass the tests 1/16 failed Eric --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMwar

Re: [SAtalk] Razor2 scores?

2003-07-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:06:19PM -0700, John Birkhead wrote: > I was looking through the tests performed and noticed that > "RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_n_n" tests give a score of 0.001 for each score through > 100%. Given what I know (which may not be a lot) this means that even a 90% > certainty of spam wo

Re: [SAtalk] 2 Feature suggestions for spamd

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Weber
I have a pid file running with my SA. It is a very minor hack to the /etc/init.d/spamd file. Look for the two lines that reference /var/run/spamd.pid and add them to your spamd (or spamassassin) init file. case "$1" in start) # Start daemon. echo -n "Starting spamd: " d

Re: [SAtalk] 2 Feature suggestions for spamd

2003-07-17 Thread Kai MacTane
At 7/17/03 11:21 AM , Justin Mason wrote: >1) Have spamd re-read local.cf when it receives a HUP signal, rather > that having to be stopped and restarted Yep, that'll be in for 2.60. And there was much rejoicing! --Kai MacTane

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin, Perl 5.8.1-rc2 and has randomization (was: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!)

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 17 July 2003 20:56 CET Scott A Crosby wrote: > In any case, if 5.8.1 it goes out with the fix, its going to be > interesting how many latent bugs the fix exposes. The perl core has > fixed 4 so far, and identified at least two external packages that > break their self-tests. > > SA, bei

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[SAtalk] SA with Communigate Pro 3.5.9

2003-07-17 Thread Todd Schuldt
Is there a setting I missed either in CGP, scanspam.sh or spamassassin/local.cf?   --- System Red Hat 7.3/Communigate Pro 3.5.9   Test method:  Personal account on giant.net using pine to send mail test message with +5.00 score.  Local domain address in TO: field. 

[SAtalk] Re: 2 Feature suggestions for spamd

2003-07-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 17 July 2003 20:21 CET Justin Mason wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >1) Have spamd re-read local.cf when it receives a HUP signal, rather > > that having to be stopped and restarted > > Yep, that'll be in for 2.60. But only in Perl 5.6.1 and later -- I didn't get it to work unde

[SAtalk] Spamassassin log file

2003-07-17 Thread YoloIts
Does Spamassassin keep a log file and where is it located? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at

[SAtalk] Razor2 scores?

2003-07-17 Thread John Birkhead
Hi, I installed SA 2.55 along with Razor2 earlier this week and I am going through the process of fine tuning by using sa-learn etc. I was looking through the tests performed and noticed that "RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_n_n" tests give a score of 0.001 for each score through 100%. Given what I know

[SAtalk] Re: Re[2]: Re: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!

2003-07-17 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:22:56 -0400, Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "SAC" == Scott A Crosby writes: > > SAC> that list been set up to deny non-subscribers from posting. And Perl > SAC> is being changed to be robust against the hash table attack we > SAC> discussed. > > And broke

Re: [SAtalk] SMTP Policy List?

2003-07-17 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Kristian Koehntopp wrote: > > Is there a mailing list that deals with SMTP policy issues, or are there > other ressources in that direction (documents, FAQs and the like?). What do > you recommend. Try UseNet News groups: DNS issues: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains

Re: [SAtalk] Per recipient black/whitelist

2003-07-17 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, whitelist_from and blacklist_from in the users pref's file, either a flat file or in MySQL Regards, Rick Ernest W. Lessenger wrote: Does SpamAssassin already have, or has somebody created that I can use, a per-recipient black/whitelist. What I need to do is allow customers to add addres

[SAtalk] bayes db on NFS

2003-07-17 Thread German Staltari
Hi, it could be possible to share bayes db using NFS among a couple of servers?   TIA German  

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Re[2]: Re: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!

2003-07-17 Thread Vivek Khera
> "SAC" == Scott A Crosby writes: SAC> that list been set up to deny non-subscribers from posting. And Perl SAC> is being changed to be robust against the hash table attack we SAC> discussed. And broke mod_perl along the way! ;-( Anyhow, it seems this list is now closed to non-member posts,

[SAtalk] Emails to undisclosed showing up blank.

2003-07-17 Thread jwelk
Our Postfix/Spamassassin server has been working well for a few weeks, with one exception. We are receiving legitimate emails from associates that show up completely blank. The to field lists "undisclosed recipients" and the body is blank. The from field accurately reflects who the message came fro

Re: [SAtalk] 2 Feature suggestions for spamd

2003-07-17 Thread Justin Mason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Sorry if this has already been broached, but this seems like it would be a >great idea and not too difficult to implement (but I could be way off): > >1) Have spamd re-read local.cf when it receives a HUP signal, rather > that having to be stopped and restarted Yep,

Re: [SAtalk] OT - spamassassin - mailserver recommendations - passthru toexchange after scan

2003-07-17 Thread Chris Berry
From: Tim Litwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have been running mail servers for several of our clients with spamassassin for several months. Now a client that has an exchange server want to clean up thier email but pass the mail thru to the exchange server. I have seen several discussions the le

Re: [SAtalk] blacklist & whitelist

2003-07-17 Thread Chris Berry
From: "Greg Cirino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Can I blacklist everyone and setup a whitelist of domains? black_list_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not just use TMDA? Chris Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator JM Associates "The number of the beast — vi vi vi." --Delexa Jones __

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble training bayes ?

2003-07-17 Thread Barry McLarnon
On Jul 16, 2003 09:34 pm, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Anybody have any suggestions why almost all the ham I manually > train won't budge below BAYES_30 ? I think you should suggest to your correspondents that they become more literate. :-) I just took a look at the ham in my inbox... of 160 messages

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes balance problem

2003-07-17 Thread Fox Flanders
I've been running a Bayesian filter at my company about since Paul Graham published his paper. Lack of ham will result in some false positives where messages that are not spam are marked incorrectly as spam. There is a diminishing point of return to adding ham, but I haven't found it yet. I do k

[SAtalk] Re: Re[2]: Re: Movie FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!

2003-07-17 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:45:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes: > Scott A Crosby writes: > >I just had a 100+ message thread on perl5-porters discussing the > >impact of my recent research on perl. I would not have had that had > >that list been set up to deny non-subscribers from pos

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