[SAtalk] Spamassassin and qmail relay

2003-09-27 Thread Amadou Toure
Hi, I want to install spamassassin as spam filter on a qmail relay server; the users mailbox is in another netscape messaging server. IS it possible to implement it without .qmail files on the relay server and how to do it. thank you. regards

[SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hello All, The following is the message I receive when trying to use sa-learn. This is a new installation and I can´t get it to learn from anything I feed it. Have I forgotten to configure something? Learned from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined). Regards Trevor Rhodes

Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Martin, You don't give much to go on here. I´ll remedy that. What format are the messages in? I´m using Kmail and I moved the message (one of those pesky Microsoft Updates) into my ´filteredspam´ directory. Is it a single message? Yes, but it doens´t matter whether it´s one or many.

Re: [SAtalk] Recent trend in spaming tactics

2003-09-27 Thread Carlo Wood
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:38:15PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: Many spammers are using paypal.com to get their emails whitelisted. Also I noted this too. It doesn't seem like a good idea therefore that spamassassin comes with a pre-built whitelist; it makes it too easy for abusers to know which

Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Trevor Rhodes
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:31 pm, you wrote: Run sa-learn with the debug flag and mostly you will see what is going wrong. From which I get the following... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60]# sa-learn -D --spam --dir /home/trevor/M ail/.Spam.directory/filteredspam/cur debug: Score set 0

Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Paul Hutchings
I had the same problem on my Redhat box and needed to install the db4-devel rpms to be able to install the db_file CPAN module. regards, Paul - Original Message - From: Trevor Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk]

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Malte, From which I assume I need this DB_File thingy. So I then do the following which I hope is right, and then I get this... Correct. Ooh, that´s a refreshing change. hehe You need to have the devel package for the Berkeley DB installed. I don't know what it's called in Mandrake

Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Jim, Learned from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined). Are these messages which have already been seen by SpamAssassin and Bayes? Have they _already_ been learned from a previous run? No, it´s a fresh install of Mandrake. Even the Home directory is new. I got a new 80Gb drive and

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and qmail relay

2003-09-27 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:58:26AM -, Amadou Toure wrote: I want to install spamassassin as spam filter on a qmail relay server; the users mailbox is in another netscape messaging server. IS it possible to implement it without .qmail files on the relay server and how to do it. I hear

[SAtalk] Re: Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Saturday 27 September 2003 16:46 CET Trevor Rhodes wrote: From which I assume I need this DB_File thingy. So I then do the following which I hope is right, and then I get this... Correct. Ooh, that´s a refreshing change. hehe You need to have the devel package for the Berkeley

Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Jim
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:37:17PM +1000, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Learned from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined). Are these messages which have already been seen by SpamAssassin and Bayes? Have they _already_ been learned from a previous run?

Re: [SAtalk] Recent trend in spaming tactics

2003-09-27 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:16 PM 9/27/03 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: I noted this too. It doesn't seem like a good idea therefore that spamassassin comes with a pre-built whitelist; it makes it too easy for abusers to know which addresses to fake. Well, bear in mind however that the default whitelist entries are NOT

[SAtalk] fold_headers broken in 2.60

2003-09-27 Thread Administrateur Réseau Sogetel
Recently, I discover that Sympatico's SMTP server eat messages that contains folded headers containing SA report. Their InterMail server will accept and simply discard messages if a : caracter followed by a space is found on a line beginning by a tab... very weird... Since many of my

[SAtalk] Logging what rules are matched

2003-09-27 Thread Sven Marx
Hi all, I'm wondering if there's a possibility to write the rules matched by a specific mail into a logfile instead or in addition to the mail-header / new envelope (in case of secure reporting) for further statistic analysis. I'm thinking about a seperate file in /var/log or even syslog. Any

RE: [SAtalk] 2.60 upgrade: razor2 check skipped

2003-09-27 Thread Alton Yu
Now even more weird. I just installed it on a Solaris 8 box and no problems. Are you guys sure it's the bug? On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:15, shock_mailing_lists wrote: Really weird regarding this bug as I have razor 2.36 and spamass 2.6 and dcc 1.1.45 installed on my RH 7.3 box w/ perl 5.6 and

RE: [SAtalk] SPAM, BLOCK: Death of monkeys.com DNSbl (fwd)

2003-09-27 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, [apologies for this being so far off-topic] On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Peter P. Benac wrote: And this lack of response is due to what??? Lazy, stupid, apathetic, incompetent, or ambivalent members of the law enforcement and ISP community? Insufficient network diagnostic and security tools,

[SAtalk] Re: razor2 check skipped: Bad file descriptor

2003-09-27 Thread Marcus Frings
* Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: razor2 check skipped: Bad file descriptor Insecure dependency in connect while running setuid at /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/IO/Socket.pm line 108, GEN315 line 1438. Read the README file. Or the INSTALL file. Well, after upgrading to 2.60 I have read

[SAtalk] Mail isn't spam, but subject line getting rewritten

2003-09-27 Thread Spam
Hello all, For the past couple of months I have had some email subject lines being rewritten as SPAM even though the spam score is much lower than my threshold (currently set for myself at 4.1). It happens sporadically and I cant seem to see a pattern. I have been using

[SAtalk] Exclude list of Spamchecked recepients

2003-09-27 Thread Jens Strohschnitter
Hi out there, I wanted to extend my exim with spamassassin with a list, that includes mailadresses of users, they not will be scanned of spam. Just like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Should be excluded from spam-scan. So I have added the following condition to my spamcheck_director (thanxx to rene of

RE: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Ian Southam
Run sa-learn with the debug flag and mostly you will see what is going wrong. -- Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Trevor Rhodes Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not

[SAtalk] RBL, any need for them to be REAL TIME?

2003-09-27 Thread Todd Routhier - Lightwave Tech.
I was thinking of all the traffic and many problems with the whole RBL thing.. Why not just maintain the databases in real time as they are now but.. Instead of everyone querying them in real time why not do a wget or something once every 24 hours to pull the DB down to your own server.

Re: [SAtalk] passing user: in qmail scripts

2003-09-27 Thread Robert James Kaes
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Paul Farber wrote: Since I am using a single uid/gid to deliver mail to all users I cannot use dir ownership (or can I?) Can I rip it out of the message somehow? Any fellow qmail users up against this?? If you look in the qmail-command man page you will see that the

[SAtalk] AWL much slower in 2.60?

2003-09-27 Thread David Birnbaum
Howdy, Just upgraded to 2.60, seems to work great for the most part! Catching even more spam than before (as to be expected). One thing which has become a bit of a problem - AWL seem to be much slower in some cases, although I'm not sure why. My AWL is currently 146M, so it's pretty hefty.

[SAtalk] bayes..examining tokens

2003-09-27 Thread Phillip Lord
My apologies if I have missed something obvious in the documentation. I was wondering what the best way is to examine the tokens in the bayes database. Is there a good tool which shows ham/spam tokens, and their probabilities? Cheers Phil

Re: [SAtalk] USER_IN_WHITELIST

2003-09-27 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:33:01AM -0400, Cliff Browning wrote: What I want to do is let the users have a seperate file they can drop [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s in and not have to figure out how to use the tags. Most of my users are PC users and having to log into a UNIX machine is something

RE: [SAtalk] Who is spamming me - a bit of statistics

2003-09-27 Thread SAListReader
From: Kristian Koehntopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [SAtalk] Who is spamming me - a bit of statistics Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:45:50 +0200 Status: RO ---excellent information

Re: [SAtalk] bayes..examining tokens

2003-09-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:12:31PM +0100, Phillip Lord wrote: documentation. I was wondering what the best way is to examine the tokens in the bayes database. Is there a good tool which shows ham/spam tokens, and their probabilities? sa-learn --dump in 2.60. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline:

[SAtalk] Did MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE get dropped in 2.60?

2003-09-27 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
I can't seem to find it, but it's up on the rules page at spamassassin.org. Thanks, Mike --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___

Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

2003-09-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, September 27, 2003 10:50 PM +1000 Trevor Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From which I assume I need this DB_File thingy. So I then do the following which I hope is right, and then I get this... Note that Red Hat supplies this in RPM form, as the perl-DB_File package. Many Perl

[SAtalk] Rule array?

2003-09-27 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
Any one know if, without (or even with) writing an eval test, is there a way to make something similar to an array for tests that match? I have about 100 tests for h1d1ng w0rds w1th numb3r5 and l3tt3rs. I'd like to have something that would count how many got hit and then make a score based off

Re: [SAtalk] Did MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE get dropped in 2.60?

2003-09-27 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:29 PM 9/27/03 -0400, Mike Kuentz (2) wrote: I can't seem to find it, but it's up on the rules page at spamassassin.org. Thanks, Mike Yes, it's dead.. it looks like the tests page is currently being generated from the 2.5x CVS head. In general never count on the tests page of the website

Re: [SAtalk] Who is spamming me - a bit of statistics

2003-09-27 Thread Frank Pineau
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:05:53 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: I've been toying with the idea for a while now that one could use a script similar to your excellent template to generate tcpwrappers entries to deny access in the same fashion. I do not know for sure if, given a choice between your suggested

Re: [SAtalk] Rule array?

2003-09-27 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:05 PM 9/27/03 -0400, Mike Kuentz (2) wrote: Any one know if, without (or even with) writing an eval test, is there a way to make something similar to an array for tests that match? I have about 100 tests for h1d1ng w0rds w1th numb3r5 and l3tt3rs. I'd like to have something that would count

[SAtalk] SIGHUP crashing spamd in 2.60

2003-09-27 Thread Mark Edwards
I was excited to see the addition of SIGHUP functionality in 2.60. Unfortunately, while spamd seems to receive and obey the signal: Sep 27 15:15:50 lilbuddy spamd[47851]: server hit by SIGHUP, restarting spamd dies shortly thereafter. I'm running the port on FreeBSD 4.8p10. I do have the

[SAtalk] Installation Problem with 2.60

2003-09-27 Thread Greg Ennis
I tried to post this note earlier today but for some reason it did not make it. Let's see if I do it right this time. Help! Is there a problem with the installation of 2.60? I downloaded a copy of Spamassassin from the spamassassin.org website. My RedHat 8.0 system is fully updated with

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 upgrade: razor2 check skipped

2003-09-27 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Alton Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now even more weird. I just installed it on a Solaris 8 box and no problems. Are you guys sure it's the bug? If you're running Perl 5.005, then SA will not use taint-mode since Perl 5.005 is so hopelessly old. Therefore, the taint-mode problems in Razor2

[SAtalk] Installation Problem with 2.60

2003-09-27 Thread Greg Ennis
Help! Is there a problem with the installation of 2.60? I downloaded a copy of Spamassassin from the spamassassin.org website. My RedHat 8.0 system is fully updated with everything from RH. I had previously upgraded my 2.31 SA to 2.55 and had no difficulty. I have followed the below

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem with 2.60

2003-09-27 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:51, Greg Ennis wrote: Help! Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure, your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make' This is discussed extensively in the archives. Try: unset LANG and then start again. Thomas

[SAtalk] procmail error

2003-09-27 Thread Asif Iqbal
Hi I have setup .procmailrc and this part is in concern [...] :0fw:spam.lock | spamassassin :0e { EXITCODE=$? } :0: * ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\* |/usr/bin/mailx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I am seeing this error in the procmail log file --

[SAtalk] Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/spamd line 660

2003-09-27 Thread Thomas Cameron
Hi all - I am getting the error in the subject line on my RH 9 machine with SA 2.60 and milter-spamc. Everything appears to be working fine, so I am assuming this is a non-issue. Am I right? Thomas --- This sf.net email is sponsored