Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail and spamassassin

2004-01-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, January 23, 2004 12:01 PM +0200 Extech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone please direct me to a How to... Document on installing spamassassin with sendmail. Two approaches, depending on whether sendmail is on a gateway. You can run SA from your delivery agent, such as procmail, j

[SAtalk] Strange Headers - no score assigned

2004-01-23 Thread James Herschel
Hi All, I have a (hopefully) unique problem where it appears that a small percentage of the email coming in are not being assigned a score. In fact, the headers look messed up. I've been running SpamAssassin for a 150 user company for some time now with great results. The system runs on: Qmail-

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-23 Thread AltGrendel
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 00:14, Bob Apthorpe wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:12:06 -0600 Wagner One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1/22/2004 1:15 PM, Bob Apthorpe wrote: > > > > > Note: I think this my hacked-up version of sa-stats.pl at > > > http://www.cynistar.net/~apthorpe/code/sa-

[SAtalk] Help! (Dumb noob questions about upgrading and other stuff)

2004-01-23 Thread JR
So I inherited sysadmining our Spam Assassin install that runs as an external filter to our Communigate Pro server (using CGPSA). I've managed (thanks mostly to this list) to figure out how to train Bayes (and am trying to feed it at least 5% ham to spam each time i feed it), and how to insta

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin doesn't appear to be running...?

2004-01-23 Thread AltGrendel
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 13:56, Webmaster wrote: > > Hmmm, when I look at the Qmail configuration in Webmin I see no > reference (nor a place for it) to spamc. I don't even see a reference to > spamassassin. When I look at the qmail action in the bootup process, this > is the entire script: >

[SAtalk] Shell access for filtered users

2004-01-23 Thread Keith Olmstead
Hello, I hope someone can help me out with my problem. I am currently setting up the latest version of SA, for my users that are in a ldap database. The users in ldap do not have shell accounts, they are mail only user. For users to SA, do they need to have a shell account? Something other th

[SAtalk] some spam not getting scored

2004-01-23 Thread Technical Services
I'm receiving some spam through my spamassassin with X-Spam-Status: hits=? required=? Whats the cause of this, does any one know? Best regards, Owen Franssen Technical Services Manager WASP (a division of Insight Web Marketing Ltd.) +353 64 54094 --

Re: [SAtalk] Auto-learn SA after having trained it

2004-01-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:19 AM 1/23/2004, Mark Squire wrote: Hi all, I have been training SA manually for a couple of weeks now. I estimate a good 2000 emails for both Spam and Ham have been learned by it. Coupla questions though . . . I want to put it into auto-learn mode because I have only trained it on a few of

Re: [SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread Mailing Lists
Most likely network tests are all timing out on him. Run spamd -D and it will tell you if and which ones are timing out. Martin Hepworth wrote: I get about 4 seconds per message on a Celeron 600 512MB ram with about 8000 messages a day and 80% is spam! runing pyzor, spamcop, xbl.spamhaus.org a

Re: [SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread JRiley
> Something tells me that most of that time is likely due a couple of network > tests that are timing out for _every_ email. > > > ie: he might have DCC installed, but not allow the UDP packets past the > firewall, which would add 10 seconds to every email (by default, more if he > upped the timeo

Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail and spamassassin

2004-01-23 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Extech wrote: > Hi There > > Can anyone please direct me to a How to... Document on installing spamassassin with > sendmail. If you don't want all the attachment scanning and just want the SA checks, spamass-milter has been working for years with our ins

[SAtalk] Auto-learn SA after having trained it

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Squire
Hi all, I have been training SA manually for a couple of weeks now. I estimate a good 2000 emails for both Spam and Ham have been learned by it. Coupla questions though . . . I want to put it into auto-learn mode because I have only trained it on a few of our employees emails, and not people from

Re: [SAtalk] Making SA on Windows with Perl 5.8.2

2004-01-23 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Bret Miller" writes: >> While I haven't done what you are looking for, I'd be >> most interested in any info you get off-list. I am getting >> ready to embark on this same process for a customer and would >> love to have the dirty insight be

Re: [SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
I get about 4 seconds per message on a Celeron 600 512MB ram with about 8000 messages a day and 80% is spam! runing pyzor, spamcop, xbl.spamhaus.org and bayes, + backhair etc rules Running with MailScanner and MailWatch on same box. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic

Re: [SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread JRiley
> Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 200942 > Number of spams : 91592 ( 45.58%) > Number of clean messages:109350 ( 54.42%) > Average message analysis time : 69.27 seconds > Average spam analysis time :

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-23 Thread Smart,Dan
Humm This command works every time from command line, but not passed as a param from SA_RESTART. "postfix stop ; sleep 15 ; /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart ; postfix start" It runs the postfix stop and then quits. Any idea why? I can create a sed that patches the rules_du_jour each time pu

Re: [SAtalk] Where is auto_learn?

2004-01-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:39 AM 1/23/04 -0500, John Fleming wrote: Where is the auto_learn parameter - which file? tnx You can specify that value in ANY of the config files that SA parses. So there's no one specific file it belongs in. If you want to change the value on a site-wide basis, put it in /etc/mail/spama

RE: [SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread Tom Meunier
I'll never complain about my old PII-400 taking 8.5 seconds to process a message through spamd again. -tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kinghorn Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:32 AM To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: [SAt

[SAtalk] AWL and whitelist question

2004-01-23 Thread snowchyld
how do you turn _off_ AWL ? also, where would one put sitewide whitelists ? (assuming /etc/mail/spamassassin as default directory) thanks in advanced --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Devel

RE: [SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread Covington, Chris
Why does it take your SA 69 seconds to process an email? Our systems take about 3 seconds, using network tests and bayes with Postfix/amavisd-new. Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kinghorn Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:32

[SAtalk] Re: AWL and whitelist question

2004-01-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:40 PM 1/23/04 +0200, snowchyld wrote: how do you turn _off_ AWL ? Depends on version, but in 2.6x it is "use_auto_whitelist 0" in your config also, where would one put sitewide whitelists ? (assuming /etc/mail/spamassassin as default directory) Any *.cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin. -

[SAtalk] Where is auto_learn?

2004-01-23 Thread John Fleming
Where is the auto_learn parameter - which file? tnx --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www

Re: [SAtalk] help please....cant stop them at all.

2004-01-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:16 AM 1/23/04 -0600, David B Funk wrote: Trim off the Bayes poison and relearn it as spam. The payload contains several unique misspellings that would be good Bayes signatures. Why trim off the bayes poison? Doing so just poisoning your bayes database in a different way. http://www.mail-arc

Re: [SAtalk] Re: X-Originating-IP isn't a number

2004-01-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:08 AM 1/23/04 -0600, Who Knows wrote: I have been receiving a good many of these lately. I am hestant to add any rules for them yet because all the ones I have been receiving seem to also contain a list of words that can only be there to spoil baysian tracking. Is there anyway to avoid add

Re: [SAtalk] Re: X-Originating-IP isn't a number

2004-01-23 Thread Brent J. Nordquist
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Who Knows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Martinez wrote: > > I got a spam today where the X-Originating-IP header wasn't a number. > > I have been receiving a good many of these lately. I am hestant to add > any rules for them yet because all the ones I have been recei

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.63, Backhair, Chickenpox and UUencoded .pdf file

2004-01-23 Thread Mike Bostock
In your message regarding Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.63, Backhair, Chickenpox and UUencoded .pdf file dated Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:00:25 +, Mike Bostock said that ... >MB- In your message regarding [SAtalk] SA 2.63, Backhair, Chickenpox and >MB- UUencoded .pdf file dated Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:07:17 +, M

[SAtalk] Re: X-Originating-IP isn't a number

2004-01-23 Thread Who Knows
Anthony Martinez wrote: I got a spam today where the X-Originating-IP header wasn't a number. Hotmail always puts the dotted quad in the header. I have been receiving a good many of these lately. I am hestant to add any rules for them yet because all the ones I have been receiving seem to also co

[SAtalk] Mail Body Size

2004-01-23 Thread Paul Barbeau
I am looking at changing the size of mail i scan for spam/virus. Right now i am using 64k and it is doing a good job catching stuff however some make it through and i was thinking of raising it to 128k. Do anyone have a good number to use and the larger number will increase my scans and possible

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Sendmail and spamassassin

2004-01-23 Thread Martin Hepworth
Another option is MailScanner - www.mailscanner.info combines virus and spam checking along with sendmail/exim/postfix and qmail has just been done (we are awaiting the patches/docs). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 *

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.63, Backhair, Chickenpox and UUencoded .pdf file

2004-01-23 Thread Mike Bostock
In your message regarding [SAtalk] SA 2.63, Backhair, Chickenpox and UUencoded .pdf file dated Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:07:17 +, Mike Bostock said that ... >MB- Received false negative due to its attachment. I posted a correction to this from home but it doesn't seem to have appeared on the list.

[SAtalk] salearn error

2004-01-23 Thread Technical Services
I was trying to run salearn on a directory of spam email with the following command: sa-learn --spam --showdots cur/* and I got the following erro: Can't locate object method "init_learner" via package "Mail::SpamAssassin" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/CmdLearn.

[SAtalk] Re: Sendmail and spamassassin

2004-01-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Friday 23 January 2004 10:16, Ralf Vitasek wrote: > you probalby don't really want to run it with sendmail but with > procmail. which is the easiest and fastest way. > > but if you really want to then i suggest running sendmail with "amavisd > new" (www.amavis.org) which has virus scanning and/o

[SAtalk] using bayes on 2 mailgateways

2004-01-23 Thread Markus . Roelle
hi I`m using spamassassin with bayes filtering. Everthing works very well. I implementated it 1 month ago. So I activated autolearning for the bayesdatabase. But the 2 mailgateways have different priorities, so my databases differ a lot. Is it possible to synchronize them ? Thank you for your hel

[SAtalk] thank you guys

2004-01-23 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
To all the contributors of SPAMASSASSIN, exiscan & sa-exim... Thank you all here are some stats for the last 4 weeks This is for 4 domains. Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 200942 Number of spams : 91592 ( 45.58%) Number of clean messages

Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail and spamassassin

2004-01-23 Thread Ralf Vitasek
you probalby don't really want to run it with sendmail but with procmail. which is the easiest and fastest way. but if you really want to then i suggest running sendmail with "amavisd new" (www.amavis.org) which has virus scanning and/or attachment blocking as well. have a look at this howto:

Re: FW: [SAtalk] How to stop this kind of stuff?

2004-01-23 Thread David B Funk
> |-Original Message- > |From: Evan Platt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 15:03 > |To: SpamAssassin > |Subject: Re: [SAtalk] How to stop this kind of stuff? Real easy, this is a predictable spamhaus, "Empire Towers" Go check the records on this outfit at http

[SAtalk] Sendmail and spamassassin

2004-01-23 Thread Extech
Hi There Can anyone please direct me to a How to... Document on installing spamassassin with sendmail. Regards Extech --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the

[SAtalk] Re: auto-whitelisting recipients

2004-01-23 Thread Nancy McGough
On 22 Jan 2004 Ross Vandegrift ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My boss recently suggessted we try to whitelist all outgoing > recipients of emails. This should reduce the number of false positives > we're seeing - after all, if I send out an email, I almost certainly > would like to read the re

Re: [SAtalk] Using Mail::SpamAssassin to clean a message

2004-01-23 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to be able to take an email message that may contain MIME and HTML > and to strip it down to basically nothing but text. (I know that > SpamAssassin already does this in large part so that it can analyze the > message properly.) So I'm not actu

Re: [SAtalk] help please....cant stop them at all.

2004-01-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Thomas Kinghorn wrote: > Below are the headers & I have attached the mail. > > These are getting worse. > > To top it off, SA learned it as HAM. > > If anyone knows of any rules that could work on these mails, It would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks All. > Regards > Tom

[SAtalk] help please....cant stop them at all.

2004-01-23 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
Title: Message Below are the headers & I have attached the mail.   These are getting worse.   To top it off, SA learned it as HAM.   If anyone knows of any rules that could work on these mails, It would be greatly appreciated.   Thanks All.   Regards   Tom   PS: I am using SA 2.62.       Rece