[SAtalk] looking for positive effects, pgp signatures?

2004-01-30 Thread Eric W. Bates
[THIS LIST HAS MOVED! see http://useast.spamassassin.org/lists.html .]I have a customer using a Verizon DSL which automatically scores a number of hits from the dynamic IP RBL's. We all understand the impossibility of changing Verizon's lax enforcement policies; but I'm hoping there might be a

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

2004-01-22 Thread Eric W. Bates
Sorry, thot we were using 5.8.2. However, after checking more closely: perl 5.8.1 SA 2.62 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE Works well. Bret Miller wrote: Has anyone successfully made SA on Windows with Perl 5.8.2? I finally gave up on it and went back to Perl 5.6.1. Any suggestions? Bret

Re: [SAtalk] fresh installation not working (yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: timed out)

2004-01-21 Thread Eric W. Bates
I believe you have neglected to hook SA into your mail delivery path. There are a number of ways to do this; but the most straight forward is to use procmail and add a .forward and a .procmailrc file into your home directory. Fernan Aguero wrote: Hi, I just installed SpamAssassin-2.6.1 under

Re: [SAtalk] Tripwire breaking exim/spamd setup

2004-01-16 Thread Eric W. Bates
How hard would it be to set an upper limit in SA when writing rule hits as headers? Zarjazz wrote: Well it had to happen, I've been recieving some spam that triggered LOTS of tripwire rules and overflowing the smtp daemon header buffer. Extracts from exim panic log below. 2004-01-16 13:17:08

Re: [SAtalk] Continuing saga of runaway spamd

2004-01-07 Thread Eric W. Bates
We experienced a similar problem on FreeBSD. The problem was addressed when we upgraded perl from 5.5 to 5.8. As a workaround until we managed to upgrade we launched spamd under the control of Dan Bernstein's Daemontools which can be configured to automatically impose limits and restart