At 04:57 PM 12/15/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using qmail, vpopmail, and SA, and I've got a catchall setup. When
sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], SA is creating directories in /,
as /no such user [EMAIL PROTECTED].
sounds like the user_prefs directory is all screwed up... SA is
At 05:49 PM 12/15/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When you don't specify a user for spamd to run as, does it run as nobody?
I'm not specifying a user.
Well, spamd will start as root, and if spamc doesn't have a user specified
AND spamc is run as root, spamd will fall back to nobody.
In general,
At 06:48 PM 12/15/2003, Rubin Bennett wrote:
When I saved this
email to disk and ran it as my username on the mailserver, it scored
15.3 points. When I ran it through spamc as root, it got 9.6. Yet, the
first time it came through, it scored a measley 3.7 points! What
gives? Have I managed to
At 10:06 PM 12/15/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm confused here. I have just installed Spamassassin on the server. I had
a folder with a few spams I'd recieved and wanted to feed them to sa-learn
so it would recognise these types of email as spam. But when I run
sa-learn --spam --mbox spamdump
At 12:47 PM 12/14/2003, Rubin Bennett wrote:
The spammers are getting smarter about Bayes... this one sneaked through
SA 2.6, a well trained Bayes database, and the BigEvil rules with a
score of 1.0 out of 5. What to do?
That's funny.. it hit BAYES_99 on mine...
Admittedly I had to do a kinda
At 02:40 PM 12/14/2003, Robert Nicholson wrote:
Look at the body of the message and you should see a bunch of %'s in the url.
You don't see them?
Does your MUA allow you to look at the raw text of the message?
Well, your post itself is declared to be text/plain.. When my MUA saw a
html
At 08:56 AM 12/13/03 -0500, Frank M. Cook wrote:
Sorry if this has been discussed over and over again, but I've just
started to run SA and I'm not happy with the way it's mangling the tagged
mail. I want it to change the subject but leave the body of the message
alone. I've changed
At 01:35 PM 12/12/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I see a spamassassin report of an email ? I'd like to do something
like pipe the email through a command.
pipe it through spamassassin -t
Note: -t mode FORCES sa to generate a report, and it WILL contain text
declaring it to be spam, even
At 02:45 PM 12/13/2003, Bryan Hoover wrote:
742753 - total number of words in it
515654 - total number of words which have been seen only once
80485 - ... twice
35325 - ... 3 times
This statistics shows that most of the db us not used, just eating my
hard drive (44 MB total size). Is
At 06:53 PM 12/13/2003, Robert Nicholson wrote:
$status = $f-learn ($mail, $id, $isspam, $forget)
suggests that both $isspam and $forget are significant however
it will only ever do one or the other not both.
Well, forget inherently means you want to remove an entry instead of
learn.. at that
At 01:46 PM 12/12/03 +, Peter McGarvey wrote:
pts rule name description
-- --
-4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
[score: 0.]
56 AWL
At 01:58 PM 12/12/03 +0100, Kai Poppe/Redaktion SDCE wrote:
is there any possibility to change the digits of hit points from 1 (5.0) to
3 (5.000) that are shown in the report ? Since in the .cf files there are
3-digits hit points i would preffer to see them in the report, too...
any config-line i
At 10:53 AM 12/12/2003, Kang , Joseph S. wrote:
===
Anyone know how this could have happened?
I'm just curious. I've NEVER seen Yahoo! tagged bulk email with SA tags.
Odds are the open relay that the spammers sent the mail through was running
At 10:10 AM 12/12/2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote:
I have found that AWL works quite well and I keep it enabled. The only time
that it is a pain is if I send myself or someone else a test using GTUBE.
That f's up the AWL until I send a few hams. There's a way to remove the
sender from the AWL but I
At 09:34 AM 12/12/2003, Smart,Dan wrote:
I'm assuming that the scripts: mass-check-results-to-mbox, mboxget, and
extract-message-from-mbox are used to help in this process to check and
purge improperly sorted mails out of the mbox. How are these used? Don't
see any docs anywhere, and nothing in
At 11:12 AM 12/12/2003, Nayana Hettiarachchi wrote:
i have made few customs rules and i was playing around with them little
more and i was kinda curious if a rule like this will actually work, as
per my experiment i noticed that it is not working.
meta TTOFFICE_BLOCK (__TOOFFICE
At 10:50 AM 12/12/2003, Kai Poppe/Redaktion SDCE wrote:
Nope, mine does not. SpamAssassin 2.61 is the version.
Hmm, you're right..
It looks like that rounding behavior is hard-coded.. you'd have to modify
the source code to change it.
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At 02:50 PM 12/12/2003, Dan Tappin wrote:
Here is a custom rule for a PayPal spoof virus that is going around. I
can't get this to trigger a hit in SA. I have linted my
rules and my config files are being loaded properly.
Which configfile did you add your rule to? local.cf or user_prefs?
Do
At 03:33 PM 12/12/2003, sabat wrote:
The spamassassin manpage talks about setting up an alias to report spam,
piping the mail to spamassassin -r. Since this reports to DCC and Razor,
shouldn't one clean up the headers first? Isn't there risk of getting your
own domain name into the spam report?
At 04:06 PM 12/12/2003, Ken Gordon wrote:
BigEvilList_170 catches vnunet.com. Is that appropriate?
Depends on what you consider appropriate..
bigevil is autogenerated from some piles of spam. As such, it's going to be
prone to FP cases.
Bounce a message to Chris S and ask him to double-check
At 06:33 PM 12/12/2003, pacho baratta wrote:
I have a fresh installation of SA, a default local.cf (attached) and
nothing more. Now SA acts great on GTUBE test, but when I forward to my
new SA protected account a spam message nothing happens.
What's the trick?
forwarded spam is not the same as
At 06:37 PM 12/12/2003, J. S. Greenfield wrote:
bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes
bayes_file_mode 0666
where both the bayes_path directory, and the spamd home directory (it's
parent), are owned by spamd, and world writeable, at this point, for good
measure.
There's
At 05:10 PM 12/12/2003, Dan Tappin wrote:
Hi Matt,
I created in a custom .cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin
Dan
Hmm, then that should work correctly...
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At 08:50 PM 12/12/2003, J. S. Greenfield wrote:
Thanks. I installed BerkeleyDB, DB_File, and corrected bayes_path as you
indicated. No apparent change in behavior.
Any other thoughts?
try manual learning using sa-learn with debug mode on, see if it complains..
sa-learn -D --ham
At 08:56 PM 12/12/2003, J. S. Greenfield wrote:
Correction...it seems to be working now. Not sure why nothing happened on
my first test message. Perhaps a minimum amount of content is required in
the message for it to trigger autolearning?
AFAIK there's no minimum content, but you need to keep
At 09:39 PM 12/12/2003, Robert Nicholson wrote:
Anybody who's installed A 2.61
Can you tell me what the score for the following email was
Rather than hoping one of us has a copy of the exact same email, if you
want someone to test, why not just attach a copy of the email?
At 08:52 PM 12/12/2003, Kai Poppe wrote:
I just did a nice .cf that deactivates SA's old deka-step-html-percentage
tests and does a hundred tests ranging from 0% to 100% (naturally *g*).
Hope you find it useful, comments appreciated !
http://www.poppe-online.de/spamassassin/55_html_perc_tests.cf
At 02:52 AM 12/13/03 +0100, Kai Poppe wrote:
Ho list !
I just did a nice .cf that deactivates SA's old deka-step-html-percentage
tests and does a hundred tests ranging from 0% to 100% (naturally *g*).
Hope you find it useful, comments appreciated !
At 09:10 AM 12/11/03 -0500, Adam Denenberg wrote:
SA List,
What i want to start is a Bayes Corpus Project. I would like to be
able to allow people to submit confirmed ham and/or spam to a large
bayes corpus repository (or maybe just spam) where people could then
download (or somehow do an
At 11:48 AM 12/11/03 -0300, Ceva wrote:
I a new user of spamassassin, so I have some doubts. I installed
spamassassin at a server running FreeBSD 4.9 and sendmail. I want to know
how spamassassin works.
Simple.. SA exists as a mail filter.. programs call it, feed it mail, it
runs some rules
At 10:04 AM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote:
After upgrading to 2.61, we re-enabled the DYNABLOCK RBL checks. They
still seem to hit on emails that I do not believe should be matching
DYNABLOCK IP's. Here are a few headers they hit on:
snip
Email thru our server from home PC:
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Received: from
At 10:57 AM 12/11/2003, Smart,Dan wrote:
How do you get mass-check to use your local custom rules in local.cf and
other .cf files?
I usually run mass check from within the masses sub-dir of an unzipped SA
tarball directory. It will automatically use ../rules/*.cf instead of
At 10:21 AM 12/11/2003, Graham Borland wrote:
I'm about to start training sa with spam and ham. Is it a good or bad idea
to use spam which has already been detected by sa's non-trained tests, or is
that a waste of time? Should I only train it with spam which is currently
managing to slip through?
At 11:52 AM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote:
ok, this one makes sense. I guess dynablock will hit on anyone who emails
from their mail program and has the smtp server set to their hosted server
instead of the ISP's mailserver. Will probably hit on very high % of hams
as well, since most people
At 11:46 AM 12/11/2003, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
amavisd is running chroot'ed
/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/Net/DNS/RR/.pm exists
on the system.
But does it exist relative to the root of the chroot?
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At 12:06 PM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote:
ok. For example, we are a web host, and I often email from my home PC on a
cable modem utilizing the mailserver of our own dedicated server in our
datacenter. If I do that, my email trips the dynablock check in SA. The
header you mentioned before was
At 12:42 PM 12/11/2003, Chris Barnes wrote:
I got a false positive this morning, where it looks like the main
culprit was bad information in SORBS and RJABL. The sender is a local
Earthlink customer.
Any idea on how to get the SORBS RJABL databases fixed?
Those lists that fired off are dial-up
At 01:12 PM 12/11/2003, Aaron Levitt wrote:
Greets everyone-
Um, your SA install appears to be badly corrupted, or based on some VERY
ancient version (older than 2.43).
Re-install from scratch.
check_for_from_to_equivalence appears to be no part of SA 2.43, 2.44,
2.50, 2.52, 2.53, 2.54, 2.55,
At 01:12 PM 12/11/2003, Aaron Levitt wrote:
Greets everyone-
Digging a bit more, I unpacked some ancient tarballs for my collection.
You're using parts of code from SA version 2.31, or older, not SA 2.55.
The code you're getting errors on exists in versions 1.5, 2.0, 2.01,
2.10,2.11, 2.20,
At 02:16 PM 12/11/2003, Satya wrote:
Okay, it seems to me that blocking because someone is in a dynablock
is the same class as blocking because the email comes from .ru or East
Asia or is in the wrong langauge. I guess I'll just start blocking all
email from Earthlink (I don't know anyone there),
At 06:03 PM 12/11/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example - I don't have an ASCII chart handy, but suppose %03 is also
non-printable -
a href=
http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/exploit
/format/c
Read this or risk legal action!!!/a
Um.. the exploit doesn't work if the character is escaped with a %.. it
At 02:46 PM 12/11/03 -0300, Ceva wrote:
Thanks for your help. One last doubt. As I understod, sendmail (
procmail )calls spamassassin, but this is done automatic whem a start
spamassassin? Or I must make some configuration on sendmail?
You must configure your mail tools (ie: sendmail) to call SA.
At 02:01 AM 12/10/03 -0500, kittonian wrote:
Since the clients all download the mail and it becomes stored on the
exchange server for the user's inbox, how exactly do I train SA to stop
marking certain items? Our users are all over the place so if there's
something I can setup where I can
At 08:13 AM 12/10/03 -0500, Bill wrote:
Do I need to extract each of those spams from the report or can I
submit the encapsulated report message? Will SA strip the added
headers/encapsulation?
Read the FAQ:
http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/LearningMarkedUpMessages
In short, SA will auto-remove it's
At 09:58 AM 12/10/03 +0200, Ryan Lumsden wrote:
how do I get spamd to log to a diffrent file besides messages and mail.log.
edit your /etc/syslog.conf and use spamd's -s parameter to change what
syslog facility to use.
Spamd isn't writing to any files at all, it's just doing standard
At 11:45 PM 12/9/03 -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
Oh yeah, forgot to mention I finally got around to migrating all the FAQ
stuff onto the Wiki ;)
Heh, yeah, I caused me to go Where the heck is that FAQ link???!!! for
about 5 seconds before I saw the wiki one..
Ok, my real impressions were a little
At 09:34 AM 12/10/03 -0500, Barb Bautista wrote:
What do I do with the tests performed available here:
http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html
Could someone please explain if I should just copy this file into a .cf file
in my local.cf? I am currently running SA site-wide.
Um, don't do *anything*
At 09:48 AM 12/10/03 +0100, stephane ancelot wrote:
Hi,
are there any rules to avoid sven messages ?
bye
steph
It's not really the point of SA, however Andreas Kotowicz posted a list of
rules that appear to work well.
My only criticism of this ruleset is that he forgot to name all the
sub-rules
At 10:09 AM 12/10/03 -0500, Stephen M. Przepiora wrote:
Hello, I have constructed a huge list of rules and wish to detect how good
they are. Is there a way to log the count of rule matches somewhere?
if you've got a spam/ham corpus, you can test your rules using the tools in
the masses/
At 11:32 AM 12/10/2003, Larry Starr wrote:
My question regards scripts to ease processing of these mailboxes. Since the
messages are forwarded, from several different Email clients (netscape,
kmail, pine, AppleMail, etc), extracting the original message, for sa-learn
is proving to be non-trivial.
At 12:04 PM 12/10/2003, Stephen Westrip wrote:
What exactly do I need to do to make this work? I have read lots about
adding 'bayes_auto_learn 1' and other bits and pieces to put in the cf file
but whatever I try the Bayes DB never gets added to.
did you install DB_File? if not, bayes won't go.
At 01:39 PM 12/10/2003, Justin wrote:
Still, is there a way to
conditionally check/skip a DNSBL rule?
No.
However, if there's an agregate database, you can query multiple lists at
the same time.. Currently the SORBS and OPM rules work this way.. only one
DNS query is made for all the lists in
At 02:08 PM 12/10/2003, Justin wrote:
So that's how check_rbl and check_rbl_sub work? I always wondered about
that. So what happens if an IP exists in two subzones at the same time?
With SORBS, it's done by returning multiple results for a single query.
host 138.81.106.218.dnsbl.sorbs.net
At 03:48 PM 12/10/2003, SpamTalk wrote:
FOLDED set all lowercase
Remove HTML
punctuation to be underscore,
Why on earth do you want to set all lowercase? Every regex in the ruleset
can be set to case sensitve or insensitve on it's own, so this adjustment
only
At 06:48 PM 12/10/2003, stan wrote:
Did I do wrong by teaching it with lots of _good_ messages? Should I reset
it to the base rules, and start over? BTW how can I do that?
Idealisticaly you want to train it with something realistic in terms of
spam/ham ratio.. ie: something close to what you get
At 07:17 PM 12/10/03 -0800, AthlonRob wrote:
Cannot open bayes databases /var/amavis/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed:
snip
...
Where might the lock files be?
Try /var/amavis/.spamassassin/bayes*.lock
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At 01:27 AM 12/9/03 -0500, Jeremy Kister wrote:
It seems that spamassassin 2.60 requires all 9 Habeas fields to be included,
in order, in the header of an email, for it to recognize the Habeas mark.
While contacting Habeas support about a semi-related issue, I was informed
that spamassassin should
At 07:13 AM 12/9/03 -0500, Scott Sprunger wrote:
I wanted to test a theory so I've been trying to come up with a rule that
will catch encoded strings in the subject of a message. So far I've tried
the rules below, but none of them are hitting. Any suggestions?
rawbody type rules have already had
At 01:26 PM 12/9/03 +0100, Claude Frantz wrote:
Please allow me to report about an Out of memory case which occured on
a system here.
RedHat Linux 9.0, all available patches applied
amavisd-new-20030616-p6
SpamAssassin version 2.60
Please read the release notes for 2.61, which just came out.
At 08:38 AM 12/9/03 -0500, Bill wrote:
Now that the name SpamAssassin is getting to be known as the premier product
on the market you can be sure they are going to start using the name on a
commercial product. I also expect to see them sue the open-source developers
in the near future over the
At 10:01 AM 12/9/03 -0500, gentian wrote:
Is such a thing possible with SpamAssassin and some other combinations in
Redhat ??
Yes, this is largely a function of whatever tool you integrate SA with..
I'd suggest trying a mitler-level tool which can do this kind of thing by
550ing the message at
At 03:18 PM 12/9/03 +0100, Luca Palazzo wrote:
i'm experiencing a strabge problem using Spamassassassin (2.60)..
It recognizes a mail as spam, rewrite message (using the rule from
safe_report 1) but adds its header with wrong X-Spam-Status..
This is typicaly what happens when you run mail through
At 10:42 AM 12/9/03 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote:
Would you people please get some facts prior to posting senseless blather.
Replying to myself, sorry for the sharp-edged tone there. It is however
frustrating when you offhandedly mention a simple fact, and people begin
jumping to conclusions
At 10:59 AM 12/9/03 -0500, Paul Hirschorn wrote:
I found out the way it does
this is just by initially tagging that users email message as -100 points as
soon as it is scanned and also getting auto-learned as a result because it
is below the minimum ham score. Is there a bug fix for this
Um, what
At 12:01 PM 12/9/2003, Thomas Shoaf \(PromoStep\) wrote:
1) I have used the Content Checker over at Lyris - Is there such a Content
Checker available that I may use on my respective server that allows me to
checked my content before sending it out via email, etc. I like the tool
at Lyris BUT I
At 02:11 PM 12/9/2003, Scott A Crosby wrote:
The plan was abuse copyright and trademark law in order to engage in
anticompetetive lock-in. IE, to require payment from people wishing to
produce games, people who didn't pay would be forced to commit
'trademark and copyright infringement'. The
At 03:27 PM 12/9/2003, John Harrold wrote:
i asked some friends and they seem to think that by putting this file in my
~/.spamassassin/ directory it will be used automatically. is this true? or
is there a source or include command i can put in my user_prefs file?
That is not true... in
At 04:39 PM 12/9/2003, Rachel E. Hewitt wrote:
1. if using the spamassassin --lint at the command prompt and it just
goes back to the dos prompt after a moment does that mean that SA is
running without any errors?
Yes, spamassassin --lint should have no output unless there are errors.
If you
At 10:51 PM 12/9/2003, mairhtin wrote:
It appears that I *WAS* correct. There is still a matter of order of
precedence with respect to the scoring of tests.
Hmm.. maybe. You have proved it is using your particular user_prefs file.
Your original problem was concern over settings bleeding between
At 10:02 AM 12/8/03 -0500, Owen Becker wrote:
I have several users who are in all_spam_to in local.cf. It looks like
spamassassin is
giving negative scores to spam for other users when someone in all_spam_to
is included
in the headers. Anyone know of any quick fixes?
Quick fixes, maybe, maybe
At 11:08 AM 12/8/2003, gentian wrote:
Is this SpamAssassin™ the same as this spamassassin here ?
http://www.no-spam-today.com/?banner=GoogleNSTX2http://www.no-spam-today.com/?banner=GoogleNSTX2
The title of the page makes it pretty clear they are a windows installer
for the open-source SA.
At 11:07 AM 12/8/2003, Vee Persaud wrote:
I read the FAQ and saw something about using a different user to run
sa-learn and that it might cause issues WRT to Bayes. Is this correct ?
Yes, this is correct, unless you over-ride the bayes_path and file mode.
I'm running sa-learn as root and spamd
At 11:22 AM 12/8/2003, Mike Kuentz (2) wrote:
Eval's return true/false if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, they do.. But I suspect perl is like C, where any nonzero return value
is true.
So it's less useful than it appears to return a count, but not harmful.
It's probably better style to do what most of
At 12:21 PM 12/8/2003, mairhtin wrote:
I have an oddity occuring. In my site-wide (local.cf) rules, I have some
custom rules, but none concerning dell.com . I want
one user to always get any mail from dell.com, but if other users get mail
from that domain (or one spoofed to look like it) I
want
At 10:54 AM 12/8/2003, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
I just opened a Bugzilla report for this:
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817
(SA 2.60, Solaris, perl 5.6.1)
For the moment, I'd suggest a rule like this one that I just cooked up:
body LOCAL_GAPPY_VIAG
At 02:59 PM 12/8/2003, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
body LOCAL_GAPPY_VIAG /\bV\Wi\Wa\Wg\Wr\Wa\b/i
score LOCAL_OBFU_VIAG 1.0
Shouldn't the two descriptions match ? :-)
ACK!.. that's what I get for re-naming a rule.. :)
At 03:57 PM 12/8/2003, Steven P. Auerbach wrote:
1 - What does Learned from 0 message(s) mean?
It means no learning happened. Your interpretation is ONE possibility, but
it's the wrong one.. it didn't learn because you don't have DB_File, thus
it's impossible for bayes to store data. Since bayes
At 04:33 PM 12/8/2003, David B Funk wrote:
Small enhancement suggestion, modify each one of those '\W' with '?'
thus making successive obfuscating characters optional. With your
rule there -must- be an obfuscating between each regular character,
with the '?', it will catch all permutations of
At 09:17 PM 12/8/03 -0600, JRiley wrote:
The very same. However, I didnt know the name SpamAssassin was trademarked..
-JR
Yep, it was trademarked by Deersoft, and now owned by McAfee following
their acquisition of Deersoft.
IIRC.
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At 07:45 PM 12/8/03 -0800, Robert Menschel wrote:
MK That's definitely bayes poison.
Well, it's definitely an attempt at bayes poison, and/or a checksum
poison.
I used to treat it as bayes poison, and keep those out of my bayes
database. I no longer bother. To me it's become bayes fodder.
Well,
At 11:07 AM 12/6/03 -0800, mairhtin wrote:
Great to hear! Is xanadu.evi-inc.com *YOUR* dns machine? my machine is
named mail.techsolutionsgroupllc.com, so I suppose that the correspondant
line would be :
whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.techsolutionsgroupllc.com
since
At 08:49 PM 12/7/03 -0500, Richard Bewley wrote:
mm, it looks as though this would be the problem:
debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? no
debug: is DNS available? 0
Now, the next question, how do I go about installing Net::DNS, do I have to
use CPAN?
you can do it via tarball, and most
At 07:15 PM 12/7/03 -0800, Scott Harris wrote:
The spam attached has the following random words at the bottom:
automata childhood reflectance trevelyan tile captious hollingsworth
cornstarch chinaman chicanery
Is this to try to poison bayes or to just try and fool things to get it
through or
At 02:46 PM 12/7/03 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
50_scores.cf:score BAYES_80 0 0 5.300 2.862
50_scores.cf:score BAYES_90 0 0 4.027 3.002
50_scores.cf:score BAYES_99 0 0 5.200 3.008
if I'm reading this correctly more points are given for classifying a message
as 80% probable than for 90%
There are a lot of outlook 2003 related bugs that have recently been fixed
in CVS and are slated for 2.61..
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2344
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2538
Theoreticaly, these may fix your problem.
You can also look at the other
At 10:29 AM 12/6/03 -0800, mairhtin wrote:
This results in a -87 score. How can I guard against this, or change my
honest-to-goodness mail from MAILER-DAEMON to read something else, like
mymailer-daemon ??? Is there a setting in sendmail that I can change to
allow me to blacklist [EMAIL
At 07:21 AM 12/5/2003, george o'dowd wrote:
Anyone know how to customise the default alrert message ?
Spamassassin has detected possible spam running on server xxx.xxx etc etc
Anyone know how I can change the content of that message ?
I've never seen that message, but there is a similar one.. set
At 12:04 PM 12/5/2003, Nichols, William wrote:
but on startup of RH9 I have it starting spamd, how do I change the user
there?
Edit the init script that starts spamd.. it's probably in /etc/rc.d/init.d
or /etc/init.d, but I've never checked on a RH9 box.
At 01:58 PM 12/5/2003, Brian Ipsen wrote:
But incoming messages encoded in Base64 containg links with the above
domains are not recognized ?? Why ??
Any chance the particular B-64 messages are multipart with one part being
QP and the other part being base64?
get_decoded_body_text_array has this
At 02:15 PM 12/5/2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:
But incoming messages encoded in Base64 containg links with
the above
domains are not recognized ?? Why ??
one word: rawbody
LER
OUCH! That makes a lot of sense. Hmmm.Should I change bigevil to
URI???
Dunno, I'd ask for some
At 03:10 PM 12/5/2003, kelli coggins wrote:
Does the message ever leave the user's in folder on the mail server while
SpamAssassin is running? If not, what happens to the original message
(before it is re-wrapped as spam)?
If so, how is it sent back to the correct mail box?
I've never run SA on a
At 11:06 AM 12/4/2003, Smart,Dan wrote:
In reading the sa-learn man file, it says running discussions of spam
through sa-learn is bad. Does SA take this into account already, or should
I create a procmail rule to bypass SA for messages from SATalk and
(possibly) Postfix-List ?
SA's bayesian
At 07:25 AM 12/4/2003, Clive Dove wrote:
No big deal at the moment as it is only one message, but what happens when
other spammers discover that this is a way to distribute their junk?
It's been a problem for a LONG time and is nothing new at all..
This very issue forced sa-talk to become list
At 12:44 PM 12/4/2003, Gary Lopez wrote:
bayes_file_mode 0770
bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes
bayes_expiry_max_db_size15
bayes_journal_max_size 102400
Does the above file exist?
yes
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other512 Dec 3
At 03:13 PM 12/4/2003, kula Yu wrote:
Hi There,
There is a new Sendmail Filter developed by Mailshell
that is utilizing a very powerful engine to catch
spam, Mailshell SpamCatcher.
Filter has many configuration options which you can
customize according to your needs. It can be freely
downloaded
At 03:33 PM 12/4/2003, Kurt Buff wrote:
I've also got Bayes autolearning turned on, and it's definitely active.
snip
Is there anything I can do to help improve the detection rate?
I'd advise not using bayes with autolearning alone.. Bayes more or less
requires at least some hand-feeding in order
At 04:35 PM 12/4/2003, Matt Kettler wrote:
Most autolearn-only bayes databases wind up being mostly poisoned and wind
up doing more harm than good. If you're seeing any spam with BAYES_ scores
under 20, or ham with bayes scores over 80 you've got big bayes database
problems. Spam under 50
At 11:29 AM 12/3/2003, Gary Smith wrote:
The question:
What I was wondering if I can create a new rule that filteres on a
specific piece of text (like the normal rules) but apply a negative score
value.
Yes, that's easy to do.
Here's a howto guide:
At 12:40 PM 12/3/2003, Martin, Jeremy wrote:
I'm having an odd problem with SpamAssassin 2.60, Qmail-Scanner 1.20 and
netqmail 1.04 compiled from source (RedHat 9).
qmail-scanner does not use spamd/spamc's modification of subject lines, it
does the subject taggigng itself.
Please read the
At 02:24 PM 12/3/2003, Vee Persaud wrote:
It got a score of 3.3. I ran sa-learn --spam on this message and now I
get a score of 3.0 if I resend the message. I'm a bit confused. Did I
do something wrong ???
How did you resend the message?
If you resend the message, merely by making a new
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