Re: [SAtalk] A way to disociate analyze and scoring phase.

2003-10-25 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:44, Matt Kettler wrote: > What did you want to dissociate them for anyway? Doing this would allow receipt time (single) scanning of mail along with per-user decisions as to whether to accept/reject/markup the mail. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Methering

Re: [SAtalk] Looking for some interview subjects

2003-10-23 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 01:56, Chris Paul wrote: > You should call me. I'm starting a company that will eliminate spam > for good. Not just filter it. Filtration won't scale. We'll be > eliminating spam for good. I guess you have a decent source of ICBMs then - and probably a bulk deal on hitmen. >

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-28 Thread Nigel Metheringham
if there was a zero score. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcom

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-28 Thread Nigel Metheringham
a test as zero inhibits the test being run at all, so your point is not an issue. So changing the scoring of the test is the minimum change to knock out use of osirusoft and is also restricting edits to the normal SA configuration rather than making changes to the packaged rule files. Nigel

RE: [SAtalk] Suddenly, spamd runs me out of memory (physical andswap)

2003-08-14 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:33, Mike Burger wrote: > Great...now, I just need to figure out how to redirect the output. > "strace -p > strace.txt" didn't work. strace -p -o strace.txt -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this messag

Re: [SAtalk] Pronouncability of Sender Address

2003-06-25 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 15:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We need a prounouncability test of the sender addresses. If it has a bunch > of ixf38jk3 crud in it, it is more likely to be spam. /me points and laughs at lds0062 Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PRO

Re: [SAtalk] More SPAM since SA??

2003-04-02 Thread Nigel Metheringham
pam. The mailing list machine I manage has had a 4 fold increase in spam hitting the mailing list moderation interface over the last few days. Its gone way past being funny. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not I

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer

2002-10-17 Thread Nigel Metheringham
then whoever wants the benefit > of SpamAssassin can put in rules for the X-Spam-Flag. Yeah - thats about it. exiscan looks well worth trying (I have it running here now) - the MIME file extension handling is useful in these days of Bugbear etc, without running a real virus checker. Nigel

Re: [SAtalk] Cool release name for 2.30

2002-06-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
backstaging for the Musical "Assassins" - http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm80.html ] Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opin

Re: [SAtalk] Which user is running spamd - is this okay?

2002-05-24 Thread Nigel Metheringham
er for exim so that the reinject works OK). Its pretty hard to get exim to run things as root. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

Re: [SAtalk] botched MIME tests?

2002-05-24 Thread Nigel Metheringham
hing, but its cheap (money and MTA resources) and suprisingly effective against things like Melissa (if I had 1% of the money saved by some ISPs by that filter during the Melissa and its successors storms I would be writing this from my state-of-the-art wireless networked laptop whilst sipping a cold

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on a mail relay

2002-04-30 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ately) be <> and people may have fun trying to craft shell expansion sensitive addresses with security implications). Personally, with exim, I used BSMTP to preserve the envelope and invoke spamc as a transport filter. I think procmail is likely to be the wrong solution here. Nigel.

Re: [SAtalk] I am so happy, I could kiss you...

2002-04-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 12:13, Craig Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 01:50, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > > I've not played with this since a 2.0 linux kernel, however on that if > > you have the transparent proxy code in place - which *terminates* the > > connection (

Re: [SAtalk] I am so happy, I could kiss you...

2002-04-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
) folks at the previously monopoly telco in the UK] Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://li

Re: [SAtalk] I am so happy, I could kiss you...

2002-04-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ng, as were 100+ attempted mail bomb/abuse runs. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SAtalk] Re: [Exim] Spamassassin config for running from exim

2002-03-18 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 20:52, Adrian Phillips wrote: > >>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: > > > Interesting, I though I'd give it a go. > > Nigel> I've just been playing with the exim spamassass

[SAtalk] Spamassassin config for running from exim

2002-03-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
:-)) condition = "${if and { {!def:h_X-Spam-Flag:} {!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}}} {1}{0}}" driver = smartuser transport = spamcheck One other subtle point. Your spamd must have the "-F 0" flag added to stop it adding and messing around with Fr

[SAtalk] Undetected spam - Convite Especial

2002-03-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
For whatever reason I'm now getting Brasilian spam... Looks to me as though the last paragraph - I assume its quoting some spam friendly statute - could have some good things to match on. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 8

Re: [SAtalk] Filter idea: non-spammish mail agents

2002-03-01 Thread Nigel Metheringham
_SPAM_MAILER_1-10.0 > score NON_SPAM_MAILER_2-10.0 I can see the idea you are working on, but -10 seems a huge weighting for this rule (ie twice the default spam threshold). Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85

Re: [SAtalk] Administrivia: list organization question

2002-02-28 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ve to work round the list brokenness. Want a longer rant - see http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html BTW some people don't agree with this. Unfortunately that just makes them wrong. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85

Re: [SAtalk] slooooow rules

2002-02-22 Thread Nigel Metheringham
he scoring if pairs of rules match would be nice. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ___

Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin in 100% C

2002-02-20 Thread Nigel Metheringham
to the razor database and for while last week this happened to the razor list itself. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy

Re: [SAtalk] Test if user is listed recipient ...

2002-02-19 Thread Nigel Metheringham
velope-To". Actually any header additions/deletions in exim take place at transport (ie final delivery from the point of view of the MTA) time. What might confuse this a little is SA is often called as a final delivery, which happens to reinject mail into the system afterwards.

Re: [SAtalk] Envelope from

2002-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 14:45, dman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:37:46AM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > | In terms of headers, Return-Path: would be the one to go for. > > Well, in your message that I'm replying to, there is no Return-Path: > header. Maybe procma

Re: [SAtalk] Envelope from

2002-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
o be easy - especially the . escaping. In terms of headers, Return-Path: would be the one to go for. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opini

Re: [SAtalk] Spammer's new ideas ...

2002-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
> What can I do against this? Sue. Its forgery and defamation surely, and you are the victim in this case. If a few people manage to sue spammers for this it will rapidly become an unpopular technique. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phon

Re: [SAtalk] Bug#132733: X-RBL-Warning

2002-02-08 Thread Nigel Metheringham
running RBL at the MTA level a while back as things break quickly when people do strange things like ORBS] Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and

Re: [SAtalk] spamd log messages...

2002-02-07 Thread Nigel Metheringham
happening on a machine on my internal network having been relayed in from the outside the envelope recipient will look like [EMAIL PROTECTED] where tags is a representation of the original envelope recipient local and domain parts. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTE

[SAtalk] suggested spamc modifications for MTA integration

2002-01-31 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [SAtalk] Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim withspamassasin

2002-01-31 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ctly deliver to Maildir format. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ___ Sp