RE: [SAtalk] lock problems with SPAMC

2003-11-06 Thread Pete Hanson
At 11:18 AM -0500 11/6/03, Larry Gilson wrote: I agree with the fact that the lock is not needed on spamc, but I don't understand why this would produce an error. There are a lot of individuals that use the lock with both spamassassin and spamc as a load control. Is it possible that by using

Re: [SAtalk] lock problems with SPAMC

2003-11-05 Thread Pete Hanson
I think you may be putting a lock on the recipe that runs spamc - you don't want to do that. The only time you need to lock in procmail is when you're writing to a file that might be called by multiple procmail processes at one time. So, instead of: :0 fw: | spamc you want: :0 fw

Re: [SAtalk] Significant increase in spam lately

2003-10-30 Thread Pete Hanson
At 7:58 AM -0800 10/30/03, Robert Abatecola wrote: Has anyone else noticed a hugs increase in the amount of spam lately? In the last month or so the volume has more than doubled and a very large portion of it gets through spamassassin 2.41. A month ago, we were seeing about 6-7 spams a

Re: [SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread Pete Hanson
I had something very similar to this a few days ago - the bastard was running through every possible email address: a b c ... z aa ab .. zy zz aaa ... zzz. He was up into low 4-letter combos before I discovered it. Fortunately, though, he was using two IPs that I was able to blackhole. I

RE: [SAtalk] fighting against Say GOOD BY to spam

2003-02-06 Thread Pete Hanson
12 hits here, out about 150 spams yesterday. At 10:35 -0800 02/06/2003, Steve Thomas wrote: No hits in 47M of spam here, either. | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Theo | Van Dinter | Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:04 PM | To:

Re: [SAtalk] More granular reporting on unflagged Spam available?

2002-10-16 Thread Pete Hanson
I don't believe there's a way to do that, but I sure would love to see some individual scores in that header just to show what's going on. On Wednesday, Oct 16, 2002, at 10:33 America/Anchorage, Tim Provencio wrote: Is there a way to add the scores to the tests that were done?  For

Re: [SAtalk] newbie question.

2002-07-12 Thread Pete Hanson
At 07/12/2002 15:12, Collins, Elizabeth wrote: Howdy, I am new to SpamAssassin but I recently inherited the company wide spam filtering stuff. I have been expirimenting w/ my own rules. I like to leave the stock rules files as they are, but I want to change some of the rules therein. I

Re: [SAtalk] spamc/spamd -u parameter and per-user configuration

2002-07-03 Thread Pete Hanson
At 07/02/2002 21:24, Kenneth Porter wrote: In /etc/procmailrc I have: :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc -u spamd Before adding the -u to spamc, no processing appeared to happen, and log What's the right way to get per-user configs in this setup? I believe you can fix this by addding DROPPRIVS=yes

Re: [SAtalk] user_prefs (whitelist_from)

2002-07-03 Thread Pete Hanson
At 07/03/2002 03:51, Brandon L. Griffith wrote: whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] But still, it filters her emails out. Did I misread something somewhere or might there be another issue at hand here? Quotes aren't needed (and probably aren't valid), and spaces are used to

Re: [SAtalk] db working but not?

2002-06-30 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/30/2002 05:32, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: I'm storing user preferences in a database. The default hit is 8.0 currently (will shortly be back to 5.0) and spamc is getting called from procmail (which is getting called from qmail/vpopmail) thusly: now user steve has an entry in the userpref

Re: [SAtalk] RaQ3, sitewide and forwarding.

2002-06-30 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/30/2002 14:25, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: Sorry for the noice, but even something as simple as finding the local version of sendmail.mc nearly drow me nuts, so I thought I'd ask if anyone's had the displeasure of setting up SA on a RaQ3 so that forwarded (as set up with the webUI) e-mails

Re: [SAtalk] procmailrc entry is wrong

2002-06-28 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/27/2002 22:13, Steve Wingate wrote: Hello, I'm using the p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.30 port on FreeBSD along with procmail 3.22. I'm having a few problems. I have this in my ~/.procmailrc file (procmail has been working fine for a long while) # Added for SpamAssassin :0fw | spamassassin -P

Re: [SAtalk] Procmail recipe question...

2002-06-23 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/23/2002 08:17, Jim Howard wrote: What I'd like to do is modify this rule so that it sends good mail to my inbox, but also forwards it to another internet address, namely that of my wireless device. Hi Jim, Add something like this to the end: :0 c ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beware,

Re: [SAtalk] X- references in headers

2002-06-21 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/21/2002 17:49, Danita Zanre wrote: Unfortunately, we also get complaints from customers saying I purchased such-and-such and was told that I would receive information about upgrades - I see there's an upgrade and I didn't hear from you - and we check and they have unsubscribed, or they did

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin with large email providers...?

2002-06-14 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/14/2002 11:26, Jeff Campbell wrote: Mainly, our worries fall into the realm of load. Are there any similar web hosts or ISPs currently using SpamAssassin in a production environment? Smaller but still significantly sized web hosts or ISPs? We handle about 1/2 million incoming mail

Re: [SAtalk] SA with .forward files

2002-06-12 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/12/2002 06:17, Debbie Doerrlamm wrote: My server is a Cobalt Raq4. I have several users who have .forward files in their user directory. I have noticed that mails sent using .forward files are NOT passed through SA. The GUI on the cobalt will not allow more than one address in the Forward

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Re: spamc message size limits

2002-06-11 Thread Pete Hanson
Hi Derrick, At 06/10/2002 13:04, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:51:07AM -0800, Pete Hanson wrote: | Not true. We're starting to see spam mail with huge attachments. What sort of attachments? What are the main identifying marks on the messages? Here's a nice example

Re: [SAtalk] Not getting Spam message in e-mail.

2002-06-10 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/10/2002 07:21, Richard J.Sears wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been run SpamAssassin for about 3 months now. I am running 2.20 with the MySQL database option. The server utilizes Postfix and I am running spamd/spamc with it. What a great program! I have noticed a problem where I will get a

Re: [SAtalk] Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-10 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/10/2002 09:47, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Craig R. Hughes said: Anyone have any thoughts for a cool release name for 2.30? Howabout various Hormel products? This release could be DINTY MOORE. Pete `-_-' Although we modern persons tend to take our electric

[SAtalk] spamc message size limits

2002-06-10 Thread Pete Hanson
Forgive me if this has been asked in the past. Looking at the source for spamc, it looks to me like a message that exceeds the maximum message size is simply skipped entirely, which actually requires reading in most of the message first - fair enough, as it's hard to determine the size when

Re: [SAtalk] Re: spamc message size limits

2002-06-10 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/10/2002 10:43, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | Looking at the source for spamc, it looks to me like a message that | exceeds the maximum message size is simply skipped entirely, which | actually requires reading in most of the message first - fair | enough, as it's hard to determine the size

Re: [SAtalk] Re: spamc message size limits

2002-06-10 Thread Pete Hanson
the modified headers (Subject:, X-Spam-*, maybe Content-Type:) and reduce the output on the pipe. (Marc's local_scan() only reads the headers from that side of the pipe and only pays attention to some of them anyways) Then Pete Hanson said: Actually, I think this answers my question - spamc would have

Re: [SAtalk] Finally got it working...

2002-06-09 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/09/2002 10:30, Bryan Hoover wrote: David T-G wrote: Your point is taken, in that, there will always be a percentage of ISP who are not conscientious enough to have an opinion one way or the other, and so need a nudge in the right direction. I suppose lately, I've had so much spam on the

Re: [SAtalk] Finally got it working...

2002-06-09 Thread Pete Hanson
At 06/09/2002 11:39, David T-G wrote: That's one good thing about spamcop, though; yes, it's possible to screw up (even I have accidentally submitted and sent reports for non-spam), but at least the addresses that get pulled out are for the right places. If I were an ISP I'd be inclined to ignore

[SAtalk] auto-whitelists

2002-05-31 Thread Pete Hanson
I've been looking at the auto-whitelist code trying to figure out if it is suitable for our environment, and it looks to me like this code may be broken. The documentation makes reference to an auto_whitelist_threshold option, and the code in Conf.pm does try to read this setting, but as near