RE: [SAtalk] SPAMD stops tagging spam?

2004-01-31 Thread Martin, Jeffrey
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] SPAMD stops tagging spam? Environment is Fedora Core 1 (fully up-to-date w/ patches); SendMail 8.12.10-1.1.1 (Fedora Core RPM); SpamAssassin 2.63; spamass-milter 0.2.0+cvs. This server acts as a filtering

Re: [SAtalk] SPAMD stops tagging spam?

2004-01-31 Thread WA9ALS - John
> Yesterday, at approximately 5:20pm, my server stopped filtering spam... it > just decided to happily pass it along to its intended recipient. All the > processes appeared to be running. /var/log/maillog shows calls to spamd, > and it responding to connections, just doesn't seem to be doing any

[SAtalk] Spamd don't start

2004-01-30 Thread Johann Spies
I have installed Spamassassin 2.61-2 on Debian Sarge, but I can't get the daemon to run. Running "/etc/init.d/spamassassin start" does not complain about any error, but nothing happens. There is no spamd process running. I can not find any reference to spamassassin or spamd in /var/log either.

[SAtalk] SPAMD stops tagging spam?

2004-01-28 Thread Dan O'Brien
Environment is Fedora Core 1 (fully up-to-date w/ patches); SendMail 8.12.10-1.1.1 (Fedora Core RPM); SpamAssassin 2.63; spamass-milter 0.2.0+cvs. This server acts as a filtering relay in front of a Lotus Domino mail server. There are no user preferences. Yesterday, at approximately 5:20pm, m

[SAtalk] Spamd dies without reason

2004-01-26 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
Hi List. Is anyone else having issues with spamd dying without notice. All I can see in the logs is included below Jan 25 02:30:03 jp-mx-1 spamd[10532]: clean message (-16.4/4.4) for xadmin:501 in 74.9 seconds, 516 bytes. Jan 25 02:30:52 jp-mx-1 spamd[10487]: identified spam (32.8/4.4) for xad

[SAtalk] SPAMD stops tagging spam?

2004-01-26 Thread Dan O'Brien
Sending this time from the address I'm subscribed to the list... sorry for the double posting, but my SpamAssassin relay server has just stopped filtering mail again. This time, while it was misbehaving, I sent a known spam to SPAMD through SPAMC at the command line: $ spamc -c < test yielded

[SAtalk] SPAMD stops tagging spam?

2004-01-26 Thread Dan O'Brien
Sending this time from the address I'm subscribed to the list... sorry for the double posting, but my SpamAssassin relay server has just stopped filtering mail again. This time, while it was misbehaving, I sent a known spam to SPAMD through SPAMC at the command line: $ spamc -c < test yielded

Re: [SAtalk] spamd choking on locks?

2004-01-20 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Dale Harris wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:08:56PM -0800, Dale Harris elucidated: > > > > I would have searched the archive for the but SF seems less than > > helpful. I'm seeing a lot of errors like: > > > > Jan 20 03:44:11 skull spamd[27980]: lock: 27980 unlink of lock

Re: [SAtalk] spamd choking on locks?

2004-01-20 Thread Dale Harris
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:08:56PM -0800, Dale Harris elucidated: > > I would have searched the archive for the but SF seems less than > helpful. I'm seeing a lot of errors like: > > Jan 20 03:44:11 skull spamd[27980]: lock: 27980 unlink of lock file > /home/rodmur/.spamassassin/bayes.lock faile

[SAtalk] spamd choking on locks?

2004-01-20 Thread Dale Harris
I would have searched the archive for the but SF seems less than helpful. I'm seeing a lot of errors like: Jan 20 03:44:11 skull spamd[27980]: lock: 27980 unlink of lock file /home/rodmur/.spamassassin/bayes.lock failed: No such file or directory Is this potentially causing mail bounces? D

[SAtalk] spamd/spamc not reading /etc/spamassassin/local.cf

2004-01-15 Thread Konstantin Kletschke
Hi there! Recently I wondered why my spamd called by exim by exim.conf:spamd_address = 127.0.0.1 783 is not adding asterisk to the mails. I found out, that the whole /etc/spamassassin/local.cf seems not to be read by spamassasin. regardeless as which user I call "spamassassin -t < mail" or "cat

[SAtalk] spamd not adding asterisks

2004-01-14 Thread Konstantin Kletschke
Hi! I have: # cat /etc/spamassassin/local.cf rewrite_subject 0 # report_safe 1 # trusted_networks 212.17.35. report_safe 0 use_terse_report 1 auto_learn 0 always_add_report 0 always_add_headers 0 required_hits 10 report_contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] add_header all Level _STARS(*)_ score HABEAS_SWE

[SAtalk] spamd dies unnaturally

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Mann
Hello, I just upgraded to SA 2.61, after patching Razor2. Last night I got this message: Jan 8 00:39:39 judah spamd[17577]: razor2 check skipped: Bad file descriptor Died at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 401. 20 seconds later, spamd was a dead process, as e

[SAtalk] Spamd Protocol 10?

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Calvert
Hey all,   I'm an administrator at a decently sized company and I'm trying to give my users some relief from the spam by installing SpamAssassin on the mail server. I'm running Linux kernel 2.4.7-10, Red Hat 7.2, installing from the 2.61 TARballs.   I've got the latest version of Perl, I down

[SAtalk] spamd IP Log

2004-01-05 Thread Ammar T. Al-Sayegh
Hi All, Is there a way to make spamd include the IP number of the spammer's relay in its maillog entry? Thanks. -ammar --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign u

RE: [SAtalk] spamd -m and a good number....

2004-01-03 Thread Robert Lacroix
queued in this time till a spamc timeout occurs. If spamd has finished one spamc request it will serve the next (of the 40 others). /robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim B Sent: Samstag, 3. Januar 2004 16:25 To: Spamassassin List S

Re: [SAtalk] spamd -m and a good number....

2004-01-03 Thread Tim B
thanks! that's exactly what I needed to know! Robert Lacroix wrote: from the spamd documentation: "-m number, --max-children=number Specify a maximum number of children to spawn. Spamd will wait until another child finishes before forking again. Meanwhile, incoming connections will be queue

[SAtalk] spamd -m and a good number....

2004-01-03 Thread Tim B
the spamd -m commandline option for max child processes... is that per spamc call? for instance if I use: spamd -d -m10 -x -u filter and I run 50 instances of spamc, does that mean that all 50 call of the spamc process get 10 spamd child processes for a total of up to 500 spamd child processes?

[SAtalk] spamd -D option request in future release

2004-01-01 Thread Steve Heggood
I run spamd with -D from time to time in order to run statistic gathering tools on my /var/log/maillog. Debug currently runs at two levels, all or none. It would be nice if one could selectively turn on debugging at a modular level. For example, for me, it would be rare that I would want to see

Re: [SAtalk] spamd --auth-ident

2003-12-30 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 23:49, Hans Gerber wrote: > Hello to everyone, > > We are running a server with some dozens of users with shell > access. Up to now everyone has the ability to call spamassassin from > within .procamilrc. This gives us quite

[SAtalk] spamd + courier authdaemon?

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Petersen
Someone recently posted a spamd modification that allows it to access courier mta's authdaemon to properly find home directories, etc for virtual users. It was requested that he send it over to you guys, but I didn't see anything float through this list about it. Has it been received? It would b

[SAtalk] spamd --auth-ident

2003-12-30 Thread Hans Gerber
Hello to everyone, We are running a server with some dozens of users with shell access. Up to now everyone has the ability to call spamassassin from within .procamilrc. This gives us quite some load for multiple spamassassin processes. Now we are evaluating the possible use of spamd. Our users ho

RE: [SAtalk] spamd memory usage.

2003-12-29 Thread Chris Santerre
--Chris > -Original Message- > From: Gary Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] spamd memory usage. > > > > I was wondering how much memory spamd should be using > (running default rul

[SAtalk] spamd and user settings

2003-12-28 Thread Gordon Wells
Hi I cannot get spamd to use user_prefs when running "spamd -d -a -c -L --user-config" as root (v 2.61, suse9). It insists on the global settings. Here is the user_prefs file: rewrite_subject 1 report_header 1 defang_mime 0 razor_timeout 0 use_bayes 1 required_hits 4.5 Is there something I'm

[SAtalk] spamd memory usage.

2003-12-24 Thread Gary Smith
I was wondering how much memory spamd should be using (running default rules and bigevil.cf only). It's currently using about 30mb and a decently light load day. I'm just trying to get a baseline so I can watch it grow/shrink as I add/remove rules. Gary Smith

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Damian Gerow schrieb: [...] I'm *really* looking forward to if/when this makes it into the main SA tree. Hm. Nice for SQL-users, but wouldn't help with ConfSourceLDAP. Personally I'd love to set bayes_path somehow, but currently that's impossible. However, I wouldn't want my users to be able to c

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11:06, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:47:53PM -0800, Douglas Kirkland wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:50, Shane Wegner wrote: > > > I currently have spamd set up to maintain separate > > > confi

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24/12/03 14:11]: > I found some mention of this in the archives whilst trying > to find an answer to this problem. However, I could only > find a patch which implements the auto-whitelist support in > SQL. Though I have to agree, having Bayes storage >

RE: [SAtalk] spamd dying without complaint

2003-12-24 Thread Brian Sneddon
Try starting spamd with the -D option which will generate debug information. That should help you find where it's crashing. Brian -Original Message- From: Sean Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk]

[SAtalk] spamd dying without complaint

2003-12-24 Thread Sean Kirkpatrick
Howdy. I'm very puzzled. I've been running spamd (2.60) on a RH 9 box for some time now and it's been working well. Recently something changed and I'm not sure what. spamd now seems to come up just fine but dies the first time spamc attempts to connect to it. There are no log entries anywhere

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23/12/03 17:50]: > I am setting up a Spam filtering system using Exim/spamd > system-wide using multiple domains.. I would like to give > each user control over Spam filtering via a web interface, > giving them the ability to control any user_prefs sett

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-23 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:50, Shane Wegner wrote: > I currently have spamd set up to maintain separate > configuration data for each [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the system via > spamd running as its own user with the following options. > -d -u spamd -x -

[SAtalk] spamd timeouts

2003-12-21 Thread Jack Gostl
Every now and then a spam slips through with no header markups. I finally tracked some of these down and found that spamd took so long to finish that spamc finally timed out. (In this case, 742 seconds.) I'm not sure what causes this. I'm running 2.60, and I thought that very slow RBLs were handl

[SAtalk] spamd error: uninitialized value

2003-12-16 Thread Diederik Lascaris
Hi, When I run "spamd -a --vpopmail" I get this message every time an email is handelend by qmail (in and out): Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/bin/spamd line 1101, line 2. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/bin/spamd line 1123, line 2. Use of uninitialized v

[SAtalk] spamd error: uninitialized value

2003-12-15 Thread diederik lascaris
Hi, When I run "spamd -a --vpopmail" I get this message every time an email is handelend by qmail (in and out): Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/bin/spamd line 1101, line 2. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/bin/spamd line 1123, line 2. Use of uninitialized val

[SAtalk] SPAMD and SA-Learn

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Dabbs
I've been using SA for a little while now but am still not up to speed on all it can do. We are mostly a Windows shop here so we have very few techs who know Linux that well. We're using SPAMD to filter email and use a Windows-based email proxy to send/receive info to/from the SPAMD host. It d

[SAtalk] spamd and forged HELO and whitelist

2003-12-06 Thread Wendell Dingus
Hello.. I've searched the archives and Google and haven't found a specific answer to this question. I apologize in advance if I've overlooked something simple. I'm getting a fair amount of emails that are whitelisted because SA thinks they're from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and is "trusting" this info. If

[SAtalk] Spamd probs with bayes

2003-12-06 Thread Erik Slooff
Hi all, I get the following errors from spamd (tons of them in my logfiles) and I have no idea how to fix this. Ditching my bayes_* files isn't an option as it takes several hours to regenerate them (I have a spam corpus of about 2 which I collected over a period of 10 months...). Sa-learn --r

[SAtalk] spamd piling up - just killing me

2003-12-05 Thread Erick Calder
hello everyone, I have a problem that's making me miserable. I'm running spamassassin-2.44-11.8.x on a shriek (RH9) box and am having a problem: spamd processes get spawned whenever a mail arrives but for a particular user, they never seem to finish. therefore I end up with a bunch of spamd inst

[SAtalk] Spamd/Milter Problem

2003-12-04 Thread Mike Carlson
System: FreeBSD 4.9 Perl 5.00503 SpamAssassin 2.6 SpamassMilter SendMail 8.12.9p2 If I run the test GTUBE message through spamassassin using the following command: /usr/sbin/sendmail root < /usr/local/share/doc/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/sample-spam.txt I get the following in var/log/maillog: D

RE: [SAtalk] spamd, rewrite_subject being ignored everywhere

2003-12-03 Thread Martin, Jeremy
Thanks guys! fast_spamassassin is what qmail-scanner auto-detected.. I compared it to our existing production SpamAssassin server which is using fast_spamassassin too, but I forgot, I think my boss made some modifications to spamc to force it to use verbose mode when we built it... It will be a

[SAtalk] Spamd probs with bayes

2003-12-03 Thread Erik Slooff
Hi all, I get the following errors from spamd (tons of them in my logfiles) and I have no idea how to fix this. Ditching my bayes_* files isn't a good option as it takes several hours to regenerate them (I have a spam corpus of about 2 which I collected over a period of 7 months...). Sa-learn

RE: [SAtalk] spamd, rewrite_subject being ignored everywhere

2003-12-03 Thread Vee Persaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having an odd problem with SpamAssassin 2.60, Qmail-Scanner 1.20 > and "net"qmail 1.04 compiled from source (RedHat 9). > > I have ran spamd in debug mode and looked at the spamd script to > verify my config files are located here: > > /usr/share/spamassass

Re: [SAtalk] spamd, rewrite_subject being ignored everywhere

2003-12-03 Thread Matt Kettler
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 "net"qmail 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 qmail

[SAtalk] spamd, rewrite_subject being ignored everywhere

2003-12-03 Thread Martin, Jeremy
Hi, I'm having an odd problem with SpamAssassin 2.60, Qmail-Scanner 1.20 and "net"qmail 1.04 compiled from source (RedHat 9). I have ran spamd in debug mode and looked at the spamd script to verify my config files are located here: /usr/share/spamassassin /etc/mail/spamassassin /home/spamd/.sp

[SAtalk] spamd/spamc questions

2003-11-24 Thread Danny Chen
Hi, I have couple of questions regarding spamc/spamd. Our email server has very heavy traffic each day (several hundred per minute in peak time). So we are running spamd/spamc. We have noticed some problems: we are using sendmail. In sendmail.cf we set the local mailer (Mblocal)

Re: [SAtalk] spamd not recognizing %d or %l

2003-11-22 Thread Simon Byrnand
> in the foreground of shell I run: > /usr/bin/spamd --username=popuser -D > --virtual-config-dir=/var/qmail/mailnames/%d/%l/configs/ -a > > > in my syslog files I see this: > Using default config for qmailq: > /var/qmail/mailnames///configs//user_prefs > > atleast I know why I can not get per use

[SAtalk] spamd not recognizing %d or %l

2003-11-21 Thread Jeffrey R Rozycki
in the foreground of shell I run: /usr/bin/spamd --username=popuser -D --virtual-config-dir=/var/qmail/mailnames/%d/%l/configs/ -a in my syslog files I see this: Using default config for qmailq: /var/qmail/mailnames///configs//user_prefs atleast I know why I can not get per user config files w

RE: [SAtalk] spamd problems

2003-11-18 Thread Todd Schuldt
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Constable Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:10 AM To: spamassassin Mailing List (E-mail) Subject: [SAtalk] spamd problems Hi all, I had a fully functioning system running SpamAssassin(daemon) 2.55 Antivir 2.66 Exim 4.12 all on top of SuSE 8.2. Having

[SAtalk] spamd problems

2003-11-18 Thread Paul Constable
Hi all, I had a fully functioning system running SpamAssassin(daemon) 2.55 Antivir 2.66 Exim 4.12 all on top of SuSE 8.2. Having many ppieces on SpamAssassin I picked up on the fact that it was good advice to upgrade and keep apace of the progress being made. So I dutifu

Re: [SAtalk] spamd consumes huge amounts of memory

2003-11-12 Thread Margit Meyer
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:40:34 +0100 Margit Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I solved my problem: I installed the perl module DB_File 1.806 and BerkeleyDB 2.7.7. Formerly (SpamAssassin 2.55) I used NDBM_File format to save bayes databases. Now spamd is working fine :-)) Margit -

RE: [SAtalk] spamd consumes huge amounts of memory

2003-11-10 Thread Upwood, Jim
Upgrade your version of perl to 5.8.x -Jim Jim Upwood System Administrator Bond, Schoeneck, and King Syracuse, NY -Original Message- From: Margit Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] spamd consumes huge amounts

[SAtalk] spamd consumes huge amounts of memory

2003-11-10 Thread Margit Meyer
Hi all, I used spamd/spamc 2.55 with procmail on a Solaris 8 box successfully for several months. Now I tried to upgrade to spamd / spam 2.60 but now spamd (one single process!) consumes more than 2 GB of memory. There are only a few spamd processes running - the problem is not the amount of spamd

Re: [SAtalk] spamd startup script hangs system

2003-11-08 Thread Terry Milnes
Russell, I suspect you are not comparing apples to apples here, I asked for the command you use when running manually, I am assuming a) you are not logging in as the user spamd and b) you are not running: (as user spamd) $ spamd -x -H /home/spamd -d -d -c -a Because this is the command your sta

RE: [SAtalk] spamd startup script hangs system

2003-11-07 Thread Russell Mann
> Yeah I can confirm a spamd startup script works > > Send yours, also send what you use from the command line, what OS you > use. etc. etc. > > tm. I did send that stuff before - trying to save some list bandwidth. Ce'st la vie. Here goes: RedHat 6.2, Perl 5.6.1, SpamAssassin 2.55 Hello,

RE: [SAtalk] spamd startup script hangs system

2003-11-07 Thread Russell Mann
> RedHat 6.2, Perl 5.6.1, SpamAssassin 2.55 > > Hello, > > This morning I came into the office to find that qmail-scanner had gone > insane and lots all nights emails for me. I rebooted the system to try to > get everything back to ground zero. The problem was that the spamd init > script decided

[SAtalk] spamd 2.6 using 85% of memory

2003-11-07 Thread B.G. Mahesh
hi I am using SA 2.6 on a Linux box [sendmail/procmail]. Things have been ok till now. Since 2 days spamd is taking up too much memory. We had 256 MB RAM, I increased both the RAM and Swap space today. Still things haven't improved. What could be wrong? Are there any files in .spammassassin dire

RE: [SAtalk] spamd startup script hangs system

2003-11-06 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> Here's my init script (copied from the recommended RedHat > script from SA > tarball) > > #!/bin/sh > # > # spamassassin This script starts and stops the spamd daemon > # > # chkconfig: 2345 80 30 > # > # description: spamd is a daemon process which uses > SpamAssassin to check > #

[SAtalk] spamd startup script hangs system

2003-11-06 Thread Russell Mann
RedHat 6.2, Perl 5.6.1, SpamAssassin 2.55 Hello, This morning I came into the office to find that qmail-scanner had gone insane and lots all nights emails for me. I rebooted the system to try to get everything back to ground zero. The problem was that the spamd init script decided to hang and n

[SAtalk] spamd 2.6 using 85% of memory

2003-11-05 Thread BG Mahesh
hi I am using SA 2.6 on a Linux box [sendmail/procmail]. Things have been ok till now. Since 2 days spamd is taking up too much memory. We had 256 MB RAM, I increased both the RAM and Swap space today. Still things haven't improved. What could be wrong? Are there any files in .spammassassin

Re: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-04 Thread Edward Shornock
Dennis Duval wrote: I have to restart spamd within a couple of minutes after restarting syslogd with the init script or it will crash the system. However doing a killall -HUP syslogd has no affect on spamd and it continues logging. I know of no other applications that would crash a system as a r

Re: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-04 Thread Dennis Duval
Justin Mason wrote: > Dennis Duval writes: >> Morris Jones wrote: >>> I've never had a problem like this, of course. But I >>> wonder what you might discover if you turned debugging >>> on for spamd? Start it with the -D flag? >>> >> Thanks to Justin Mason and Tom Meunier for pointing out >> the

Re: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-04 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Duval writes: >Morris Jones wrote: >> I've never had a problem like this, of course. But I >> wonder what you might discover if you turned debugging on >> for spamd? Start it with the -D flag? >> >Thanks to Justin Mason and Tom Meunier for po

Re: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-04 Thread Dennis Duval
Morris Jones wrote: > I've never had a problem like this, of course. But I > wonder what you might discover if you turned debugging on > for spamd? Start it with the -D flag? > Thanks to Justin Mason and Tom Meunier for pointing out the -m option and the FAQ on this questions. Last night, I remo

RE: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Meunier
t; To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space > > I have created a script that monitors the number of spamd > processes running, and stops spamd, modifies > qmail-scanner-queue.pl to not use spamassassin, and sleeps > for 3

Re: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Dennis Duval" writes: >I'm new to spamassassin and I'm having a serious problem. The problem is >that the number of running spamd instances suddenly start increasing >dramatically until the point all memory and swap space are used up, thus >locking

[SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-03 Thread Dennis Duval
I'm new to spamassassin and I'm having a serious problem. The problem is that the number of running spamd instances suddenly start increasing dramatically until the point all memory and swap space are used up, thus locking the system. This happens very quickly. It will go from 1 to 3 processes r

Re: [SAtalk] spamd "unable to find user"?

2003-10-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:43:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > wondering why spamd is even looking for users, since all it's presumably > supposed to do is tag spam. Is this something I can get spamd to stop > even looking for, since it's only supposed to scan for relay? all it does is tag

Re: [SAtalk] spamd processing time excessive

2003-10-31 Thread Eric
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[SAtalk] spamd processing time excessive

2003-10-31 Thread Eric
most of my emails process by spamd under a second but some are taking 150 seconds what would cause this. the box is only used for email. thanks for any input --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net

[SAtalk] spamd "unable to find user"?

2003-10-30 Thread up
I'm in the process of moving most of the work SA has been doing on the mail pop3/smtp server off onto a separate box that's very lightly loaded. So far, so good, but the maillog keeps showing the following errors for users that aren't on the local box that spamd is running on. The mail then gets

[SAtalk] Spamd (2.60) continuously dying

2003-10-27 Thread Mark T. Valites
(Please cc me on any replies - I am not currently subscribed to the list) I've been running spamassassin/spamd at my site quite happily for quite a while. Recently, the load on my one incoming smtp server has gotten quite high during peak delivery times from spamd processes. I already have a hand

Re: [SAtalk] spamd -m stable?

2003-10-25 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Deugau writes: >"Cheryl L. Southard" wrote: >> Does anyone know if the "-m" flag is now more stable? We've since >> upgraded to Spamassassin 2.54 and Solaris 9. > >I don't recall hearing any bugs specific to -m, but I though I saw some >odd beha

Re: [SAtalk] spamd -m stable?

2003-10-25 Thread Rick Macdougall
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:41:11PM -0700, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: Normally, spamd takes about 30 seconds to complete, but when it's in swapping-hell it takes approximately 550 seconds, and since each one takes 20MB of memory, quite a few (up to MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN, I suppose) can start up and

Re: [SAtalk] spamd -m stable?

2003-10-25 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:41:11PM -0700, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: > Normally, spamd takes about 30 seconds to complete, but when it's > in swapping-hell it takes approximately 550 seconds, and since > each one takes 20MB of memory, quite a few (up to MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN, > I suppose) can start u

Re: [SAtalk] spamd -m stable?

2003-10-24 Thread Kris Deugau
"Cheryl L. Southard" wrote: > Does anyone know if the "-m" flag is now more stable? We've since > upgraded to Spamassassin 2.54 and Solaris 9. I don't recall hearing any bugs specific to -m, but I though I saw some odd behaviour reported on Solaris. > Or maybe you folks can help me find another

Re: [SAtalk] spamd -m stable?

2003-10-24 Thread Jack Gostl
In brief, I've found the -m flag very stable on both 2.55 and 2.60. I found at certain times of day, a combination of a burst of spam and slow RBLs left me with too many spamds (not to mention procmails and sendmails) for the the amount of real memory I had. I added a bunch of RAM and the problem

[SAtalk] spamd -m stable?

2003-10-23 Thread Cheryl L. Southard
Hi All, When we were running spamd V2.43 on our Solaris 8 computer, we found that the '-m' flag made spamd very unstable. The program would crash frequently so that no spamd would be running and no filtering was done. Does anyone know if the "-m" flag is now more stable? We've since upgraded t

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd relay to external server

2003-10-21 Thread Patrick Morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to send the mail elaborated from spamd to another external server. I use smtproutes in order to select the relay with AntiVirus and/or AntiSpamming. domain1.com:localhost:2525#antivirus domain2.com:localhost:783 #antispamming ===

[SAtalk] Spamd relay to external server

2003-10-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to send the mail elaborated from spamd to another external server. I use smtproutes in order to select the relay with AntiVirus and/or AntiSpamming.   domain1.com:localhost:2525    #antivirus domain2.com:localhost:783  #antispamming   =  

[SAtalk] spamd and user configuration files

2003-10-09 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm using spamassassin 2.60-1 packaged for Debian. Various pieces of the documentation seem contradictory on the use of user preferences by spamd. README says - $USER_HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs: User preferences file. If it does not exist, one of the default prefs file from above w

[SAtalk] spamd max-children limit

2003-10-09 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
maillog shows - Oct 9 13:21:07 spamd1 spamd[31846]: hit max-children limit (10): waiting for some to exit top shows - 31846 root 9 0 21372 20M 2148 S 0.0 2.7 0:34 spamd 30880 root 9 0 21372 20M 2148 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 spamd 30990 root 9 0 21372 20M 2148 S

RE: [SAtalk] Spamd problems with big loads

2003-10-09 Thread Steve Halligan
> I'm using SA 2.6 spamd/spamc > > I'm using it in a very loaded server, I get arround 2 mail connections > per second. > I want to know if there are people having this kind of load, or even > bigger, cause I don't think this should be a big load for the server. > > The server is Pentium III 1 g

Re: [SAtalk] spamd grabbing LOOOOOOTs of memory

2003-10-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matt Kettler wrote on Tue, 07 Oct 2003 10:57:08 -0400: > I was refering to the eating memory problem. And in general I'd expect > bayes to cause some kind of slow increase too. No, I really can't see any increase over the time. It stays almost exactly at the same level over days and weeks. >

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd problems with big loads

2003-10-08 Thread Robert A. Hayden
I dunno. I've had mine turned off forever and I've had ZERO FNs since upgrading to 2.60 and dumping about 200 messages through sa-learn. On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Brian Morrison wrote: > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:45:54 -0500 (CDT) in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Robert A. > Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd problems with big loads

2003-10-08 Thread Brian Morrison
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:45:54 -0500 (CDT) in [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Robert A. Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few things I can recommend that speed things up: > > 1) Turn off RBL lookups How much additional spam did you want to have to look at? -- Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir dot org dot u

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd problems with big loads

2003-10-08 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
We are receiving near this much mail traffic, I get about 1 connection every 2 seconds, average of 50k messages per day. I am using spamD on 3 different servers to spread the load around, it's working great! In am also running my own creation (WinSpamC) which allows for load-balancing between mul

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd problems with big loads

2003-10-08 Thread Robert A. Hayden
I am running 2.6 on a P4-2.4GHz that gets about 1/3 that amount of traffic and most of my analyses are completed in under .25 seconds. The box is running RH9.0 and using postfix to call procmail. A few things I can recommend that speed things up: 1) Turn off RBL lookups 2) Run a local cachin

[SAtalk] Spamd problems with big loads

2003-10-08 Thread Diego Weinstein
I'm using SA 2.6 spamd/spamc I'm using it in a very loaded server, I get arround 2 mail connections per second. I want to know if there are people having this kind of load, or even bigger, cause I don't think this should be a big load for the server. The server is Pentium III 1 ghz, 512 MB ram.

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd log

2003-10-08 Thread Patrick Morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to write in log the IP of the source server and not 127.0.0.1? I use qmail->qmail-scanner ->spamd (spamassassin) Thanks Sep 8 07:03:47 email spamd[7832]: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 40938 Sep 8 07:03:47 email spamd[18364]: chec

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd log

2003-10-08 Thread Ralf Guenthner
Original Message - From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Spamd log Is it possible to write in log the IP of the source server and not 127.0.0.1? I use qmail->qmail-scan

[SAtalk] Spamd log

2003-10-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to write in log the IP of the source server and not 127.0.0.1? I use qmail->qmail-scanner ->spamd (spamassassin)   Thanks   Sep  8 07:03:47 email spamd[7832]: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 40938 Sep  8 07:03:47 email spamd[18364]: checking message <[EMAIL PROT

[SAtalk] spamd stopped logging

2003-10-08 Thread Anshuman Kanwar
Hi all, I am using spamassassin sitewide with qmail + qmailqscanner scanning avg 1K messages an hour. Tonight spamd suddenly stopped logging. I know that spam was being marked correctly during this time and functionally everything was ok, but no logs. System CPU jumped to 5 times normal for the l

Re: [SAtalk] spamd grabbing LOOOOOOTs of memory

2003-10-07 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:31 PM 10/7/03 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Matt Kettler wrote on Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:16:04 -0400: > If you're using it, disable bayes and see what happens.. Bayes is a very > heavy memory consumer and could be a significant portion of the problem. > Disabling it will at least help clarify if i

Re: [SAtalk] spamd grabbing LOOOOOOTs of memory

2003-10-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matt Kettler wrote on Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:16:04 -0400: > If you're using it, disable bayes and see what happens.. Bayes is a very > heavy memory consumer and could be a significant portion of the problem. > Disabling it will at least help clarify if it's bayes database size > related, or someth

Re: [SAtalk] spamd grabbing LOOOOOOTs of memory

2003-10-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Bill Polhemus wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:41:53 -0500: > What's the problem? > You didn't mean that serious, did you? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org

Re: [SAtalk] spamd and -a option in 2.60?

2003-10-06 Thread mikea
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:30:17PM -0400, Rob Mangiafico wrote: > Actually, when I type "spamd --help" from the command line with our newly > installed 2.60 software, I get: > --- > Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Cwd.pm line 85. Perhaps y

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and -a option in 2.60?

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Mangiafico
> Actually, when I type "spamd --help" from the command line with our newly > installed 2.60 software, I get: > --- > Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Cwd.pm line 85. > --- > > spamd appears to be running fine currently. Any ideas why this i

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and -a option in 2.60?

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Mangiafico
> > It's the first option on the list if you type spamd --help > > Thanks. Just didn't see it in the online docs, so wanted to make sure and > feed it back to the doc maintainers. Actually, when I type "spamd --help" from the command line with our newly installed 2.60 software, I get: --- In

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and -a option in 2.60?

2003-10-06 Thread Rob Mangiafico
> It's the first option on the list if you type spamd --help Thanks. Just didn't see it in the online docs, so wanted to make sure and feed it back to the doc maintainers. > > In the 2.60 docs, the -a "auto whitelist" parameter is no > > longer listed as an option. Is it still supported? If n

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