Re: delivery to multiple mailboxes from single account

2004-09-12 Thread Roger Taranto
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 12:20, Robert Menschel wrote: Copy William Sterns' blacklist file from http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current.cf into your user_prefs. I was doing this, but this list is so large that it caused spamassassin to take about 20 seconds to initialize each

Re: delivery to multiple mailboxes from single account

2004-09-12 Thread Stewart Nelson
Hi Bob, Many thanks for taking the time to send such a detailed reply. Your situation is similar to mine, but I'm still at SA 2.63. Last week's performance stunk at 0 false positives and 20 false negatives (a rotten 99.5% accuracy record; I'm not satisfied unless I hit 99.8%). That's awesome; I'd b

Re: delivery to multiple mailboxes from single account

2004-09-12 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Stewart, Saturday, September 11, 2004, 11:57:46 PM, you wrote: SN> Hi, SN> I have one linux-based account on a shared server with a hosting SN> provider; they presently use cpanel, exim 4.42, SpamAssassin 2.64, SN> and imapd. We are unhappy with the filtering performance SN> (> 10% false

Re: Running spamd on different server and user profiles

2004-09-12 Thread Darren Casey
> If I run spamd on a different server, how are the user profiles for my local > users handled? We use MySQL and it means this is fairly easy Darren

SORBS Fine - Views

2004-09-12 Thread Darren Casey
We run a large number of servers and do our best to keep ontop of spam reports etc.. One user recently enabled webmail fron Nuke and got a spammer using it to send out a ton of junk mail. The first reports we got we tracked it down and removed the site in question etc.. However, SORBs are demand

SQL one Site-Wide

2004-09-12 Thread Marco Supino
Hi, I was playing today with the DB interface of SpamAssassin, and saw that the info of the users is read by the username running the spamd process, now, if i run a site-wide installation, where the spamd doesnt know about the existing users, it runs as nobody, can i make SpamAssassin use the T

Re: White listed

2004-09-12 Thread Don Saklad
Thank you Matt Kettler and John Fleming ! Apparently the files do not appear to be on this system !

Re: White listed

2004-09-12 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:47 AM 9/12/2004 -0400, you wrote: Where on a system might you be able to read what is white listed ?... One fast, sure-fire way is to grep all the configfiles: grep whitelist /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf grep whitelist /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf grep whitelist ~/.spam

White listed

2004-09-12 Thread Don Saklad
Where on a system might you be able to read what is white listed ?...

Re: Spamd running on a different server

2004-09-12 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:50 AM 9/12/2004 -0500, you wrote: 1. On the return trip back to spamc...spamc dies with a failed sanity check error. I suspect this is an error related to the user running spamc being different then the user running spamd. It shouldn't be.. Perhaps it might happen if the user running spam

Re: Spamd running on a different server

2004-09-12 Thread Carl R. Friend
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Mike Loiterman wrote: Hello Mike. > Two problems: > 1. On the return trip back to spamc...spamc dies with a failed > sanity check error. I suspect this is an error related to the user > running spamc being different then the user running spamd. I tried > running spam

Re: sa-learn

2004-09-12 Thread jdow
From: "Richard Müller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > please let me ask you a beginners question: > I use Kmail as email program and invoke spamassasin-learn with sa-learn > --showdots --spam-folder/* , the same for --ham-folder/* via a shell script. > I have several hundreds of mails in both directo

sa-learn

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Müller
Sorry, I forgot: of course the aguments --spam resp. --ham are included in the commands. Hi, please let me ask you a beginners question: I use Kmail as email program and invoke spamassasin-learn with sa-learn --showdots --spam --spam-folder/* , the same for --ham --ham-folder/* via a shell scri

sa-learn

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Müller
Hi, please let me ask you a beginners question: I use Kmail as email program and invoke spamassasin-learn with sa-learn --showdots --spam-folder/* , the same for --ham-folder/* via a shell script. I have several hundreds of mails in both directories. Each time sa-learn is invoked, it says "Learne

Spamd running on a different server

2004-09-12 Thread Mike Loiterman
I'm trying to get my spamc to send to a spamd running on another server on my network. So far, this has been partially successful -- messages are being sent from the machine running spamc to the machine running spamd and then scanned. Two problems: 1. On the return trip back to spamc...spamc di

Re: Medicine sites

2004-09-12 Thread Simon Gate
Sense of humor. :) * jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-11 23:30:06 -0700]: > > Please do remember that at half the population has an IQ below 100. > Please also note that most denizens of this list probably fall into > the above 120 to below infinity crowd. Note also that this does not > mean th

RE: Running spamd on different server and user profiles

2004-09-12 Thread Mike Loiterman
> They would not be used, unless you did a lot of fancy > configuration so that spamd could find them. Where would I do this fancy configuration? -- Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E GPG Key: 0x66

[Robert@Menschel.net: Re: Spammer using my domain name in FROM field]

2004-09-12 Thread Simon Gate
Kolla in. -- Simon Gate [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Begin Message --- Hello Predrag, Saturday, September 11, 2004, 9:47:42 AM, you wrote: PL> Spammer apparently is using [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the FROm PL> field of the emails he is sending out. Domain is one of my customers PL> virtual domain, spamme

delivery to multiple mailboxes from single account

2004-09-12 Thread Stewart Nelson
Hi, I have one linux-based account on a shared server with a hosting provider; they presently use cpanel, exim 4.42, SpamAssassin 2.64, and imapd. We are unhappy with the filtering performance (> 10% false negatives, even with required_hits=5.0). I'd like to add custom rules, but the provider won'

Re: Running spamd on different server and user profiles

2004-09-12 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 11 September 2004 10:20 pm, Mike Loiterman wrote: > If I run spamd on a different server, how are the user profiles for my > local users handled? They would not be used, unless you did a lot of fancy configuration so that spamd could find them. -- _

Re: Medicine sites

2004-09-12 Thread jdow
Please do remember that at half the population has an IQ below 100. Please also note that most denizens of this list probably fall into the above 120 to below infinity crowd. Note also that this does not mean they can't get it. It just means there is a serious time lag in their thinking processes

Running spamd on different server and user profiles

2004-09-12 Thread Mike Loiterman
If I run spamd on a different server, how are the user profiles for my local users handled? -- Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E GPG Key: 0x661D0518

Medicine sites

2004-09-12 Thread Predrag Lezaic
Are there really people that will buy their medicine from a site with name like this? http://oaktjtxa.efkdblh.info Predrag

Re: SPF and spammers

2004-09-12 Thread Codger
On Sep 11, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Tom Meunier wrote: If the spammer isn't authoritative for your domain, they can list everything in the universe as an MX record and it would never be checked. Unless the spammer owns tone of the three name servers that is authoritative for bubbanfriends.org, in whi

Re: Spammer using my domain name in FROM field

2004-09-12 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Predrag, Saturday, September 11, 2004, 9:47:42 AM, you wrote: PL> Spammer apparently is using [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the FROm PL> field of the emails he is sending out. Domain is one of my customers PL> virtual domain, spammer made up the username in the email address. PL> Now I am getting b

Re: Home grown rules: What am I on to?

2004-09-12 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Declan, Friday, September 10, 2004, 9:16:33 PM, you wrote: DM> [NOOB warning here!] Noob to yoo too. :-) DM> header ISPTo:addr =~ /([EMAIL PROTECTED],5}\b)/ I don't think that \S+? construct is valid -- there's nothing before the ? to say "zero or one" of. Looks to me like what yo

emacs rmail. spamassassin.

2004-09-12 Thread Don Saklad
Please comment on the following with any hints, tips or pointers?... ;; sa-spam-removal.el ;; ;; Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Trevis J. Rothwell ;; ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as

Re: what about non-marked spam?

2004-09-12 Thread jdow
Feed them to spamassassin to learn them as spam. (sa-learn --spam) {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Predrag Lezaic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What are you doing about spam that goes through being scored too low for > spamassassin to get it? Do you create your own rules or try to block it

Re: Spammer using my domain name in FROM field

2004-09-12 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:59 PM 9/11/2004 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: But even if *I* don't use forwarding, one of my customers may. For example, if I need to email a customer of mine who is using, say, ieee.org forwarding, and it is redirecting to AOL, my SPF records will cause AOL to reject my message to my custom

Re: what about non-marked spam?

2004-09-12 Thread Loren Wilton
> What are you doing about spam that goes through being scored too low for > spamassassin to get it? Do you create your own rules or try to block it > some other way? Is there a way to get SA to train itself by telling it > that certain message is a spam such as Thunderbird etc...? Almost every ti

Re: Spammer using my domain name in FROM field

2004-09-12 Thread Vivek Khera
On Sep 11, 2004, at 8:56 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: At 12:18 PM 9/11/2004 -0700, p dont think wrote: BEWARE, however, that SPF is a hotly contested technology that breaks forwarding in many cases True, but if your domain is used for forwarding, you can simply not publish SPF records, or publish wide

Re: Home grown rules: What am I on to?

2004-09-12 Thread Loren Wilton
My understanding of your post is that you want to catch a 'to' with "@ntlworld." that isn't followed by "com". Assuming that is right, then I think something like the following (completely untested!) rule might work: header NOT_NTLWORLDTo~= /[EMAIL PROTECTED](?!com)\w/ This should catch anyt

Re: erring exit code on spamc

2004-09-12 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Tom Caudron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've installed SpamAssassin version 2.64 via Synaptic on Fedora Core 2. > I want to use it to filter spam in Evolution. In Evolution, I created a > filter that pipes the message to a shell command on retrieval (pipes to > "spamc -c"). > > I get no hits

Re: what about non-marked spam?

2004-09-12 Thread Predrag Lezaic
Thanks. What is this address? SpamAssassin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Predrag Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 08:42:22PM -0500, Predrag Lezaic wrote: What are you doing about spam that goes through being scored too low for spamassassin to get it? Do you create your own rules or try to bloc

Re: what about non-marked spam?

2004-09-12 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 08:42:22PM -0500, Predrag Lezaic wrote: > What are you doing about spam that goes through being scored too low for > spamassassin to get it? Do you create your own rules or try to block it > some other way? Is there a way to get SA to train itself by telling it > that cer

erring exit code on spamc

2004-09-12 Thread Tom Caudron
I've installed SpamAssassin version 2.64 via Synaptic on Fedora Core 2. I want to use it to filter spam in Evolution. In Evolution, I created a filter that pipes the message to a shell command on retrieval (pipes to "spamc -c"). I get no hits at all. :-( Much of my mail is /clearly/ spam. I s

what about non-marked spam?

2004-09-12 Thread Predrag Lezaic
What are you doing about spam that goes through being scored too low for spamassassin to get it? Do you create your own rules or try to block it some other way? Is there a way to get SA to train itself by telling it that certain message is a spam such as Thunderbird etc...? Thanks, redrag

Re: Spammer using my domain name in FROM field

2004-09-12 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:18 PM 9/11/2004 -0700, p dont think wrote: BEWARE, however, that SPF is a hotly contested technology that breaks forwarding in many cases True, but if your domain is used for forwarding, you can simply not publish SPF records, or publish wide-open ones. However, this is really something fo