Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:26 PM 9/16/2004, Robert Bartlett wrote: I remember someone saying something about memory usage per email that spamd uses to scan? But cannot find the email, what is the estimated amount of memory used per SA scan? I also have clamav set up Varies a lot depending on your configuration

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Memory usage question At 09:26 PM 9/16/2004, Robert Bartlett wrote: I remember someone saying something about

Re: URI obfuscation check

2004-09-17 Thread Jeff Chan
Update on the previous, interestingly the HTML renderer in The Bat! 1.62q did not make the link clickable, but the plaintext message renderer did. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URI obfuscation check

2004-09-17 Thread Ryan Thompson
Jeff Chan wrote to SpamAssassin Users: Update on the previous, interestingly the HTML renderer in The Bat! 1.62q did not make the link clickable, but the plaintext message renderer did. That's because the HTML did not actually contain a link (anchor); just the plaintext URI. Many plaintext

Re: Speak to me of Bayes and scoring in SA 3.0

2004-09-17 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 16 Sep 2004 13:39:30 -0700, Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we could use a better way to merge Bayesian results into the SpamAssassin score, though. Hm. An idea that just occurred to me, that would have been prohibitively expensive with the GA but maybe isn't with the

New spammer trick?

2004-09-17 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, I just got a nigerian spam with a huge Reply-To: line! Never seen that trick before, but I suppose it works with quite a few of the recipients. Should we create a new rule for that? I can't think of a legitimate reason to have more than one address in the Reply-To line, right? Here goes a

After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it and spamd stops running!?

2004-09-17 Thread hug
Will anyone please help me? I've recently had a working sitewide install of spamassassin stop working and it's very upsetting! :( Many thanks. hugh -- My problem: As far as I can tell spamd starts correctly, spamc then tries and fails to connect to it and

configuring sa+amavisd on a domain level

2004-09-17 Thread sa mailing list
Hi I would like to know if it is possible to have a per domain configuration using spamassassin 2.64 + amavisd p10 on a single server. I mean having one pair of spamassassin 2.64 + amavisd p10 processes handling with domain1 and domain2 for example , another pair handling with for domain3 etc

Re: After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it and spamd stops running!?

2004-09-17 Thread hug
Declan, Running both with -p 15505 returns the same error. Any more ideas? Many thanks... hugh - Original Message - From: Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 12:54 AM Subject: Re: After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it

Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Loren Wilton
Thanks for the reply! Here is the deal, we are currently deciding what we want to do next. Currently we have a Celeron 2.4 gig system with 256 megs of ram and a 40 gig hdd. In the past week or so our system has come to a halt, under 3 megs available, due to a bunch of emails coming in at

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:56 PM 9/16/2004 -0700, Robert Bartlett wrote: Thanks for the reply! Here is the deal, we are currently deciding what we want to do next. Currently we have a Celeron 2.4 gig system with 256 megs of ram and a 40 gig hdd. In the past week or so our system has come to a halt, under 3 megs

Re: New spammer trick?

2004-09-17 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Loren, I suspect that is more of a broken spammer than a new trick. Maybe both? :-) I can't see what good that line is going to do for the spammer. Well, whoever replys to the spammer, telling him no matter what mails his reply (usually including the quoted original mail) to everyone in the

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Memory usage question At 06:56 PM 9/16/2004 -0700, Robert Bartlett wrote: Thanks for the reply! Here is the deal, we

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Robert Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:24 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Memory usage question -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004

RE: After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it and spamd stops running!?

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:02 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it and spamd stops running!? Will anyone please help me? I've recently had a

Re: After starting spamd, spamc fails to connect to it and spamd stops running!?

2004-09-17 Thread Nick Leverton
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:02:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will anyone please help me? I've recently had a working sitewide install of spamassassin stop working and it's very upsetting! :( Wotcher Hugh :) Do you have any monitoring task scanning port 783 ? There's a bug in spamd

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:23 AM 9/17/2004, Robert Bartlett wrote: Are you using the -m parameter of spamd to limit the number of children it will spawn? I'd suggest something like -m 6 to start with. Yeah it is setup for 50: -d -c -a -m50 -u user -v -H 50 is a LOT of spamd's... even at the low-end of 15mb each that's

Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:42:20AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: Since your box has 256mb of physical ram, I'd limit it to maximum of 256mb/15mb = 17 spamd's at the highest. I'd really suggest using something much lower like 10 unless you add some ram. Even this seems to be dangerous

EIP in 3.0 rc5 on FC2

2004-09-17 Thread jeff jones
Hello all, I was wondering is someone can help me out? 3.0 RC1 was real stable for me. Should I downgrade or do I need to update additional software. This machine is RH FC2 with all security updates, and patches. Thanks, Jeff Sep 16 15:23:21 mail1 kernel: [ cut here ]

RE: EIP in 3.0 rc5 on FC2

2004-09-17 Thread Gary Smith
I had similar problems, not related to SA though, and found that the mm application was trying to allocate randomly high memory locations. Turned out to be a bad memory chip. Using the Fedora core 2 boot disk I did a memtest86... Might be worth the extra hour...

Re: EIP in 3.0 rc5 on FC2

2004-09-17 Thread jeff jones
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 11:04, jeff jones wrote: Hello all, I was wondering is someone can help me out? 3.0 RC1 was real stable for me. Should I downgrade or do I need to update additional software. This machine is RH FC2 with all security updates, and patches. Thanks, Jeff Sep 16

rule idea for catching 'zombie spam relays' and question of my logic

2004-09-17 Thread Shane Metler
I found this type of rule to be very helpful in catching 'zombie spam relay' emails from specific 'problem' networks. The problem I faced with an all inclusive ban on these networks was that our customer's connect to our SMTP servers from all around the world. Banning Dynamic, DSL, Cable, or

Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Friday 17 September 2004 07:05, Chris Santerre wrote: Yeah, bring that 50 down a little :) Maybe 10. More memory NEVER hurt anyone! Currently with BigEvil I'm running 51 megs for spamd!!! But the record on a production server is something like 145. I think it was a crazy german ;) Your

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Robert Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10:12 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Memory usage question -Original Message- From: Brook Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004

Bayes user mysql and SA3.0 RC5

2004-09-17 Thread James
I checked the doc's archive however, I can not find a solution to my problem. What I am trying to do is have different users in Mysql bayes db. I am using Spamd with the following start options: -d -c -m6 -H -i0.0.0.0 -A192.168.0 -D -x -s /var/log/spamd.log When I do a spamassassin --lint -D it

Re: Bayes user mysql and SA3.0 RC5

2004-09-17 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I checked the doc's archive however, I can not find a solution to my problem. What I am trying to do is have different users in Mysql bayes db. I am using Spamd with the following start options: -d -c -m6 -H -i0.0.0.0 -A192.168.0 -D -x -s /var/log/spamd.log When I

Re: How long for changes to mail list settings to take effect?

2004-09-17 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 10:55, Dougie Nisbet wrote: Yesterday I changed my list settings to Digest mode. I'm still getting individual emails. Does anyone know how long it takes for the change to take effect? Dougie Ok, perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place. Is it

dnsbl tests apparently not running

2004-09-17 Thread Will Yardley
I'm running spamassassin 3.0rc4 on OpenBSD sparc64. Dnsbl tests don't appear to be running, and when running make test, I get: t/dnsbl.skipped all skipped: no reason given I had originally checked the option to skip network checks during the test, but ran make clean

Re: dnsbl tests apparently not running

2004-09-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:17:52PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: And, in any event, the checks should be working when SA itself is run, right? I checked and RBL checks etc. aren't disabled in my user_prefs or As usual, run with -D it tells you what's going on. Running SA on a mailbox or message

Re: dnsbl tests apparently not running

2004-09-17 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:20:47PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:17:52PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: Running SA on a mailbox or message in debug mode does not appear to show any dnsbl tests happening. You have Net::DNS installed and the debug output shows it's

Re: dnsbl tests apparently not running

2004-09-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:30:36PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: Shouldn't the SA build test process be a little more verbose about this, though, and at least spit out some warnings about missing Perl modules? While the dnsbnl tests may not be necessary for SA to work, it's certainly a lot more

Re: rule idea for catching 'zombie spam relays' and question of my logic

2004-09-17 Thread John Rudd
Loren Wilton wrote: In my logic, there is no valid reason that a remote sender would connect directly to our SMTP server from their dynamic/DSL/cable IP to send our customer's an email ... I think ? Valid 'remote to local' emails being sent from these DSL/cable/dialup IP would normally