Hey all,
In the process of trying to track statistics in SpamAssassin (and other
programs), and I'm thinking the easiest way is to have syslog write to a
FIFO that another program will read (or write to a pipe, but I'm not sure
syslog can do this), and then just have that program keep track of
Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
Myth 4: PERL is designed for language processing, so
SpamAssassin is written in a more appropriate language.
Let me preface this with the fact that I've had about 10
years of experience coding PERL. While PERL is very useful
for
On Wednesday, September 22, 2004, 2:34:41 PM, Codger Codger wrote:
I thought SURBL was built in to 3.0 was I mistaken?
Yes, SA 3.0 has built in support for SURBLs, so anyone using
BigEvil should use ws.surbl.org instead and save a huge
amount of SA memory. In other words if you're using 3.0,
Rick Macdougall wrote:
Yup, I understand how the whole AWL works but my problem is that border
line spam is being dropped to ham. Example: A normal markup of 5.6 and
an AWL score of -0.8 drops it below the average user required_hits of 5
and does not get marked as spam.
Right, but it's an
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Dan Mahoney, System Admin writes:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, David Brodbeck wrote:
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Hey all,
In the process of trying to track statistics in SpamAssassin (and other
programs), and I'm thinking the easiest
I periodically get these errors in my log and when I do the messages are not
scanned.
What's going on and how do I stop it?
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Hi guys
When I try to report a spam message with spamassassin --report (version 3) I
get
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Mail/SpamAssassin/Reporter.pm line 436.
Any ideas?
Hello,
I have two instances of spamassassin (3.0) running and both use the same
auto_whitelist_path bayes_path
Would this give me some problems?
I want both to know the same but with totally different configurations.
So the call of spamc with portnumbers give me the possibility to select the
Hi,
after installing over CPAN I got:
shodan:~ # sa-learn --sync
bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting!
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 160.
What to do?
wkr Thomas Richter
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hi,
I got only clean messages with -1.1
and in /var/log/messages from spamd:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm line 184.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:21:43PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote:
hi,
I got only clean messages with -1.1
and in /var/log/messages from spamd:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm line 184.
Use of
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:51:54PM +0100, Anthony Edwards wrote:
I have also been unable to persuade spamd to add spamassassin headers,
as per my posting of last night to the list. Running spamassassin, in
contrast, seems to work properly (which seems to rule out it being a
local
Ok, I know I'm probably missing something, but since upgrading to 3.0
RBL tests don't seem to being executed.
I use nothing but Bayes and RBL and have had good results through the
2.6x series, but no reports since the upgrade.
I have made to changes to local.cf and, yes, I have dug through the
Here is the debug output...has this been reported?
/etc/mail/spamassassin root# /usr/bin/spamassassin --lint -D
debug: SpamAssassin version 3.0.0
debug: Score set 0 chosen.
debug: running in taint mode? yes
debug: Running in taint mode, removing unsafe env vars, and resetting PATH
debug: PATH
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, 6:42:21 AM, Raquel Rice wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:11:39 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMO the best way to combat spam is not to buy the advertised
product.
That seems like a no-brainer. What do I need a penis extender for?
I'm not touching that one
On Sep 22, 2004, at 7:15 PM, Ken Versteeg wrote:
How will these changes affect the way the functions are called from
amavisd-new? Has anyone successfully upgraded SpamAssassin to 3.0?
Is my
current version of Amavisd-new sufficient?
make sure you have version of amavisd-new that understands
See tool/check_whitelist in the 3.0.0 tarball.
Michael
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:03:27AM -0500, Michael Parker wrote:
See tool/check_whitelist in the 3.0.0 tarball.
Opps, tools/check_whitelist
Michael
Hey all...
My users have previously used the normal text-based config files, however
due to the load involved with SA-3, I am thinking of forking off a new box
to do my scanning (400 domains or so -- it's a pain).
The obvious problem is the concept of user configs -- unless I were to
mount my
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:17:31AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
1) Is there a supported way of migrating all the existing bayes databases
and user configs into SQL? I understand the userconfig format is fairly
straightforward, but I have no idea about the bayes system.
disclaimer: I posted this to comp.lang.perl.modules (no reply yet), but since
this list is the FIRST place I looked, I'll send here as well.
Hello,
Until yesterday, I was happily using a combination of Mail::Audit and
Mail::SpamAssassin to filter my mail. Yesterday I upgraded
SpamAssassin to
Title: Message
Hi
there,
I have been trying
to find a debug option to output the 'body' and 'rawbody' text used when
SpamAssassin does it's RegEx tests.
There was a clever
RegEx rule that worked in SA 2.6.X
bodyPRINTBODY /(^.*$)(?{ print
"Body: $1\n" })/is
But this kind of
rule is
2) I seem to notice that spamd is the thing that creates the user files,
rather than spamc -- if I still wanted these config files generated, for
backwards compatibility (my plan is I would date-parse them on a cronjob
and insert any modified ones into the SQL db with a setuid perl script),
can a
I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the
spamassassin.apache.org site as well.
Anyone else?
Chris Santerre
System Admin and SARE Ninja
http://www.rulesemporium.com
http://www.surbl.org
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent, but
There's some debate on the MIMEDefang list on a performance issue and I wanted
to get the SpamAssassin users' take on this.
Is there any potential performance benefit to have MIMEDefang call out to spamd
using spamc?
Suppose I'm running MIMEDefang and SpamAssassin on a relay server. I might
At 11:20 AM 9/23/2004, Andy Norris wrote:
I am adding those listings on the new server to the file
/usr/share/spamassassin/60_whitelist.cf.
I forgot a few:
4) do not edit files in /usr/share/spamassassin unless you REALLY know what
you are doing. These files are considered to be a part of
At 11:20 AM 9/23/2004, Andy Norris wrote:
We're migrating from one server to another. Both now have the same
versions of SpamAssassin (2.64) and MailScanner running.
We had all our whitelisting on the old server going on in
/etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules.
Those listed in that file
-Original Message-
From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:40 AM
To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail)
Subject: timeout www.spamassasin.org ?
I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And
the spamassassin.apache.org site as
Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/23/2004
10:40:16 AM:
I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the
spamassassin.apache.org site as well.
Anyone else?
Chris Santerre
System Admin and SARE Ninja
http://www.rulesemporium.com
http://www.surbl.org
'It is
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Chris Santerre wrote:
On a related note, is anyone seeing the main spamassassin site down now?
-Dan
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Chris Santerre wrote:
I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the
spamassassin.apache.org site as well.
Anyone else?
It gave me timeouts as well a few minutes ago, but now it seems to work
again. Looks like they redesigned the page.
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On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:57, Chris Santerre wrote:
Is anyone else having trouble getting to the SA website?
Not here, Chris. Typing www.spamassassin.org takes me to
spamassassin.apache.org quickly.
Alex
Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Chris Santerre wrote:
I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the
spamassassin.apache.org site as well.
Anyone else?
Keep trying. You'll get in eventually. SA is a victim of its own
success
I'm in the process of upgrading to Spamassassin 3.0 and am currently running
my email through the new version of Spamassassin. I just had an email slip
through that should have been caught by the URIDNSBL lookups - it's listed
in all of the URI blacklists.
Here's a snippet from my debug output
--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:31 AM -0400 Chris Santerre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reisstinnng urge to crack joke..feeling rising..so .so
difficult to not.arghhh.p.. *pop*
I think there's a pill for that. And even if there's not, someone should
soon
Hello all...
I figure I've asked enough questions of this list that it's about time I
gave something back... You may not want it,but here it is anyway :)
I've written a bash script that takes will run sa-learn against the
administrator specified False-Postive and False-Negative folders.
Run this
I just want to mention that since using SA 3 my average spam score went up
from 20 to 35 with some spam scoring over 80!
Way cool - well done guys. Check out this one... :)
Content analysis details: (87.6 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:40:16 -0400
Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I keep getting a timeout going to www.spamassassin.org. And the
spamassassin.apache.org site as well.
Anyone else?
Chris Santerre
Maybe it's *you* having a problem?
--
Raquel
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 07:56, Matt Kettler wrote:
At 09:36 AM 9/23/2004, Jerry Gaiser wrote:
Ok, I know I'm probably missing something, but since upgrading to 3.0
RBL tests don't seem to being executed.
I use nothing but Bayes and RBL and have had good results through the
2.6x series, but no
Greetings
all!
I have just put my
Postfix/Spamassassin/Solaris9 server into production an hour ago, and I am
loving the results. I have one issue where SpamAssassin is not modifying
my subject line. This is important because rules on the client detect the
modification to put the spam off
Answering my own question ...
Well I was able to find a BUG report that (at present) says 'body' and
'rawbody' debug output has been removed from 3.0.0.
This was bad news ... I really like to see exactly what SA sees. So I
had to add a little code to the package
Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus,
I suppose this is a piece of string question, but I have a box configured
to receive mail using Suse, Postfix, pass it through Spamassassin 3.0 and
then relay it to an internal server.
Spamassassin is always invoked under a filter user account, so there is a
single shared bayes d/b.
Settings
Sandy S scribbled on Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:52 AM:
I'm in the process of upgrading to Spamassassin 3.0 and am
currently running
my email through the new version of Spamassassin. I just had
an email slip
through that should have been caught by the URIDNSBL lookups - it's
listed in
- Original Message -
From: Ulysses Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:52:03AM -0500, Sandy S whispered:
I'm in the
Hi, I would like to know why the Bayes rules has so low scores.
TIA
German
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:44:39PM -0500, Sandy S. whispered:
Thanks for your response - that's very interesting! We're running
Spamassassin 3.0 on FreeBSD 4.9, using spamd/spamc called via procmail. I
do have a bunch of custom rulesets, mostly pulled from the SARE site:
70_sare_uri.cf,
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Kenneth Porter writes:
Every time I see a spam story on SlashDot I think how the SlashDot effect
could be used for good by getting everyone to visit the spammer's site and
take it to its knees, while driving up the spammer's bandwidth bill.
At 01:43 PM 9/23/2004, German Staltari wrote:
Hi, I would like to know why the Bayes rules has so low scores.
Read the FAQ, this explains how most rule scores are assigned, including
bayes:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned
Basically, it's the result of a real-world
- Original Message -
From: Ken Goods [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Sandy S' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:37 PM
Subject: RE: {Spam?} Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?
Sandy S scribbled on Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:52
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:26:12 -0700, snowjack wrote
Yeah, and it is true that SpamAssassin uses lots of RAM (20M per
process?) So what, RAM is cheap!
If I'm not mistaken, some of that 20M is actually shared amongst all the
spamd
processes, so it's not as much memory usage as
- Original Message -
From: Ulysses Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:44:39PM -0500, Sandy S. whispered:
Thanks for your
Does anyone have 3.0 in RPM form? I can't find any links to RPM versions
on the site...
Thanks in advance...
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I need to create a custom rule to imitate the action of whitelist_from_rcvd.
The reason I need to do this is because I have several networks where mail
originates for the same domain before it is received at our internal mail
server.
Originally, I
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Shane Metler writes:
Answering my own question ...
Well I was able to find a BUG report that (at present) says 'body' and
'rawbody' debug output has been removed from 3.0.0.
I don't think it was in there in the first place ;) However if I
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:10:40PM -0500, Sandy S whispered:
Ulysses -
Thanks for your advice. I'm pretty sure we have all the needed perl
modules, since 99% of the time the URIBL rules are working just as they're
supposed to. It's only on those one or two .info domains that they don't
Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with
valid-looking purchase data, might work better.
As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I disagree
firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very
entertaining and I was LMAO when I read it...
users-subscribe -at- spamassassin.apache.org
This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as
an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument
or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data
and other
Steve Bertrand wrote:
Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with
valid-looking purchase data, might work better.
As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I disagree
firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very
entertaining and I was
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Phil Thompson writes:
disclaimer: I posted this to comp.lang.perl.modules (no reply yet), but since
this list is the FIRST place I looked, I'll send here as well.
Hello,
Until yesterday, I was happily using a combination of Mail::Audit and
Hi All,
I have set up a spam/virus filtering gateway using the very popular
combination of ClamAV+Spamassassin+Amavisd-new+Postfix. As its still
in development, I'd like to do a slow roll-out to the users and have
them help train the database against spam. To this end, I've
considered setting
Steve Bertrand wrote:
Finally, I would suggest that bombarding their purchasing forms with
valid-looking purchase data, might work better.
As someone who deals with the consequences of DoS attacks, I
disagree
firmly with that approach, however...the above idea seems very
entertaining and I
- Original Message -
From: Ulysses Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Problems with URIDNSBL Under Spamassassin 3.0?
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:10:40PM -0500, Sandy S whispered:
Ulysses -
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:54:14PM -0500, Sandy S whispered:
Apparently the lookups timed out. I assume that's something to do with the
fact that it's checking for tvuu.wneiis-MUNGEDplanet.info instead of just
wneiis-MUNGEDplanet.info, but I don't know enough about how the URI RBLs
work to
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:29:49 -0400 (EDT), Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote
While I'm thinking about this, let me offer up a suggestion...
For those of us that prefer user_prefs in text files but because
SpamAssassin with the preforking is getting much bigger have decided
we need a separate
At 02:51 PM 9/23/2004, Gary Buckmaster wrote:
To this end, I've
considered setting up spam@ and notspam@ accounts on the gateway
itself, and having local users send appropriate samples to these
accounts, then running sa-learn against these. Does this approach
make a great deal of sense?
Only if
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:51:36 -0500, Gary Buckmaster wrote
considered setting up spam@ and notspam@ accounts on the gateway
itself, and having local users send appropriate samples to these
accounts, then running sa-learn against these. Does this approach
make a great deal of sense? Has
Could you use the embedded perl?
Mimedefang uses that for better memory sharing between processes, appears
to work on most platforms running 5.6 or later of perl.
Justin Mason said:
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Sounds like we need to figure out how to get more of our stuff
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Gary Buckmaster wrote:
| I have set up a spam/virus filtering gateway using the very popular
| combination of ClamAV+Spamassassin+Amavisd-new+Postfix. As its still
| in development, I'd like to do a slow roll-out to the users and have
| them help
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, jenni baier wrote:
Does anyone have 3.0 in RPM form? I can't find any links to RPM versions
on the site...
there is one in their development directory.
I had to remove rewrite_subject and subject_tag from
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf though.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:47:34PM -0500, jenni baier wrote:
Does anyone have 3.0 in RPM form? I can't find any links to RPM versions
on the site...
Grab the tar ball, run rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0.tar.gz, it'll
build for you. :)
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:35:39AM -0400, Rob Kudyba wrote:
Here is the debug output...has this been reported?
not an SA issue.
/etc/mail/spamassassin root# /usr/bin/spamassassin --lint -D
debug: config: read file //etc/mail/spamassassin/70_sare_html.cf
debug: config: read file
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:27:25AM -0400, Phil Thompson wrote:
Command output: Can't locate
auto/Mail/Audit/MailInternet/extract_mes.al in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3
etc etc etc
Has anyone seen this error? Know how to fix it?
It's
Following our upgrade to SA 3.0 today we experienced a very odd problem. When
checking messages with spamc, spamd would report the status to syslog (putting
it into my mail log files) but it would *not* add X-Spam headers, nor would it
modify the subject line as my rules file directed it to.
Hi all,
Trying to install from CPAN and get the following message on make test.
t/prefs_include.Not found: qp-encoded-desc = Invalid Date:
header =ae =af =b0 foo
# Failed test 1 in t/SATest.pm at line 530
t/prefs_include.FAILED test 1
Failed 1/2 tests, 50.00%
At 05:27 PM 9/23/2004, Ray wrote:
Hi all,
Trying to install from CPAN and get the following message on make test.
t/prefs_include.Not found: qp-encoded-desc = Invalid Date:
header =ae =af =b0 foo
# Failed test 1 in t/SATest.pm at line 530
t/prefs_include.FAILED test 1
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I'm not sure -- as far as I can see MIMEDefang is a C program
and as such can use the XS apis to create a perl interpreter
object from C, which seems to be what the embedded perl is.
We're pure-perl, and as such it shouldn't help us at all ;)
-
David Brodbeck wrote:
You may want to restrict outside addresses from sending to those
accounts...well, at least the notspam one. It's occurred to me, after getting
a bunch of spam to web-scraped email addresses, that if I published the spam@
address in hidden text on our website the filter might
Kelson wrote:
Mail sent from to a few addresses that we never use for outgoing
mail is rejected with an Invalid bounce explanation. (Don't do this
with postmaster or abuse, or you'll probably end up listed on
RFC-ignorant.)
AFAIK you won't unless someone decides to report you. RFC-ignorant
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