John Rudd wrote:
1) Greet_Delay (default 30 seconds) -- had some brief false positives
with mac.com, but they fixed their MTA to stop being so impatient.
You might want to keep in mind that some MTAs that do callout
verification use 30 seconds as the default timeout, and if you make them
wait
Tim Boyer said:
But the same question applies. Even _if_ I had it set wrong, why would it
work when I do a 'spamassassin --test', but not when MIMEDefang calls it?
You calling it as the user mimedefang runs as.. do all your tests like such:
su -c spamassassin --test defang
--
Luke
Tim Boyer said:
But the same question applies. Even _if_ I had it set wrong,
why would it
work when I do a 'spamassassin --test', but not when MIMEDefang
calls it?
You calling it as the user mimedefang runs as.. do all your tests
like such:
su -c spamassassin --test defang
...
Hi all,
I keep getting strange errors like this from spamassassin:
sa-learn --dump magic
bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! at
/usr/lob/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm
line 160.
ERROR: Bayes dump returned an error, please re-run with -D for more
hi all
our setup
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qmail/qmailscanner/spamassassin/clamav, scaning ALL inbound mail and
delivers (smtp relays) to internal mail server
question
since there are no accounts on the mail relay of user accounts, is it at
all possible to allow users to setup whitelists/blacklists of
A simple question:
Are all the rules on http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm safe for
use with 3.0.0, other than the ones specifically labeled pre3.0.0 or
x30?
Are any of said rules now unneccessary, even if they're safe?
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:49:14PM -0700, Ed Kasky wrote:
At 09:52 AM Monday, 9/27/2004, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote -=
Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level,
which are you using?
Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via rbls:
spamcop: 65
maps rbl+: 154
On 2004-09-27, Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a reminder that we will be adding JP as a new list within
multi.surbl.org, as described in the previous announcement:
http://www.surbl.org/quickstart.html is a little bit confusing due to
its haphazard organization.
Am I correct in
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:01:48 + (UTC)
Daniel M. Drucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2004-09-27, Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a reminder that we will be adding JP as a new list within
multi.surbl.org, as described in the previous announcement:
On Monday, September 27, 2004, 8:01:48 PM, Daniel Drucker wrote:
On 2004-09-27, Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a reminder that we will be adding JP as a new list within
multi.surbl.org, as described in the previous announcement:
http://www.surbl.org/quickstart.html is a little bit
A little OT...
This presentation from this year's Black Hat Briefings is really
quite interesting --
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-04/bh-us-04-kret.pdf
It really does look like there may be some use of spam, specifically
hashbusters and chaff headers, as a covert channel.
Good day,
I am using SpamAssassin on my E-Mail Server.
Version use: SpamAssassin version 2.53
Platform: Red Hat Linux 9, Kernel 2.4.20-13.9 on x86
When somebody try to email any username on my system, there is an error
occured like below:
(reason: 550 5.7.1 Rejected: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx listed at
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Mohd Irwan b. Jamaluddin wrote:
Spamassassin is not rejecting your mail, sendmail is.
Spamassassin would never reject a mail with a reason code similar to that.
I would suggest finding the config file for sendmail (and the mc file it's
generated from) and removing the dnsbl
Just upgraded to 3.0 from 2.6.3. I don't see where SURBL is ever
registering a score, where previously it was scoring tons of mail. How
can I verify that it is actually working? I installed it using MCPAN
and --lint shows everything A-OK.
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Chris Jett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday, September 27, 2004, 9:52:41 AM, System Dan Mahoney wrote:
Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level,
which are you using?
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
list.dsbl.org
Spamhaus catches 90+% of them.
Jeff C.
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Dear all
what is best clearing house database ( Vipul's Razor, Pyzor, and DCC ) to be
used with spamassassin.
Thanks Regards
M.Talha
LOL, it is official, I am taking my own advice. I am upgrading my live
server from 2.4x! And I think the experiment was a complete success
I never upgraded live server from 2.4x because I wanted to see how good
I
could get that system working without Bayes and net tests. 2.4x ran
Hi!
I'm getting lots of spam like this. Does anyone know a rule to catch
this type of spam:
Subject: Re:wmcecrgig,HotSt0ck Talk
Message:
I started a stock.cf, but so far the content is vary'ing so much and i
could not find and specific signs so far, so i would also be interested to
get them
On Monday 27 September 2004 09:22 pm, Christopher Jett wrote:
Just upgraded to 3.0 from 2.6.3. I don't see where SURBL is ever
registering a score, where previously it was scoring tons of mail. How
can I verify that it is actually working? I installed it using MCPAN
and --lint shows
There are SARE rules for stock scams. Don't recall which file they are in.
Loren
Hello
yesterday i've done some nasty stuff. i've upgraded my perfect working sa 2.64
to 3.0.0-r1.
now i have some problems with dcc and pyzor.
all connections timed out after 10 seconds and i don't know why. everything
works fine befor my upgrade.
my system is a gentoo linux with postfix-2.1,
do you use spamassassin in a systemwide configuration?
i think black- and whitelisting can held you.
greats
oliver hoffmann
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Von: Mário Gamito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. September 2004 11:18
An: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Betreff:
Hi List.
I have just upgraded from 2.63 to 3.0
Now SA refuses to run.
Spamassassin -lint shows:
warning: rule 'G_WWW141_FINANCEBIZ_COM_BR' is over 22 chars
warning: rule 'G_IMAGES_LOVEOUROFFERS_COM' is over 22 chars
warning: rule 'LOCAL_DRUGS_DEPRESSION_MALEDYS' is over 22 chars
warning: rule
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Juhapekka Tolvanen spake:
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.
... yet he
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:59:07 +0200, Thomas Kinghorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi List.
I have just upgraded from 2.63 to 3.0
Now SA refuses to run.
Spamassassin -lint shows:
warning: rule 'G_WWW141_FINANCEBIZ_COM_BR' is over 22 chars
snip
This is the beginning of the problem, you have
Hi,
(I use qmail, courier-imap and vpopmail)
I set up Spamassassin (3.0.0) to tag all spam-messages with a score higher
then 3.5.
Now I would like spam-mails with a score higher then 6 NOT to be
delivered in the mailbox of my users. I would like to put all these
messages in a mysql-database.
Loren Wilton wrote:
There are SARE rules for stock scams. Don't recall which file they are in.
That's ok Loren :). Does anyone else recall which SARE-rule Loren is
thinking of?
Thanks!
Danie Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well in SA v3.0 when Bayes score 99-100% it only adds 1.9 to the score as
opposed to the 5.4 it added in v2.6. Sure you can override the score, but
what I'm trying to say is it seems the new SA does not rely that heavily on
Bayes any more.
Comparing
Ok, issues gone.
Now I am left with :
snip
# spamassassin --lint
bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 160.
bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! at
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Rubin Bennett said:
I've written a bash script that takes will run sa-learn against the
administrator specified False-Postive and False-Negative folders.
Functionality-irrelevant pedant point:
#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (c) 2004 by Rubin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# All
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Paul Hutchings moaned:
The box is a PII-350mhz with 256mb ram and a pair of mirrored 10k SCSI
drives on a hardware raid controller, things vary but the machine processes
around 12,000 emails a week.
I don't know much about the best ways to evaluate performance under
1) SA 3.0 has it's own built in support for URI RBLs, but it is implemented
differently than Mail::SpamcopURI does it.
rm /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamcop_uri.cf
2) you need to upgrade the version of your bayes DB, as per the
instructions in the UPGRADE file
sa-learn --sync
3)
Hi,
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:10:30 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:52:41 -0400 (EDT), Dan Mahoney, System Admin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking ips at the MTA level,
which are you using?
I think it's a bad idea and don't do it
Hi all,
Maybe looks like a easy question, but isn't...
I have a Small traffic of messages, around 350 messages per day with
an average of 130 of that are spam... my big problem is the time
out, what is a problem of my machine... i think that i stop around 95%
of spam, and 3% of that 5% messages
-Original Message-
From: Ed Kasky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 5:56 PM
To: Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Preferred DNSBL
At 12:59 PM Monday, 9/27/2004, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote -=
Hi!
Rejects Since Sunday 4:00 am via
Bob Apthorpe wrote:
I also firewall traffic from unassigned ARIN netspace - see
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space.
I did this for a while, but somewhere along the line some of those
unassigned netblocks got assigned. I didn't discover this until about 6
months after one
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Kris Deugau wrote:
I did this for a while, but somewhere along the line some of those
unassigned netblocks got assigned. I didn't discover this until about 6
months after one corporate customer suddenly couldn't send mail to one
of their suppliers. Fortunately I had
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:47:20 -0400 Kris Deugau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bob Apthorpe wrote:
I also firewall traffic from unassigned ARIN netspace - see
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space.
I did this for a while, but somewhere along the line some of those
unassigned
At 01:32 AM 9/28/2004, Muhammad Talha wrote:
Dear all
what is best clearing house database ( Vipul's Razor, Pyzor, and DCC ) to be
used with spamassassin.
I currently use Razor 2.61 and DCC. Both work quite well. Pyzor, I've never
tried.
Prior to 2.61 and the introduction of e8 Razor was mostly
Just as it says. exit0.us seems to be down with a DB error.
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 the one most responsive to change.'
Charles Darwin
At 10:24 AM 9/28/2004, Felipe Tonioli wrote:
Maybe looks like a easy question, but isn't...
I have a Small traffic of messages, around 350 messages per day with
an average of 130 of that are spam... my big problem is the time
out, what is a problem of my machine... i think that i stop around 95%
Hi.
I am running RH 7.3, MS 4.33.3, Perl 5.6.1 with ClamAV (Mail::ClamAV v
0.11) on a P4 with 512MB RAM.
While installing SA3.0 the other day, I *think* I had a problem with
URIDNSBL.
I was able to fix one set of problems by putting the following in my
pre.init file:
loadplugin
-Original Message-
From: Ed Kasky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 6:01 PM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Congratulations and Thank You!!
Just wanted to pass along a note of congratulations for the release of
version 3.0.0. My upgrade went
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:23:09PM +0200, Thomas Kinghorn wrote:
bayes: bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting! at
I have performed the sa-learn -sync.
Run sa-learn --sync -D, and read the output. If it succeeds, you won't
see the above warnings anymore, if it doesn't, the -D
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:01:08PM -0700, Ed Kasky wrote:
Just wanted to pass along a note of congratulations for the release
of version 3.0.0. My upgrade went quickly and turned out to be
bloodless. The documentation is easy to follow and just explicit
enough.
Thanks again for a
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:32:14AM -0500, Michael Parker wrote:
Sometimes it is db version 0 instead of 2.
Yes, you read UPGRADE right?
BTW: even if the upgrade went correctly, this could also be
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3563
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It seems that it was some sort of file permission problem that prevented
the creation of bayes_journal.
Spamd was running as root, which probably isn't the best way to do it
anyway.
So rather than trying to fix the permission problem, I'm now running
spamd chrooted, and the problem has gone
Matt Kettler wrote:
At 01:32 AM 9/28/2004, Muhammad Talha wrote:
what is best clearing house database ( Vipul's Razor, Pyzor, and DCC )
to be
used with spamassassin.
I currently use Razor 2.61 and DCC. Both work quite well. Pyzor, I've
never tried.
The last time I checked, Pyzor's hit rate was
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:57:28 -0500, Bob Apthorpe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi,
Hello.
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:10:30 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:52:41 -0400 (EDT), Dan Mahoney, System Admin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hey guys, as a quick survey, if you're blocking
Chris Santerre wrote:
The question is always, did you block any legit mail...
The question is, can the person blocked read english? I send back a nice
little message saying you have been rejected due to listing on xx.com
RBL. And to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be taken off the list.
At 07:29 AM Tuesday, 9/28/2004, Chris Santerre wrote -=
However, there are numerous people who don't read the nice little message.
They don't get passed the Rejected part.
In all I think I've had to fix maybe 5-6 customers who were blocked over the
coarse of 2.5 years. That's not bad! Want to know
Hi
I'm trying to build meself a rpm from spamassassin, but I'm getting some
stuff I'm not sure if it's save to ignore...?
I'm building on Suse9.0, 2.4.21-243-athlon
First error(?) is:
Finding Provides: /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides.perl
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for
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There's a new fix, which needs some testing in the bugzilla,
at http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3649 .
If it fixes the issue, it'll go into 3.0.1. please test ;)
- --j.
Erik Slooff writes:
Hello
yesterday i've done some
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Will Yardley writes:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:22:01AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
Will Yardley writes:
Has anyone else seen a problem w/ spamd dying sometimes (after working
for a while)? I have been seeing this in the 3.0 rcs. I'm about
I am running spamassassin 2.64 on freeBSD 5.2.1. It is working fine for
tagging spam, but now that we are satisfied with it's performance, we want
to start deleting obvious spam instead of just tagging it. I have followed
(I believe...) the instructions for deleting spam with a certain score by
Hi all,
2 problems.
First, when I train SA on ham or spam, it seems to forget the counterpart.
Example:
sa-learn --mbox --showdots --ham inbox
Would add say 300 hams to the Bayes DB, but turns the spam count to 0
or a very small number and vice versa (sa-learn --dump magic)
I am also noticing
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:46:17 -0700, Erik Wickstrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi all,
2 problems.
First, when I train SA on ham or spam, it seems to forget the
counterpart.
Example:
sa-learn --mbox --showdots --ham inbox
Would add say 300 hams to the Bayes DB, but turns the spam count
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:46:17PM -0700, Erik Wickstrom wrote:
I am also noticing that even though I upgraded to DB ver 3 with
sa-learn --sync -D, it keeps reverting back to ver 0 or 2.
Do you have some old code accessing the database by chance?
Do you have some process that copies over a
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:56:52AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
Will Yardley writes:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:22:01AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
Will Yardley writes:
Much more detailed information in bug #3667 (bugzilla.spamassassin.org)
I'm almost certain it's a fixed bug.
What
Hello -
Just recently noticed that all of the mail coming through my system has the
autolearn=spam tag in the SA header. I run SA through MailScanner and had
been using 2.64 previous to 3.0. I recently noticed an increase in spam that
has been getting through, and after some investigation saw
Hello,
I've resently upgraded to SA3.0 from SA2.64 and have noticed that I'm
getting
strange version headers.
Before:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64-global_2004020301-rgibson_20040511
After:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin
Hi All,
Just wanted to get your opinion on whether I should be using the
default Berkely DB for Bayes and AWL or if I should use SQL - what are
the pro/cons?
Erik
If this is a new install, you won't feel much of a difference. Bayes
however is an extremely powerful tool once it is trained. Bayes
learns what your ham and spam emails look like, and then through the
magic of statistics, it classifies incoming messages as spam or ham
based on your history. I
Matt Kettler said:
1) SA 3.0 has it's own built in support for URI RBLs, but it is
implemented
differently than Mail::SpamcopURI does it.
rm /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamcop_uri.cf
2) you need to upgrade the version of your bayes DB, as per the
instructions in the UPGRADE file
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 05:12:32PM -0400, Slava Madrit wrote:
Basically if you remove the Subject header completely, even though SA
recognizes that it's spam, it does not mark up the subject with [SPAM] since
there is no Subject. I tried it with 2.63 and it adds a Subject: header to
the
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