Performance Problems

2005-01-20 Thread J Thomas Hancock
I'm having a weird memory issue with one of our mail proxies that I am hoping to get some help with. We currently have 2 mail proxies that are set up identically. They run Fedora Core 3, postfix 2.1.4, and SA 3.0.X. SA was installed via perl's MCPAN. We are using a Foundry ServerIron to load ba

Re: Off to a rocky start with amavix+spamd

2005-01-20 Thread Haines Brown
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:15:37 +0100 > From: "Chr. von Stuckrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:33:11PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > My spamassassin 3.0.2 can be directed to tag a test message as spam > > (debian testing), but amavisd-new is not automatically sending > ...

Re: Odd hanging on mail servers

2005-01-20 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:37:12PM -0500, Matt wrote: > Ok that works great if you KNOW the domain.. but what do you do when > this happens once every 3 or 4 days to random domains? Oops! No idea, had something like this by network glitches, which made random DNS-Servers unavailable. But we cou

Re: Odd hanging on mail servers

2005-01-20 Thread Matt
Ok that works great if you KNOW the domain.. but what do you do when this happens once every 3 or 4 days to random domains? On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:30:18 +0100, Chr. von Stuckrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:47:12PM -0500, Matt wrote: > > Ahh ha! Got it.. it seems to be

Re: Odd hanging on mail servers

2005-01-20 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:47:12PM -0500, Matt wrote: > Ahh ha! Got it.. it seems to be domains that either the name servers > are not responding.. or the domain doesn't exist yet.. for instance: > > debug: DNS MX records found: 0 > > Is there anyway to get around this? It seems to hang and do t

Re: Off to a rocky start with amavix+spamd

2005-01-20 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:33:11PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > My spamassassin 3.0.2 can be directed to tag a test message as spam > (debian testing), but amavisd-new is not automatically sending ... > I know spamd is running. In /etc/default/spamassassin I have ENABLED = > 1, and in amavisd.conf,

Re: Odd hanging on mail servers

2005-01-20 Thread Matt
Ahh ha! Got it.. it seems to be domains that either the name servers are not responding.. or the domain doesn't exist yet.. for instance: debug: DNS MX records found: 0 Is there anyway to get around this? It seems to hang and do this twice for long enough to delay the system... any thoughts?

Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-20 Thread Kelson
jdow wrote: This probably explains the massive runs of emails with nothing in them that fetchmail is failing on when it attempts to drag them from NG_Popper. Maybe. Standard practice on these seems to be to drop the connection before the transaction is finished, so in *theory* the mail should nev

Re: sa-learn with lotus notes

2005-01-20 Thread Nico . Prenzel
Hello Kyle, another solution to feed spam/ham and unlearn(!) messages from Lotus Notes client to bayesian database would be to use my DSCLearner module. As fact of this see the following graphic, which describes my solution to that problem. http://prenzel.dyndns.org/Anwendungen/Internet/Bulleti

Re: Off to a rocky start with amavix+spamd

2005-01-20 Thread Brian Wong
This really belongs on the Amavis-users list, but I can tell you right now that amavisd-new does not use spamd. The spamd daemon does not need to be running. Make sure that your domain is listed in the @local_domain_maps in amavisd.conf for tagging to be performed. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:33:11 -0

RE: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-20 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:39, Frank M. Cook wrote: > > SA shouldn't have this problem. However, the larger issue of whether or > not > > any sort of SPAM filtering solution is considered legal is my concern. > > this is an argument for simply rewriting the subject so that the user can > decide whe

Off to a rocky start with amavix+spamd

2005-01-20 Thread Haines Brown
My spamassassin 3.0.2 can be directed to tag a test message as spam (debian testing), but amavisd-new is not automatically sending messages to spamd for tagging as they come in. amavis does work to filter viruses with clamAV. I'm running amavis as an interface for postfix. I know spamd is running.

Re: sa-learn with lotus notes

2005-01-20 Thread Mike Carlson
** This is a very quick and raw howto. I should spend some time putting something webanized together with screenshots and everything. ** I have attached the 3 files I use on my FreeBSD box. GetHam.txt and GetSpam.txt are the bash scripts. Pretty straight forward. I also attached a copy of my fe

Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-20 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:39, Frank M. Cook wrote: > > SA shouldn't have this problem. However, the larger issue of whether or > not > > any sort of SPAM filtering solution is considered legal is my concern. > > this is an argument for simply rewriting the subject so that the user can > decide whe

Re: sa-learn with lotus notes

2005-01-20 Thread KyleReynolds
That sounds perfect! if you would be so kind, could you send the pertinent bits of the bash script (absolutely no hurry...)? We are also running spamassassin on freeBSD, and I think I can (and our notes admin) set up the mailboxes and notes stuff, but the script might take me a while to get righ

Re: sa-learn with lotus notes

2005-01-20 Thread Mike Carlson
We created 2 mailboxes on our Notes server called SpamCollector and HamCollector. We then set up an Agent in the template that added an action to move selected untagged spam to the Spam Collector mailbox and copy the selected HAM messages to the Ham collector mailbox. I created a bash script o

sa-learn with lotus notes

2005-01-20 Thread KyleReynolds
Help... I need to feed spam and ham to sa-learn. We are using lotus notes R5 and I need to get the messages into a format that sa-learn can use. The closest I have found is to export messages as "structured text", and this exports multiple messages as one file, the example below is how they are

Re: Testing a message

2005-01-20 Thread Evan Platt
At 07:22 AM 1/20/2005, you wrote: Greetings! I'm using SA 3.0.2 with postfix and amavisd. (so no spamd is running) A message came in that was not spam that got blocked. I took it to sa-learn and learned it as ham. I want to take the message now and re-score it to see how it holds up. What is

Re: Spamassassin 3.0.2 child processes

2005-01-20 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:58 AM 1/20/2005, Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank] wrote: Is there a way to limit spamd child processes? # ps -ef | grep spam root 602 1 0 13:28 ?00:00:12 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H xadmin 649 602 0 13:29 ?00:00:09 spamd child xadmin 650 602 0 13:29 ?

Re: Testing a message

2005-01-20 Thread Menno van Bennekom
> Greetings! > > I'm using SA 3.0.2 with postfix and amavisd. (so no spamd is running) > A message came in that was not spam that got blocked. I took it to > sa-learn and learned it as ham. > > I want to take the message now and re-score it to see how it holds up. > What is the best way of acco

Re: Testing a message

2005-01-20 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:22 AM 1/20/2005, Jason Gauthier wrote: I'm using SA 3.0.2 with postfix and amavisd. (so no spamd is running) A message came in that was not spam that got blocked. I took it to sa-learn and learned it as ham. I want to take the message now and re-score it to see how it holds up. What is

Testing a message

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Gauthier
Title: Testing a message Greetings!   I'm using SA 3.0.2 with postfix and amavisd.  (so no spamd is running) A message came in that was not spam that got blocked.  I took it to sa-learn and learned it as ham. I want to take the message now and re-score it to see how it holds up. What is

RE: ALL_TRUSTED alteration

2005-01-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Craig Zeigler wrote: > > > I am getting very obvious spam through my SA filters. The only > > thing I think is that the value for ALL_TRUSTED is pushing it > > below the threshold. Where do I go to alter this test's effect on > > the spam count?

Re: ALL_TRUSTED alteration

2005-01-20 Thread Martin Hepworth
Craig Zeigler wrote: I am getting very obvious spam through my SA filters. The only thing I think is that the value for ALL_TRUSTED is pushing it below the threshold. Where do I go to alter this test's effect on the spam count? I have searched through all of the .cf files in /usr/share/spamassas

ALL_TRUSTED alteration

2005-01-20 Thread Craig Zeigler
I am getting very obvious spam through my SA filters. The only thing I think is that the value for ALL_TRUSTED is pushing it below the threshold. Where do I go to alter this test's effect on the spam count? I have searched through all of the .cf files in /usr/share/spamassassin and /etc/mail/sp

Spamassassin 3.0.2 child processes

2005-01-20 Thread Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank]
Title: Spamassassin 3.0.2 child processes Hi List. Is there a way to limit spamd child processes? # ps -ef | grep spam root   602 1  0 13:28 ?    00:00:12 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H xadmin 649   602  0 13:29 ?    00:00:09 spamd child xadmin 650   602  0 13:29

Re: New to SA, problems with production speed

2005-01-20 Thread leonard . gray
Thanks Martin, that helps let me know I haven't completely lost it. I downloaded the patches, and am inexperienced in how to use "patch".  Tried several things, but assumed to place the patch files in /SpamAssassin-3.0.2 directory, and then ran patch -i, which didn't really work. Is the patch pr

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:12:44AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > > Mail-Followup-To: Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > users@spamassassin.apache.org, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please pick only one of these two aliases to the same list. Otherwise > we all see

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Johann Spies wrote: > Mail-Followup-To: Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > users@spamassassin.apache.org, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please pick only one of these two aliases to the same list. Otherwise we all see duplicate messages. > Yes, I am using the one form www.backports.org and

Re: Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread Menno van Bennekom
> Martin Hepworth wrote: > problem with the ALL_TRUSTED rule. I give this a score of 0 (zero) in my > local.cf as it give too many false hits for my liking. Thanks for that info, I found some false hits here too, this 72.11.147.2 address for example is not trusted by me, see below.. Menno van Benn

Re: Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread Martin Hepworth
John problem with the ALL_TRUSTED rule. I give this a score of 0 (zero) in my local.cf as it give too many false hits for my liking. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 John Fleming wrote: I just got an email VERY obvious about selling drugs. Ar

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:48:18PM -0900, John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 19 January 2005 10:44 pm, Johann Spies wrote: > > I could only get the network tests to work after installing  Net::DNS > > using CPAN.  I would prefer however to do it the Debian way. > > CPAN is the Debian way. Its ev

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:48:18PM -0900, John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 19 January 2005 10:44 pm, Johann Spies wrote: > > I could only get the network tests to work after installing  Net::DNS > > using CPAN.  I would prefer however to do it the Debian way. > > CPAN is the Debian way. Its ev

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:17:08AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Your own backport? Or one from somewhere else? > > > I could only get the network tests to work after installing Net::DNS > > If www.backports.org then you should have gotten the libnet-dns-perl > modules from there too. Yes, I

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:44:23AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: [ If you don't actually want a copy of messages, you should change "lists ... to subscribe ... in your .muttrc so your mail-followup-to header gets set correctly ] > I have installed Spamassassin 3.02 on one of my three mail servers >

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Johann Spies wrote: > I have installed Spamassassin 3.02 on one of my three mail servers > which runs on Debian Woody with a backport of Exim4. I previously had > 2.64 running on this machine with the Surbl checking working (after > help from this list). Your own backport? Or one from somewhere

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel Quinlan
John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CPAN is the Debian way. Its every distro's way. I disagree, dh-make-perl is the Debian way. :-) How do you remove a package installed with CPAN, anyway? And how do you remove old turds from old CPAN packages you've upgraded via CPAN? I seem to reca

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could only get the network tests to work after installing Net::DNS > using CPAN. I would prefer however to do it the Debian way. dh-make-perl is your friend -- it makes it easy to Debianize any Perl package from CPAN. (I don't install Perl packages

Re: 3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 10:44 pm, Johann Spies wrote: > I could only get the network tests to work after installing  Net::DNS > using CPAN.  I would prefer however to do it the Debian way. CPAN is the Debian way. Its every distro's way. Spamassassin is a perl app, and installing the whole t

3.02 on Debian Woody?

2005-01-20 Thread Johann Spies
I have installed Spamassassin 3.02 on one of my three mail servers which runs on Debian Woody with a backport of Exim4. I previously had 2.64 running on this machine with the Surbl checking working (after help from this list). I could only get the network tests to work after installing Net::DNS

Re: Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If it comes from a BSP host, report them! > http://www.bondedse in hellnder.org/complaint/ Not so fast. (Disclaimer: I work for IronPort.) First, I looked at the message -- *none* of the Received header IPs are listed in Bonded Sender (I checked bo

Re: ****SPAM(15.5)**** Re: Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread jdow
From: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > SpamAssassin, running on "mail.dailyhills.com", has identified this incoming > email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this > email so you can view it (if it isn't spam). > If you have any questions, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] fo

Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-20 Thread jdow
From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > jdow writes: > > This probably explains the massive runs of emails with nothing in them > > that fetchmail is failing on when it attempts to drag them from NG_Popper. > > > > I guess simply dropping V

Re: Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread John Fleming
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:04:06PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: UGH! On looking at the default scores, I see it got -4 something from being RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED! Could someone elaborate on the utility of BSP_TRUSTED? So much for "trust". I guess when I get [just a little] older, maybe I will not co

Re: Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread John Fleming
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Re: Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Theo Van Dinter writes: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:04:06PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > UGH! On looking at the default scores, I see it got -4 something from > > being RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED! Could someone elaborate on the utility of > > BSP_TRUS

Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-20 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdow writes: > This probably explains the massive runs of emails with nothing in them > that fetchmail is failing on when it attempts to drag them from NG_Popper. > > I guess simply dropping Verizon on the floor is the simplest answer. > Explain to u

Re: Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:04:06PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > UGH! On looking at the default scores, I see it got -4 something from > being RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED! Could someone elaborate on the utility of > BSP_TRUSTED? So much for "trust". I guess when I get [just a little] > older, maybe I

Problem with drug mail

2005-01-20 Thread John Fleming
I just got an email VERY obvious about selling drugs. Aren't these headers and score a little surprising? It even contained a URL with the v-word misspelled by only one letter. X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,DRUGS_PAIN, RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED,RCVD_IN_NJABL_SPAM,RCVD_IN_S

Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-20 Thread jdow
This probably explains the massive runs of emails with nothing in them that fetchmail is failing on when it attempts to drag them from NG_Popper. I guess simply dropping Verizon on the floor is the simplest answer. Explain to users what you are doing and why. Verizon facilitating spam and DDoS att

About uid-with-sql etc. WAS RE: spamassassin works, spamc / d doesn't? I have it working on other servers...

2005-01-20 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Ok - figured it out - silly DB problem - I figured a non-demonized spamd would report an error - found it later in the logs. Do have a couple other questions related to this way of working though: Here is a typical message process ([EMAIL PROTECTED] has been substituted to protect the innocent