Re: TROUBLE in child_init_hook: BDB no dbS

2005-03-19 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David F. Colwell writes: ... but as I am a user and not a developer I feel I have uncovered as much as I can. As Paul Jacobson indicated on 2/2/05 the problem may be with SA's db calls and the BerkeleyDB docs certainly suggest it is possible.

Re: spamassassin build failure on x86_64

2005-03-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:33:21PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: I'm getting errors building the rpm on x86_64: Yeah, we haven't quite worked that out yet. Things are being linked against things they shouldn't be. :( For the time being, you can apply

Re: Testing Bayes (auto)-learning

2005-03-19 Thread Greg Abbas
Paul Boven p.boven at chello.nl writes: Yes, they're forwarding the messages as attachements, and yes, I'm stripping them out of the message/rfc822 attachements before feeding them to Bayes. And in all the tests I've done so far this seems to work, but now that we've upgraded to SA3.0.2 I

Re: Testing Bayes (auto)-learning

2005-03-19 Thread Matt Kettler
Greg Abbas wrote: Paul Boven p.boven at chello.nl writes: Yes, they're forwarding the messages as attachements, and yes, I'm stripping them out of the message/rfc822 attachements before feeding them to Bayes. And in all the tests I've done so far this seems to work, but now that we've

RE: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-19 Thread Pierre Thomson
Very interesting discussion. I run a secondary MX without SA, which normally forwards everything to the primary, IOW a store-and-forward relay. The secondary gets a steady stream of spam all day long, about 1/3 as much as the primary. I tried the trick with a tertiary entry matching the

Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-19 Thread gallen
I just had the reverse problem. Working for a large company using Exchange for outbound business email we were always hitting one company's secondary MX which was broken (sent back rejections). Our servers just liked the second MX better than the primary MX for some reason. When I manually

Re: Can I delete spam messages after they have been learned

2005-03-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:57:43PM +, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: my spam directory used for bayes learning now holds over 3000 emails. If I delete them then next time I run sa-learn will I loose everything spamassassin has learnt. Also, same question for ham. When you sa-learn a message, the

TROUBLE in child_init_hook: BDB no dbS

2005-03-19 Thread David F. Colwell
Has anyone else been getting these lately? It has shut down my incoming mail. amavis[23480]: TROUBLE in child_init_hook: BDB no dbS: Lock table is out of available locker entries, No such file or directory. at (eval 36) line 25. Mark Martinec's mailing of 8/20/04 11:07 AM suggested the

Can I delete spam messages after they have been learned

2005-03-19 Thread Nigel Wilkinson
Hi folks my spam directory used for bayes learning now holds over 3000 emails. If I delete them then next time I run sa-learn will I loose everything spamassassin has learnt. Also, same question for ham. Cheers Nigel pgpLufxE7wurH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Network Tests

2005-03-19 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 18, 2005, 8:40:45 AM, Matt Kettler wrote: 3) experiment to see which specific network tests are slow by setting their score to 0 one at a time. In particular try setting the score of URIBL_SBL to 0 since its style of SBL lookups is significantly slower than SURBL lookups, and

Re: Is spamassassin 3.0.2 wrked for any one just after install or upgrade

2005-03-19 Thread JamesDR
It worked well for us, actually, better. To give some light on the subject, specificly the SURBLS made a HUGE difference in our case. For the users with not enough spam on their servers, pop a website on goggle for indexing that contains one of their e-mail addresses and they'll have plenty

Re: Can I delete spam messages after they have been learned

2005-03-19 Thread Matt Kettler
Nigel Wilkinson wrote: Hi folks my spam directory used for bayes learning now holds over 3000 emails. If I delete them then next time I run sa-learn will I loose everything spamassassin has learnt. Also, same question for ham. You can delete them. Sa-learn stores everything it needs to

spamd and spamassassin appear to have different results

2005-03-19 Thread Vicki Brown
The rule header __CF_NOT_TO_ME To !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i header __CF_NOT_CC_ME Cc !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i meta CF_NOT_FOR_ME__CF_NOT_TO_ME __CF_NOT_CC_ME score CF_NOT_FOR_ME 0.01 describe

RE: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 18, 2005 2:55 PM -0500 Pierre Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the trick with a tertiary entry matching the primary, but it didn't reduce the spam at the secondary very much. It would be useful to figure out why this is so. Did you use the same host name for both

Re: Please help with subject rule

2005-03-19 Thread Roman Serbski
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:37:09 -0500, Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Roman Serbski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, Could you please help me with one SA subject rule that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. SpamAssassin 3.0.2 with qmail-scanner 1.25st.

Re: plugins and parrallelization

2005-03-19 Thread Eric A. Hall
Justin Mason wrote: yeah -- as discussed in the Plugin pod docs, the life-cycle of the objects you have access to there is: I'm currently trying to work this so the LDAP session is maintained for the lifetime of the module. TCP sessions are pretty expensive, and having hundreds or even

Re: Please help with subject rule

2005-03-19 Thread Roman Serbski
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:39:13 -0800, Evan Platt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I'm missing the point... [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be a much better solution. :) Thanks. :) It doesn't work. I tried to unsubscribe, received a confirmation message from yahoogroups, confirmed unsubscription but still

Re: spamd and spamassassin appear to have different results

2005-03-19 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Vicki Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The rule header __CF_NOT_TO_ME To !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i header __CF_NOT_CC_ME Cc !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i meta CF_NOT_FOR_ME__CF_NOT_TO_ME __CF_NOT_CC_ME score

OT: Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-19 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, March 18, 2005, 2:13:23 PM, jdow jdow wrote: From: Yang Xiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I've been noticing it lately that almost 90% of emails come in through our secondary MX host are spams, I just want to know if there's an explanation for this, my guess is that the spammers

Re: spamd and spamassassin appear to have different results

2005-03-19 Thread jdow
From: Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vicki Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The rule header __CF_NOT_TO_ME To !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i header __CF_NOT_CC_ME Cc !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i meta CF_NOT_FOR_ME

Re: spamd and spamassassin appear to have different results

2005-03-19 Thread Daniel Quinlan
jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not having read the first part of this I do note there is not any blanket way to say it's only related to not starting spamd. There is still the 3.0x bug related to spamd children. The FIRST time a child runs a message it reads rules properly. Every time after

Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-19 Thread alan premselaar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kelson wrote: Larry Starr wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 08:17, Alexander Bochmann wrote: there are many setups where the ISP or someone else runs a backup MX for his customer's domains as a service. With this configuration, the secondary MX will usually not know about

Re: OT: Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-19 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, March 19, 2005, 4:36:42 AM, alan premselaar wrote: I think you're thinking of Greylisting. It'll reject mail from a certain triple (sender/receiver/ip) the first time it comes in, record it in some form (database/filesystem/etc) and apply certain time delays so if the mail from

Spamd -S option in 3.x?

2005-03-19 Thread MIKE YRABEDRA
Is there a way to stop processing once the message is seen as spam? Version 2.6 had the -S option, but that no longer works.

Re: Spamd -S option in 3.x?

2005-03-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:55 AM 3/19/2005, MIKE YRABEDRA wrote: Is there a way to stop processing once the message is seen as spam? Version 2.6 had the -S option, but that no longer works. No, that feature has been dead since at least 2.30. The flag may have been accepted, but it's been dead for a LONG time. The

Re: spamd and spamassassin appear to have different results

2005-03-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:49 AM 3/19/2005, Vicki Brown wrote: The rule header __CF_NOT_TO_ME To !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i header __CF_NOT_CC_ME Cc !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i meta CF_NOT_FOR_ME__CF_NOT_TO_ME __CF_NOT_CC_ME score

spamd rules ans scores

2005-03-19 Thread Vicki Brown
At 23:25 -0800 03/18/2005, jdow wrote: Not having read the first part of this I do note there is not any blanket way to say it's only related to not starting spamd. There is still the 3.0x bug related to spamd children. The FIRST time a child runs a message it reads rules properly. Every time

Best way to disable a test from running?

2005-03-19 Thread Vicki Brown
I could give it a score of 0 but I'd like to simply say don't even test against it. I'm getting tired of seeing ALL_TRUSTED. We run SMTP; they connect directly to us; there are no interim hosts. I could edit the underlying rule file but then I'd have to do that after any update. is there an off

Re: spamd and spamassassin appear to have different results

2005-03-19 Thread Vicki Brown
At 10:55 -0500 03/19/2005, Matt Kettler wrote: And be sure to spamassassin --lint it (should run without any messages), and restart spamd after adding the rules. vent I realize that this is standard canonical advice and I will make the necessary assumption that it's not really being directed at

Re: spamd and spamassassin appear to have different results

2005-03-19 Thread Vicki Brown
At 23:02 -0800 03/18/2005, Daniel Quinlan wrote: Easier: header CF_NOT_FOR_METoCc !~ /(?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i Well, yeah, at least shorter and arguably cleaner but I was a) playing with meta rules and b) at one point had this idea that I might actually do