Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Lenz
I got a phishing scam email from one 'Batman Cole' .. batman? ... goood lord. hehe - Original Message - From: "David B Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 6:23 PM Subject: Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, List Mail User wrote: Obvio

Re: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

2005-04-11 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, List Mail User wrote: > Obviously, you've never noticed contact emails at iamaspammer. com:) > > Paul Shupak > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > P.S. "Manila Industries, Inc." of Thailand provides many domains for spam > support services. Yes, almost as good a trick as w

Re: various debug errors: SpamAssassin.pm line 1453_ No such file or directory, cannot tie DB R/O: //.spamassassin/bayes_toks

2005-04-11 Thread Rob Kudyba
Matt Kettler wrote: Rob Kudyba wrote: Not using spamc at the moment. Running spamd as user nobody. nobody 16877 0.0 1.1 26356 5848 ?SApr08 0:01 /usr/local/bin/perl -T -w /usr/local/bin/spamd -u nobody -d -x -D nobody 16878 0.0 4.0 30208 20712 ? SApr08 1:07 spamd

RE: SpamAssassin description translation tool

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Daniel Quinlan wrote: > In the output, we could interleave each translated line with the > English version. That might make it useful enough: > > #describe ADDR_FREEFrom Address contains FREE > lang fr ADDR_FREE De l'adresse contient LIBREMENT Hm. Shouldn't that be: De l'adresse

Re: SpamAssassin description translation tool

2005-04-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW, one possible solution I was thinking of was to do this through the wiki; just upload a set of partial translations and let people at it. That way anyone who wants to translate a few messages can do so... - --j. Daniel Quinlan writes: > John W

Re: various debug errors: SpamAssassin.pm line 1453_ No such file or directory, cannot tie DB R/O: //.spamassassin/bayes_toks

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Rob Kudyba wrote: > > Not using spamc at the moment. Running spamd as user nobody. > > nobody 16877 0.0 1.1 26356 5848 ?SApr08 0:01 > /usr/local/bin/perl -T -w /usr/local/bin/spamd -u nobody -d -x -D > nobody 16878 0.0 4.0 30208 20712 ? SApr08 1:07 spamd > child >

Re: various debug errors: SpamAssassin.pm line 1453_ No such file or directory, cannot tie DB R/O: //.spamassassin/bayes_toks

2005-04-11 Thread Rob Kudyba
Matt Kettler wrote: Rob Kudyba wrote: SA 3.02 on RH 8, perl -v This is perl, v5.8.6 built for i686-linux How can we make the below errors disappear? Also, what does the (unknown) mean in the below log snips? Apr 11 14:54:49 herbie spamd[16878]: debug: mkdir //.spamassassin failed: mkdir //.spama

Re: various debug errors: SpamAssassin.pm line 1453_ No such file or directory, cannot tie DB R/O: //.spamassassin/bayes_toks

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Rob Kudyba wrote: > SA 3.02 on RH 8, > perl -v > > This is perl, v5.8.6 built for i686-linux > > How can we make the below errors disappear? Also, what does the > (unknown) mean in the below log snips? > > Apr 11 14:54:49 herbie spamd[16878]: debug: mkdir //.spamassassin > failed: mkdir //.spamass

various debug errors: SpamAssassin.pm line 1453_ No such file or directory, cannot tie DB R/O: //.spamassassin/bayes_toks

2005-04-11 Thread Rob Kudyba
SA 3.02 on RH 8, perl -v This is perl, v5.8.6 built for i686-linux How can we make the below errors disappear? Also, what does the (unknown) mean in the below log snips? Apr 11 14:54:49 herbie spamd[16878]: debug: mkdir //.spamassassin failed: mkdir //.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/lo

Re: False Positives

2005-04-11 Thread David Earp
> How are you calling spamassassin? Are you calling it from procmail, or > are you using something like amavis? I didn't even think about how it was being called. After I read this I realized that its most likely my qmail-scanner causing it as it rewrites the header itself. I've removed the fast_

Re: SpamAssassin description translation tool

2005-04-11 Thread Daniel Quinlan
John Wilcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, I hadn't realised this was simply intended as help for human > translators. As you say, some are usable more or less directly and some > are total gibberish. Speaking with my professional translator's hat on, > I wouldn't use this method personally

Re: False Positives

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Kettler
David Earp wrote: >>Try this add_header command instead. Note carefully the addition of >>quotation marks. >> >>add_header all Status "_YESNO_, score=_SCORE_ required=_REQD_ >>tests=_TESTSSCORES(,)_ autolearn=_AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_" >> >> > >Added the quotes, no difference. I should not

Re: False Positives

2005-04-11 Thread David Earp
> Try this add_header command instead. Note carefully the addition of > quotation marks. > > add_header all Status "_YESNO_, score=_SCORE_ required=_REQD_ > tests=_TESTSSCORES(,)_ autolearn=_AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_" Added the quotes, no difference. I should note that my add_header is all on

Re: False Positives

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Dave wrote: > Hi, I just recently upgraded to version 3.0.2 and now appear to be > receiving quite a few false positives where my previous installation > of 2.6.4 didn't have this problem. I am also having a problem getting > the rest results to display within the headers so I can determine what >

Re: SpamAssassin description translation tool

2005-04-11 Thread Andre Nicholson
> Daniel Quinlan wrote: (B>> I don't expect the translations to be usable without editing, but I (B>> suspect that editing will be faster than writing from scratch. Some are (B>> directly usable. Some are not. (B> (B> OK, I hadn't realised this was simply intended as help for human (B> tran

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Richard.Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:37 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor? > > >On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Pierre Thomson wrote: > >> 419 spammers definitely produce humorous s

Gateways, analyze first, insert into bayes later ?

2005-04-11 Thread Herold Heiko
Newbie Alert - New to Spamassassin. Pondering enhancement to my current basic setup, which is a filter gateway in front of MS exchange. Filter gw is amavisd-new + dual-sendmail-setup + clamav+spamassassin 3.02. I'm looking how to feed back sorted spam/ham info into the spamassassin bayes database

Re: about SPF

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Arvinn Løkkebakken wrote: I have two questions about the SPF plugin in SA. What is the difference between FAIL and SOFTFAIL on Helo? When running SA with bayes and network FAIL scores close to zero while SOFTFAIL gives a solid 3.1. Does FAIL hit a lot of ham? According to my stats, SPF_HELO_FAIL

about SPF

2005-04-11 Thread Arvinn Løkkebakken
I have two questions about the SPF plugin in SA. What is the difference between FAIL and SOFTFAIL on Helo? When running SA with bayes and network FAIL scores close to zero while SOFTFAIL gives a solid 3.1. Does FAIL hit a lot of ham? According to my stats, SPF_HELO_FAIL gets triggered about as o

RE: BAYES...sitewide or per-user or not at all?

2005-04-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Gerald V. Livingston II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > sa-learn -- anyone have a way to stat() all the SPAM folders and run > sa-learn only on those that have new messages added by customers? I could > find them using 'find' by searching on the mod date but I'd have to have > some way for sa-

Re: sa-learn causes fatal thrashing

2005-04-11 Thread Niek
On 4/11/2005 9:31 AM +0100, Tristan Miller wrote: I have 256 MB of RAM plus 243 MB of swap space. Unfortunately, upgrading RAM will not be a cheap fix as I am using a laptop with no user-serviceable parts. Regards, Tristan You could start spamd with only 1 child, to save some RAM. Niek --

Re: SpamAssassin description translation tool

2005-04-11 Thread John Wilcock
Daniel Quinlan wrote: I don't expect the translations to be usable without editing, but I suspect that editing will be faster than writing from scratch. Some are directly usable. Some are not. OK, I hadn't realised this was simply intended as help for human translators. As you say, some are usab

Re: SpamAssassin description translation tool

2005-04-11 Thread Loren Wilton
> Great to see i18n being taken into account, but... Any chance you could > post some of the output (French, for example) so that we can get an idea > of whether these translations are actually usable or not? > > Unfortunately I suspect we'll find that Babelfish (and machine > translation in genera

Re: SpamAssassin description translation tool

2005-04-11 Thread Daniel Quinlan
John Wilcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Great to see i18n being taken into account, but... Any chance you could > post some of the output (French, for example) so that we can get an idea > of whether these translations are actually usable or not? See below. > Unfortunately I suspect we'll

Re: sa-learn causes fatal thrashing

2005-04-11 Thread Tristan Miller
Greetings. On Monday 11 April 2005 08:48, John Andersen wrote: > Why should your system stop just because it has work to do? Because it's thrashing. Just about any computer using virtual memory will grind to a halt if programs try to allocate more memory than is available. > How much memory do

Re: SpamAssassin description translation tool

2005-04-11 Thread John Wilcock
Daniel Quinlan wrote: In the SpamAssassin SVN tree for the upcoming 3.1, there's a preliminary translation-generation tool that uses Babelfish to translate all of the rules in a few minutes for the following languages: Great to see i18n being taken into account, but... Any chance you could post so

Re: sa-learn causes fatal thrashing

2005-04-11 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 10 April 2005 09:18 pm, Tristan Miller wrote: > Greetings. > > I am running SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on SuSE 9.0. > > Whenever I try to use sa-learn on a mailbox that contains large attachments > (say, greater than one or two megabytes), memory and swap usage max out > and my system comes to a

Disable SA for local delivery

2005-04-11 Thread bruno . delladucata
Hello All I'm using Postfix 2.1 with Spamassassin 3.02 on a SUSE 9,.2 box. Postfix is acting as relay system to my internal mail server. All incomming mails are filtered by spamassassin. To manual learning spamassassins bayes filter i have created two local accounts on my box. My master.cf

sa-learn causes fatal thrashing

2005-04-11 Thread Tristan Miller
Greetings. I am running SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on SuSE 9.0. Whenever I try to use sa-learn on a mailbox that contains large attachments (say, greater than one or two megabytes), memory and swap usage max out and my system comes to a grinding halt. As in, completely unresponsive; mouse and keyboard l