[SARE] whitelist.cf

2005-04-23 Thread Robert Menschel
Just a quick note that, as promised and at long last, I've published the first version of SARE's new Whitelist config file. Documentation available at http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm#whitelist Unlike most SARE files, which contains SpamAssassin rules and therefore usually cannot be used by

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-23 Thread Rick Macdougall
Gary W. Smith wrote: Since 3.0.1 we have had great success with SA and MySQL. In production we have a decent MySQL server serving two separate Servers running SA which in turn are used by 4 frond end relays. All in all I think it's a good solution if you need a central database shared between mul

RE: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-23 Thread Gary W. Smith
Since 3.0.1 we have had great success with SA and MySQL. In production we have a decent MySQL server serving two separate Servers running SA which in turn are used by 4 frond end relays. All in all I think it's a good solution if you need a central database shared between multiple instances. It

Re: if ! MY_RULE ?

2005-04-23 Thread jdow
Suppose the SARE rule is FU_BAR. You define a private rule "MW_BAR" and as part of its definition block you set the score for "FU_BAR" to zero. That is the theory anyway. It won't work with 3.02 even with user rules enabled. Or rather it will work deceptively. Suppose you have N instances of spamd

if ! MY_RULE ?

2005-04-23 Thread wolfgang
I would like to have a block of SARE rules only be used if one of my self defined rules does not match. Is there a way to do that in SA 3.0.2? regards, wolfgang

Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-23 Thread Steven W. Orr
I just found out that because I use spamassassin/sendmail and spamass-milter, I have to use a sitewide bayes database. I also found out that as an alternative I can use MySQL to be the Bayes DB. I'm a little leery of tying my sendmail functionality to MySQL. Can people tell me what they think o

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] RE: Research wanted: age of spam gang URI domains

2005-04-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, April 22, 2005, 7:27:17 AM, John Delisle wrote: > Even if data re average age of the domains, wouldn't they just start > registering them earlier so as to not match that pattern? Yeah that's always a possibility. But there seems to be some evidence that a lot of spam domains don't get

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] RE: Research wanted: age of spam gang URI domains

2005-04-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, April 22, 2005, 9:27:56 AM, Steven Champeon wrote: > See: > http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-01/msg00225.html > for one particular spamgang (dunno who); seems to be entirely dedicated > to sending out spam in multipart with one redirector link (ends in .html, > with embedd

Re: Anyone else seem spam like this?

2005-04-23 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Matthew, Friday, April 22, 2005, 2:49:38 AM, you wrote: MN> Hi, MN> Have had several spams over the last few days with the exact MN> paragraph below. Anyone else seen similar messages? Any rules MN> available? As suggested, if that paragraph is being repeated, Bayes is your friend. Agreed

Re: Anyone else seem spam like this?

2005-04-23 Thread Chris
On Friday 22 April 2005 04:49 am, Matthew Newton wrote: > Hi, > > Have had several spams over the last few days with the exact paragraph > below. Anyone else seen similar messages? Any rules available? > It's tagged quite easily here. Didn't include the entire paragraph, but its the same. Subje