Antwort: Re: [exim] Exim4 and SA: Overloading the system

2006-01-18 Thread srunschke
Patrick von der Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 17.01.2006 20:47:52: PS: more RAM usually is a good idea but situations have been reported, where adding memory just killed performance, so be careful with such generalizations. There have been Intel-mainboard-chipsets with

Antwort: Re: Bayes - how bad is a small ham corpus with a big spam corpus?

2006-01-18 Thread srunschke
Robert Menschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 17.01.2006 03:41:39: sad I'm currently trying to build up a new bayes DB here, ... sad ... yet it poses a problem to build up the ham part. sad ... Much of the inbound smtp mail either contains private or sad confidential information, so I cannot

Start from scratch. Really needed?

2006-01-18 Thread Jaime Aguado
Our spamassassin system is not able to catch 80% of incoming spam messages I am afraid our bayes db has learned wrong items as it was fed with spam messages directly from Outlook right after the installation and configuration steps. Is there a way to reset the spam/ham learned messages on the

Re: Antwort: Re: [exim] Exim4 and SA: Overloading the system

2006-01-18 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Uhm, I wonder were you got this information from... It was quite some time ago... early Pentium 1, IIRC. I just hate oversimplifications and adding more RAM will certainly help is certainly wrong. I did mention several scenarios which might cause his problems

how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Mathias Homann
Hi, i want spamassassin not to touch my mails at all. server in question runs SA with mysql for user config. reason: i fetch with fetchmail from there, and run my own SA on my own mail server. how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? SA is invoked from within qmail

RE: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Mathias Homann wrote: i want spamassassin not to touch my mails at all. server in question runs SA with mysql for user config. reason: i fetch with fetchmail from there, and run my own SA on my own mail server. how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? SA is

RE: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Mathias Homann
Bowie Bailey wrote: how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? SA is invoked from within qmail there. You would have to tell qmail not to invoke SA for your messages. But why is it a problem? When you run SA on your server, it should automatically remove the

Re: rules better than bayes?

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Maul
Dallas L. Engelken wrote: -Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:49 PM To: Chris Lear Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: rules better than bayes? Chris Lear wrote: * Jim Maul wrote (11/01/06 17:48): [...] i dont

RE: rules better than bayes?

2006-01-18 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:55 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: rules better than bayes? Dallas L. Engelken wrote: -Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Mathias Homann wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? SA is invoked from within qmail there. You would have to tell qmail not to invoke SA for your messages. But why is it a problem? When you run SA on your server, it

emails from auto support systems trip FORGED_RCVD_HELO ?

2006-01-18 Thread Gregory Zornetzer
Hi, I just noticed something a little weird in a message autogenerated by openoffice.org's bug system. The message tripped several spam rules. Ones like NO_REAL_NAME, SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE, and SUBJECT_EXCESS_BASE64 don't bother me so much. FORGED_RCVD_HELO seems like it shouldn't be tripping

Re: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Jackson
how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? SA is invoked from within qmail there. You would have to tell qmail not to invoke SA for your messages. But why is it a problem? When you run SA on your server, it should automatically remove the markup added by the

Re: Optimum home system setup

2006-01-18 Thread Nix
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stipulated: From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I run SA 3.1 on a home system which gets about 200 - 250 msgs a day, the majority being spam of course. I have 768mb of ram with a swap of 612mb, an AMD Sempron

SARE Rule question

2006-01-18 Thread Joe Zitnik
Any update on when the stock spam rule might be posted? I've fed dozens in to bayes, and they're still making it through.

Re: emails from auto support systems trip FORGED_RCVD_HELO ?

2006-01-18 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FORGED_RCVD_HELO can be entirely ignored -- it has a virtually-zero score in 1 scoreset, and is zeroed out in all the others. Don't judge a rule's validity by its name, judge by what score the mails get at the end of the process. In this case,

Re: rules better than bayes?

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Maul
Dallas L. Engelken wrote: -Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:55 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: rules better than bayes? Dallas L. Engelken wrote: -Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL

SPAMD error question

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Swan
I am getting the following in my Maillog and wondered if anyone knew how to rectify, I am using Redhat9, Spamassassin 3.1.0 and postfix: Jan 18 14:09:01 spamma spamd[16397]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it Thanks in advance, Robert

postfix errors

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Swan
Had a problem earlier when postfix stopped working and I had a backup of e-mail in my active queue, here are some errors from the log. Anyone seen this before or know why it might have happened I reloaded postfix and it fixed it but not sure of the cause.Jan 18 14:07:05 spamma

Re: SPAMD error question

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Robert Swan wrote: I am getting the following in my Maillog and wondered if anyone knew how to rectify, I am using Redhat9, Spamassassin 3.1.0 and postfix: Jan 18 14:09:01 spamma spamd[16397]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it Well, first there's a bug

RE: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alan Fullmer wrote: The setup works, however I get so backlogged. For example, running a mailq as we speak, comes up with: 35918 Kbytes in 5257 Requests. It eventually gets through, and during the night it catches up. I am seeing delays up to 3 hours sometimes. I tail -f the maillog

Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Alan Fullmer
Greetings, I am wondering if anyone can direct me to any books/sites/etc regarding possibly running postfix on one or more servers accepting mail, processing with SA, then forwarding onto a 3rd machine. Currently my setup only includes one Postfix box, which does all of the mail filtering (with

RE: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Alan Fullmer
Yes they are rejecting mail for unknown users. However, currently I have it discard flagged spam, rather than reject it. Granted there are some that SA does not catch, therefore go into the whole limbo situation. I currently have no way for this machine to check the validity of a user. :( It

Re: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Jason Philbrook
We have 1 box facing the internet, and a bunch of boxes to handle pop3/SA/Clam. For 10k email addresses, we had until recently a duron700 with 384MB facing the internet, and it worked fine. We just upgraded it to an athlon 1100 with 1GB. This runs postfix, rejects some network blacklisted email,

Re: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Jackson
I am wondering if anyone can direct me to any books/sites/etc regarding possibly running postfix on one or more servers accepting mail, processing with SA, then forwarding onto a 3rd machine. Currently my setup only includes one Postfix box, which does all of the mail filtering (with

SA scoring not labeling spam as {Spam?}

2006-01-18 Thread jason lingnau
Hi yall! ,Great time reading this list , thanks for all the submissions! SA version 2.83/razor2Most spam of the spam SA scores ( 5 and over) is getting labeled as {Spam?} but not all . Subject: [RE] 01-17-06 Update ReleasedContent analysis details:   (5.7 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name       

Alphabetical Content Rule

2006-01-18 Thread Matthew Sill
I have a question about Spamassassin rules, I searched google, but didn't find anything like this. I am looking for a rule that hits a message body like this: snip augmentation Austrian backstop Ballard blasphemes bluer blurts bondage bran bunted caption Catalina circulates citadels combed

Re: SA scoring not labeling spam as {Spam?}

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Kettler
jason lingnau wrote: Hi yall! , Great time reading this list , thanks for all the submissions! SA version 2.83/razor2 Erm, check that version number.. there are no SA version between 2.66 and 2.99. Most spam of the spam SA scores ( 5 and over) is getting labeled as {Spam?} but not

Re: Alphabetical Content Rule

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Matthew Sill wrote: I have a question about Spamassassin rules, I searched google, but didn't find anything like this. I am looking for a rule that hits a message body like this: snip augmentation Austrian backstop Ballard blasphemes bluer blurts bondage bran bunted caption Catalina

Re: Start from scratch. Really needed?

2006-01-18 Thread xueron
Why not delete the bayes database :) Or maybe you can change the value of bayes_expiry_max_db_size to make the older tokens expire? I am not sure for this :) --- Xueron Nee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:00 am, Mike Jackson wrote: It will either remove the existing headers and add it's own, or rename the existing headers so that they don't conflict. If the server is adding markup to the subject line, that may be an issue. My best advice is simply: Try

RE: Start from scratch. Really needed?

2006-01-18 Thread Jaime Aguado
Im afraid I dont have that flag available. My spamassassin version is 2.64. Is there a smart way of deleting the bayes db? Thanks. -Mensaje original- De: xueron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves, 19 de enero de 2006 2:16 Para: Jaime Aguado CC: users@spamassassin.apache.org

Re: Antwort: Re: Bayes - how bad is a small ham corpus with a big spam corpus?

2006-01-18 Thread Nix
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] yowled: Robert Menschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 17.01.2006 03:41:39: Bigger problem: bayes can only learn what it's taught. If you have ham that really should be trained, and because of privacy issues it should not be kept after training, then you