Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:12:25PM -0700, Ask List wrote: linux and unix is unix. So I would like to hear users experiences using different operating systems. Pros/Cons/Problems/Headaches/etc. The operating systems I'm most interested in are Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware,

Re: SA 3.1.1 post-install error

2006-04-10 Thread Tom Brown
[3086] error: Can't locate IO/Socket/SSL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: which part of that error do you not understand?

Spamassassin problem.

2006-04-10 Thread Crashev
Hello, I'm getting this strange error with my SpamAssassin lately. I googled for soulution, but none of patches that I found applied clearly so I reversed every tryed patch. spamassassin-3.1.0-4 Integrated with exim-4.54 (exiscan) Error: Apr 9 22:56:54 spamd[17021]: prefork: syswrite(7)

Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-10 Thread Tyler Nally
On Sunday 09 April 2006 15:20, mouss wrote: No. white and black aren't colors. they are absence of colour:) Well... according to physics... it really depends on what is delivering the pigments... When you paint.. and you combine a bunch of colors.. the colors get darker and darker.. to the

SpamAssassin Woes

2006-04-10 Thread JD Smith
Greetings List: My name is JD Smith and I have been put in charge of setting up a spam solution for my organization. I have chosen to go with MailScanner + Postfix + SA + MailWatch. I have everything pretty much setup and it is working, however my spam filtering is far from the 90th

Re: SpamAssassin Woes

2006-04-10 Thread Sander Holthaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JD Smith wrote: Greetings List: My name is JD Smith and I have been put in charge of setting up a spam solution for my organization. I have chosen to go with MailScanner + Postfix + SA + MailWatch. I have everything pretty much setup and it

FW: SpamAssassin Woes

2006-04-10 Thread JD Smith
Forwarding this as I was replying directly to martin for some reason. -Original Message- From: JD Smith Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:14 AM To: 'Martin Hepworth' Subject: RE: SpamAssassin Woes My boss wanted me to flag mail coming in that doesn't have a valid RDNS as spam. How do I

FW: SpamAssassin Woes

2006-04-10 Thread JD Smith
Forwarding, I ws replying directly to Martin for some reason. -Original Message- From: JD Smith Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:51 AM To: 'Martin Hepworth' Subject: RE: SpamAssassin Woes Aye, that's in my lint so I guess I do have that turned on. :) I don't have a 88_FVGT_headers.cf

RE: SpamAssassin Woes

2006-04-10 Thread JD Smith
That is what I was beginning to suspect. Is there a way to untrain the emails I ran through it? It was a pretty large selection.. A few thousand of both spam and ham. I turned on auto-learning so it should start to pick things up on it's own without needing me to train it, no? Training on a

Re: SpamAssassin Woes

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Kettler
JD Smith wrote: That is what I was beginning to suspect. Is there a way to untrain the emails I ran through it? Feed them to sa-learn --forget. It was a pretty large selection.. A few thousand of both spam and ham. I turned on auto-learning so it should start to pick things up on it's own

Using SpamAssassin In Perl

2006-04-10 Thread Luke Shannon
Hello; Our company newsletter is not getting to some of our subscribers. My guess is it is ending up in junk mail folders. We have a section on relationship tips and I am concerned some of the content in this section could be triggering spam filters. I am working on a script that runs

FW: RERE:We want approve yours loan l42kr9

2006-04-10 Thread Gene Hendrickson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 5:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RERE:We want approve yours loan l42kr9 Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ca.geocities.com/nq92ra63ut5// You have been approved for a $402,000

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-10 Thread Dan
Good approach Herb, thanks To anyone: 1) What is the highest weight value (in number of digits) supported by SpamAssassin? 2) What is the smallest weigh value (in decimal places) supported by SpamAssassin? These might look like: 10 .01 Thanks, Dan

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan wrote: Good approach Herb, thanks To anyone: 1) What is the highest weight value (in number of digits) supported by SpamAssassin? 2) What is the smallest weigh value (in decimal places) supported by SpamAssassin? In current practice, the range is 1000 to 0.0001. The code that

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-10 Thread Dan
The total range for the mantissa of a double-precision float is 52- bits, with 1 bit for sign. This means that the range between your most significant and least significant digit of the final summed answer cannot be greater than 2^51, or you'll loose precision. The total range for the

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan wrote: The total range for the mantissa of a double-precision float is 52-bits, with 1 bit for sign. This means that the range between your most significant and least significant digit of the final summed answer cannot be greater than 2^51, or you'll loose precision. The total range

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-10 Thread Dan
No, I'm saying 15 digits. That's *total* combined between integer and decimal places. However, because the floating point is stored in a scientific notation, you can add a bunch of extra zeros to push those 15 digits around. So you can have: (15 digits) + (307 zeros).0 or 0.(307 zeros)

RE: apache httpd + spam assassin = web without spam?

2006-04-10 Thread Steve Thomas
I was having this problem for a while... then I added a confirmation block to my guestbook - so that any post had to be confirmed. Boom - spam stopped (I've never even gotten confirmation notices that they tried again). I did basically the same thing. I hacked PHPBB a little to throw an

Sending spam with Mailman

2006-04-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
I suppose I shouldn't be shocked by this but it surprised me to receive some spam sent with Mailman. I have a folder for catching all mailing list mail that doesn't yet have its own procmail rule. The catch-all procmail rule looks for anything with a List-Id header and dumps it in

should I upgrade?

2006-04-10 Thread Sergei Gerasenko
Hello everybody, Got a potentially previously answered question. I have spamassassin 3.0.2-3, which is the current release with Debian. I wouldn't like to deviate from the official package and so I'm wondering if it's absolutely necessary to upgrade. I diffed the rules, they seem to be the same.

Re: should I upgrade?

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Kettler
Sergei Gerasenko wrote: Hello everybody, Got a potentially previously answered question. I have spamassassin 3.0.2-3, which is the current release with Debian. I wouldn't like to deviate from the official package and so I'm wondering if it's absolutely necessary to upgrade. I diffed the

Re: should I upgrade?

2006-04-10 Thread Jim Knuth
Heute (11.04.2006/02:40 Uhr) schrieb Matt Kettler, The whole idea behind SA 0.1 through 3.0.5 was that if you needed new rules, you upgraded your SA version. Rule updates were previously very slow, due to the expensive mass-check process. New releases of SA code came out much faster than new

Re: should I upgrade?

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Kettler
Sergei Gerasenko wrote: Hello everybody, Got a potentially previously answered question. I have spamassassin 3.0.2-3, which is the current release with Debian. I wouldn't like to deviate from the official package and so I'm wondering if it's absolutely necessary to upgrade. I diffed the

Re: should I upgrade?

2006-04-10 Thread Sergei Gerasenko
Thanks for such a quick reply. So upgrading would really be helpful in terms of performance if nothing else. Ok, I'll give it a thought. Maybe I'll find a Debian package with the latest version. Should be possible. I installed SpamAssassin today for the first time and The Ultimate Online

Re: should I upgrade?

2006-04-10 Thread Sergei Gerasenko
Side-note.. what version of SA did you diff against? I downloaded Mail-SpamAssassin-current from the ftp. I thought that was a link to the most current version. I might have been wrong. All that said, you might be OK with debian's SA 3.0.2-3. While it's important to be fairly current on SA,

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-10 Thread Dan
Follow up question (even more odd than weight limits): I want to flag all messages as spam, then configure various rules as exceptions, marking them as ham. But how do I universally mark messages one way in SpamAssassin and then unmark them in the other? I realize this is unorthodox, but

Re: should I upgrade?

2006-04-10 Thread Sergei
I tried sa-learn, but don't you need a sizable spam collection for it to work? The docs say that you need to collect about a thousand of ham and spam messages before the training starts to work. That sounds like a pain in the neck. Or am I missing something? I ran sa-learn on this one message,

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan wrote: Follow up question (even more odd than weight limits): I want to flag all messages as spam, then configure various rules as exceptions, marking them as ham. But how do I universally mark messages one way in SpamAssassin and then unmark them in the other? I realize this is

Internal email marked as spam...

2006-04-10 Thread Screaming Eagle
All, Emailing with outlook and from internal network is marked as spam: pts rule name description -- -- -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP 1.1 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY BODY: Multipart message mostly

Re: Internal email marked as spam...

2006-04-10 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Screaming Eagle wrote: All, Emailing with outlook and from internal network is marked as spam: pts rule name description -- -- -1.8 ALL_TRUSTEDPassed through trusted hosts only via SMTP 1.1

RE: Internal email marked as spam...

2006-04-10 Thread Gary W. Smith
I second that. -Original Message- From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:29 PM To: spam mailling list Subject: Re: Internal email marked as spam... Screaming Eagle wrote: All, Emailing with outlook and from internal network is marked

Re: Internal email marked as spam...

2006-04-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Screaming Eagle wrote: All, Emailing with outlook and from internal network is marked as spam: pts rule name description -- -- -1.8 ALL_TRUSTEDPassed through trusted