Re: SA gone mad, times out and stucks

2006-10-01 Thread Jürgen Herz
Andreas Pettersson wrote: Jürgen Herz wrote: What I still get and not understand is warn: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /var/spool/exim4/.spamassa ssin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists Make sure the file permissions hasn't changed when you ran the manual expire. It hasn't

spamassassin on an open relay

2006-10-01 Thread Mike Kenny
Hi, I am fairly new to the email environment (at least to the administration of it). I have recently inherited an email system that has developed a somewhat unfavourable reputation with some of the anti-spam sites. I have been trying to address this through the use of spamassassin and amavis

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-10-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, September 30, 2006 19:10, Andreas Pettersson wrote: http://anp.ath.cx/tqmcube/ I have updated tqmcube_world.cf with the -lastexternal setting on the set name, so that only the connecting IP address is checked instead of the whole chain of relays. now spammers just forward to

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-10-01 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:10:01 +0200, Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: Andreas Pettersson wrote: In case anybody is interrested, I've compiled a config file for the geo zone at TQM http://tqmcube.com/worldzone.php It might not be of great use, but it is interresting to gather

Re: sa-learn and Caught spams

2006-10-01 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of September 28, 2006 11:05:35 AM -0700, Kelson is alleged to have said: Daniel Staal wrote: Depends on the setup. For instance, given the explanations above, I'll start a system to automatically learn from my 'checkspam' folder, but not my 'highspam' folder. I have procmail

September Origination Summary

2006-10-01 Thread David Cary Hart
The usual caveat: I have no idea how representative our data is. Most notable trends (IMO): 1. A considerable reduction in spam from Poland. While still much higher than it was six months ago, it looks like the miscreants had their run which resulted in increased filtering and many have moved

RE: spamassassin on an open relay

2006-10-01 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Mike Kenny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:40 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: spamassassin on an open relay Hi, I am fairly new to the email environment (at least to the administration of it). I have

Re: Q. about spam directed towards highest MX Record?

2006-10-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, September 29, 2006 19:34, Jon Trulson wrote: Hehe, that is an old spammer trick... Our secondary MX is pretty much 100% spam. plan: 3 mta, 2 as mx backup open to all, 1 mta only open to YOUR own mx backups (firewalled) make 2 backup mx as dns round robin with one mx record, and the

Re: spamassassin on an open relay

2006-10-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sun, October 1, 2006 16:39, Mike Kenny wrote: My first question is how do I configure postfix to send all outgoing mail through amavis? http://www.postfix.org/docs.html more links ?, google for postfix amavisd-new howto We can police this to some extent by identifying the users who are

Tom Van Overbeke is out of the office.

2006-10-01 Thread tomvo
I will be out of the office starting 29/09/2006 and will not return until 08/10/2006. I will respond to your message when I return. For urgent support issues, you can either send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or contact us by phone at (++32)/2 333 4000 Thank you.

Re: spamassassin on an open relay

2006-10-01 Thread Ed Kasky
At 02:53 PM Sunday, 10/1/2006, Benny Pedersen wrote -= On Sun, October 1, 2006 16:39, Mike Kenny wrote: We can police this to some extent by identifying the users who are originating the spam and adding them to a blacklist. in my 15 years with postfix this is still something i dream on :-)

Re: spamassassin on an open relay

2006-10-01 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 01 October 2006 06:39, Mike Kenny wrote: Success in the sense that spam is no longer entering our system. However it is still being passed through. Well stop being an open relay and problem solved. I would have thought THAT would have been priority ONE! --

Re: Tom Van Overbeke is out of the office.

2006-10-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Mon, October 2, 2006 00:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 29/09/2006 and will not return until 08/10/2006. this is usefull to know on maillists :-) -- This message was sent using 100% recycled spam mails.

Antdrug.cf - new home, and I'm changing email addreses..

2006-10-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Antidrug.cf now has a new home: http://mysite.verizon.net/mkettler_sa/antidrug.cf For now the old comcast site still works, and I've updated the file there to make note of where the file is now located. I've also added a note to the file warning that it is only for users of SA 2.6x or

SpamAssassin and bounced e-mails...

2006-10-01 Thread netentity
This may be more of a subject for sendmail or a sendmail milter, but I'll give it a shot here. I have been receiving bounced spam that go to user accounts that have never existed on my mail server (i.e. admin, sales, info, accounts, etc). Upon examining the header when I finally get the mailer