SA on qmail+vpopmail+simscan?

2006-10-09 Thread Quinn Comendant
Does anybody have any advice on setting up user-level spamassassin prefs using qmail + vpopmail + simscan? I'm building a mail server from the qmailtoaster.com community, but it doesn't have any user-level prefs built in. Is it possible to setup spamassassin user-level prefs in a MySQL

Are others getting triple copies of all posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-10-09 Thread Clifton Royston
I am, just wondering if others are having the same problem. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services

Re: Are others getting triple copies of all posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-10-09 Thread Matthias Haegele
Clifton Royston schrieb: I am, just wondering if others are having the same problem. No. not me. All fine here. (Perhaps check your aliases/MTA setup etc (regarding the list recipient), perhaps the problem is located there?) -- Clifton Greetings hth MH MH

sa-learn files and paths

2006-10-09 Thread Mike Kenny
spamassassin is trapping spam and moving the mails to my quarantine directory. I have take these and fed them through sa-learn starting with a clean database. I then execute sa-learn --dump all and my output looks like 0.500 1 0 1160374814 d6b567c24b 0.500 1

Re: First Received Header only

2006-10-09 Thread John Rudd
Justin Mason wrote: As Clifton said, this is very similar to what the HELO_DYNAMIC_* ruleset does. I strongly recommend taking a look at those and getting your head around them to ensure you don't duplicate them... and if you find new ones with good hitrates, please drop us a line with the

Re: First Received Header only

2006-10-09 Thread Justin Mason
John Rudd writes: Justin Mason wrote: As Clifton said, this is very similar to what the HELO_DYNAMIC_* ruleset does. I strongly recommend taking a look at those and getting your head around them to ensure you don't duplicate them... and if you find new ones with good hitrates, please

Re: Are others getting triple copies of all posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-10-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 09 October 2006 10:28, John Andersen took the opportunity to say: On Sunday 08 October 2006 23:48, Clifton Royston wrote: I am, just wondering if others are having the same problem. -- Clifton Yes. I got Triples of two of your posts in the thread titled Re: First Received

Learn times

2006-10-09 Thread Mike Woods
Hi guys, me again! After my last little email I've built my new learning scripts and I've been running the initial learn from our spam folders (i.e, the big one) the only issue is it's been going for over a week and shows no sign of being done, so far the bayes_token table on the database I'm

Re: Learn times

2006-10-09 Thread Matthias Haegele
Mike Woods schrieb: Hi guys, me again! Hello! After my last little email I've built my new learning scripts and I've been running the initial learn from our spam folders (i.e, the big one) the only issue is it's been going for over a week and shows no sign of being done, so far the

Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread znapper
Hi I am running a linux based virus/spam filtering server which uses spamassassin - amavis-new - postfix (and clamd). - After filtering/tagging for virus and spam, the server then forwards mails to a microsoft exhange system. - There are no local delivery on the filtering computer, it simply

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread Micke Andersson
znapper wrote: Big question is, how do I do this? The server is set up to relay all mail adressed to exhange-configured-domain.com and discard anything else. I've tried to add the spamtrap user and tried to send mail to this user, using the regular [EMAIL PROTECTED], only resulting in a error

FuzzyOcrPlugin with 3.0.3?

2006-10-09 Thread Johann Spies
Can I use this plugin with Spamassassin 3.0.3? Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

Mail Backing up while SpamAssassin is in Use

2006-10-09 Thread Derek Catanzaro
I have been having issues with mail backing up on and off over the past week. I am using MailScanner with SpamAssassin. This morning for example, I had roughly 500 messages waiting in /var/spool/mqueue.in and that number had increased to about 2200 in less than an hour. I then tell

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread Bill Randle
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:07 +0200, Micke Andersson wrote: znapper wrote: Big question is, how do I do this? The server is set up to relay all mail adressed to exhange-configured-domain.com and discard anything else. I've tried to add the spamtrap user and tried to send mail to this user,

Re: Mail Backing up while SpamAssassin is in Use

2006-10-09 Thread Martin Hepworth
Derek Catanzaro wrote: I have been having issues with mail backing up on and off over the past week. I am using MailScanner with SpamAssassin. This morning for example, I had roughly 500 messages waiting in /var/spool/mqueue.in and that number had increased to about 2200 in less than an

RE: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Evan Platt wrote: At 01:37 PM 10/6/2006, you wrote: :0fw: spamassassin.lock |spamd -L -c -s 512000 This should be: spamc -c -s 512000 Now it appears spamassassin isn't checking mail at all, as the mail isn't marked up at all. My cron entry upon bootup is:

Re: Mail Backing up while SpamAssassin is in Use

2006-10-09 Thread Matt Kettler
Derek Catanzaro wrote: I have been having issues with mail backing up on and off over the past week. I am using MailScanner with SpamAssassin. This morning for example, I had roughly 500 messages waiting in /var/spool/mqueue.in and that number had increased to about 2200 in less than an

RE: Problem with sa-learn --username

2006-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matt Kettler wrote: Rene Caspari wrote: Hello, I want to learn SPAM (and HAM) Mails for certain users, so I execute sa-learn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sa-learn --spam -u rene \ /var/spool/cyrus/mail/r/user/rene/SPAM/learnspam/9. But --debug-leve 1 says: [...] [2975]

Re: Mail Backing up while SpamAssassin is in Use

2006-10-09 Thread Derek Catanzaro
Matt Kettler wrote: Derek Catanzaro wrote: I have been having issues with mail backing up on and off over the past week. I am using MailScanner with SpamAssassin. This morning for example, I had roughly 500 messages waiting in /var/spool/mqueue.in and that number had increased to about

Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
Hello! I was very happy using SpamAssassin at my email server (Xeon 2.8GHz, 1.5 GB memory, Dual Ultra SCSI HD 73.4GB in RAID 1, Linux 2.4.33) The last few weeks I have noted (angry users calling me by phone) that the server is really slow. The loadav goes from 1.5 to 12.5; normally is about

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread znapper
Bill Randle wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:07 +0200, Micke Andersson wrote: znapper wrote: Big question is, how do I do this? [cut] You should NOT forward any mail from Exchange to some other recipient, since Exchange and Outlook will destroy a lot of the header information,

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems)
The last few weeks I have noted (angry users calling me by phone) that the server is really slow. Don't know for sure, but I suspect slower than usual Razor and/or DCC servers? --Rob McEwen

RE: spf: no suitable relay for spf use found

2006-10-09 Thread Email Lists
- - Angle brackets? - - spamassassin -D --lint 21 ilikedebug.logs - - Personally, I'd just read it and forget it... - - spamassassin -D --lint 21 | less - - - Daryl As a long time Linux admin, I felt the same way, yet when I piped it to more, it didn't work, hence my post to the list...

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems) wrote: The last few weeks I have noted (angry users calling me by phone) that the server is really slow. Don't know for sure, but I suspect slower than usual Razor and/or DCC servers? I am just running Pyzor. BR, Matias.

RE: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Email Lists
- - I was very happy using SpamAssassin at my email server (Xeon 2.8GHz, - 1.5 GB memory, Dual Ultra SCSI HD 73.4GB in RAID 1, Linux 2.4.33) - - The last few weeks I have noted (angry users calling me by phone) - that the server is really slow. The loadav goes from 1.5 to 12.5; - normally is

RE: spf: no suitable relay for spf use found

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel T. Staal
On Mon, October 9, 2006 11:49 am, Email Lists said: - - Angle brackets? - - spamassassin -D --lint 21 ilikedebug.logs - - Personally, I'd just read it and forget it... - - spamassassin -D --lint 21 | less - - - Daryl As a long time Linux admin, I felt the same way, yet when I piped

RE: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: Hello! I was very happy using SpamAssassin at my email server (Xeon 2.8GHz, 1.5 GB memory, Dual Ultra SCSI HD 73.4GB in RAID 1, Linux 2.4.33) The last few weeks I have noted (angry users calling me by phone) that the server is really slow. The loadav goes from

RE: spf: no suitable relay for spf use found

2006-10-09 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Email Lists wrote: - - Angle brackets? - - spamassassin -D --lint 21 ilikedebug.logs - - Personally, I'd just read it and forget it... - - spamassassin -D --lint 21 | less - - - Daryl As a long time Linux admin, I felt the same way, yet when I piped it to more,

local.cf

2006-10-09 Thread Stas Khromoy
hey folks is there a way to take the list of 'whitelist_from' from local.cf and have local.cf reference the new file ?

RE: local.cf

2006-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Stas Khromoy wrote: is there a way to take the list of 'whitelist_from' from local.cf and have local.cf reference the new file ? You can take all of the whitelist_from commands and put them in a separate .cf file. SA automatically reads all of the .cf files in the directory. -- Bowie

Re: local.cf

2006-10-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:11:39PM -0400, Stas Khromoy wrote: hey folks is there a way to take the list of 'whitelist_from' from local.cf and have local.cf reference the new file ? Why not just put them in a separate file, say, whitelist.cf? No need to reference it in local.cf. All

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Craig Baird
I have an old Redhat box that started doing this a while back. After a lot of hair pulling, I finally figured out that the problem was related to spam floods, but seemed to be caused by the syslog daemon. I shut down syslogd for a few days, and the problem went away completely. After those few

Re: RE: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread Evan Platt
From: Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: 2 different scores? Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:13:11 -0400 I'm not familiar with the procmail syntax. When you do |program, what is the expected output of the command? If it expects to get the filtered email

spamassassin -D --lint

2006-10-09 Thread Email Lists
When running spamassassin -D --lint spamconfdebug.txt 21 what obvious things will jump out at someone if there is a problem? There is quite a bit of output stuff to go through regardless and im wondering if there are any standard texts we should grep for in the outputfile Thanks - rh --

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Chris St. Pierre
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Craig Baird wrote: I have an old Redhat box that started doing this a while back. After a lot of hair pulling, I finally figured out that the problem was related to spam floods, but seemed to be caused by the syslog daemon. That's actually not a bad suggestion; the OP

sa-learn: option to delete learn-mails

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Seichter
Hello, Is there a way to delete all learned mails out of a mbox folder? I want to add a standard folder on my IMAP server which is called spam_learn and the user (at the moment only myself) can move messages to this folder in his mailreader. A cronjob now check this folder and learns what is

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: Hello! I was very happy using SpamAssassin at my email server (Xeon 2.8GHz, 1.5 GB memory, Dual Ultra SCSI HD 73.4GB in RAID 1, Linux 2.4.33) There are only 2500 email boxes at the server. The server is running: Sendmail, SpamAssassin 3.1.5

Re: spamassassin -D --lint

2006-10-09 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Email Lists wrote: When running spamassassin -D --lint spamconfdebug.txt 21 what obvious things will jump out at someone if there is a problem? There is quite a bit of output stuff to go through regardless and im wondering if there are any standard texts we should

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 01:09 PM 10.9.2006 -0500, David B Funk wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: Hello! I was very happy using SpamAssassin at my email server (Xeon 2.8GHz, 1.5 GB memory, Dual Ultra SCSI HD 73.4GB in RAID 1, Linux 2.4.33) There are only 2500 email boxes at the server. The

Re: sa-learn: option to delete learn-mails

2006-10-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 08:08:59PM +0200, Daniel Seichter wrote: Hello, Is there a way to delete all learned mails out of a mbox folder? I want to add a standard folder on my IMAP server which is called spam_learn and the user (at the moment only myself) can move messages to this folder in

RE: RE: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Evan Platt wrote: From: Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not familiar with the procmail syntax. When you do |program, what is the expected output of the command? If it expects to get the filtered email back from the program, you will need to leave off the '-c' like this:

RE: sa-learn: option to delete learn-mails

2006-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Daniel Seichter wrote: Hello, Is there a way to delete all learned mails out of a mbox folder? I want to add a standard folder on my IMAP server which is called spam_learn and the user (at the moment only myself) can move messages to this folder in his mailreader. A cronjob now check this

RE: RE: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:30 AM 10/9/2006, you wrote: spamc is a small executable that hands off the message to spamd for processing. Ahh ok. You can run it from the command line the same way you do with spamassassin. spamc inputfile outputfile You also might want to check the process that is running

RE: RE: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Evan Platt wrote: At 11:30 AM 10/9/2006, you wrote: spamc is a small executable that hands off the message to spamd for processing. Ahh ok. You can run it from the command line the same way you do with spamassassin. spamc inputfile outputfile You also might want

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
Email Lists wrote: - [...] - Looks to me that SpamAssassin is taking to long to process the - incoming emails, and as result, it is slowing down the server, and - finally causing the DoS. [...] The first thing to do is relieve some of the load. To do this we need better mail gate

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Chris St. Pierre
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: Thanks Robert, I have requested more memory and an additional processor for the server, hope they give me something... I will be working with the Greylisting and validrcptto, and let you know how it goes. Thanks again, BR, Matias. You might

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
Bowie Bailey wrote: Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: [...] Looks to me that SpamAssassin is taking to long to process the incoming emails, and as result, it is slowing down the server, and finally causing the DoS. [...] The message about increasing the child processes is frequently misleading.

AW: sa-learn: option to delete learn-mails

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Seichter
Hello Bob, To be completely squeaky clean you would lock the mailbox, run sa-learn, zero out the spam_learn file, and then unlock it. I did a search for lock mailbox linux and this turned up: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/lockmail.1.html which appears to be the right tool for

Re: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
Chris St. Pierre wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Craig Baird wrote: I have an old Redhat box that started doing this a while back. After a lot of hair pulling, I finally figured out that the problem was related to spam floods, but seemed to be caused by the syslog daemon. That's actually not

RE: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: [...] Looks to me that SpamAssassin is taking to long to process the incoming emails, and as result, it is slowing down the server, and finally causing the DoS. [...] The message about increasing the

RE: RE: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread Evan Platt
At 12:58 PM 10/9/2006, you wrote: Network tests are definitely missing. There are two ways to turn off network tests. The first is with the '-L' option to spamd. The second is with config options in local.cf. Using the config options should affect both spamd and spamassassin, so based on

Re: sa-learn: option to delete learn-mails

2006-10-09 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bob McClure Jr wrote: Why not add ; $myuser/spam_learn $myuser/spam_learn would be better. means only execute if the preceding step completed successfully. That way if sa-learn fails you won't delete an unlearned mailbox. -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746

Re: sa-learn: option to delete learn-mails

2006-10-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:38:41PM -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bob McClure Jr wrote: Why not add ; $myuser/spam_learn $myuser/spam_learn would be better. means only execute if the preceding step completed successfully. That way if sa-learn fails you won't delete

RE: Mail server performance problems. Possible SA slow down?

2006-10-09 Thread Email Lists
- - I have requested more memory and an additional processor for the server, - hope they give me something... - - I will be working with the Greylisting and validrcptto, and let you know - how it goes. - - Thanks again, - - BR, - Matias. Welcome. :-) Remember validrcptto is a qmail patch...

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread Gary V
I will look into it asap, the scripts will come in handy as our filter needs it desperately. Kind regards Ole-H If you are only catching 10% of spam, fixing Bayes will help, but it is also very important to find out what else is wrong. Your Bayes may have become polluted with low scoring

Re: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread jdow
From: Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Evan Platt wrote: At 01:37 PM 10/6/2006, you wrote: :0fw: spamassassin.lock |spamd -L -c -s 512000 This should be: spamc -c -s 512000 Now it appears spamassassin isn't checking mail at all, as the mail isn't marked up at all. My

Re: Mail Backing up while SpamAssassin is in Use

2006-10-09 Thread jdow
From: Derek Catanzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Kettler wrote: Derek Catanzaro wrote: I have been having issues with mail backing up on and off over the past week. I am using MailScanner with SpamAssassin. This morning for example, I had roughly 500 messages waiting in /var/spool/mqueue.in

Re: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread Evan Platt
At 04:07 PM 10/9/2006, you wrote: What the censored are you running spamd from cron for? It is usually started from your init sequence and runs as a daemon. I changed that earlier. My mac seems to be ignoring the /Library/StartupItems. spamd -d -c -m3 -Hi --max-conn-per-child=15 is the

Re: 2 different scores?

2006-10-09 Thread jdow
From: Evan Platt [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 04:07 PM 10/9/2006, you wrote: What the censored are you running spamd from cron for? It is usually started from your init sequence and runs as a daemon. I changed that earlier. My mac seems to be ignoring the /Library/StartupItems. spamd -d -c -m3

Bayes Poisoning

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Perkel
I've been having problem with bayes as of late with it marming nonspam as spam and spam as nonspam. I think it's the damn gif file spam causing it. Anyone else having this problem? Any solutions?

Spamd: forkscaling issue?

2006-10-09 Thread Larry Rosenman
3.1.6 on FreeBSD: Oct 9 12:54:42 lists spamd[46015]: prefork: ordered child to accept, but child reported state '1' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScalin g.pm line 450. Any ideas on what this means? Previous prefork status: Oct 9 12:54:39 lists

Need help with several things in SA

2006-10-09 Thread Steve Lake
Ok, I've got several pesky problems that won't go away and I need some help. On some emails it automatically flags some as ham and says autolearn=ham and others that say autolearn=no. I'm guessing that the autolearn feature isn't always working. Is there a way I can completely turn

Re: Spamd: forkscaling issue?

2006-10-09 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Larry Rosenman wrote: 3.1.6 on FreeBSD: Oct 9 12:54:42 lists spamd[46015]: prefork: ordered child to accept, but child reported state '1' at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScalin g.pm line 450. Any ideas on what this means? Previous prefork status: Oct 9

RE: Spamd: forkscaling issue?

2006-10-09 Thread Larry Rosenman
I've placed a comment in 4594. Thanks for the pointer, Daryl! -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893

Re: Need help with several things in SA

2006-10-09 Thread Matt Kettler
Steve Lake wrote: Ok, I've got several pesky problems that won't go away and I need some help. On some emails it automatically flags some as ham and says autolearn=ham and others that say autolearn=no. I'm guessing that the autolearn feature isn't always working. Is there a way I

Re: Mail Backing up while SpamAssassin is in Use

2006-10-09 Thread Matt Kettler
jdow wrote: From: Derek Catanzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Kettler wrote: Derek Catanzaro wrote: I have been having issues with mail backing up on and off over the past week. I am using MailScanner with SpamAssassin. This morning for example, I had roughly 500 messages waiting in