spamassasin --lint

2006-11-09 Thread flwong
hi i new here.. can anyone know after i adding new domain for whitelist, how can i me it active immediately with out stop and start the service. because when restart , some spam mail already pass throught... what is the differet betweent service spamassassin restart and service

RE: sa-update DNS not updated (was: Block wrote: spams)

2006-11-09 Thread Randal, Phil
It looks like DNS is a few versions behind, alas. What I'd love to see is an RSS feed listing the latest sa-update releases. Or at least an update version history somehwere easy to find in the SA web pages. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK

Re: spamassasin --lint

2006-11-09 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:43:12 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i new here.. can anyone know after i adding new domain for whitelist, how can i me it active immediately with out stop and start the service. because when restart , some spam mail already pass throught... what is the differet

Re: Problem with spamd

2006-11-09 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 09.11.2006 um 02:10 schrieb Daryl C. W. O'Shea: Charlie Clark wrote: Looks like I'm on top of the resources problem but I am getting 421 delivery errors even though the e-mails are coming through. This looks very similar to bug 3828 (which is Spamassassin + Exim). Except this bug

Re: R: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread Graham Murray
Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Rose, Bobby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The last time I checked, the most common reason for spamcop lists is due to messages being sent to their spam traps. Which means they registered to the list: this list mandates a double opt-in to

Re: Using sa-learn on separate systems?

2006-11-09 Thread Federico Giannici
Rick Macdougall wrote: Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a slight problem.. I thought I'd finally start using sa-learn to train the Bayes, the catch is that I have Cyrus and its mailboxes on another server.. I transport the mail via LMTP to Cyrus. So, is there a smooth way to use sa-learn on

Re: Using sa-learn on separate systems?

2006-11-09 Thread Anders Norrbring
Federico Giannici skrev: Rick Macdougall wrote: Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a slight problem.. I thought I'd finally start using sa-learn to train the Bayes, the catch is that I have Cyrus and its mailboxes on another server.. I transport the mail via LMTP to Cyrus. So, is there a smooth

Re: Using sa-learn on separate systems?

2006-11-09 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:36:08 +0100, Federico Giannici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Macdougall wrote: Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a slight problem.. I thought I'd finally start using sa-learn to train the Bayes, the catch is that I have Cyrus and its mailboxes on another server.. I

RE: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread MennovB
Chris Santerre wrote: This isn't the best idea for a large ISP, but for companies I see no problem rejecting on RBLs when you have a trained administrator. I agree! Not that I use spamcop as a blacklist, maybe it's better now but I've seen them blocking mailservers from aol, hotmail and

Re: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread D . J .
Blocking mail base soley on the IP address (whether because it is a dynamic address or has at some time in the past sent a mail to a spamtrap) is akin to shooting the postman because yesterday you received an advertisement. You obviously don't handle a lot of mail volume. If I had to scan every

Re: SA-STATS on BSD

2006-11-09 Thread Odhiambo WASHINGTON
* On 08/11/06 19:15 -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: | Hi everyone, | | I've tried on apache and SARE and bsd sites to find the documentation on | installing sa-stats , I have found the the actual sa-stats.pl but I dont | know how to go about installing it on BSD any guidance would be

Re: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread Jim Maul
D.J. wrote: Blocking mail base soley on the IP address (whether because it is a dynamic address or has at some time in the past sent a mail to a spamtrap) is akin to shooting the postman because yesterday you received an advertisement. You obviously don't handle a lot of mail

Re: sa-update DNS not updated (was: Block wrote: spams)

2006-11-09 Thread Justin Mason
Kenneth Porter writes: --On Friday, November 03, 2006 5:43 PM + Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's a rule that matches them in 3.1.x sa-update, fwiw. I don't see it either. What's the name of the rule? for what it's worth, it's 'RCVD_FORGED_WROTE'. Dates on files in

RE: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread Randal, Phil
As someone has probably already pointed out... admins use these lists because they trust their accuracy. If they receive too many complaints (as we did with a particular DNSBL) you stop blocking on that list and move to only scoring. No, you move on to greylisting based on the less

Re: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread MennovB
Jim Maul wrote: I think pretty much everyone understand WHY people use these BLs. This is not the point. The point is, its not a very good solution. Why I have to use RBL's at the MTA level is because many providers still allow direct SMTP. So all the botnets can send their garbage

RE: SA-STATS on BSD

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: Odhiambo WASHINGTON [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:30 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SA-STATS on BSD * On 08/11/06 19:15 -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: | Hi everyone, | | I've tried on

Re: SA and Catch-All

2006-11-09 Thread itdelany
Anyone? Any Clue? Thanks itdelany wrote: Hi :) My setup is Postfix-SpamAssassin-Amavis. I noticed this behavior: If i receive spam messages to unknown users at my site, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mail is sent to quarantine if I send a regular email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i

FuzzyOcr : pipe errors

2006-11-09 Thread Pascal Maes
hello, Sometimes, I get the following errors : [2006-11-09 17:42:54] Unexpected error in pipe to external programs. Please check that all helper programs are installed and in the correct path. (Pipe Command /usr/bin/giftopnm -, Pipe exit code 139

Re: SA and Catch-All

2006-11-09 Thread Kelson
itdelany wrote: Anyone? Any Clue? ... Is the content filter happening before postfix MTA can check if the recipient exists ? You're asking in the wrong place. SpamAssassin doesn't determine when it's run. Amavis makes that decision. And Postfix determines when Amavis runs. The Amavis

Re: Problem with spamd

2006-11-09 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Charlie Clark wrote: Am 09.11.2006 um 02:10 schrieb Daryl C. W. O'Shea: Charlie Clark wrote: Looks like I'm on top of the resources problem but I am getting 421 delivery errors even though the e-mails are coming through. This looks very similar to bug 3828 (which is Spamassassin + Exim).

Re: sa-update DNS not updated (was: Block wrote: spams)

2006-11-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:22:12PM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Theo, what's the procedure to push out 3.1.x updates? I posted this a while ago: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualRuleUpdates It's even linked in from the Development Information link. :)

Re: sa-update DNS not updated (was: Block wrote: spams)

2006-11-09 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:22:12PM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Theo, what's the procedure to push out 3.1.x updates? I posted this a while ago: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualRuleUpdates It's even linked in from the Development Information link. :)

RE: FuzzyOcr : pipe errors

2006-11-09 Thread mail
I have a lot of those af well, but compared to the amount of hits I have on FUZZY_OCR it's nothing. There is a new release of FuzzyOcr today - I will be taking a look at that very soon... maybe you should too? :) - Nicolai -Original Message- From: Pascal Maes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with spamd

2006-11-09 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 09.11.2006 um 19:27 schrieb Daryl C. W. O'Shea: If your one and only child is busy doing an expire it can't scan messages too. ah, so I could increase the number of children running to do this? The strange thing is these errors never occurred before last week and having just

Re: sa-update DNS not updated (was: Block wrote: spams)

2006-11-09 Thread Justin Mason
Daryl C. W. O'Shea writes: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:22:12PM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Theo, what's the procedure to push out 3.1.x updates? I posted this a while ago: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualRuleUpdates It's even linked in from

Re: spamd causing high load

2006-11-09 Thread Matt Kettler
K Anand wrote: Also, with that much mail coming in at the same time, there could be contention for bayes locks. You might try adding bayes_learn_to_journal 1 to your local.cf, and see if that helps. This will cause learning to be done into a journal file which periodically gets merged into

razor and dcc : high cpu load

2006-11-09 Thread Rejaine Monteiro
my system had a high cpu load with spamassassin with network tests , dcc + razor and fuzzy_ocr because off this, we are considering disable razor or dcc from tests... but we have doubt about which is better: disable razor or dcc? any recomendations??

Re: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:55 -0800, Derek Harding wrote: Anyone dumb enough to block outright on the spamcop BL deserves whatever they don't get. Sorry for the delay. I need to apologise for the short temperedness of my response. I should have tempered my response and been more helpful. My

Re: Problem with spamd

2006-11-09 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Charlie Clark wrote: Am 09.11.2006 um 19:27 schrieb Daryl C. W. O'Shea: If your one and only child is busy doing an expire it can't scan messages too. ah, so I could increase the number of children running to do this? You could, running at least 2 children if you've got the resources to

RE: razor and dcc : high cpu load

2006-11-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Rejaine Monteiro wrote: my system had a high cpu load with spamassassin with network tests , dcc + razor and fuzzy_ocr because off this, we are considering disable razor or dcc from tests... but we have doubt about which is better: disable razor or dcc? any recomendations?? If the

Re: Problem with spamd

2006-11-09 Thread Charlie Clark
Am 09.11.2006 um 20:35 schrieb Daryl C. W. O'Shea: Charlie Clark wrote: Am 09.11.2006 um 19:27 schrieb Daryl C. W. O'Shea: If your one and only child is busy doing an expire it can't scan messages too. ah, so I could increase the number of children running to do this? You could,

R: razor and dcc : high cpu load

2006-11-09 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
my system had a high cpu load with spamassassin with network tests , dcc + razor and fuzzy_ocr because off this, we are considering disable razor or dcc from tests... but we have doubt about which is better: disable razor or dcc? Isn't it better to disable fuzzy, instead? Razor and DCC

RE: razor and dcc : high cpu load

2006-11-09 Thread Jason Little
We had that problem in the past until we started using the access list in sendmail to filter out servers that were just hitting us with spam all the time. I still go through our logs daily and add to it as needed. The reduction in load on the server was very dramatic. Since our server is a

Re: FuzzyOcr : pipe errors

2006-11-09 Thread Krys Wallbank
I was getting a lot of those too until I installed the libungif-tools RPM (RedHat 9 and RedHat EL 3) -Original Message- From: Pascal Maes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9. november 2006 18:32 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: FuzzyOcr : pipe errors hello, Sometimes, I get

extra line-break after upgrade

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Merchant
i just upgraded spamassassin 3.1.0 to 3.1.7 ( Rh9 ) and seem to be getting an extra line-break in the Content-Type header. outlook apparently sees the semi-colon as a LF and doesn't render the email correctly. evolution sees it as a semi colon and every- thing works fine. always in the

Re: extra line-break after upgrade

2006-11-09 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Mark Merchant wrote: i just upgraded spamassassin 3.1.0 to 3.1.7 ( Rh9 ) and seem to be getting an extra line-break in the Content-Type header. outlook apparently sees the semi-colon as a LF and doesn't render the email correctly. evolution sees it as a semi colon and every- thing works fine.

Re: razor and dcc : high cpu load

2006-11-09 Thread Ollie Acheson
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:57:23PM -0500, Jason Little wrote: We had that problem in the past until we started using the access list in sendmail to filter out servers that were just hitting us with spam all the time. I still go through our logs daily and add to it as needed. The reduction

MAILLOG

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I hope I don't get bashed as it seems like this should be common knowledge, but with the significant increase in spam I need to PROVE to management that SA is still doing a good job- (and that I'm doing mine) I see that spamstats as well as sa-stats both read/process/parse/examine only maillog

RE: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Ingraham
Hello, Why BAYES_99 have only the score 3.5 while 5.0 is required to identify a mail as spam? I think this rule should have a score about 5.1 (or anything greater than 5.0). Because it's baye_99 not bayes_100. ie: it's not 100% accurate. FWIW, I increased my bayes 95 and 99 rules

Re: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Steve Ingraham wrote: I have already decreased the Bayes_50_Body rule from 5.0 to 2.5. I don't want to decrease the scores with every Bayes rule because I think I will start seeing some true spam delivered because it did not score high. Any ideas? Don't screw with the bayes scoring that

Re: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 09 November 2006 22:14, Steve Ingraham took the opportunity to say: Ok, I have a question on these Bayes rules related to false positives. It appears that many of my users are having legitimate emails scored in the 8 to 9 range. These emails are scoring high basically because

RE: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Ingraham
On Thursday 09 November 2006 22:14, Steve Ingraham took the opportunity to say: Ok, I have a question on these Bayes rules related to false positives. It appears that many of my users are having legitimate emails scored in the 8 to 9 range. These emails are scoring high basically because

Re: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Jon Trulson
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Steve Ingraham wrote: I have already decreased the Bayes_50_Body rule from 5.0 to 2.5. I don't want to decrease the scores with every Bayes rule because I think I will start seeing some true spam delivered because it did not score high. Any

Re: MAILLOG

2006-11-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I hope I don't get bashed as it seems like this should be common knowledge, but with the significant increase in spam I need to PROVE to management that SA is still doing a good job- (and that I'm doing mine) Turn it off for an hour? g If you divert spam on a

ruleset question (sa-update and custom rulesets)

2006-11-09 Thread Simon
Hi All, First off, running SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 (backports.org), running on Perl version 5.8.4 thru amavisd-new-2.4 on debian sarge. I have two directories where there are SA rulesets: /usr/share/spamassassin/ /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003/updates_spamassassin_org/ These contain files

Re: ruleset question (sa-update and custom rulesets)

2006-11-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:31:05AM +1300, Simon wrote: - How do i confirm that SA is using the rulesets from sa-update? spamassassin --lint -D - If i want to put in some custom ones... where is the best to do this? /etc/mail/spamassassin - Do i put any custom stuff in one file and get it to

Re: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Steve Ingraham wrote: I have already decreased the Bayes_50_Body rule from 5.0 to 2.5. I don't want to decrease the scores with every Bayes rule because I think I will start seeing some true spam delivered because it did not score high. Any ideas? Daryl wrote: Don't screw with the bayes

Re: ruleset question (sa-update and custom rulesets)

2006-11-09 Thread Simon
On 11/10/06, Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:31:05AM +1300, Simon wrote: - How do i confirm that SA is using the rulesets from sa-update? spamassassin --lint -D - If i want to put in some custom ones... where is the best to do this? /etc/mail/spamassassin

Postfix Add Header Question

2006-11-09 Thread Marc Perkel
I know some of you out there use Postfix and I have a quick question that is a little off topic so I will apologize in advance and beg forgiveness. I was just wondering how in Postfix that someone could add a header indicating the IP address of the connecting host. I'm asking for someone I'm

RE: MAILLOG

2006-11-09 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kris Deugau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Phishing reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bouncing

2006-11-09 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Chris wrote: Does anyone besides myself report phishing to them? Off and on for the past four or five months reports to them bounce back, some with odd reasons, such as the below: A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a

Re: Phishing reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bouncing

2006-11-09 Thread Chris
On Thursday 09 November 2006 7:51 pm, John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Chris wrote: Does anyone besides myself report phishing to them? Off and on for the past four or five months reports to them bounce back, some with odd reasons, such as the below: This one has me pretty

retraining spamassassin when using Mozilla mail box

2006-11-09 Thread martin
Dear all, We will use Mozilla mail/Junk box to training the spamassassin daily, but found that when fetch some mis-ham-ed emails to retrain spamassasin (useing ---forget ), spamassassin will show 0 messages learned (from N messages). Is it meaned that the spamassassin can't find related email

Re: FuzzyOcr : pipe errors

2006-11-09 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Pascal Maes wrote: hello, Sometimes, I get the following errors : [2006-11-09 17:42:54] Unexpected error in pipe to external programs. Please check that all helper programs are installed and in the correct path. (Pipe

Re: spamd causing high load

2006-11-09 Thread K Anand
- Original Message - From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, with that much mail coming in at the same time, there could be contention for bayes locks. You might try adding bayes_learn_to_journal 1 to your local.cf, and see if that helps. This will cause learning to be done into

Re: ruleset question (sa-update and custom rulesets)

2006-11-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:21:12PM +1300, Simon wrote: You can put it in any files you want. /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf is read last. Cool - so to build a custom rule to block emails with a subject: It's Johnny :) [...] I create a file /etc/mail/spamassassin/custom_sa_rules

Re: ruleset question (sa-update and custom rulesets)

2006-11-09 Thread Simon
On 11/10/06, Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:21:12PM +1300, Simon wrote: You can put it in any files you want. /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.cf is read last. Cool - so to build a custom rule to block emails with a subject: It's Johnny :) [...] I create a

Re: Rule for raw HTML

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Lake
At 07:05 PM 11/8/2006 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: My manufacturing company is very picky about accepting physical inputs from vendors. We should be equally picky about what we accept from them in email. Oh, I'll fully agree with that. The problem isn't doing it the right way. The

Re: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Kenny
On 11/9/06, Jim Maul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think pretty much everyone understand WHY people use these BLs.Thisis not the point.The point is, its not a very good solution.Is it even a solution? I guess that depends o nwhat the problem is. If the problem is the volume of mail passing through

Someone explain sa-update to me

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Lake
Judging from the replies on this list, it's a good idea to run sa-update about once a week. But I don'tk now how. I looked at the man file, but that doesn't tell me what options I need for a standard update. Can anyone help me? Steven Lake Owner/Technical Writer Raiden's Realm

Re: Conditional Whitelisting?

2006-11-09 Thread Henry Kwan
Kelson kelson at speed.net writes: Henry Kwan wrote: Is there a way to conditionally whitelist with SPF? That is, I want all addresses from a certain domain to be whitelisted only if it passes SPF. whitelist_from_spf does exactly what you need. I believe there's one for DomainKeys

Re: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, November 3, 2006, 10:45:42 AM, PĂ©ntek Imre wrote: Jim Maul wrote: Are you using network tests, razor, surbl, add on rules from sare, etc? I can just guess, as I don't know how to get to be sure. I can find several spams marked with: RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

Re: Relay Checker plugin v0.2

2006-11-09 Thread Patrick Sneyers
I get this warning: plugin: failed to create instance of plugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayChecker: Can't locate object method new via package Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayChecker at (eval 26) line 1. (This is my own build of SA 3.1.7 on Max OS X Server 10.4 ppc) It seems to