Re: DNS timeout problem

2007-07-06 Thread SM
Hi Tony, At 15:01 06-07-2007, Tony Houghton wrote: I just use the one built in to my ADSL router; I don't know whether it caches. The one it forwards to at my ISP is probably bind. The DNS server on your ADSL router is built for residential usage. If you are going to do a lot of DNS queries,

Re: DNS timeout problem

2007-07-06 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James D. Rallo wrote: > Are you running a local dns caching server? I just use the one built in to my ADSL router; I don't know whether it caches. The one it forwards to at my ISP is probably bind. > Do manual queries to rbls take a long time? (Hint: Don't run the query >

Re: Bayes suddenly scoring everything at 0

2007-07-06 Thread omehegan
Any other thoughts on this? I got another 5-6 spams this morning that were scored 0 by Bayes. It's dragging down the hits from other rules! omehegan wrote: > > I'm running SA 3.2.1 with Postfix, routing mail to it through spamd/spamc. > I have a site-wide Bayesian database that I trained some t

RE: DNS timeout problem

2007-07-06 Thread James D. Rallo
Are you running a local dns caching server? Do manual queries to rbls take a long time? (Hint: Don't run the query again, as it may be cached up stream and may give a fast result.) You didn't attach your conf, but you may also want to set dns_available yes in your local.cf to save the dns check.

DNS timeout problem

2007-07-06 Thread Tony Houghton
I'm having a problem with spamassassin taking ages due to DNS lookups timing out. I could make the timeout shorter, but I'd rather try to find out what it's failing on and stop it trying to do those lookups. I've made a log of its debugging output (attached) but I don't understand it well enough to

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread guenther
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 20:15 +0200, Dirk Bonengel wrote: > guenther schrieb: > > Unfortunately, the example iXhash.cf of (current) version 1.0 is rather > > scarce when it comes to the definitions. I'd wish for these to become as > > informative again as they used to be. FWIW, these verbose descript

Microsoft Antigen Spam Manager

2007-07-06 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
I have been asked to look into Microsoft Antigen Spam Manager (and MS Forefront for Exchange Server). Does anybody have any information (or can point me to independent reviews) as to how good this product is and how it compares with SpamAssassin? Thanks ...

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread Dirk Bonengel
guenther schrieb: Unfortunately, the example iXhash.cf of (current) version 1.0 is rather scarce when it comes to the definitions. I'd wish for these to become as informative again as they used to be. FWIW, these verbose descriptions and comments have been the reason for me to pick 2 out of 3 lis

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Per Jessen schrieb: I wasn't actually making any assumptions about the quality or lack of it, that would not make any sense. I was really only concerned with the trust issue, which I still say is paramount when it comes to spam. And I don't believe you can establish trust by withholding or hidi

Re: ldap: failed to load user scores from LDAP server

2007-07-06 Thread Philip S. Hempel
> I have been getting this error for some time now and have been trying to > find the root cause of it. > > > spamd[2681]: ldap: failed to load user scores from LDAP server, ignored > (Can't locate object method "schema" via package "URI::ldap" at > /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/LDAP.pm l

RE: FORGED_AOL_TAGS hitting on real AOL mail

2007-07-06 Thread Bret Miller
> > I'm starting to see a lot of AOL mail getting pushed into the > > review folder (above 4.0 score) with the FORGED_AOL_TAGS rule > > hitting, and apparently on real AOL e-mail. At least the > > e-mails were SPF_PASS and received from an AOL server... > > Add this to local.cf, all fixed: > > sco

Spamd suse script

2007-07-06 Thread carnold5
Does anyone have a spamd script for suse/SLES9 that they would be willing to share? I have tried the scripts in the spamd folder and cn not get these to work. I just need a basic script (like the one with 3.1). You could email it to me or upload to my site. Thanks Chris begin:vcard n:Arnold;Chris

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread Per Jessen
Rob McEwen wrote: > But I think that my point > was more that **results** matter **more** and one's lack of knowing > the details about how a list works doesn't impact that list's quality. OK, that is true of course. The knowledge of the details does not affect the quality. > It is your right to

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Per Jessen wrote: guenther wrote: Dirk, I don't think this really puts an end to this discussion, and I believe what Per actually was wondering about are some precise statements about each of the iXhash lists sources. At the very least, that is what I am wondering about. ;) That is

dccifd and spamassassin

2007-07-06 Thread Stefan Jakobs
Hello list, I'm using Spamassassin 3.1.8 with amavisd-new 2.3.3 and postfix 2.4.3 on a mailrelay. Some days ago I installed a new version of DCC. And saw in the installation instructions that I should enable dccifd if I use spamassassin. So I did. Now I get the following errors in my logs: Jul

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread Rob McEwen
Per Jessen said: > I beg to differ. I have to have _some_ idea about the data I'm using > for my filtering. Personally, I can't use your "suck it and see" > approach. Hey, there is nothing wrong with your curiosity and I definitely understand that how a list gets its data and what steps it tak

Re: 10_default_prefs.cf file in 3.2.x branch

2007-07-06 Thread Richard Frovarp
Matt Kettler wrote: Note: for this to work 10_default_prefs.cf MUST NOT be in your /etc/mail/spamassassin. It belongs in /usr/share/spamassassin, as do ALL the rulefiles that come with SA. Or in /var/lib/spamassassin/... after running sa-update

Re: rewriting header so I get a blind copy of spam

2007-07-06 Thread Ken A
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Jul 6, 2007, at 08:03, Lina, Patrick wrote: Is there some way for SA to rewrite the header of mail with a 15+ score so I get a copy (Bcc:) of those emails? How about doing it the other way around? Set up postfix's always_bcc to send a copy of all messages to a speci

Re: rewriting header so I get a blind copy of spam

2007-07-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 6, 2007, at 08:03, Lina, Patrick wrote: Is there some way for SA to rewrite the header of mail with a 15+ score so I get a copy (Bcc:) of those emails? How about doing it the other way around? Set up postfix's always_bcc to send a copy of all messages to a special account, then run

Re: stock spam

2007-07-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 6, 2007, at 05:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just out of curiosity: would the codes WKN or ISIN (in the same mail) make any sense, other than in the context of stocks? http://www.google.com/search?q=ISIN+WKN Results 1 - 10 of about 2,540,000 for ISIN WKN. (0.04 seconds) Looks like Ger

Re: SPAM

2007-07-06 Thread Peter Mikeska (MiKi)
Hello Tarak, Friday, July 6, 2007, 12:25:34 PM, you wrote: > hi all, > again i'm posting this issue . > i am facing a serious problem regarding SPAM. i have spamassassin and > rblsmtpd then also spam mails are > going to user's inbox without tag and to postmaster's inbox with tag >

Re: rewriting header so I get a blind copy of spam

2007-07-06 Thread Matt Kettler
Lina, Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new user to this mailinglist and beginning SA learner. > We have a site-wide postfix/spamassassin server, which tags > spam and sends it to our internal Exchange server. > Currently I'd like to train our bayes database with spam/ham > but don't have a sufficient

rewriting header so I get a blind copy of spam

2007-07-06 Thread Lina, Patrick
Hi, I'm a new user to this mailinglist and beginning SA learner. We have a site-wide postfix/spamassassin server, which tags spam and sends it to our internal Exchange server. Currently I'd like to train our bayes database with spam/ham but don't have a sufficient recent supply of either. I'd lik

Re: What is the spam filtering for windows

2007-07-06 Thread François Rousseau
Just becareful with this solution, the ESA folder will grow relativly fast but it"s work fine. François Rousseau 2007/7/6, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 at 14:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: > Hi > > I am working with MS Exchange 2003 on windows 2003. What is the

Re: SPAM

2007-07-06 Thread Zoran Kikic
once marked, sieve can handle that. Tarak Ranjan schrieb: hi all, again i'm posting this issue . i am facing a serious problem regarding SPAM. i have spamassassin and rblsmtpd then also spam mails are going to user's inbox without tag and to postmaster's inbox with tag ***LOW SPAM*

Re: What is the spam filtering for windows

2007-07-06 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 at 14:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hi I am working with MS Exchange 2003 on windows 2003. What is the filtering software for spam assassin on windows? I've never used it. However, I've seen referrences to it a number of times in the past: http://www.christ

Re: SPAM

2007-07-06 Thread Loren Wilton
going to user's inbox without tag and to postmaster's inbox with tag ***LOW SPAM*** per day 2000 to 3000. but i want to drop/delete those mails from the server side. how can i able to do that.. i'm using SpamAssassin version 3.1.4 +qmail please help me out Ask on the qmail list. SA only adds

SPAM

2007-07-06 Thread Tarak Ranjan
hi all, again i'm posting this issue . i am facing a serious problem regarding SPAM. i have spamassassin and rblsmtpd then also spam mails are going to user's inbox without tag and to postmaster's inbox with tag ***LOW SPAM*** per day 2000 to 3000. but i want to drop/delete those mail

when might RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP be wrong?

2007-07-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
Hi, folks, I've seen plenty of spam hit the RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP rule and just recently noticed that the default score is only 0.23. My first impression is that if they're sending from an unassigned address then I ought to just crank the score to 5 and be done with it. I guess there's a case w

when might RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP be wrong?

2007-07-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
Hi, folks, I've seen plenty of spam hit the RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP rule and just recently noticed that the default score is only 0.23. My first impression is that if they're sending from an unassigned address then I ought to just crank the score to 5 and be done with it. I guess there's a case w

Re: What is the spam filtering for windows

2007-07-06 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
You can try the Windows port of SA at http://sawin32.sourceforge.net/ (currently version 3.1.7). They have a POP3 proxy version called SAwin32 (designed for end-user mail clients), as well as a full-blown port of SpamAssassin plus sa-learn and sa-update. There's also a list of Windows SA-relate

stock spam

2007-07-06 Thread hamann . w
just out of curiosity: would the codes WKN or ISIN (in the same mail) make any sense, other than in the context of stocks? Wolfgang

What is the spam filtering for windows

2007-07-06 Thread Sg
Hi I am working with MS Exchange 2003 on windows 2003. What is the filtering software for spam assassin on windows? -- Geetha. S

Re: DELETE SPAM

2007-07-06 Thread hamann . w
Hi, if your spam filtering happens via qmail scanner, you might want to get latest version of that Otherwise, if your final delivery is via .qmail files, you might find the qtools package (from superscript.com or superscript.org) useful Wolfgang Hamann tarak ranjan wrote: hi all, i am f

RE: isolated W

2007-07-06 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Create a file with the email in it...(eg spam.txt) then run spamassassin over it... Spamassassin spam.txt -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 July 2007

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread Per Jessen
Rob McEwen wrote: > Why not just let the quality (or lack of quality) of the plugin speak > for itself. If anyone stars spotting FPs (even a tiny but) and these > trace back to Marc, THEN perhaps this would be a useful discussion. I beg to differ. I have to have _some_ idea about the data I'm us

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread Per Jessen
guenther wrote: > Dirk, I don't think this really puts an end to this discussion, and I > believe what Per actually was wondering about are some precise > statements about each of the iXhash lists sources. At the very least, > that is what I am wondering about. ;) That is also what I was hoping f

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2007-07-06 Thread Per Jessen
Dirk Bonengel wrote: > I know of one other contributor who explicitly wants to keep his > involvment a secret. And that's why I've chosen to mention no-one in > the first place. If you don't like that - don't use my lists. I think you should at least mention (somewhere) that the data is not all y