RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Robert - elists
> > > > It's not a solution. It's an attempt to get the toilet unplugged while the > plumber is on the way. The change should be reverted one the system is > properly configured. The main problem is all we really know is that the > MTA > is qmail. > Gary, U it doesn't unplug the toilet... y

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Phil Barnett
On Saturday 18 August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. The > machine is receiving 200,000 e-mail messages per day, courtesy of > Rumpelstiltskin attacks from thousands of different IP addresses each day, > and SpamAssassin appears to

RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Gary V
> I would think stopping these may prevent any mail from passing through > your > system. If you can't figure out how to reconfigure qmail to stop sending > mail to spamd then you might consider adding the --local argument to the > spamd daemon. This would make spamd run considerably faster (but i

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread SM
At 18:26 19-08-2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After stopping SpamAssassin messages like these are appearing in /var/log/maillog: Aug 19 21:23:19 erebus spamc[20803]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused Your question was about how to disable

RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Robert - elists
> > > > I would think stopping these may prevent any mail from passing through > your > system. If you can't figure out how to reconfigure qmail to stop sending > mail to spamd then you might consider adding the --local argument to the > spamd daemon. This would make spamd run considerably faster

RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Robert - elists
> > > Bingo! SpamAssassin and ClamAV are supposedly stopped. > Right, problem is, there is code or a codeset on your machine that requires they be present and activated or your server will barf on incoming messages. I sent a coupla posts last night to direct you towards looking for a file cal

RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Robert - elists
> > #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd stop > > > If anyone knows how to temporarily disable ClamAV too, I'd be > > ecstatic to learn how to do that too. > > Disable the daemon: > #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd stop > > Disable the sendmail milter: > #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-milter stop > > Y

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. I want to temporarily disable SpamAssassin to free up enough resources to let the mail queue clear. How do I do that? Further to the other comments, this page might be helpful: qmail + spamassassin + c

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Gary V
So, command_args="-d -r ${pidfile}" would be command_args="-d -r --local ${pidfile}" Sorry, should be: command_args="-d --local -r ${pidfile}" _ Find a local pizza place, movie theater, and more….then map the best route! http:/

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Gary V
Worried that I might be preventing all mail from passing through the system, I rebooted the server after disabling SpamAssassin and ClamAV, so they're running again. My remote mail queue is continuing to grow -- there are now 79,110 messages in the remote queue. ps -ax | grep -c qmail-remote

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread peter
Worried that I might be preventing all mail from passing through the system, I rebooted the server after disabling SpamAssassin and ClamAV, so they're running again. My remote mail queue is continuing to grow -- there are now 79,110 messages in the remote queue. ps -ax | grep -c qmail-remote

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Gary V
After stopping SpamAssassin messages like these are appearing in /var/log/maillog: Aug 19 21:23:19 erebus spamc[20803]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused Aug 19 21:23:20 erebus spamc[20853]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retr

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread peter
Darn. Okay. Thanks. - At 09:39 PM 8/19/2007, Dave Pooser wrote: >> After stopping SpamAssassin messages like these are appearing in >> /var/log/maillog: >> >> Aug 19 21:23:19 erebus spamc[20803]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 >> failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused >

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Dave Pooser
> After stopping SpamAssassin messages like these are appearing in > /var/log/maillog: > > Aug 19 21:23:19 erebus spamc[20803]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 > failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused So something is calling spamc, which is trying to connect to spamd and failing (n

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread peter
After stopping SpamAssassin messages like these are appearing in /var/log/maillog: Aug 19 21:23:19 erebus spamc[20803]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused Aug 19 21:23:20 erebus spamc[20853]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, ret

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread peter
Bingo! SpamAssassin and ClamAV are supposedly stopped. -- At 09:05 PM 8/19/2007, Dave Pooser wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ sa-spamd.sh stop >> bash: sa-spamd.sh: command not found >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ clamav-clamd.sh stop >> bash: clamav-clamd.sh

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Dave Pooser
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ sa-spamd.sh stop > bash: sa-spamd.sh: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ clamav-clamd.sh stop > bash: clamav-clamd.sh: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ > > How is it possible that the commands aren't fou

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread peter
Thanks, John, but now I'm totally baffled and suspicious that something's really screwed up. What do you make of this transcript: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/peter]$ cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/etc/rc.d]$ ls -la total 26 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Apr 5 2006 . dr

Re: Confused beyond belief ...

2007-08-19 Thread Loren Wilton
-- 100 USER_IN_BLACKLIST From: address is in the user's black-list 100 points. That's an explicit blacklist, not AWL. So the question is, which address is blacklisted? It says From address, but this could also be the envelope-sender, I th

Confused beyond belief ...

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Chapman
I really don't know what I did to mess things up here, but I'm running FC7, Sendmail, ClamAV and Spamassassin locally on my mail server. I thought I had everything working, but now, mail that I have previously considered absolutely safe is being flagged as spam, with indications that the sende

RE: Why'd VBounce not hit?

2007-08-19 Thread Dan Barker
Ah! The forest for the trees. I was so lost in the Received Headers, I completely missed the Subject. I'll dig through this some tomorrow, and maybe open up a bug report, if it needs a more flexible subject. Thanks for the new set of eyes! Dan -Original Message- From: Kai Schaetzl [mail

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-08-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. The > machine is receiving 200,000 e-mail messages per day, courtesy of > Rumpelstiltskin attacks from thousands of different IP addresses each > day, and SpamAssassin

Is this a crazy idea? Double scoring..

2007-08-19 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I've been looking at doing the Sitewide Bayes and Sitewide Bayes Feedback. My mail server averages a KNOWN spam every 2 seconds, so I'd like to feed it to a site wide database. THEN, would like to score mail completely by the users private one, but then RESCORE it against the site one.

RE: Upgrading from 3.1.4 to 3.2.3

2007-08-19 Thread Skip Brott
I imagine this depends a little on your distro. Some more details would be helpful. > From: Netdynamix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have SA 3.1.4 running on my server successfully. I want to > upgrade to > 3.2.3 for safety sake. > > I have NEVER upgraded SA before and am a little scared t

is there any processor-dependency to sa-compile?

2007-08-19 Thread snowcrash+sa
as long as my SA-version included rulesets enabled plugins are the SAME from arch/OS to arch/OS, is it OK to simply compile rules once somewhere, and push them to each box? or, *is* there some sort of processor/architecture, or other environmental, depdency that throws a wrench into the wo

Re: Headers: What do I block here?

2007-08-19 Thread Matt Kettler
dougp23 wrote: > So I am seeing some of this stuff, and I want to block it based on headers. > So here's the header: > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from qmail.example.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > > by qmail.example.gov (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7JFvfer015649 > >

False Positive on FORGED_AOL_TAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Marc Perkel
This was a false positive. Might want to recheck the AOL rule. X-AOL-IP: 64.12.170.94 X-Spamfilter-host: pascal.ctyme.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com X-Freemail-From: aol.com X-Relay-Countries: US US X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on euclid.ctyme.com Spam=Yes score=6.

Upgrading from 3.1.4 to 3.2.3

2007-08-19 Thread Netdynamix
Hi everybody, I have SA 3.1.4 running on my server successfully. I want to upgrade to 3.2.3 for safety sake. I have NEVER upgraded SA before and am a little scared that I break it and can't get it up again. Is there anyone who can direct me to a simple step-by-step HOW-TO on how to do this? Kin

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-19 Thread John Thompson
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Worms and spam have made it impossible for users to use their own > personal mail servers. We block any outgoing mail on any managed > firewall on port 25 other than authorized ESMTP servers. More and more > ISP's are blocking port 25 from anything but their own stuff,

Headers: What do I block here?

2007-08-19 Thread dougp23
So I am seeing some of this stuff, and I want to block it based on headers. So here's the header: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from qmail.example.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by qmail.example.gov (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7JFvfer015649 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Re: Why'd VBounce not hit?

2007-08-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dan Barker wrote on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:58:22 -0400: > Message: http://www.visioncomm.net/VBounce.txt Only looked at one of your examples (the one above). A quick look at VBounce.cf shows that BOUNCE_MESSAGE would match on "Delivery Failure Notification", but not on "Delivery Status Notificatio

RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Robert - elists
> > I've read Life with qmail and the SpamAssassin documentation at > http://spamassassin.apache.org/ but I'm not connecting the dots. > Unfortunately, I didn't set up this machine and I don't have a good grasp > of qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. > > Thanks in advance for any guidance and all pr

RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Robert - elists
> > I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. The > machine is receiving 200,000 e-mail messages per day, courtesy of > Rumpelstiltskin attacks from thousands of different IP addresses each day, > and SpamAssassin appears to be overwhelmed. I have about 50,000 e-mail > mes

Re: Spam senders of 'Canadian Pharmacy' get always whitelisted

2007-08-19 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
SM a écrit : > At 06:37 19-08-2007, =?KOI8-R?Q?=22Adam_Ce=27cile_=28Le=5FVert=29=22?= > wrote: >> I always receive this email [1] from different sender and it always >> get -100 >> score, user whitelisted. >> It seems something in this mail makes spamassassin consider the user >> whitelisted. > >

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-19 Thread James Lay
On 8/19/07 8:22 AM, "Marc Perkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jo Rhett wrote: >> Marc Perkel wrote: >>> OK - it's interesting that of all of you who responded this is the >>> only person who is doing it right. I have to say that I'm somewhat >>> surprised that so few people are preproces

RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread peter
At 09:22 AM 8/19/2007, Michael Scheidell wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 11:25 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin? >> >> >> >> I have a FreeB

Re: Spam senders of 'Canadian Pharmacy' get always whitelisted

2007-08-19 Thread SM
At 06:37 19-08-2007, =?KOI8-R?Q?=22Adam_Ce=27cile_=28Le=5FVert=29=22?= wrote: I always receive this email [1] from different sender and it always get -100 score, user whitelisted. It seems something in this mail makes spamassassin consider the user whitelisted. Did you whitelist your own domain

Re: Famous spamfighter offline?iecc.com?

2007-08-19 Thread SM
Hi Michael, At 03:23 19-08-2007, Michael Scheidell wrote: is their mail web site www.iecc.com offline? That website is reachable. Regards, -sm

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Jo Rhett wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: OK - it's interesting that of all of you who responded this is the only person who is doing it right. I have to say that I'm somewhat surprised that so few people are preprocessing their email to reduce the SA load. As we all know SA is very processor and m

Spam senders of 'Canadian Pharmacy' get always whitelisted

2007-08-19 Thread Adam Ce'cile (Le_Vert)
Hi, I always receive this email [1] from different sender and it always get -100 score, user whitelisted. It seems something in this mail makes spamassassin consider the user whitelisted. Could you please have a look ? Thanks in advance, regards. [1] http://www.le-vert.net/divers/canadian-phar

RE: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 11:25 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin? > > > > I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and > ClamAV. The

RE: Why'd VBounce not hit?

2007-08-19 Thread Dan Barker
These are continuing. I'd really like to know what's going wrong. I get about 350 backscatter bounces a day that VBounce does catch, and a fair number (10, 50? How to tell?) that get missed, but appear (to me) clearly to be backscatter. Here are several examples (local.cf and spamassassin -D outpu

Re: Conditionally bypassing RBL checks - how?

2007-08-19 Thread Matt Kettler
That won't work. If you zero the scores of the individual RBLs, then they are disabled. Period. No meta rule can later re-enable them. Sorry Marc, but at present, SA doesn't have any direct support for this. However, you might be able to make use of SA's priority and the shortcircuit plugin to ge

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. The machine > is receiving 200,000 e-mail messages per day, courtesy of Rumpelstiltskin > attacks from thousands of different IP addresses each day, and SpamAssassin > appears to be overwhelmed. I have

Re: Famous spamfighter offline?iecc.com?

2007-08-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Scheidell wrote on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:23:34 -0400 (EDT): > is their mail web site www.iecc.com offline? ping is ok, SMTP answers ASAP, so I'd say they have a problem with their httpd, no DoS or some such. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services

RE: v3.2.3 isn't recognizing local.cf custom rules

2007-08-19 Thread Robert - elists
> > What's with this? There's no need for this on this list. > Maybe not... pray for victory over the moron stick for me please. > > You've asked many a question here that the above would have applied to > No kiddin? :-) Im sure I would agree... I imagine the ESR smart questions faq wou

Re: DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06 not allowing for TZ diff

2007-08-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Net-buoy wrote on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:24:22 -0700 (PDT): > Time actually received ADT is 15:45 > ADT is -8 UTC and local mail reflects 15:45 -0800 AKDT 23:45 UTC > Time mail actually sent is EDT 19:45. EDT is 4 hrs earlier than ADT > Time shown on e-mail: 18 Aug 2007 23:45:02 -0400 EDT 3.45 UT

Famous spamfighter offline?iecc.com?

2007-08-19 Thread Michael Scheidell
John Levine/founder of Cause? and all around PIA to spammers? is their mail web site www.iecc.com offline? Can't be reached from any network I have access to. Anyone have access to it? (is spammers would put their knolwdge to good use, by now, with the cpu cycles wasted in this war, we would hav

adjusting DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS and DNS_FROM_RFC_DSN scores

2007-08-19 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Hello All, After an upgrade to SA3.2.2 I've noticed that I've started to get FP's from e-mail accounts originating at walla.com I can see that it may be wise to adjust some scores to make these FP get thru my system: score DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS 0 score DNS_FROM_RFC_DSN 0 Do you think this is re

Re: v3.2.3 isn't recognizing local.cf custom rules

2007-08-19 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 8/18/2007 6:19 PM, Robert - elists wrote: I have *always* run SA through MailScanner. This configuration is not new, I have run it this way for *years*. The only thing that's new is the version of SA. As soon as I upgraded to v3.2.3, the problems started. If you can't be helpful, I can certai

Re: v3.2.3 isn't recognizing local.cf custom rules

2007-08-19 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 8/18/2007 12:43 PM, MaraBlue wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: MaraBlue wrote on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:02:16 -0700 (PDT): there several versions back. I've run --lint -D, and SA is reading local.cf (I can post the log if needed). The only other thing I changed a few days before this started was s