Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Well, here's my $0.02 For starters, is it realistic to think that someone charged with implementing spamassassin on a mailserver does not know what spam is? The first 2 sections are fluff and would be best replaced by a link to wikipedia's spam entry, along with the warning if you need to

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-29 Thread jdow
On 2011/11/28 19:21, Jason Haar wrote: Don't have an answer for you, but I can say that the following URL works under FF-8.0 http://0x12.0x12.0x12.0x12/ (resolves to 18.18.18.18) However, if you force browsers through a squid proxy, squid-2.6 at least treats that as borked and won't play with

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-29 Thread jdow
On 2011/11/28 20:28, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 18:35 -0800, jdow wrote: It is a way of obfuscating that's over the top and nobody has a way to get those oddball formulations easily from standard tools. They become an excellent way of

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
A note for those unfamiliar with GCI that these are 13 to 17 year old kids getting an introduction to open source. Thanks for the feedback! Regards, KAM Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: Well, here's my $0.02 For starters, is it realistic to think that someone charged with implementing

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-29 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 20:17 -0800, Dave Warren wrote: On 11/28/2011 7:37 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: I tried feeding 000192.000168.0007.0002 to Lynx and Opera as the sole command line argument: Wouldn't that be 000300.000250.0007.0002 ? Or did I miss a step here? I was assuming that the

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Ah, that would make a difference. Carry on! Ted On 11/29/2011 3:02 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: A note for those unfamiliar with GCI that these are 13 to 17 year old kids getting an introduction to open source. Thanks for the feedback! Regards, KAM Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote:

Freebsd Users: Mail-SpamAssassin update available

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Scheidell
For you Freebsd users of SpamAssassin. I have posted an update to p5-Mail-SpamAssassin: Major change includes the back porting of the updated DCC.pm module from SA 3.4.0 This update beings increased performance and reliability, as well as supporting both the commercial(private) and

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/28/2011 11:21 PM, Dave Warren wrote: On 11/28/2011 7:41 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:21:56 +1300, Jason Haar wrote: http://0x12.0x12.0x12.0x12/ does not work in chrome I tried in Chrome 16.0.912.41 beta-m and 17.0.953.0 canary, both instantly changed the displayed

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-29 Thread Simon Loewenthal
On 29/11/11 15:21, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 11/28/2011 11:21 PM, Dave Warren wrote: On 11/28/2011 7:41 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:21:56 +1300, Jason Haar wrote: http://0x12.0x12.0x12.0x12/ does not work in chrome I tried in Chrome 16.0.912.41 beta-m and 17.0.953.0

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:37:57 +0100, Simon Loewenthal wrote: http://0xAD.0xC2.0x21.0x34/ Firefox treats it as : Unable to determine IP address from host name for /0xad.0xc2.0x21.0x34/ Name Error: The domain name does not exist. Works for me in Firefox 8.

Re: What is the best RBL list?

2011-11-29 Thread Rob McEwen
On 11/28/2011 2:25 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 28.11.2011 20:17, schrieb Daniel McDonald: On 11/28/11 12:55 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: If there are better blocklists that are not used by spamassassin, please open a bug to have it evaluated. Even if the data

Re: What is the best RBL list?

2011-11-29 Thread Rob McEwen
On 11/28/2011 1:55 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: If there are better blocklists that are not used by spamassassin, please open a bug to have it evaluated. Even if the data is not freely available, it would be useful to list on the spamassassin wiki. Darxus, I'd love to have the

Re: What is the best RBL list?

2011-11-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 11/29/2011 1:34 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: On 11/28/2011 1:55 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: If there are better blocklists that are not used by spamassassin, please open a bug to have it evaluated. Even if the data is not freely available, it would be useful to list on the spamassassin

Re: How long can a rule be?

2011-11-29 Thread Adam Katz
Summary for the impatient: Do not write rules like this. Instead, train Bayes, make sure you're using DNSBLs. On 11/25/2011 09:49 AM, Sergio wrote: I wrote all the HELO spammers that SA didn't caught ... header CHARLY_RULE1ALL =~ /(...)/i describe CHARLY_RULE1Charly Spammers score

Martin Gregorie's portmanteau rule building script

2011-11-29 Thread Adam Katz
On 11/25/2011 10:13 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: Subject: [Fwd: Re: How long a rule can be?] My main answers to the original thread were posted there (today). I guess I'm too accustomed to orderly threads; coupling my threaded view in thunderbird with the big pile of mail unread since before the

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 11/29/2011 9:17 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:37:57 +0100, Simon Loewenthal wrote: http://0xAD.0xC2.0x21.0x34/ Firefox treats it as : Unable to determine IP address from host name for /0xad.0xc2.0x21.0x34/ Name Error: The domain name does not exist. Works

Re: What is the best RBL list?

2011-11-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 11/29/2011 10:48 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: You are likely correct you were told that. However, speaking on behalf of the project, the mess of differing licenses and limits for RBLs and related projects has been very difficult to define a one-size fits all answer to the question of

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread antiamoeba
KAM did that in the first reply. Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: * Dorian Chan articgrayling...@gmail.com: Sorry, I don't really think the nabble attachment option really worked, so I'll actually attach it. Sorry for that! It worked both times, but the document is almost unreadable because

Re: Question for experts....

2011-11-29 Thread jdow
On 2011/11/29 06:37, Simon Loewenthal wrote: On 29/11/11 15:21, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 11/28/2011 11:21 PM, Dave Warren wrote: On 11/28/2011 7:41 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:21:56 +1300, Jason Haar wrote: http://0x12.0x12.0x12.0x12/ does not work in chrome I tried in

Bayes database in mysql on multiple servers

2011-11-29 Thread Alex
Hi all, I have two fedora15 boxes that process mail for a few domains, and recently set up bayes in mysql for each of them. The servers are in geographically different locations, a few hops from each other. Since they both process mail for the same domains, I thought it made sense to share the

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
symantec doesn't use spamassassin and does not use the name mailscanner. mailscanner is an open source program. It uses spamassassin to scan mail. I would also suggest that at the top of the document that you put in something along the lines of this document is intended to be read by [insert

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Parker
On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Dorian Chan wrote: Hello again, I've attached version 2.0 with this email (it's the clean version without all the comments :) ). I've pretty much finished up the definitions and some cleaning up. Again, I would really enjoy feedback! Everywhere you say

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 11/30/2011 1:58 AM, Michael Parker wrote: Everywhere you say SpamAssassin you should probably be saying Apache SpamAssassin. Michael PS Kevin, this also applies to the listing on the Google Code-In site, is that something that can be fixed? Good call. Editing the GCI site would be

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 11/29/2011 10:58 PM, Michael Parker wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Dorian Chan wrote: Hello again, I've attached version 2.0 with this email (it's the clean version without all the comments :) ). I've pretty much finished up the definitions and some cleaning up. Again, I would