Re: Rule for PDF and eCard Spam Needed

2007-08-15 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:53:56PM -0700, Robert - elists wrote: > > > Apparently with alternate virus files, which I had not yet tested. > > Someone mentioned that earlier today and I'm investigating it. > > > > -- > > Jo Rhett > > Jo > > I don't use alternative files that I am aware of anyway

Re: Robert Sexton filter

2007-10-04 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:39:29PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:09:11PM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > > >> Does anyone have a rule handy that would replace my "blacklist_from" > > >> entries with something more versatile? > > > > > > Such as? You can match all of the

What to do with backscatter?

2007-10-28 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, My small home network is reasonably free from spam thanks partly to a careful Internet posting policy, and mainly to the wonderful SA which catches about 98% of the spam I do get. One thing that does plague me however is a periodic rash of Non Delivery Receipt messages (I've just had o

BOTNET 0.8 + SA 3.2.3

2008-01-09 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I have been running SA v3.2.3 since I upgraded from 3.2.2 In October. It has only just dawned on me that since then I have had no hits from Botnet. I have checked, and I did install the Botnet.pm and Botnet.cf files in this into /etc/mail/spamassassin so I am mystified as to why it's

Re: BOTNET 0.8 + SA 3.2.3

2008-01-09 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:27:59AM +, UxBoD wrote: > Do you see if get picked up if you run a lint on your SA installation ? How does this look to you? Thanks for your help so far... AD $ spamassassin --lint -D 2>&1 | grep -i botnet [26514] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botn

Re: BOTNET 0.8 + SA 3.2.3

2008-01-09 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:29:01PM +, UxBoD wrote: > Ran the same on my installation and all appears the same to me. H, very > odd, do you have a email in your quarantine that got tagged before which you > could pass through again to test ? Hmmm.. Good idea... Headers from: 1) Origina

Re: BOTNET 0.8 + SA 3.2.3

2008-01-11 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I'm so no nearer a solution to this... To recap: Since upgrading from SA 3.2.2 to SA 3.2.3 I have had no Botnet hits at all. I have checked with SA --lint -D and Botnet v.0.8 seem to be installed correctly. I have run an old message through my current setup that hit Botnet when running

Re: BOTNET 0.8 + SA 3.2.3

2008-01-11 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:49:19AM -0500, Dave Koontz wrote: > > I am running Botnet 0.8 with SA 3.2.3 without issue. Try a fresh install of > all Botnet files. > Well I have only recently upgraded my OS from FC6 to F8 (and that's what prompted me to check that everything was working properly)

Re: BOTNET 0.8 + SA 3.2.3

2008-01-11 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:56:03PM +, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:49:19AM -0500, Dave Koontz wrote: > > > > I am running Botnet 0.8 with SA 3.2.3 without issue. Try a fresh install of > > all Botnet files. > > > > Well I have only recen

Re: gpg keys?

2008-01-12 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:46:30PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > That's possible I suppose. In watching what pup wants to update, I've had > bigger fish than gpg to monitor. Is there a history file I can consult to > find out? If you use a Red Hat based system try: # cat /var/log/yum.log (as

Re: BOTNET 0.8 + SA 3.2.3

2008-01-12 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:20:59PM -0500, Dave Koontz wrote: > > Arthur Dent wrote: >> Nope sorry.. >> > Please confirm... that your botnet.pm file is where your other plugin PM > modules reside. And that the botnet.cf file is where your custom rules > live (may be

Testing Botnet

2008-01-12 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, I'm afraid that I might have wasted your time - Hence the change to the thread Subject. I guess that what triggered my original question was the fact that I was trying to check that everything was working following an OS upgrade. Looking back through my spam corpus it seemed that I wo

Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Please forgive me for consuming off-topic bandwith with this question but I don't really want to subscribe to the Procmail list for what is, I hope, a very simple question. I get a lot of spam that has a series of numbers in the "To" address, either in the form To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:22:55PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:20 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote: > > The // are matched literally, they are not used as an RE delimiter. The > entire string after the asterisk is a regex anyway. Lose the slashes. > >

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:56:49PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:12 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:22:55PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Sorry Chaps, I had no idea this topic would grow so much. > > > Do file-lockin

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
Apologies to everyone for wasting OT bandwidth. I have just re-read man procmailrc and realised that a "copy" recipe is not considered to be a delivery action and therefore does not need a lock. Removing the lock from my backup copy solves the problem. I just want to thank everyone for their pati

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:36:29PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 19:31 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote: > > Apologies to everyone for wasting OT bandwidth. I have just re-read man > > procmailrc and realised that a "copy" recipe is not considered to

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:48:20PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > Since I was about to hit the send button on this one, here is a shorter > version of my original thoughts. Partially on-topic (yay!) again. ;) Oops - I was busy replying to your last message and didn't see this one come in...

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT] - Back On-Topic (Almost!)

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:18:38PM +, Arthur Dent wrote: I've just been doing a little reading.. > > > # Spam filter > > > > > > :0fw > > > * < 256000 > > > | /usr/bin/spamc --username=mark > > > > If there is even the sligh

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex - Back On-Topic

2008-01-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:35:17PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > > > > If there is even the slightest chance, your MTA might flood your MDA > > > > with mail during a peek -- add some explicit locking here, even though > > > > this is not a delivery receipt (explicit, because it is a filte

sa-learn weirdness...

2008-02-06 Thread Arthur Dent
Well, in fairness, it's probably not sa-learn that's causing the weirdness but my setup. I don't understand what's causing the problem however. Allow me to explain... I have a nightly cron job that runs a script to do sa-learning. Learning spam is no problem, it's all in one mail folder (2 actuall

Re: sa-learn weirdness...

2008-02-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:02:46PM +0100, Paolo Cravero wrote: > Arthur Dent wrote: > >> Learned tokens from 8 message(s) (3165 message(s) examined) >> Learned tokens from 4628 message(s) (8703 message(s) examined) >> Learned tokens from 3890 message(s) (8634 message(s) exa

Re: sa-learn weirdness...

2008-02-08 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:02:45PM +0100, Paolo Cravero wrote: > Arthur Dent wrote: > >> Hmmm... Not delete exactly, but the sa-learn job take so long that the >> archivemail job has kicked off and finds the "TempSpam" and "TempHam" mboxes >> in the Mai

Re: Bayes - Balance of spam

2008-02-12 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:44:58AM -0500, Rob McEwen wrote: > On 12.02.08 13:55, Arthur Dent wrote: >> I am a little concerned however that at this moment I seem to be getting >> bombarded with Russian spam. It currently outweighs all other spam by >> about 100:1 > Arth

Re: Bayes - Balance of spam

2008-02-12 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:33:47AM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > Arthur Dent wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> Please forgive my ignorance, but I don't fully understand just how Bayes >> works. >> >> I dutifully feed all the spam (and ham) I get into sa-le

Bayes - Balance of spam

2008-02-12 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, Please forgive my ignorance, but I don't fully understand just how Bayes works. I dutifully feed all the spam (and ham) I get into sa-learn and generally Bayes works pretty well. I am a little concerned however that at this moment I seem to be getting bombarded with Russian spam. It c

sa-update errors

2008-02-14 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I run a bog-standard out-of-the-box (Fedora 8) SA (v.3.2.4) installation. Every night I run: sa-update --channelfile /etc/mail/spamassassin/sare-sa-update-channels.txt --gpgkey 856AA88A && /sbin/service spamassassin restart as a cron job. Never been a problem before. But this morning

Re: sa-update errors

2008-02-18 Thread Arthur Dent
I misunderstood something? Thanks... Mark On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:27:40PM -, Arthur Dent wrote: > Hello all, > > I run a bog-standard out-of-the-box (Fedora 8) SA (v.3.2.4) installation. > > Every night I run: > sa-update --channelfile /etc/mail/spamassassin/sare-sa-u

Re: sa-update errors

2008-02-29 Thread Arthur Dent
> On 18/02/2008 7:29 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: >> Gentle Bump... >> >> I thought that the approved place to alter scores was in >> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf so I have not gone rooting around trying >> to give these rules scores which surely they should have by

Re: sa-update errors

2008-02-29 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:40:24AM -, Arthur Dent wrote: > > On 18/02/2008 7:29 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: > >> Gentle Bump... > >> > >> I thought that the approved place to alter scores was in > >> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf so I have not gone root

Re: sa-update doesn't do languages file?

2008-03-13 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:19:55PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > OK, I didn't get any responses to the question I posted late yesterday > (hint, hint), but I'll give it a try with another question. > [snip] > > (Oh, and [yeah, I know, I said it already] it would be really cool if > someone coul

Re: sa-update doesn't do languages file?

2008-03-22 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:39:01PM -0400, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > On 13/03/2008 5:15 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:19:55PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > >> OK, I didn't get any responses to the question I posted late yesterday > >

Re: Applications file for Last Week

2008-03-31 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:42:35AM -0500, Larry Starr wrote: > I'm not sure who, at GE, this should be addressed to, however: > > We normally download an Activations file each Monday morning at 10:00. > > Occasionally, for whatever reason, the file isn't available when my automatic > download ru

Spam from the list?

2008-04-04 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, This one slipped through almost entirely unscathed... http://pastebin.com/m642c5e5 The worrying thing for me is that this is an email address I have only recently created and have ONLY ever used for subscribing to this list (I have not even used it for posting yet - errr... well until

Re: Spam from the list?

2008-04-04 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:34:43AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > Michael Scheidell wrote: >>> From: Arthur Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:52:12 +0100 >>> To: >>> Subject: Spam from the list? >>> >>> Hello all,

Re: Spam from the list?

2008-04-04 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:55:24AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > Michael Scheidell wrote: >>> From: Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:34:43 -0400 >>> To: Michael Scheidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Cc: Arthur Dent <[E

Re: [OT] ClamAV

2008-04-30 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:49:19PM +0200, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: > On 30.04.2008 13:29, jpff wrote: >> Has something happened to msrbl.com ? I have been using the Image >> database with success for some time, but it seems to have vanished. > > We get a lot of these errors: > rsync: getaddrinfo: rs

Re: [OT] Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-07-28 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 12:29 +0100, Mike Cardwell wrote: > Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > Snoweb wrote: > > >> I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting a bit > >> hacked of with this 1980's style forum. I'm trying to get > >> to the bottom of an SA issue and this list/forum thing is > >> giving

SA-Update - SHA1 Verification failed

2009-08-19 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I only run sa-update once per day and the last two days it has failed with a SHA1 verification error. Here is the debug output: (apologies for the line wrap(s)) ... [2208] dbg: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEHeader=HASH(0xb0b2c3c) implements 'finish_tests', priority 0 [2208] d

Re: SA-Update - SHA1 Verification failed

2009-08-19 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 13:21 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > I only run sa-update once per day and the last two days it has failed > > with a SHA1 verification error. > > > [2208] dbg: channel: reading MIRRORED.BY file > > [2208] dbg: channel: found mirror > > http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-upda

Unhindered Pharma Spam

2009-11-28 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I have had a couple of these sail into my my inbox untouched by SA with the exception of RDNS_NONE and Bayes. Score of -0.1! http://pastebin.com/m478c33ce Even after learning they still only score 3.6 Anything I can do? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: Unhindered Pharma Spam

2009-11-28 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 09:48 +, Arthur Dent wrote: > Hello all, > > I have had a couple of these sail into my my inbox untouched by SA with > the exception of RDNS_NONE and Bayes. Score of -0.1! > > http://pastebin.com/m478c33ce > > Even after learning they still only

AnyBounce Problem

2010-01-29 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, This mail http://pastebin.com/m3d60d066 was generated automatically by my gmail calendar as a reminder message. Clearly it doesn't trip the spam-o-meter (scores 0.2), but I have a procmail recipe the puts "ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE" into a quarantine folder. I can't for the life of me work o

Re: AnyBounce Problem

2010-01-29 Thread Arthur Dent
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 21:41 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 21:23 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > > Workaround: remove the "__AUTO_GEN_AS||" from the > > > __BOUNCE_AUTO_GENERATED meta rule in 20_vbounce.cf which you can find > > > on your server via: > > > > *Never

SARE Rules problem?

2008-06-30 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all. I have just upgraded from SA 3.2.4 to 3.2.5 and ran sa-update to get the latest rulesets (which also happens every night via a cronjob). I got the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sa-update --channelfile /etc/mail/spamassassin/sare-sa-update-channels.txt --gpgkey 856AA88A --g

Re: SARE Rules problem?

2008-06-30 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:46:13AM +, Duane Hill wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Arthur Dent wrote: > >> Hello all. >> >> I have just upgraded from SA 3.2.4 to 3.2.5 and ran sa-update to get the >> latest rulesets (which also happens every night via a cronjob). &g

VBounce FP?

2008-07-16 Thread Arthur Dent
The message to this list earlier today from Ron Smith ("orphaned .tmp files in the submission folder") hit my ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE,BAYES_00, BOUNCE_MESSAGE rules and I can't for the life of me see why. I have procmail set up to filter ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE into a spam folder so I was a little surprised

Re: VBounce FP?

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:33:31PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > The message to this list earlier today from Ron Smith ("orphaned .tmp > files in the submission folder") hit my ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE,BAYES_00, > BOUNCE_MESSAGE rules and I can't for the life of me see why. >

Something not quite right (Mainly with Bayes)

2008-08-14 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on Perl version 5.10 It has always given me good results in the past and still does (though now it seems that is almost entirely due to the RBLs, JM Sought, Pyzor and Razor) the stock rules, SARE ruleset iand in particular Bayes seem to be letting

Re: Casino scams

2008-11-01 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 11:19:44PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 19:54 +, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 18:20 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > ..snip.. > > > and here's one of the messages I mentioned: > > > > http://pastebin.com/m1de987d0 >

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2008-11-27 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 06:05:52PM +0100, Dirk Bonengel wrote: > Folks, > > just uploaded a new version of the iXhash plugin to http://ixhash.sf.net. [Snip] Thanks - I a big fan of iXhash - gets lots of stuff for me. BUT... I just downloaded and installed the new plugin (and restarted spamd).

Re: New version of iXhash plugin available

2008-11-29 Thread Arthur Dent
This is the 4th time I've tried to post this message. After a bit of experimentation I *think* that the problem was the my outbound ISP was blocking the original version of this message because I included the headers and the SA spam report of the (very) spammy message I tested this on. Anyway - her

Re: Bug in iXhash plugin - fixed version available

2008-12-02 Thread Arthur Dent
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:33:07PM +0100, Dirk Bonengel wrote: > Folks, > > as some of you already noticed I f... up the last (1.5) release of the > iXhash plugin. > Plain simple a wrong regular expression practically disables hash #1. > > I just uploaded a fixed version to ixhash.sf.net that run

Re: Bug in iXhash plugin - fixed version available

2008-12-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:08:32PM -0500, Rose, Bobby wrote: > I just tried again with this 1.5.2 version and on box it times out querying > and on another it seems to run but no hits again. Both my boxes are SA3.2.5. > > Does anyone have a message that is known to have hashes on any of iXhash

Re: installing sanesecurity

2008-12-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:49:23AM +1300, Lists wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wanting to implement the sanesecurity addins to clamav but i am a > bit lost. > I am running CentOS5 MailScanner Spamassassin ClamAV > > Do I download the download scripts from > http://www.sanesecurity.com/clamav/usage.h

Sa-update exit codes

2008-12-06 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello All, I have the following command running daily in my crontab on my Fedora 9 box: (excuse the linewrap) sa-update --channelfile /etc/mail/spamassassin/sare-sa-update-channels.txt --gpgkey 856AA88A --gpgkey 6C6191E3 && /sbin/service spamassassin restart and every day I get a reassuring emai

Re: Sa-update exit codes

2008-12-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:38:06AM +, Arthur Dent wrote: > Is this an error code? > Does this explain why the "&& /sbin/service spamassassin restart" fails > to run now? Sigh... OK - I've had my morning cup of tea now. I have now actually turned on my brai

[OT] GPG Signatures

2008-12-15 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, I have had quite a lot of trouble getting my posts through to mailing lists (this one and others) lately. More often than not they simply never appear which makes me wonder if there is something wrong with my mail set-up (I would be grateful if someone could look at this one a let me kn

Re: Test order

2009-01-16 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:38:07PM -0800, Evan Platt wrote: > At 08:53 PM 1/15/2009, you wrote: >> Thanks, it works >> >> How ever I have a question. In my configuration I have to mark subject with >> "[SPAM]" >> >> How I can tell SA to use another mark "[VIRII]" if clamav plug marks mail. > > I c

Setting up VBounce... ...correctly

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Some time ago I had a nasty rash of backscatter so I installed and configured the VBounce plugin. Coincidentally the backscatter stopped at the same time and I haven't had much of a problem since. I kind of forgot about it - until just now when I genuinely sent a message which bounced b

Re: Setting up VBounce... ...correctly

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:48:55PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:18 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote: > > p.s. > > I have also just discovered that notifications of submissions to the Fedora > > bugzilla that I recently submitted also hit AN

[steveb_cla...@sanesecurity.com: [sanesecurity] We're back...]

2009-01-21 Thread Arthur Dent
Just to inform who might be interested - SANESecurity signatures are back! AD - Forwarded message from Steve Basford - Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:31:09 + From: Steve Basford To: sanesecur...@freelists.org Reply-to: sanesecur...@freelists.org Subject: [sanesecurity] We're back... X-

Uninstalling Razor & Pyzor

2009-02-03 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Both Razor and Pyzor have been merrily catching spam very effectively for me for many moons now. It appears however, that when I originally installed them I did so as root. This is fine, but I now running SELinux in enforcing mode on my Fedora 9 box. Selinux throws a wobbly (that's the

Re: Uninstalling Razor & Pyzor

2009-02-03 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 07:09:57PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:33 +, Mark wrote: > > > > Both Razor and Pyzor have been merrily catching spam very effectively > > for me for many moons now. It appears however, that when I originally > > installed them I did so

Re: Filtering / flagging specific email addresses?

2009-03-26 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:40:34AM -0400, spamassas...@corwyn.net wrote: > Is it possible to get spamassassin to score email addresses with 4 (or > more) numeric digits in sequence in the user name? > > (seems like a lot of our spam comes in for garbage users with user names > that are strings of

Re: Filtering / flagging specific email addresses?

2009-03-26 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:18:07PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:17 +0000, Arthur Dent wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:40:34AM -0400, spamassas...@corwyn.net wrote: > > > > Is it possible to get spamassassin to score email addresses w

Re: is bayes learning?

2010-02-17 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:22 -0800, tonjg wrote: > I've got a feeling that the spamassassin on my machine is improving in the > way it recognises spam but I'd like to be sure it's not just my imagination. > I did my first manual bayes learn about 2 weeks ago using 200 spams and 200 > hams, the proce

Re: is bayes learning?

2010-02-17 Thread Arthur Dent
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 04:16 -0800, tonjg wrote: > > Mikael Syska wrote: > > > > [r...@freebsd /]# date -r 1266318121 > > Tue Feb 16 12:02:01 CET 2010 > > > > newsest atime should tell you when it last learned from a message. > > thanks for your response, I ran sa-learn --dump magic: > 0.000

Re: Spamassassin rewriting headers of messages that are not marked Spam

2010-04-28 Thread Arthur Dent
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 23:53 -0700, Sitapati wrote: > Thanks for your reply Alex! > > > Alex-325 wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> My spamassassin installation suddenly (since March) starting rewriting > >> the > >> headers of messages that are not spam. > > > > March isn't so suddenly. Why is it a p

Re: Sought rules

2011-06-11 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 06:45 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > On 6/10/11 9:56 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > spamassassin -D config --lint 2>&1 | less > so, one MORE option, we don't need to add the symlink to crontab? > > Jun 11 06:39:13.419 [71425] dbg: config: read file > /var/db/spamassas

BAYES_00

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, Following a hard drive crash I am rebuilding my small home server on a Fedora17 platform. One of the casualties of the HD crash was my spam corpus. I had a (very old) backup which happened to include a previous spam corpus so I used that to sa-learn. All my messages hit BAYES_00. I

Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
I am trying to improve the performance of SA on my small home server. I use the sought rules, but though I would also include Razor and Pyzor. I am no stranger to the command line and not afraid of compiling from source (and that is what I did in the past when installing Razor/Pyzor) but I noticed

Re: Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 12:25 +0200, Axb wrote: > On 10/06/2012 12:14 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > I am trying to improve the performance of SA on my small home server. I > > use the sought rules, but though I would also include Razor and Pyzor. I > > am no stranger to the comman

Re: Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 08:14 -0400, Alexandre Boyer wrote: > Alex, from Nexus7. > Boyaah! ==8<=== > > Oct 6 11:33:41.959 [11067] dbg: pyzor: network tests on, attempting > Pyzor > > Oct 6 11:33:58.504 [11067] dbg: pyzor: pyzor is

Re: Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 15:27 +0200, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > > Oct 6 11:11:52.056 [10904] dbg: pyzor: opening pipe: /bin/pyzor > --homedir /home/mark/.pyzor check < /tmp/.spamassassin10904BmyCb9tmp > Oct 6 11:11:52.344 [10904] dbg: pyzor: [10906] finished: exit 1 > > Seems trivial to reproduce the

Re: Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 09:01 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 15:27 +0200, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > > > >> Oct 6 11:11:52.056 [10904] dbg: pyzor: opening pipe: /bin/pyzor > >> --ho

Re: Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 10:51 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 09:01 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > >> On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Arthur Dent wrote: > >>> > >>> OK - I don't know what the output me

Re: Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 12:28 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > > Ah. That looks a lot better. "test" isn't a valid email so it's not > surprising that pyzor doesn't return a response. The second test, using a > valid email, shows that everything is (or at least should be) working > properly. SA _is_

Re: BAYES_00

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 12:36 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > Following a hard drive crash I am rebuilding my small home server on a > > Fedora17 platform. > > > > One of the casualties of the HD crash was my spam corpus. I had

Re: Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Arthur Dent
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 21:26 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 12:28 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > > > > > Ah. That looks a lot better. "test" isn't a valid email so it's not > > surprising that pyzor doesn't return a response. The

Re: SA-3.3.2 options max-spare and max-children doesn't work as i expect

2012-10-23 Thread Arthur Dent
> Hello list! > I'm playing with options min-spare,max-spare,min-children and > max-children, I'd like to save memory on my vps. So I'd like to have one > children awaiting for connection from MTA, when MTA receives more emials > in short time I'd like SA to spawn more children (max-children=6). I

[OTish] contentanaly...@unifiedemail.net

2012-11-17 Thread Arthur Dent
Seeing the "wrong RCVD_IN_PBL?" thread posted recently made me think about my own email problems. I have had some difficulty lately with email (my own personal email) not always getting through to some people and I have been wondering whether it might be hitting some spam filters. So I was interes

SA-Learn - OT (slightly) Bash Script help needed

2014-05-29 Thread Arthur Dent
Hello all, For many years now I have been using SA on my home server which acts as a mail server for my family only. It has, for all this time, been based on an mbox structure. I am now planning to change to the Maildir format. (Do folks here think that's a good idea?) Before I make the change I

Re: SA-Learn - OT (slightly) Bash Script help needed

2014-05-29 Thread Arthur Dent
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 12:04 +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 29/05/2014 11:43, Axb wrote: > > On 05/29/2014 12:22 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > >> So... > >> > >> Will this work for sa-lear