Re: not scoring correctly

2007-07-18 Thread Craig Carriere
short of all these 70K+ PDF messages. What is recommended bypass these days considering the types of spam out there? I raised it to 128*1024, but I don't want to choke these heavily used gateways. begin:vcard fn:Dr. Craig Carriere n:Carriere;Craig org:Cobatco Inc.;Technology Development adr

Re: pdf tools clarification?

2007-07-16 Thread Craig Carriere
Not really SA specific, but to add to your list are the SaneSecurity virus definitions for ClamAV which also apparently catches a lot of this type of rodent-mail if you are willing to use third party virus definitions. I have also enabled additional RBL look-ups for our site for some of the

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2007-07-03 Thread Craig Carriere
Jonathan: No need to apologize at all; you did me a favor by letting me know we were still having these issues with our ISP's anti-spam methods. Will get this sorted out one way or the other. Trying to keep your user's mailboxes free of spam is work enough, but having to to battle with your ISP

SaneSecurity

2007-06-27 Thread Craig Carriere
Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful in the Spam Wars? Thanks

Re: Solution to Bayes poisoning, high load levels, image spam, and botnet spam

2007-06-21 Thread Craig Carriere
Matt wrote: First - use dummy MX records. Real mail retries. Botnet and must spammers don't. It's easier for them to try to spam someone else than to fight your filter. MX config is as follows: dummy - 10 real - 20 real-backups - 30 dummy - 40 dummy - 50 dummy - 60 Currently I have

Re: SA 3.2 , AWL and auto_whitelist_factor

2007-06-04 Thread Craig Carriere
confused now. How does it determine which message to use for the 'old score' ? if I wanted to assign a negative number to those addresses that are whitelisted in order to let more of them through, what am I supposed to use if not AWL ? thanks, On 31 May 2007 at 11:56, Craig Carriere wrote

Re: Bayes Misidentification

2007-06-04 Thread Craig Carriere
it off. However, setting use_bayes 0 doesn't seem to do anything; messages are still coming through with BAYES_99. Is anyone else having this issue? Is my database just being poisoned over and over again? Thanks for any input anyone can provide. begin:vcard fn:Dr. Craig Carriere n:Carriere

Re: SA 3.2 , AWL and auto_whitelist_factor

2007-05-31 Thread Craig Carriere
is in the auto white-list where did the -0.1 come from? how can i change it to -1.0 ? thanks. begin:vcard fn:Dr. Craig Carriere n:Carriere;Craig org:Cobatco Inc.;Technology Development adr:;;1215 NE Adams Street;Peoria;IL;61550;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:309.676.2663 tel

Re: Lint results question

2007-05-17 Thread Craig Carriere
will not be called. Clay Davis wrote: Should I be concerned with the following as a result of "--lint -D"? config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: check_mx_delay5 warning: description for FS_START_DOYOU2 is over 50 chars Thanks, Clay begin:vcard fn:Dr. Crai

Re: BAYES_99 triggered on every message

2007-05-16 Thread Craig Carriere
Sarge worked ok. Also earlier versions installed via cpan on top of Red Hat 7.3 worked ok. begin:vcard fn:Dr. Craig Carriere n:Carriere;Craig org:Cobatco Inc.;Technology Development adr:;;1215 NE Adams Street;Peoria;IL;61550;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:309.676.2663 tel;fax

Re: Problem installing SA 3.2.0 via CPAN on OPenSuSE 10.2 or SLES 10

2007-05-08 Thread Craig Carriere
, 11.11% okay Thanks, begin:vcard fn:Dr. Craig Carriere n:Carriere;Craig org:Cobatco Inc. adr:;;1215 NE Adams Street;Peoria;IL;61550;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:309.676.2663 tel;fax:309.676.2667 url:http://www.cobatco.com version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: Problem installing SA 3.2.0 via CPAN on OPenSuSE 10.2 or SLES 10

2007-05-08 Thread Craig Carriere
Stephen: A follow up to my own message. I have been able to successfully install 3.2 on my backup SLES 10 mail server from the download source code. CPAN still fails with the error you mentioned. When I installed 3.18 I used CPAN without problems. Best Craig Carriere wrote: Stephen

Re: AWL Troubles

2007-05-07 Thread Craig Carriere
spammy otherwise, but from a layman's perspective, definitely not something that should be ona whitelist. I know how to remove from the whitelist, but how did they get there in the first place? Thanks, gang. Clay begin:vcard fn:Dr. Craig Carriere n:Carriere;Craig org:Cobatco Inc

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 available

2007-05-03 Thread Craig Carriere
ertrap.com _ begin:vcard fn:Dr. Craig Carriere n:Carriere;Craig org:Cobatco Inc. adr:;;1215 NE Adams Street;Peoria;IL;61550;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:309.676.2663 tel;fax:309.676.2667 url:http://www.cobatco.com version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA

2007-04-25 Thread Craig Carriere
ult. Bret begin:vcard fn:Dr. Craig Carriere n:Carriere;Craig org:Cobatco Inc. adr:;;1215 NE Adams Street;Peoria;IL;61550;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:309.676.2663 tel;fax:309.676.2667 url:http://www.cobatco.com version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: Fighting ham

2007-04-19 Thread Craig Carriere
Does this really mean that auto-learn is out of balance? My first guess is that this site probably relies only on SA to combat spam and does little at the MTA level to reject UBE mail. They may even run a catch-all account which would markedly increase his spam count if he is not rejecting for

Re: Rules report

2007-04-19 Thread Craig Carriere
I utilize amavisd-maia (Maia Mailguard) which provides updated rules stats. The program also provides an easy method to constantly train your bayes filters. You might want to take a look at it. Best Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:03 +0100, Chris Lear wrote: *

Response

2007-04-13 Thread Craig Carriere
Mrio Gamito wrote: Hi, How can i know how many messages did already sa-learn processed ? You mean the total number of messages learned in the bayes database (includes sa-learn and autolearn)? sa-learn --dump magic Make sure you run as SA user to query the right database.