OT: Mail/Spam Stats and MRTG

Does anyone have any suggestions for using mrtg to produce a graph showing the amount of received email and how much of it was flagged as spam? I am using mrtg, sendmail, and procmail on all the same server. Thanks! ...Jake -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC

Re: procmailrc being bypassed - again

DBF == David B Funk David writes: DBF On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Jake Colman wrote: I posted this problem last week and was told that it might be due to an SA problem when overwhelmed by too many connections. This problem only occurs when my server has been off-line and then gets

Re: max-conn-per-child spamd flag?

the following spamd/sendmail configuration: spamd: default number of children sendmail: daemon_children 25, rate_throttle 3, rcpt_throttle 3 Does this make sense? Should I (can I) reduce the numebr of sendmail children to better match spamd? Thanks for your help and insight. ...Jake -- Jake Colman Sr

procmailrc being bypassed - again

it. What do I do about this?! TIA! ...Jake -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside Financial Center 1001 Plaza Two Jersey City, NJ 07311 (201) 209-2467 www.principiapartners.com

Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

Jake Colman wrote: CS == Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CS If you are using SA 3.x, support is already included. You simply have CS to create the config file, restart spamd, and *poof* way less spam. CS Net::Dns is required. I forget which version. I forget a lot

Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

CS == Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: Jake Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:09 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Is Bayes Really Necessary? Given the rather complete set

Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

a number of lines. Is that it? If I have that .cf file in my /etc/mail/spamassassin directory it will all simply work? Yes, I have Net::DNS since I am already doing all the other net checks. ...Jake -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside Financial Center 1001

Re: SA Sometimes Being Bypassed?

w == wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w In an older episode (Friday 20 May 2005 18:07), Jake Colman wrote: When my server is up, all email is processed by my SA. If my server is down, my email is held for me at the backup MX. When my server comes back, the backup MX sends me

Cannnot open bayes database permission denied

'. The .../spamassassin directory is owned by the 'spam' group and has permissions rwxrwsr-x. I use spamc/spamd which executes as the user to whom the spam is addressd. So each user has been added to the spam group as well. Any suggestions what I may have missed? -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer

Re: Cannnot open bayes database permission denied

MK == Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MK Jake Colman wrote: I am seeing this error in my maillog. I followed the directions in the wiki for creating site-wide bayes database, razor and pyzor. I think I did it correctly and yet I am getting this error. My

Procmail Recipe Problem

can I modify this to tag emails and prove that they went through this recipe? This will allow me to know for certain whether some email are somehow falling throiugh the cracks or something else is going on. TIA! ...Jake -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside

Re: Procmail Recipe Problem

I need more spamd processes or fewer sendmail processes?? How can I limit the number of sendmails anyway? My server gets very overloaded in those circumstances. In general, what happens if there are more sendmails than there are spamd processes? Thanks for your help! ...Jake -- Jake Colman Sr

Re: SA Sometimes Being Bypassed?

MK == Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MK Jake Colman wrote: If my sendmail server is down, a backup MX in a different domain catches all my email. When my sendmail server comes back up, the backup MX dumps all the mail it's been holding for me. It seems that all

Re: SA Sometimes Being Bypassed?

a theoretical problem, it's possible but highly unlikely. You'd MK have a pretty weird server that relays mail for a user only if it came in from a MK secondary MX. MK Looking at the Received: path and size of some of the messages should clear up MK what's going on. -- Jake Colman

SpamAssassin Suddenly Not Catching Spam

prior to my upgrade. Is there some way for me to figure out why SA is not doing its thing for me? -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside Financial Center 1001 Plaza Two Jersey City, NJ 07311 (201) 209-2467 www.principiapartners.com

Re: SpamAssassin Suddenly Not Catching Spam

at the headers of false negatives and see KP what rules they are hitting. Are they hitting any negatively-scored KP rules? KP Jake Colman wrote: I upgraded from SA 2.x to 3.x a few weeks ago. I also installed the Rules Du Jour script for maintaining SARE files. After doing all

Re: SpamAssassin Suddenly Not Catching Spam

) to do the spam training and have everyone benefit. By the way, I use spamc/spamd and a global procmailrc to do my filtering. Thanks! ...Jake -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside Financial Center 1001 Plaza Two Jersey City, NJ 07311 (201) 209-2467