Re: Spamassasin as a gateway filter for Exchange

2010-05-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 15:14, Kaleb Hosie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Not to highjack the thread, but there are also other things to consider. >> >> I have no idea how on Postfix, but this could help you too Scott Lavoie. >> >> If there are multiple exchange backends for postfix/spamasassin >> gateway ..

Re: Spamassasin as a gateway filter for Exchange

2010-05-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:56, Scott Lavoie wrote: > Can anybody point me in the direction of a document or place where I could > find information about setting up a solo Linux Debian server running > spamassassin as a gateway spam filter that sends the mail along to an > exchange server? For get

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-09 Thread Kurt Buff
2010/2/9 Karsten Bräckelmann : > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:27 -0800, jdow wrote: >> I have a thoroughly retired and partially disabled friend I try to >> help out, such as he'll let me. (I thought I was paranoid until I >> met him...) I am slowly breaking him of the thought pattern that >> opening I

Re: Status of Freebsd 3.30 port

2010-02-01 Thread Kurt Buff
So, it looks as if I'm misunderstanding the issue. Per a private email, the dependency will only come into play for amavisd-new if it's detected to be in use. Thus, if I'm understanding correctly, if you use amavisd-new, it'll force a dependency of 2.6.4, but if you don't have amavisd-new install

Re: Status of Freebsd 3.30 port

2010-02-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:57, Michael Scheidell wrote: > On 2/1/10 11:42 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: >>> >>> Any adjustments required in amavisd-new? >>> >> >> No, should be fine with 2.6.4.  Some of the new 3.3.0 features are >> already recognized and used by this version. See also my posting >> on

Re: New to Spamassassin. Have a few ?s...

2009-11-08 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 19:30, Computerflake wrote: > > I'm looking into a free spam filter that can do the following. Will > Spamassassin do these things? > > 1) Will it filter multiple domains so I can filter for many different > companies? > 2) Will it send individual users an email once a day (

Re: sneaky pharma spam shooting past standard rules

2009-10-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Sure. Here's a snippet from main.cf: --begin snippet-- smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_recipient reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_unknown_sender_domain reject_unknown_recipient_domain permit_mynetworks reject_unauth_destination check_r

Re: sneaky pharma spam shooting past standard rules

2009-10-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:38, Jason Haar wrote: > I just received what appeared to be a standard "certain north american > country" pharma spam that went straight by rules I have that normally > catch it. Within Thunderbird (and any other HTML-capable MUA) it's > blatantly shouting its wares.  Cl

Re: OT bad news

2009-10-05 Thread Kurt Buff
Heh. If you want, try to convince them to use ASSP: http://assp.sourceforge.net/ It's open source too, but it does run on an Exchange box, from what I've heard, and I've only ever heard good things about it. I must say, I'm surprised, given the state of the economy, that they've made this decis

Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-07-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:07, snowweb 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 me a bigger headache than SA! > > Spamassassin has more than one or

Re: Interesting email...

2009-05-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 17:28, Bill Landry wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: >> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 16:23, Bill Landry wrote: >>> I'm not sure the purpose is of this kind of email, as the links are not >>> clickable, even though they appear to be.  The message sco

Re: Interesting email...

2009-05-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 16:23, Bill Landry wrote: > I'm not sure the purpose is of this kind of email, as the links are not > clickable, even though they appear to be.  The message scored high, but > wondering what others think about this one: > >   http://pastebin.com/m74dd8503 > > Is it simply a

Re: Last-5-percent tuning

2009-02-13 Thread Kurt Buff
IPv6 will not banish NAT. It's too useful for other purposes. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 18:01 +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote: >> On Thu, February 12, 2009 19:29, John Hardin wrote: >> > Ultimately that's what you have to do. The only way to autom

RE: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Yup. Big rise over the past two weeks. Kurt > -Original Message- > From: William Terry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 17:07 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses > > > I mostly lurk here, gleani

RE: Get HAM's from Exchange / Outlook

2007-12-21 Thread Kurt Buff
Steven Stern wrote: > Jason Holbrook wrote: > > > > Hello all, anyone have an idea of how to get HAM’s from an > exchange / > > Outlook environment back to SA? > > > > My incoming is scanned by a SA gateway but outgoing goes > straight from > > exchange to the cloud. > > > > Best Regards, > > >

RE: coming to your inbox: mp3 stock spams

2007-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
> -Original Message- > From: Rob Sterenborg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 22:48 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: coming to your inbox: mp3 stock spams > > > Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: > > Anyway, the Faculty I work for tries to keep the e-ma

RE: sa-update question

2007-04-11 Thread Kurt Buff
From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1) My install of FreeBSD 6.2 doesn't have /var/lib, let along > > /var/lib/spamassassin, so I used an --updatedir of > > /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-updates, which seems to > work. Is this > > reasonable, or will it conflict with anyth

REW: sa-update question

2007-04-11 Thread Kurt Buff
Nuts. Didn't send this to the list. Sorry. Kurt From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea: > Kurt Buff wrote: > > > 3) Lastly, what is this line all about?: > > Can't locate object method "finish" via package > > "Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout" at &g

RE: sa-update question

2007-04-11 Thread Kurt Buff
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Fitzpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:08 > To: Kurt Buff > Cc: 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' > Subject: Re: sa-update question > > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:58 -0700, Kur

sa-update question

2007-04-11 Thread Kurt Buff
ackage "Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/PluginHandler.pm line 187. Kurt Buff Lead Network Administrator Zetron, Inc. 425.820.6363 x463 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 97004 Redmond, WA 98073

RE: Re[2]: how filter messages by subject

2007-01-03 Thread Kurt Buff
Missed the beginning of this conversation. If it's about 'naughty' words, then I've got a word for you: Scunthorpe It's a small town in the UK, and their local government had almost no incoming mail when they implemented a naive naughty word filter, until they figured it out.

RE: Is my Bayes DB borked?

2006-11-22 Thread Kurt Buff
rom: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 06:09 | To: 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' | Subject: RE: Is my Bayes DB borked? | | | Kurt Buff wrote: | > Nope - it's not that. | > | > Looking through my syslog more closely reveals

Is my Bayes DB borked?

2006-11-21 Thread Kurt Buff
erl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/Bayes.pm line 1200\n\tMail::SpamAssassin::Bayes::scan('Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes=HASH(0xa7 c65c0)', 'Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus=HASH(0xbc57698)', 'Mail::SpamAssassin::Message=HASH(0xbc4e2bc)') called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_per

RE: Is my Bayes DB borked?

2006-11-21 Thread Kurt Buff
suppose, but I'm not sure where to start. | -Original Message- | From: Kurt Buff | Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 17:05 | To: 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' | Subject: Is my Bayes DB borked? | | | My postfix queue is climbing like crazy, and I'm getting

RE: MailScanner versus Amavisd-new with postfix

2006-10-27 Thread Kurt Buff
note: I don't use mailscanner, so am only relaying what I saw on the postfix list. My understanding (based on foggy memory - search the list archives for a better answer) is that MailScanner dipped into postfix queues using either undocumented postfix APIs or by bypassing postfix entirely and dire

RE: Any comments of the SpamHaus lawsuit?

2006-10-11 Thread Kurt Buff
Alright - I'll end the useless political debate with a short and very reasonable solution. I'll do it. I'll rule the Internet - it won't cost much, just 1 penny per day per IP addres, from the owner of each IP address. Think of it - I'm just, fair, conscientious, dislike all governments and most

RE: [Bump] No log to syslog after upgrade

2006-09-08 Thread Kurt Buff
This is news to me - I'll have to dig into the docs again, and see what I can find. Sigh. I must be getting old or something. | -Original Message- | From: Stuart Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 15:27 | To: Kurt Buff; users@spamassassin.apach

RE: [Bump] No log to syslog after upgrade

2006-09-07 Thread Kurt Buff
Entered as # 5093. | -Original Message- | From: Kurt Buff | Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 14:27 | To: users@spamassassin.apache.org | Subject: RE: [Bump] No log to syslog after upgrade | | | I've requested an account, and am waiting for the password. | | I understand

RE: [Bump] No log to syslog after upgrade

2006-09-07 Thread Kurt Buff
al Message- | From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 13:32 | To: users@spamassassin.apache.org | Subject: Re: [Bump] No log to syslog after upgrade | | | On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:26:08PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: | > Perhaps an invocation flag c

RE: [Bump] No log to syslog after upgrade

2006-09-07 Thread Kurt Buff
| From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:11:22AM -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: | > > [server]spamassassin --lint -D | > > [22110] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all | > > [22110] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG | > > | > | > Is your syslog daemon configured

RE: Feeding bayes outbounds

2006-08-21 Thread Kurt Buff
| From: Joe Zitnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Our scanning program has the ability to archive all e-mail, | both inbound | and outbound, which we have been doing for months now. Given | that your | outbound mail is almost certainly ham, the majority of it's content is | going to be specific t

RE: [ot] Re: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-11 Thread Kurt Buff
| From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | - Original Message - | From: "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: | Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 16:00 | Subject: [ot] Re: HTML-tests good or bad? | | | > jdow wrote: | >> From: "John Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >>> | >>> On Aug 9,

RE: [OT} silliness Re: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-10 Thread Kurt Buff
| From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | From: "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | > jdow wrote: | >> I've been noticing that this seems to be cropping up in an | awful lot | >> in the righting committed by younger folks. It contributes to the | >> impression that even college graduates

RE: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-08 Thread Kurt Buff
| From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | From: "Chris Santerre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | ... | | > --Chris | > | > (If I spelt everything correct.I'm sorry.) | ^What's this spelt stuff? It sounds nasty. It's what's left over from making beer - I've seen it used to make bread.

RE: rulesets for spamassasin

2006-07-27 Thread Kurt Buff
> (And I have heard there is one > person alive who thoroughly understands PostFix. He currently lives > in an insane asylum. {^_-}) > > {^_^} Heh. Not true. You just need The Book of Postfix, by Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter http://www.bookpool.com/sm/1593270011 Excellent book.

RE: For those who are considering a Barracuda Network Device serv er

2006-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
Mr. Santerre said: > Interesting point there, and I'm about to go a little off topic. > IMHO, an Admins job should be to learn anything that does the > job right. Well, for some value of 'right' - definitions vary, and often what management considers 'right' differs from mine. However: > I've f

RE: Proposal: First URI black list, how about email address black lists?

2006-05-19 Thread Kurt Buff
| I generalized - in ANY spam there is a URL they want you to use. Find | it and send it spurious input, either click fraud or a "Gotcha" email | message. Eat their time or discredit their click counts. The idea is | to raise the expense for the spammers and those who use them. | | {^_^} You do

RE: Amavisd replacement suggestion

2006-03-07 Thread Kurt Buff
Use of mailscanner with postfix is unsupported by the author of postfix. He (Mr. Venema) says that mailscanner mucks about in the internal queues of postfix, and because of that doesn't play nice. Some of the most knowledgable users on the postfix list, especially those with very large installati

RE: OT - Is XO a good ISP?

2005-11-14 Thread Kurt Buff
Just got back from vaca - take a look at the current issue of Network World. It seems the XO is selling off their wireline stuff, and going wireless. XO, a CLEC, is selling its national wireline telecommunications business for $700 million in cash to finance its transition to a fixed broadband

RE: Sorta OT - was: RE: Out of Office AutoReply

2005-10-25 Thread Kurt Buff
es > prohibit them then it should be treated as spam. > > If the list rules has nothing in them about these annoying > little creatures then the list owner should just suspend the > account. > > ----- Original Message - > From: Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sorta OT - was: RE: Out of Office AutoReply

2005-10-25 Thread Kurt Buff
> - Original Message - > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:47 PM > Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: *SPAM* Re: Stupid spammer rule Let's take this one farther afield, shall we? Differentiating between personal accounts and comp

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

2005-04-12 Thread Kurt Buff
Heh. I'm a She-Hulk fan myself. Talk about your powerful woman icon! > -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 07:27 > To: Kurt Buff; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: OT: Do spammers h

RE: OT: Do spammers have a sense of humor?

2005-04-12 Thread Kurt Buff
Most people reading this list are probably not aware that batman has a slightly different meaning to some people in current/former British colonies. A batman was someone who acted something like a personal servant to British military staff, mostly officers, I believe. He wasn't the caped denizen

RE: Mailscanner

2005-02-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Sorry to reply to my own post, but here's a link for for your perusal: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2003-09/1730.html > Don't use Mailscanner with Postfix. > > The author of Postfix states that it's not a good idea. I'll > take his word > for it. > > Kurt > > -Original M

RE: Mailscanner

2005-02-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Don't use Mailscanner with Postfix. The author of Postfix states that it's not a good idea. I'll take his word for it. Kurt -Original Message- From: usha chowdary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 21:18 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Mailscanner hi Ia

RE: Soliciting advice from the list members

2004-12-10 Thread Kurt Buff
Cool. Have to turn up logging to 2, but I'll try it on Monday and see what that brings. Thanks, Kurt -Original Message- From: Bill Landry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 13:30 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org; Kurt Buff Subject: Re: Soliciting advice fro

RE: Soliciting advice from the list members

2004-12-10 Thread Kurt Buff
Matthew said... > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:02:03 -0500 (EST), JP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Report Title : SpamAssassin - Spam Statistics > > > Report Date : 2004-12-10 > > > Period Beginning : Thu 09 Dec 2004 06:00:00 AM PST > > > Period Ending: Fri 10 Dec 2004 06:00:00 AM PST > >

RE: autolearn header not showing - amavis or spamassassin?

2004-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
pamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: autolearn header not showing - amavis or spamassassin? > > > - Original Message - > From: "Kurt Buff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:44 PM > Subject: autolearn header not showing

autolearn header not showing - amavis or spamassassin?

2004-12-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Another problem for me to solve SpamAssassin 3.0.1, amavisd-new 2.2.0 Amongst others, the autolearn header is not showing up in any email I've seen so far, although the bayes_* files are current and obviously being utilised. The following is all that shows --snip-- X-Spam-Sta

SA 3.0 lint error

2004-11-30 Thread Kurt Buff
All, This is a relatively fresh install, new as of last week, not an upgrade of an old system. Ran spamassassin --lint as root, and got the following error: 'Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm line 578.' Where mi

RE: [OT] spamd still burning CPU in 3.0.1

2004-10-28 Thread Kurt Buff
> einheit elf wrote: > > jdow said: > > > > > >>I normally run SpamAssassin (2.63) on a slow machine, a > >>166MHz Pentium with only 256k of ram. > > > > > > Pray tell, what OS enables you to run SA with only a > quarter Meg of RAM? > > ReallyTinyOS ? > ReallyBigROM?

gtube?

2004-10-25 Thread Kurt Buff
3.01, with amavisd-new and clamav, under postfix, on a FreeBSD 5.3 beta7 box, for those who care... Kurt Buff Sr. Network Administrator Zetron, Inc. 425.820.6363 x463 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 97004 Redmond, WA 98073

RE: [ot] NASCAR fans gonna be mad at me :)

2004-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Chris wrote... > >> I told ya so - time to ban that fight where occasionally a > >game breaks > >> out. > > > > > >I don't know ... I think maybe it's time to set up a DNSBL > >that targets > >people who malign the great lifestyle of hockey! HHBL > (Hockey Hater's > >Block List). I bet we c

RE: [ot] NASCAR fans gonna be mad at me :)

2004-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
I told ya so - time to ban that fight where occasionally a game breaks out. > -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 06:23 > To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > Subject: [ot] NASCAR fans gonna be mad at me :) > > > I, ummm. m

RE: 2.6 -> 3.0 migration questions

2004-10-01 Thread Kurt Buff
I like it - ROSS - Stress for Less. > -Original Message- > From: Kelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 15:18 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: 2.6 -> 3.0 migration questions > > > Matt Kettler wrote: > > Given that it's been around for at

RE: [OT]: Charting the history of SPAM

2004-09-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Remember, that's only what got past his corporate filters to his personal account. When seen in that light, it's an enormous amount. Shows how unsatisfying the filtering is for his company! Here's the relevant bit: "Note that this chart is not scientific. Only mail which makes it past the corpora

RE: [SARE] Some SARE spam.

2004-09-16 Thread Kurt Buff
> Does anyone else seriously think that donating to a open > source project > should be a tax write off? Or am I the only one??? Would a > project have to > become a non profit? I just see sooo many people donating > things to open > source, they should at least get a tax break. I mean, I can >