Re: more spam since upgrade

2004-10-07 Thread Lucas Albers
Vivek Khera said: > I'm not using Bayes since the filtering is site-wide at the smtp server > level. I use bayes sitewide for 600 users, and have processed a few million messages. Bayes sitewide works well, as the spam email is obviously unlike the normal mail anyone receives. I would enable baye

Re: How to rewrite spamc in Perl

2004-10-07 Thread Lucas Albers
>> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:11:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> > >> > Is there any documentation for the spamd client interface? >> > MIMEDefang can talk to clamd.sock directly, using the commands in man >> > clamd, rather than spawning `clamdscan` processes. I checked man >> > spam

Re: 2.6 -> 3.0 migration questions

2004-10-01 Thread Lucas Albers
I think as many of the changes for an upgrade between 2.6 and 3.0 should be documented somewhere. Not the upgrade document, because their are two many changes. (eg, My bug on this issue got rejected.) In the wiki somewhere, then. David Brodbeck said: > Lucas Albers wrote: > >>Some

Re: SA 3.0 is eating up all my memory!!!

2004-10-01 Thread Lucas Albers
Luis Hernán Otegui said: > ok, the virus warning issues have been solved, but NOT the fact that I > have 22 copies of spamd running at the same time, even when I´ve > limited the number of max children of Sendmail to 20, and each copy of > spamd weights 21 MB! How can I limit the amount of memory

Re: Spamassassin 3.0 with mimedefang 2.37

2004-09-30 Thread Lucas Albers
Justin Mason said: > Well, it would be *nice*. I think it's reasonable to assume > that MIMEDefang and amavisd certainly need this, given the very > large amount of bug reports we've been getting. We'll just make a wiki entry and naturally the popular software will be updated with info on 3.0 c

Re: 2.6 -> 3.0 migration questions

2004-09-30 Thread Lucas Albers
Some options kick you in the face. Such as -a for spamd which will prevent it from starting. I guess we can add in a wiki entry for upgrades from 3.0 instead of forcing the dev's to document every nit-picking thing. Some options are just ignored, eg, no backward compatibility. bayes autolearn cha

Re: serious problems after upgrade

2004-09-28 Thread Lucas Albers
Matt Kettler said: > 1) SA 3.0 has it's own built in support for URI RBLs, but it is > implemented > differently than Mail::SpamcopURI does it. > rm /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamcop_uri.cf > > 2) you need to upgrade the version of your bayes DB, as per the > instructions in the UPGRADE file

RE: MIMEDefang, SpamAssassin and URIDNSBLs

2004-09-28 Thread Lucas Albers
Tim Boyer said: > > But the same question applies. Even _if_ I had it set wrong, why would it > work when I do a 'spamassassin --test', but not when MIMEDefang calls it? > You calling it as the user mimedefang runs as.. do all your tests like such: su -c "spamassassin --test" defang -- Luke C

Re: Spammers using my server

2004-09-24 Thread Lucas Albers
As a another good step, just SA scan ALL incoming and outgoing mail. Run a vulnerability scan against your server, nessus or sara against your machine to find what is being exploited. -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State Univer

Re: [sa-list] Re: DSPAM-plugin for SpamAssassin 3.* ?

2004-09-23 Thread Lucas Albers
Could you use the embedded perl? Mimedefang uses that for better memory sharing between processes, appears to work on most platforms running 5.6 or later of perl. Justin Mason said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Sounds like we need to figure out how to get more of our stuff

Re: [sa-list] [OT] Mailing list

2004-09-21 Thread Lucas Albers
set that in the web interface. Subcribe, but don't receive email. Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Richard Humphrey wrote: > >> Is there a way I can set it so I dont receive mail from the list because >> I >> check it through GMane. I want to be subscribed so I can post thoug

RE: sign up for spam

2004-09-17 Thread Lucas Albers
Peuhkurinen, Kevin said: > Why not just report the thief to your local law enforcement agency? That > would seem a much more appropriate way to go. After all, the thief could > just get SpamAssassin and never see any of that spam you signed him/her up > for. > They did. It's just so easy to get

sign up for spam

2004-09-16 Thread Lucas Albers
Any ideas on how to go through the process of signing up for spam. Someone stole one of my friends credit card's number, and signed up with some porno sites with his real email address. I wanted to sign up the thief to every spamming email list on the planet. I think this same idea would be appli

Re: [sa-list] Lost Newbie

2004-09-16 Thread Lucas Albers
Dan Mahoney, System Admin said: > > By the way, the defaults are usually pretty decent (and get way better > once the bayes magic starts working). Perhaps you should look at WHY ham > is being caught, and be sure to teach your users how to properly whitelist > their mail if there's a problem. Th

RE: any performance benefit to SA 3.0?

2004-09-14 Thread Lucas Albers
Can you also get a performance boost ifyou use the unix socket instead of the tcp socket? Someone mentioned this feature back in teh 2.6x era, but I could never get it to work. This assumes that spamd is running on the local machine. Chris Blaise said: > > The biggest performance benefit you

Re: timing/performance issues

2004-09-10 Thread Lucas Albers
0 non-token data: ntokens Ralf Hildebrandt said: > * Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I've had good results doing bayes learn_to_journal and then running a >> rebuild every hour. > > Whoa, hourly? I can try that. > >> This runs quick, even with

Re: timing/performance issues

2004-09-09 Thread Lucas Albers
I've had good results doing bayes learn_to_journal and then running a rebuild every hour. This runs quick, even with concurrent access's. Bayes get's updated quickly. Bayes is only locked for a few seconds every hour, less than 3 seconds. Ralf Hildebrandt said: > * Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3.0.0-rc3 - Migrate Bayes/AWL to SQL?

2004-09-08 Thread Lucas Albers
It would be nice if we had full complete directions on upgrading to sql based for SA 3.0. Step by step. -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana

Re: using a global bayesian database?

2004-09-06 Thread Lucas Albers
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk said: > Can I have spamassassin update a common database for all users on the > whole system somehow? This depends on how SA is integrated with your mail server. if all incoming mail is run under the same account, then you have a a global database, if it runs under each user,