Re: help lowering score on a specific email list situation

2009-03-28 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/2009 04:32 PM, RobertH wrote: hello i have problems with the cabletv.org email list. it is hosted on a charter static and has wierd reverse dns etc etc blah. so, almost always scores as spam here is what it is tripping on...

unable to find user?

2009-02-10 Thread Steven Stern
We're running Spamassasin on three machines, two Fedora 8 and one the latest CENTOS. We're trying to move all of the SA installations to CENTOS. These are MX servers that front an Exchange server. The systems are all set up using the same .cf and init.d files, but we're seeing a difference. We

Re: sa-learn from internal mail server ?

2008-11-26 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/26/2008 04:14 PM, Sam Ami wrote: hi all our current setup. primary mx for all out email domains installation: qmail,spamassasin,clamav all email is inline scanned and then relayed to the internal server for delivery to users mailbox

Re: sa-learn with IMAP

2008-09-01 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/2008 01:29 PM, Raymond Jette wrote: Good afternoon, I am trying to use sa-learn with a Microsoft Exchange server. The users move spam / ham message from there Inbox to a Public folder. The public folder is accessable via IMAP.

What is current version of Botnet plugin?

2008-08-04 Thread Steven Stern
I've found Botnet 0.6 and references to Botnet 0.8(ebuild). What's the preferred version for this plugin?

Re: MySQL Unreliable

2008-05-16 Thread Steven Stern
Marc Perkel wrote: Need a little help for MySQL users. I'm running several servers that are using a common MySQL server for bayes for all the SA servers. What I'm seeing is that MySQL is just plain unreliable. The database is often corrupted and it does so in a manner that basically causes

Re: Integrating Spam assasin with exchange server.

2008-05-15 Thread Steven Stern
forgetting?. | | Thanks. | | Steven Stern wrote: | Crespillo, Matias wrote: | I apologize in advance for making a lazy question, but is there a quick | guide somewhere as to how to integrate Spam Assassin with an exchange | server? Or maybe some way to set it in a way it will get the mails | before

Re: AWL Database Cleanup

2008-04-25 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/2008 06:32 PM, listmail wrote: | I noticed that the AWL database was getting rather large, so I used the | check_whitelist script to remove the stale entries. While this seems to have | removed a lot of entries from the database, it did not

Re: AWL Database Cleanup

2008-04-25 Thread Steven Stern
? | | For the moment, I'm trying to find a simple solution, such as locating a tool | that is capable of managing whatever database SA uses by default for the AWL. |From looking at the scripts, it appears to be something built in to Perl. | | On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:49:01 -0500, Steven Stern wrote | On 04/25/2008 06

Perl problem (Scalar::Util)

2008-02-29 Thread Steven Stern
I'm getting the following error from various perl programs: $sa-update Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Scalar/Util.pm line 30. OK... maybe we need an update: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan install

Re: Perl problem (Scalar::Util)

2008-02-29 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/29/2008 03:57 PM, Bill Landry wrote: | Steven Stern wrote: | I'm getting the following error from various perl programs: | | $sa-update | Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at | /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread

Re: -max-child setting not obeyed?

2008-02-28 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/2008 05:16 PM, fchan wrote: | Hi, | I have set my --max-child to 30 but I look at my logs and it appears | that this is not obeyed. | | Here is my spamd options: | SPAMDOPTIONS=-d -m 30 -H | | Here is what I see in the logs: | Feb 28

Re: -max-child setting not obeyed?

2008-02-28 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/2008 05:16 PM, fchan wrote: | Hi, | I have set my --max-child to 30 but I look at my logs and it appears | that this is not obeyed. | | Here is my spamd options: | SPAMDOPTIONS=-d -m 30 -H | | Here is what I see in the logs: | Feb 28

Re: Expiry problem

2008-01-24 Thread Steven Stern
Michael Parker wrote: On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:54 PM, Steven Stern wrote: It's finally started to remove tokens, so I think I'm OK. We use SQL bayes, so it was an easy matter to use ~ delete from bayes_token where atime UNIX_TIMESTAMP(); to clean up the stuff from the future. But now

Expiry problem

2008-01-23 Thread Steven Stern
We had a server go crazy last night and reset its date into August of 2277. In any case, we've resolved that, but now I can't get bayes to expire. After the clocks was correctly set, I deleted all tokens that had a lastupdate in the future, and also removed similar bayes_seen rows. I then

Re: Expiry problem

2008-01-23 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2008 07:35 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: | Steven Stern wrote: | We had a server go crazy last night and reset its date into August of | 2277. In any case, we've resolved that, but now I can't get bayes to | expire. | | After the clocks

Re: sa-learn error message

2008-01-17 Thread Steven Stern
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:28:06PM -0600, Steven Stern wrote: bayes db version 0 indicates your bayes file is corrupt. It should be version 3. Do you have a backup? SQL or .db? It doesn't necessarily mean there's corruption, in fact, since the learning continued

Re: Is it? Blocked by SpamAssassin

2008-01-15 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/2008 07:24 AM, Umar Murtaza wrote: | | | | | | | | Who exactly is blocking this email? | Can i have a settings to keep a copy/archive of this email, if it is | blocked? | | | Logs: | Jan 15 18:18:43 mailserver sendmail[20774]:

Re: Get HAM's from Exchange / Outlook

2007-12-21 Thread Steven Stern
Jason Bertoch wrote: On Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:49 PM 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? I've posted a howto at http://sstern.ccim.com/2006/07/14/training

Re: Get HAM's from Exchange / Outlook

2007-12-20 Thread Steven Stern
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, Jason Holbrook Chief Technology Integrator / Partner

Re: Virus found in this message, probe?

2007-12-12 Thread Steven Stern
Kenneth Porter wrote: Anyone seen these? text/plain and HTML parts, seem to have same content, saying there's a virus, please delete, and some gibberish. I'm guessing it's some kind of probe. There was a web address hidden by a malformed CSS tag.

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-09 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/09/2007 03:27 PM, Mark Rigby-Jones wrote: On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:03, Paweł Sasin wrote: are you using network tests? Try to evaluate spamd performance when run with the -L flag. We are running network tests. Disabling them helps somewhat,

Re: Unique Blacklist Whitelist configuration or an allow only list

2007-11-17 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/2007 09:35 AM, robgeo730 wrote: Hello I'm a new user, I have used the search function but wasn't able to find a situation like mine. I am fighting an uphill battle against a crappy hosting company that I can't change from. We have our

Robert Sexton filter

2007-10-02 Thread Steven Stern
We get many, many emails from a Robert Sexton who claims he'll do wonders with search engine placement. As fast as I add an address to the blacklist, he comes in with another. For example, from the AWL tables on one of our MX servers:

Re: Robert Sexton filter

2007-10-02 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/2007 11:06 AM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:58:26AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: We get many, many emails from a Robert Sexton who claims he'll do wonders with search engine placement. As fast as I add an address

Re: bayes_seen = 256GB

2007-09-19 Thread Steven Stern
mfahey wrote: SpamAssassin-3.2.0 Freebsd6.2 The file bayes_seen has grown in size to 256GB! (274992939008) How do I cap the size limit of this file? I want to have it not grow larger then say 800mb at the most! Thanks. You can 'rm' the file or use MySQL for your backend and write a

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-16 Thread Steven Stern
Marc Perkel wrote: OK - it's interesting that of all of you who responded this is the only person who is doing it right. I have to say that I'm somewhat surprised that so few people are preprocessing their email to reduce the SA load. As we all know SA is very processor and memory expensive.

Re: Mail server hosted by Comcast

2007-08-16 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/2007 10:43 AM, Matt wrote: I'm on Comcast and am having no problems. I set the smarthost for sendmail to smtp.comcast.net and, at least so far, have not triggered anything that would block incoming or outgoing mail. All mail from me

Re: Mail server hosted by Comcast

2007-08-11 Thread Steven Stern
Igor Chudov wrote: I am considering a local deal related to hosting by Comcast cable (8mbps down, 1 mbps up). I am concerned, however, with me sending email and being on comcast IP range, due to bad rap that Comcast has due to spamming by Comcast hosted zombies. Do you think that my

Re: Sa-update question

2007-07-20 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Skip Brott wrote: Using the recommended actions from this list, I run this: sa-update --channelfile /etc/mail/spamassassin/saupdate/sare-sa-update-channels.txt -D I get this result from each channel: [29610] dbg: gpg: gpg: Signature made

Re: not everyone is happy with SA

2007-07-20 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: Further, I as the sender have no obligation to participate in your anti-spam mechanism. It's YOUR mechanism. You feed it, you configure it, your CPU cycles are spent on it. I have no obligation to participate in the program

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-27 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wael Shahin wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 09:18 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: Stéphane LEPREVOST schrieb: Hi, Got one yesterday too here. Seems to be a new way for spammers ... I have two servers one is running DCC and one is not, the one

Re: mySQL bayes not working correctly

2007-06-10 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary V wrote: I'm running amavisd-new with spamassassin and setup bayes and mysql earlier today. It seems to connect to the db fine with user vscan when running spamassassin -d. I ran sa-learn --spam/ham spam.txt (full email headers too) a few

Re: sa-compile error

2007-06-08 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 diptanjan wrote: Hi Friends, I am getting an error when ever I am usinf sa-compile. can you please checkout and tell me the reason behind it? # sa-compile [4846] info: generic: base extraction starting. this can take a while... [4846] info:

Rulesemporium down?

2007-06-07 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My systems all were unable to connect for their daily RDJ update yesterday. I time out trying to reach http://rulesemporium.com. Does anyone know what's happening? - -- Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: spamassassin upgrade

2007-05-20 Thread Steven Stern
night duke wrote: Currently i have this version of spamassassin SpamAssassin version 3.1.7-deb Can i update it to the last version? Apt-get or yum or howto? Thanks I prefer to download the .tgz file from spamassassin.apache.org and create the rpm myself via rpmbuild -tb

Re: spamassassin upgrade

2007-05-20 Thread Steven Stern
night duke wrote: I have debian... */Steven Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* escribió: night duke wrote: Currently i have this version of spamassassin SpamAssassin version 3.1.7-deb Can i update it to the last version? Apt-get or yum or howto

sa-compile error

2007-05-16 Thread Steven Stern
I've set up sa-compile successfully on two of our three servers. The third gives this error: Insecure dependency in mkdir while running with -T switch at /usr/bin/sa-compile line 321, $fh line 1. Googling around, there are references to editing a perl .pm file, but this error points to the

Re: SA 3.2.0 install and/or upgrade

2007-05-05 Thread Steven Stern
Abba Communications - www.abbacomm.net wrote: Greetings, We have looked over the 3.2.0 install and upgrade docs as best we can so far... Situation: running a Redhat 4.x or Centos 4.x server SA 3.1.8 Everything is currently run site-wide and not user configurable No MySQL in use. Question(s)

Help with rule

2007-04-10 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to flag a type of spam that seems to be slipping through with a very low score The common factor is that all of the messages have something linke Just type www [.] pillking [.] org Just type FONT color=#ffwww/FONT [.]

Re: Bayes MySQL users

2007-03-24 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Perkel wrote: Looking at the bayes_vars table and seeing 2 entries, spamd, and root. I'd like to get rid of and per user info so that all learing is common. Not sure why this is happening. What do I need to do to force everything to one user?

Re: Bayes training question

2007-02-16 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 yossim wrote: Hi folks, Hi can i learn miss identified junk mail that is store on exchange or at the otulook clients? Can i simply copy those mails to a folder on my Linux server and run sa-learn with the required parameters? Kindly regards, Yossi

Re: [2] Bayes training question

2007-02-16 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 yossim wrote: Steve, I am not sure that i have anderstand the first script starting with get_ham_spam were you use fetchmail (where the data is kept?) and the last one get-ham-spam when you used wget command to get all the ham.spam emails. Kindly

How do I whitelist this?

2007-01-30 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having problems whitelisting mail sent through web sites with a from address supplied by the user. Case in point, I send an article from huffingtonpost.com to myself. I used a whitelist from huffingtonpost.com, but that doesn't reduce the spam

Re: Should I use greylisting

2007-01-25 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Bickerton wrote: Thanks, but does this mean I have to keep/maintain a list of all the mail farms. Keeping this list up to date sounds horrid/impossible. Matthew -Original Message- From: --[ UxBoD ]-- [mailto:[EMAIL

sa-update errors with 3.1.7

2007-01-01 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From this morning's log from three of our MX servers running SA 3.1.7. Does the channel for 3.1.7 have the wrong rules? config: configuration file /tmp/.spamassassin8654JTlidztmp/20_advance_fee.cf requires version 3.002000 of SpamAssassin, but this

Re: Google open relay?

2006-12-08 Thread Steven Stern
laradji nacer wrote: Steven Stern a écrit : I've been getting lots of these get out of debt messages. It looks like the last stop before getting here is a gmail server. Could they have an open relay? No but gmail host personal domain not only @gmail.com . Google Apps for Your Domain (GAYD

Re: local.cf

2006-12-07 Thread Steven Stern
Andrea Bencini wrote: I am looking for local.cf documentation to understand which are the variables to set in this file. Can you help me? Thank Andrea man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf

Google open relay?

2006-12-07 Thread Steven Stern
I've been getting lots of these get out of debt messages. It looks like the last stop before getting here is a gmail server. Could they have an open relay? Received: from ccim-mx2.cciminstitute.com ([10.0.2.10]) by ccim-exchange.cciminstitute.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);

Re: Google open relay?

2006-12-07 Thread Steven Stern
John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Steven Stern wrote: I've been getting lots of these get out of debt messages. It looks like the last stop before getting here is a gmail server. Could they have an open relay? Have you notified [EMAIL PROTECTED]? You betcha! And also

Re: Google open relay?

2006-12-07 Thread Steven Stern
David B Funk wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Steven Stern wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Steven Stern wrote: I've been getting lots of these get out of debt messages. It looks like the last stop before getting here is a gmail server. Could they have an open relay? Have you

Re: sa-update

2006-12-06 Thread Steven Stern
Thomas Bolioli wrote: when I run sa-update it puts new copies of the tests in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001005/updates_spamassassin_org which I understand from the docs is the correct location. However, the default tests remain in /usr/share/spamassassin/ and I believe they are still being

Re: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-04 Thread Steven Stern
Bazooka Joe wrote: rules_du_jour seems to fail on lint. I am trying to figure that out now but I have a different question. Has channels replaced rules_du_jour? Should I be using something else to update my sare rules? thx -bazooka ps I am using SpamAssassin 3.1.4 pps below are

Re: How to upgrade spamassassin in Mandrake 10.1

2006-12-03 Thread Steven Stern
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I try to upgrade my SA in mandrake 10.1. I've downloaded the latest SA and build the rpm. But, when I tried to upgrade it, it errored: rpm -Uvh spamassassin-3.1.7-1.i586.rpm perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7-1.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies:

Re: sa-update installation

2006-11-29 Thread Steven Stern
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello List, I have successfully (I hope) installed and run sa-update, and I see that it installed files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/ In my FreeBSD box, I am used to the rules being in /usr/local/share/spamassassin and /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin.

Re: Help with sa-learn when using Outlook 2003.

2006-11-19 Thread Steven Stern
thekillerbean wrote: We currently have an Exchange 2003 server that is under heavy burden due to excessive SPAM. The company is not willing to spend $$$ to resolve the issue if it can be done on Linux - especially being that we have several Linux boxes lying idle! Hence, my plan is to

Re: spamd error -- max-children?

2006-11-19 Thread Steven Stern
Ron Freidel wrote: Hi All, We run a relatively small (amount of clients) freebsd email hosting server, was running spamassassin: 3.0.2 on a qmail server. We took on a new client who was recieving alot of spam, as their old provider kept telling them there was nothing that could be done

Odd error (or is it an error)

2006-09-10 Thread Steven Stern
The following appears periodically in my maillog. I think it has to do with an attempt to do a cpan upgrade or SpamAssassin that I had to back out and replace with the Fedora RPM. In any case, is this anything to worry about? Sep 10 11:12:30 mooch spamd[26250]: (?:(?=[\s,]))* matches null

Whitelist ebay

2006-09-07 Thread Steven Stern
Lint keeps throwing out this line: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there something special about ebay?

Re: Train from Outlook?

2006-08-23 Thread Steven Stern
Christopher Mills wrote: Tell me something, is there a pluggin for outlook that would allow me to train spamassassin on the web server? Eg, messages come in, end up in my Junk Mail folder, can i somehow select them, and click a button with this 'addin' and have it find our web server and

Problems after upgrade to 3.1.4

2006-07-27 Thread Steven Stern
These occur with spamassassin -D --lint. RDJ is up to date, as is sa-update. [6837] info: rules: meta test DIGEST_MULTIPLE has undefined dependency 'DCC_CHECK' [6837] info: rules: meta test SARE_SPEC_PROLEO_M2a has dependency 'MIME_QP_LONG_LINE' with a zero score [6837] info: rules: meta test

Using a # character in a spam report

2006-07-19 Thread Steven Stern
In our standard spam report, we have a line like report For more info, see http://our.server/infopage.html I'm adding content to the page and would like to add links to local anchors report For more info, see http://our.server/infopage.html#anchor It appears that SA treats the # as the start

Re: Using a # character in a spam report

2006-07-19 Thread Steven Stern
Duane Hill wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Steven Stern wrote: In our standard spam report, we have a line like report For more info, see http://our.server/infopage.html I'm adding content to the page and would like to add links to local anchors report For more info, see http://our.server

Re: Image only spam

2006-07-14 Thread Steven Stern
Jack Gostl wrote: - Original Message - *From:* Steven Stern mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Cc:* Spamass mailto:users@spamassassin.apache.org *Sent:* Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:52 PM *Subject:* Re: Image only spam Jack Gostl wrote: - Original Message - From: Steven Stern

Re: Image only spam

2006-07-13 Thread Steven Stern
Jack Gostl wrote: - Original Message - From: Steven Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Spamass users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:31 PM Subject: Re: Image only spam Jack Gostl wrote: Thanks for the response. Take it slow with me, spamassassin has been

Re: Image only spam

2006-07-12 Thread Steven Stern
Jack Gostl wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 running on Perl version 5.8.2 under AIX 5.3. Starting a few months ago, I have been absolutely inundated with image only spam. I've gone from catching 99% of the spam with almost no false positives to less than 85%. I asked about this

Re: Image only spam

2006-07-12 Thread Steven Stern
- From: Steven Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Spamass users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:13 AM Subject: Re: Image only spam Jack Gostl wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 running on Perl version 5.8.2 under AIX 5.3. Starting a few months ago, I have

Re: Bayes autolearn configuration

2006-07-04 Thread Steven Stern
Richard E. Bewley, Jr. wrote: Hi, I'm using SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 running on Perl version 5.8.0. My autolearn is enabled, and I'm getting the below headers, which according to spamassassin documentation means that autolearn is enabled, but not meeting required criteria to learn. I am

Re: spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4

2006-07-03 Thread Steven Stern
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi ALL I have spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4 installed by default in RHEL4 Linux box, How do i configure spamassassin and integrate it with Sendmail Thanks and Regards Kaushal Install spamass-milter to link spamassassin and Sendmail. -- Steve

Re: spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4

2006-07-03 Thread Steven Stern
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On 7/3/06, Steven Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi ALL I have spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4 installed by default in RHEL4 Linux box, How do i configure spamassassin and integrate it with Sendmail Thanks and Regards Kaushal Install spamass

Re: spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4

2006-07-03 Thread Steven Stern
jdow wrote: From: Steven Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi ALL I have spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4 installed by default in RHEL4 Linux box, How do i configure spamassassin and integrate it with Sendmail Thanks and Regards Kaushal Install spamass-milter to link

Re: ham and spam

2006-06-20 Thread Steven Stern
John D. Hardin wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael Di Martino wrote: How does one feed bayes ham and spam on an smpt gateway(no local deliverey). All sever does is accetp mail for one 2 domains scrub for virus and spam and then forward it to its nastly littly exchange server. Can you set

sa-update: then what

2006-06-05 Thread Steven Stern
I've run sa-update and have files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001001, 002, and 003. Am I supposed to move these somewhere? Should all but the latest directory be deleted? Is it necessary to run sa-update after installing 3.1.3? -- Steve

Re: Integrating Spam assasin with exchange server.

2006-06-01 Thread Steven Stern
Crespillo, Matias wrote: I apologize in advance for making a lazy question, but is there a quick guide somewhere as to how to integrate Spam Assassin with an exchange server? Or maybe some way to set it in a way it will get the mails before, filter and then forward them to exchange unchanged?.

Re: Bypassing scan on locally originated mail

2006-05-24 Thread Steven Stern
Rich Winkel wrote: According to Andrzej Adam Filip: How do you deployed spamassassin? I use a milter ... If you're using spamass-milter, edit /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter and add excluded addresses with the -i paramater: EXTRA_FLAGS=-i 192.168.1.0/24,127.0.0.1 -- Steve

Re: AutoWhitelist

2006-05-20 Thread Steven Stern
Pablo Allietti wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:23:04PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Saturday 20 May 2006 21:54 skrev Pablo Allietti: hi all, i have spamassassin for freebsd running in my system and i want to modify a score but i dont have a 50_score How i modify this score? 7.5 AWL

Re: Spamd Children

2006-05-12 Thread Steven Stern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, fair enough...i downloaded and ran rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1.tar.gz As descibed on the site. I don't see any changes in the version number, is there more I have to do ? That just creates the RPM files in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS. Did you install

Re: Spamd Children

2006-05-12 Thread Steven Stern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doh, no...can you point me in the direction of how to do that? on 5/12/06 8:23 AM, Steven Stern at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, fair enough...i downloaded and ran rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1.tar.gz As descibed on the site

Re: Big Idiot Needs Instructions

2006-05-11 Thread Steven Stern
Chris Edwards wrote: Hola, I have spent two days trying to figure out how to get the following to work. I have set up Spamassassin and ClamAV, I am running sendmail on the Solaris 10 platform. I would like to be able to scan for all spam and virus (in, out and relayed email). Can someone

Bayes not working

2006-05-10 Thread Steven Stern
On a new SA installation that's as identical to the other 3 we have running as possible, bayes is not running. spamassassin -D --lint indicates that all is normal. The test message generates a Bayes score. sa-learn is able to talk to the mysql database: We're able to update the database using

Re: Bayes not working

2006-05-10 Thread Steven Stern
Andy Spiegl wrote: [3320] dbg: bayes: corpus size: nspam = 178, nham = 168 Probably because your corpus is still too small. man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf ... bayes_min_ham_num(Default: 200) bayes_min_spam_num (Default: 200) To be accurate, the Bayes

Re: Bayes not working

2006-05-10 Thread Steven Stern
Michael Monnerie wrote: On Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2006 16:01 Steven Stern wrote: I imported a corpus of about 2 messages total and it wasn't working. I blew it all away and started from scratch thinking that was the problem. For now, local.cf has a minimum of 100 messages of each type

errors on 3.1.1

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Stern
After installing 3.1.1 by building the RPM from the .tar.gz file, I get the following in my log: Mar 11 22:51:52 mooch spamd[15660]: List::Util object version 1.14 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.18 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 92. Mar 11 22:51:52

Re: errors on 3.1.1

2006-03-11 Thread Steven Stern
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:54:50PM -0600, Steven Stern wrote: After installing 3.1.1 by building the RPM from the .tar.gz file, I get the following in my log: Hrm. None of these are SpamAssassin related, fwiw. Mar 11 22:51:52 mooch spamd[15660]: List::Util object

Re: bayes DBM versus SQL

2006-03-02 Thread Steven Stern
Webmaster wrote: Those of you you have used both native DBM and new SQL bayesian, can you comment on benefits of one versus the other please. Much appreciated! I have three MX servers fronting our Exchange box. The fastest of the MX servers is also handling the MySQL server for both

Re: Bayes question

2006-02-21 Thread Steven Stern
M. Lewis wrote: I recently lost a hard drive and have had to setup everything again. I'm seeing a fair amount of spam that is getting through my filters. From what I can see in the headers of messages, bayes does not seem to be used at all. I'm reasonable sure this is the reason I'm seeing

Re: Bayes question

2006-02-21 Thread Steven Stern
M. Lewis wrote: Thanks Steve, # sa-learn --dump magic 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0 57468 0 non-token data: nspam 0.000 0 16419 0 non-token data: nham 0.000 0 181931 0

[Fwd: re: rpm of Spam Assassin]

2006-02-10 Thread Steven Stern
Original Message Subject: re: rpm of Spam Assassin Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:23:35 -0600 From: Skip [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven, Thanks for the reply re: the rpm build of SpamAssassin 3.1.0. I also did the build on my system, but I can't find the location of where the build

Re: How to delete Spam automatically

2006-02-10 Thread Steven Stern
Al Bogner wrote: My hoster offers cpanel to configure spamassassin, which has only a few options to configure, like white and blacklist. But I have shell-access to my account and maybe I could try out how to delete spam automatically. It looks like amavis isn't used on this RedHat machine with

Re: Could you scan your logs for me?

2006-02-03 Thread Steven Stern
Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: Hi, can I ask a small favor from some of you running SA with Bayes enabled: Please run the following perl-oneliner on your SA-log (mine is current): perl -ne 'if (/result:/) {$n++; $b++ if (/BAYES/);} } print $b/$n,\n; {' current (I promise it's not a rootkit :-) I

perl error

2005-12-17 Thread Steven Stern
I just installed an update for Perl for Fedora 4 and now... Dec 17 11:08:02 mooch spamd[3144]: List::Util object version 1.14 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.18 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 92. Dec 17 11:08:02 mooch spamd[3144]: List::Util object

Whitelist one, whitelist all

2005-12-12 Thread Steven Stern
I have one user who insists on seeing all mail sent to her. (OK, it's my wife.) I added all_spam_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to local.cf and that makes it work for her. However, if there are other recipients bcc'd on the the email, then the all_spam_to negative score gets applied to the message and

Re: Whitelist one, whitelist all

2005-12-12 Thread Steven Stern
Matt Kettler wrote: Steven Stern wrote: I have one user who insists on seeing all mail sent to her. (OK, it's my wife.) I added all_spam_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to local.cf and that makes it work for her. However, if there are other recipients bcc'd on the the email, then the all_spam_to

Re: Problems with AOL's TOS reports

2005-12-03 Thread Steven Stern
Robert Menschel wrote: Hello Steven, Thursday, December 1, 2005, 6:57:45 PM, you wrote: SS In order to keep our mail flowing to AOL members, I've signed up through SS the AOL postmaster service to receive TOS reports. Basically, whenever SS someone reports mail from our domains as spam, AOL

Problems with AOL's TOS reports

2005-12-01 Thread Steven Stern
In order to keep our mail flowing to AOL members, I've signed up through the AOL postmaster service to receive TOS reports. Basically, whenever someone reports mail from our domains as spam, AOL forwards it to me. (They delete the addressee from the headers, although not completely so

Re: Problems with AOL's TOS reports

2005-12-01 Thread Steven Stern
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you should _definitely_ whitelist AOL's scomp source address -- preferably using whitelist_from_spf, as they publish a reliable SPF record for aol.net. - --j. Thanks. That did the trick: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-94.8

Re: How effective is it?

2005-11-27 Thread Steven Stern
John Woolsey wrote: Is SA more effective than popfile? And can you manually train it (if you have root access)? - thanx - JAW I set up popfile on clients' computers to help them both with spam and categorization, but it's not the best solution to spam.

Re: Error when attempting to run sa-stats

2005-11-21 Thread Steven Stern
Jason Kratzer wrote: Do I need to install the module or can I run it from the install directory. I was unable to find the documentation for it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tools]# ./sa-stats.pl Can't locate Parse/Syslog.pm in @INC (@INC contains: perl -MCPAN -e shell install Parse::Syslog

Re: Error when attempting to run sa-stats

2005-11-21 Thread Steven Stern
jdow wrote: From: Steven Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Kratzer wrote: Do I need to install the module or can I run it from the install directory. I was unable to find the documentation for it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tools]# ./sa-stats.pl Can't locate Parse/Syslog.pm in @INC (@INC

Re: why doesn't this email get detected as spam?

2005-11-20 Thread Steven Stern
Andreas Kotowicz wrote: attached email doesn't get any score. why is that? cheers, andreas What rules are you using? This is what I got from your email. Seems like a little bit of bayes training should catch it. result: X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.8 required=5.0

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