Fetchmail + spamassassin + exim

2005-07-25 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
Hi, some time ago I installed a little server at home to use it as firewall and mailserver. I got the mail using fetchmail, scanned with spamassassin and the delivered and filter with exim. Something that a lot of pages have explained. I'm using sarge in a P100 with 64Mb of ram. Little server!!

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-09-01 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 03-09-01 01:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Actually it is a more secure version of what I have done here. In fact I > do it the really half-baked way by adding myself to the mail and gave myself > sudo access to chmod to get the directories to the right permission. > cool. thanks for the

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-09-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:19:12 -0400 kenneth dombrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the end it might have been easier to just filter @ the Procmail > level, but I understand with Exim4 it's possible to reject mail @ the > SMTP level based on SA results.. which seems like a desirable thing to > imp

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-09-01 Thread kenneth dombrowski
nces have them enabled? Have you fed it large amounts of ham only to > have that dump into your personal filter and looking at it from the global or > vice versa? > Thank you, Steve, your last question prompted me to rethink what was going on. I am calling spamc via dman's SpamAssassin

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:15:09 -0400 kenneth dombrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, there's definitely something wrong with my setup since upgrading > from 2.43 -> 2.55 this past week, I've fed sa-learn almost 2k --spam > and >4k --ham messages, and I'm yet to see a single BAYES_* test in the

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:45:10 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kmail does allow you to define filters, but wouldn't it be better to let > > exim do the filtering before the mail reaches the MUA? > exim doesn't do filtering, but procmail does. Not true in multiple cases. http

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:42:50 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:16:14PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > Kmail doesn't show your email as having an attachment. Would that be the > > gpg? > Yup, that's it. V

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:27:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Did I miss something? > > How does it get to that 200 mark of ham and spam? I got bored last night. Really bored. Waiting for 2.6.0-test2 to compile bored. In the mean time, I w

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:16:14PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Kmail doesn't show your email as having an attachment. Would that be the gpg? Yup, that's it. View the raw message and you'll see that it's a multipart MIME message. As is mine. > At an

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:35:20PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Now that I'm using SA, I'm using Bayesian filtering, yes? That is correct. > Kmail does allow you to define filters, but wouldn't it be better to let exim > do the filtering before the m

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 11:16:42AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > KDE shell for mutt? What's konsole, then? No, I meant like a GUI frontend. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debi

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread kenneth dombrowski
what a timely thread! excuse me for interrupting, On 03-08-30 20:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > You can tell by looking at the headers and seeing if BAYES_xx shows up. > The xx is the approx. range that the Bayesian filter places the particular > piece of mail. For example here's the score

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:45:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > exim doesn't do filtering, but procmail does. You may find procmail > better suited to your needs, but a good part of the decision is > personal choice. Er, exim most certainly does do filtering. There's a lot to be said for rejecti

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 11:06:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Yes, whereas mutt really does the job right. It's a bummer nobody's > made a KDE shell for mutt to bring the joy of mutt to the Windows > convert newbies. It would totally blow their minds. KDE shell for mutt? What's konsole, then?

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 08:56:43AM -0400, Jeff McAdams wrote: > Of course, multipart MIME is strictly the same thing as an attachment. > Specifically, the various parts of multipart/signed messages are shown > as inline rather than attached. The disti

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Jeff McAdams
Also Sprach Paul Johnson >On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:16:14PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Kmail doesn't show your email as having an attachment. Would that be >> the gpg? >Yup, that's it. View the raw message and you'll see that it's a >multipart MIME message. As is mine. Of course, multipart M

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Jeff McAdams
Also Sprach Jeff McAdams >Also Sprach Paul Johnson >>On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:16:14PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: >>> Kmail doesn't show your email as having an attachment. Would that be >>> the gpg? >>Yup, that's it. View the raw message and you'll see that it's a >>multipart MIME message. As i

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 30 August 2003 11:48 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: >On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:40:13 -0400 > >Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It may be turned on in the config files, but I am guessing that the code >> is skipping the bayesian score contribution until the mail count gets to >> 200 on each

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:40:13 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may be turned on in the config files, but I am guessing that the code is > skipping the bayesian score contribution until the mail count gets to 200 on > each side (ham/spam). Right. > I just grabbed a lot of emai

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Tom Allison
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:18:59 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From what I'm seeing in the logs and in the docs is that Bayesian filtering is enabled by default. But it is not used until there is (IIRC) 200 emails of both spam and ham built into the database. Did I

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:18:59 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I'm seeing in the logs and in the docs is that Bayesian filtering > is enabled by default. But it is not used until there is (IIRC) 200 emails > of both spam and ham built into the database. > Did I miss some

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Tom Allison
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:35:20 -0400 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that I'm using SA, I'm using Bayesian filtering, yes? If you turned it on, yes. Kmail does allow you to define filters, but wouldn't it be better to let exim do the filtering before the mail rea

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:35:20 -0400 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I'm using SA, I'm using Bayesian filtering, yes? If you turned it on, yes. > Kmail does allow you to define filters, but wouldn't it be better to let > exim do the filtering before the mail reaches the MUA?

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 30 August 2003 10:19 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: >On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:16:14 -0400 > >Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kmail doesn't show your email as having an attachment. Would that be the >> gpg? > >Yup. > >> At any rate, almost 99% of the spam I get is HTML, but I get your

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:16:14 -0400 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kmail doesn't show your email as having an attachment. Would that be the > gpg? Yup. > At any rate, almost 99% of the spam I get is HTML, but I get your drift of > letting SA handle the catagorization of email. Like

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 30 August 2003 8:39 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: >On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:04:59 -0400 > >Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I used spamc < ./$1 | grep '^X-Spam' and it identified an obvious piece of >> spam, and my emails now contain: Received: from mail by elkins.org with >> spam-scanne

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:04:59 -0400 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used spamc < ./$1 | grep '^X-Spam' and it identified an obvious piece of > spam, and my emails now contain: Received: from mail by elkins.org with > spam-scanned (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) Your stats on mail processed

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-30 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 29 August 2003 2:21 pm, Michael Heldebrant wrote: >On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:23, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> Is there a FAQ available for setting up Spamassassin and exim? Googling >> found several for SA + postfix, but not for exim. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jeff Elkins > >I'm not sure if there is a

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
Ya sure about that? Seems to me that the 2nd link for a search on >"Spamassassin Exim" is pretty darn useful all things considered. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/ I must have screwed up my query. Re-searching found several. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:23, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Is there a FAQ available for setting up Spamassassin and exim? Googling found > several for SA + postfix, but not for exim. > > Thanks, > > Jeff Elkins > I'm not sure if there is a complete FAQ available. This is how I have spamc integrated i

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:23:51PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: | Is there a FAQ available for setting up Spamassassin and exim? | Googling found several for SA + postfix, but not for exim. Try again. http://www.google.com/search?q=exim%20spamassassin Or look on the spamassassin home page. There

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:23:51 -0400 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a FAQ available for setting up Spamassassin and exim? Googling > found several for SA + postfix, but not for exim. Ya sure about that? Seems to me that the 2nd link for a search on "Spam

Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
Is there a FAQ available for setting up Spamassassin and exim? Googling found several for SA + postfix, but not for exim. Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-18 Thread Steve Haslam
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:52:56AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good way to integrate spamassassin with exim? > > I tried the instructions at > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html > to use it as a transport filter, but I just "unexpected EOF

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:59:12AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:52:56AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote.. > > Can anyone recommend a good way to integrate spamassassin with exim? > > apt-get install procmail. Then, in your ~/.procmail/rc.recipe file, > make sure you hav

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Oct 2002, Iain. wrote: > Gottfried Szing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i would suggest to replace the spamassassin with spamc/spamd. spamd is a > > daemon which runs in the background and spamc controls the daemon. > > I've got a couple of problems with spamd. First is that it doesn't > a

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:52:56AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good way to integrate spamassassin with exim? > > I tried the instructions at > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html > to use it as a transport filter, but I just "unexpected EOF du

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Iain.
Gottfried Szing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i would suggest to replace the spamassassin with spamc/spamd. spamd is a > daemon which runs in the background and spamc controls the daemon. I've got a couple of problems with spamd. First is that it doesn't appear to start correctly if I'm offline.

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello Kevin, On Oct 16, Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | If I run spamc/spamd, then would my procmail recipe simple be ... | | ## filter all mail through SpamAssassin ## | :0 fw | | spamassassin | | Or something different? The following two blocks are my first re

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Kevin Coyner said: > If I run spamc/spamd, then would my procmail recipe simple be ... > > ## filter all mail through SpamAssassin ## > :0 fw > | spamassassin > > Or something different? > > Thanks > Kevin The site http://spamassassin.org/sitewide.h

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:22:10PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote.. > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:59, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > apt-get install procmail. Then, in your ~/.procmail/rc.recipe file, > > make sure you have something like: > > > > ## filter all mail through SpamAssassin ###

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Gottfried Szing
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:59, Kevin Coyner wrote: > apt-get install procmail. Then, in your ~/.procmail/rc.recipe file, > make sure you have something like: > > ## filter all mail through SpamAssassin ## > :0 fw > | spamassassin -P i would suggest to replace the spamassassin wit

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:52:56AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote.. > > Can anyone recommend a good way to integrate spamassassin with exim? > apt-get install procmail. Then, in your ~/.procmail/rc.recipe file, make sure you have something like: ## filter all mail through SpamAssass

spamassassin + exim

2002-10-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can anyone recommend a good way to integrate spamassassin with exim? I tried the instructions at http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html to use it as a transport filter, but I just "unexpected EOF during smtp" type errors from the spawned exim. I set up an awful kludge i