Mailman 3 November 2004 - SpamBayes

RE: [Spambayes] Win32 Command Line
by Tony Meyer Jan. 10, 2007

Jan. 10, 2007

> I've been trying to find a way to run SpamBayes from the > command line against "raw" email files on Windows Server > 2003. Obviously, I'm trying to integrate this with a mail > server. Does anybody have any experience with this or > suggestions on where I can find more information? My initial > searches have come up empty handed. You need to be running from source, and the sb_filter script is probably a good place to start. You may wish to read: <http://spambayes.org/server_side.html>. =Tony Meyer --- Please always include the list (spambayes(a)python.org) in your replies (reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes. This way, you get everyone's help, and avoid a lack of replies when I'm busy.

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spammers have found work around?
by Mumm's Dec. 22, 2004

Dec. 22, 2004

I've been using spambayes quite a while now with remarkably good results, almost 0 spam for many months. Recently, though, a few messages have been sneaking through in the 0% to 9% range. Do you think that spammers are reacting to spambays and other good intelligent filter spam blockers by crafting spam especially to get through. Anyone else noticing this change? Will spambayes always be able to learn these new techniques? Regards ..... Jim Mumm -- Certified Organic seeds for sprouting -- MUMM'S SPROUTING SEED LTD., Box 80, Parkside, SK, Canada S0J 2A0 mumms(a)sprouting.com ph 306 747 2935 fx 306 747 3618 www.sprouting.com

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Exit codes 11 and -6 from sb_filter
by Mike Causer Dec. 5, 2004

Dec. 5, 2004

Today a message sneaked through with no classification. Looking in the procmail log showed that sb_filter.py had returned an exit status 11. The offending message is plain-text and has nothing wrong with it that I can spot, and when sb_filter.py is run via the command line it gets an X-Spambayes-Classification: spam; 0.92 quite correctly. A grep around in the Spambayes code and in the main Python 2.3 code doesn't turn up any explicit sys.exit(11) and attempts to get a full trace out of sb_filter while it's running from procmail have failed. There's another message which also fails classification via procmail with exit status of -6, but correctly gets a ham 0.6 on the commandline. Need help from someone with a bigger bag of clues I think... Mike -- Mike Causer Email - mailto:mikec@mikecauser.com GPG KeyID 1C2DDA07 WWW - http://www.mikecauser.com Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement - http://www.wicken.org.uk

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RE: [Spambayes] Download verification checking request
by Tony Meyer Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

> I grabbed your public key, the spambayes-1.0.1.tar.gz tarball, and > spambayes-1.0.1.tar.gz.asc sig file. I followed the > instructions on the website (testing those, too) and everything > worked just fine. ...s. Thanks for letting me know; much appreciated. =Tony.Meyer

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Virus found in a message you sent
by SMTP＠epitech.net Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

A virus was found in a message sent by this account. --- Scan information follows --- Result: Virus Detected Virus Name: W32.Sober.I@mm!zip File Attachment: oh_nono.txt.zip Attachment Status: deleted --- Original message information follows --- From: spambayes(a)python.org To: demaille(a)inf.enst.fr Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:10:44 GMT Subject: Oh God it's Message-Id: <e833.1051b4b5dfccb8(a)python.org> Received: from infres.enst.fr ([137.194.192.1]) by itoth2.epitech.net (SAVSMTP 3.1.2.35) with SMTP id M2004113022242816358 for <akim(a)epita.fr>; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:24:29 +0100

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Download verification checking request
by Tony Meyer Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

As per [ 1061119 ] Provide verification and/or security measures for downloads <http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=498106&aid=1061119&group_id=61702> the 1.0.1 release (and future releases) includes some measures to try and let people confirm that their download is valid. Specifically, the file sizes and MD5 checksums are listed on the download page: <http://spambayes.org/download.html> and there are PGP signatures for each of the three files, signed by the release manager (me, for this one). I'm pretty new to this stuff - I'm pretty sure that the MD5s and sizes are correct, but not 100% about the signatures. If someone familiar with this stuff could use the signatures to verify the files, and let me know (either here or via the tracker above) so that I know I've done the process correctly, that would be fantastic. Thanks! =Tony.Meyer -- Please always include the list (spambayes(a)python.org) in your replies (reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this.

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deleted my junk suspects folder, now messed up
by Jennifer Stewart Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

OK, I accidentally deleted my junk suspects box, now it says its not configured correctly and our computer person is out until Monday. Any help? I tried things on my own but nothing seems to work. Can you make the junk and junk suspects folders where you can't delete the without being prompted? Jennifer Stewart Administrative Assistant, Economic Development 451 Government Street Mobile, Al 36602 251-431-8636 251-431-8608 Fax jennifer(a)mobilechamber.com visit our website: <http://www.mobilechamber.com> www.mobilechamber.com The Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce serves as a progressive advocate for business needs to promote the Mobile area's economic well-being. Focusing on our community, the Mobile Chamber builds jobs, a competitive workforce, a positive business climate, higher expectations for our community's development and brings value to its members. Aggressive economic development marketing programs by the Mobile Chamber have helped bring in 232 new businesses and led to 809 expansions of existing industries since 1985, representing a capital investment of $7.9 billion and 28,579 direct new jobs. This E-Mail transmission (and/or the documents accompanying it) may contain information belonging to the sender which is confidential, privileged and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. The information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this E-Mail transmission in error, please immediately notify us by return E-Mail or telephone to arrange for return of its contents including any documents.

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RE: [spambayes-dev] Re: [Spambayes] Download verification checking request
by Tony Meyer Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

> Suggestions: Thanks :) > Use an ascii sig (gpg -ba) Done. > Put the sig files on the website directly, they're too small > to justify putting in the Files section. Done. > Put your key id on the download page - that way people can > more easily fetch it from the keyservers. Done. I swapped to GnuPG, too, because using the command line was just so much easier than using the GUI PGP. I've added instructions about doing this to README-DEVEL.txt, so hopefully it should all go smoothly next time :) =Tony.Meyer

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RE: [Spambayes] Unable to Access SpamBayesBrowserInterfaceUsingsb_imapfilter.py
by Tony Meyer Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

> This threw me for a second, because I couldn't find this path. > It's actually C:\Documents and > Settings\{username}\Application > Data\SpamBayes\Proxy\bayescustomize.ini :-) Sorry - typing too fast. > There was an IMAP section, with four entry lines, including > "use_ssl:False". I changed it to "True", and FINALLY, SUCCESS! Fantastic :) > Thank you very much. Now I can get back to actually configuring > and testing it, and see if I can make it work! Let me know if you have any more troubles (although it really ought to be relatively smooth from here on). I'll figure out a way to catch this problem and warn users somehow. BTW, when 1.1 comes out (1.1a1 should be early next year) there are lots of imapfilter improvements, so if you think of any others that you'd like, let us know :) =Tony.Meyer -- Please always include the list (spambayes(a)python.org) in your replies (reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this.

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RE: [Spambayes] Unable to Access SpamBayes BrowserInterfaceUsingsb_imapfilter.py
by Tony Meyer Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

> Here you go: > > SpamBayes IMAP Filter Version 0.5 (November 2004) > and engine SpamBayes Engine Version 0.3 (January 2004). > > XXX Serving web interface None > XXX Initialising base IMAP 993 Ah ha! It appears that it will hang when it manages to connect to a remote server, but that server doesn't give out an initial welcome message (it will wait for it indefinitely). Regular IMAP does this, but IMAP over SSL doesn't. I'll have to figure out exactly how I'll modify the code to avoid this happening to anyone, but I suspect that the fix in your case is to open your configuration file (probably C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Proxy\bayescustomize.ini) and add in these lines: [imap] use_ssl:True (If there's already an [imap] section, you can just add the use_ssl line under that). =Tony.Meyer -- Please always include the list (spambayes(a)python.org) in your replies (reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this.

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