Recent content by OliverScott

I am sure I am missing somthing obvious, but what is the correct way to train the baysian filter from the command line when you are using global bayes? Though sa-learn has a -u username option, this is only for SQL if you are using SQL for your bayes storage...

Following a suggestion made on this forum about a year ago I switched one of our servers to using OpenDNS for its name resolution, and noticed a marked improvement in SpamAssassin message scan times (due to the DNSBL and URIBL lookups). It also has the benefit of reducing the load on those...

I have been getting a lot of spam from addresses ending with @aim.com and with the first part of the address being a random collection of letters and numbers such as [email protected] I have written the following rules to help up-score these emails. The first bunch look for email...

I come from a windows background so you will have to forgive me if I am asking somthing obvious! Note: This is on a CentOS 4.4 VPS running DA When I look at the folder permissions for the OS itself most folders are set to 755. For instance: /etc /var /usr /bin However /home and all its...

When I run service httpd restart I get a message telling me it is stopping followed by a green OK, then a message telling me it is starting followed by a green OK. The same applies to other services apart from exim. Why is exim different? Or is somthing broken on my VPS?!

Not sure if this should go here on in the general email forum... I am currently not using spamblocker but am using various dnsbls for spamassassin scoring which works OK but is fairly high on resource usage. I am considering blocking some email on delivery using spamblocker (now I have a good...

EDIT: Now solved (see below) I am trying to write somthing which will allow admins to easily add and remove 'accounts' from their fetchmailrc file. I know there will be a few technical problems to overcome but thought I would be able to manage it (with my limited php skills) :) I seem to have...

I have had a good search through these forums and have had a look through some of the DA files without any success: By default an IMAP folder (or at least a link which acts like an IMAP folder?) called "spam" is created for each new email address you add. This is on top of the default "Inbox"...

Is there an easy way to make exim use a different email package other than ClamAV? For instance the freeware linux AV from panda: http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/linux.asp Reason for doing this is that I want to stop viruses at SMTP in exim, but run ClamAV as part of the...

Two questions (general linux rather than specifically DA) that I hope someone can help me with: 1) I have fetchmail set up to collect email from a couple of POP3 ISP accounts and pass it on to exim etc. When I restart the server I have to manually start this as a daemon using the command...

As a matter of interest I have tried to analyse my SpamAssassin scores taken from my MAILLOG file for the last few days. I'm sure this could have been done directly on the server - will look into this at some point. 1 - Remove everything but the spamassassin scores (did this using a bit of...

I know this has been mentioned elsewhere in these forums (as part of existing threads) but I thought I would start a seperate thread about it: If you upgrade to SA 3.2.0 and have any custom rules from rulesemporium.com (anything with SARE in the filename) installed to improve your detection...

If I have two domains configured for one account how is the best way to configure this? i.e. example.com & example.co.uk Ideally I would just like any emails to the .co.uk address to be forwarded to the same address on the .com domain (without having to set up matching accounts on both...

I am fairly new to DA and to SpamAssassin (and linux in general), but had things working nicely under SA 3.1.8. I did an upgrade to 3.2.0 last night and since then SA seems to have been ignoring my customisations in the local.cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin I had changed the scores of a...