Can't check mails in yahoo because of "Weighted phrase limit exceeded"

[Zulul]

Hi,

I am a technician at a school in Zambia Africa and we are using
dansquardian. We are having problems in openning our mails. What is
happening is someone logs on to yahoo and try open his/her mail box, we
are getting this following message

"Weighted phrase limit exceeded"

Please, how do you change the settings and from where? I am in trouble
here because everyone is just poping in my office here and then and I
don't know where to go and touch. Whats the path? I know there someone
there who faced the same problem i am facing here, please help me.

Thanx!

[░▒▓ ɹɐzǝupɐɥʞ ɐzɹıɯ ▓▒░]

put yahoo.com on white list

Post by Zulul
Hi,
I am a technician at a school in Zambia Africa and we are using
dansquardian. We are having problems in openning our mails. What is
happening is someone logs on to yahoo and try open his/her mail box, we
are getting this following message
"Weighted phrase limit exceeded"
Please, how do you change the settings and from where? I am in trouble
here because everyone is just poping in my office here and then and I
don't know where to go and touch. Whats the path? I know there someone
there who faced the same problem i am facing here, please help me.
Thanx!
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Post by Zulul
Hi,
I am a technician at a school in Zambia Africa and we are using
dansquardian. We are having problems in openning our mails. What is
happening is someone logs on to yahoo and try open his/her mail box, we
are getting this following message
"Weighted phrase limit exceeded"
Please, how do you change the settings and from where? I am in trouble
here because everyone is just poping in my office here and then and I
don't know where to go and touch. Whats the path? I know there someone
there who faced the same problem i am facing here, please help me.
Thanx!

[Chuck Kollars]

Post by Zulul
Please, how do you change the settings and from where?
Whats the path?

The configuration of DansGuardian is done with lots (~25?) of text
files. They're usually under /etc/dansguardian/lists. If not, also
look at /usr/local/dansguardian/lists, or possibly even
/usr/dansguardian/lists; the path is different depending on how
DansGuardian was built and packaged. (These possible paths are for the
DansGuardian version 2.9/2.10 series, for the 2.8 series the path is a
little shorter as it doesn't include the subdirectory '/lists'.)
Modify these files with any Linux text editor (vi, pico, nano, etc.
etc.). Then restart DansGuardian to make the changes take effect.

Unlike most Linux software, one of the best references for
DansGuardian is the comments inside all these various config files.

The particular config file for whitelisting an entire site is probably
/etc/dansguardian/lists/exceptionsitelist. (It's definitely named
'exceptionsitelist' even if the path is something different.) Per the
comments at the top of the file, the entry should be only
yahoo.com
(No http:, no www, no leading period, no slashes, no regular
expression syntax here).

(Unfortunately whitelisting the entire site yahoo.com will have more
effects than just allowing email, so many administrators allow yahoo
email some other way that provides finer control. But that can wait.)

thanks! -Chuck Kollars

[░▒▓ ɹɐzǝupɐɥʞ ɐzɹıɯ ▓▒░]

or maybe someone can explain why yahoo must be whitelisted to view....
yahoo = 100% white site :D
i think dansguardian should review the phrade weight by default

Post by Chuck Kollars

Post by Zulul
Please, how do you change the settings and from where?
Whats the path?

The configuration of DansGuardian is done with lots (~25?) of text
files. They're usually under /etc/dansguardian/lists. If not, also
look at /usr/local/dansguardian/lists, or possibly even
/usr/dansguardian/lists; the path is different depending on how
DansGuardian was built and packaged. (These possible paths are for the
DansGuardian version 2.9/2.10 series, for the 2.8 series the path is a
little shorter as it doesn't include the subdirectory '/lists'.)
Modify these files with any Linux text editor (vi, pico, nano, etc.
etc.). Then restart DansGuardian to make the changes take effect.
Unlike most Linux software, one of the best references for
DansGuardian is the comments inside all these various config files.
The particular config file for whitelisting an entire site is probably
/etc/dansguardian/lists/exceptionsitelist. (It's definitely named
'exceptionsitelist' even if the path is something different.) Per the
comments at the top of the file, the entry should be only
yahoo.com
(No http:, no www, no leading period, no slashes, no regular
expression syntax here).
(Unfortunately whitelisting the entire site yahoo.com will have more
effects than just allowing email, so many administrators allow yahoo
email some other way that provides finer control. But that can wait.)
thanks! -Chuck Kollars

[Chuck Kollars]

(Here's my two cents, perhaps others [including the developers and
maintainers] have different views:-)

Post by ░▒▓ ɹɐzǝupɐɥʞ ɐzɹıɯ ▓▒░
or maybe someone can explain why yahoo must be whitelisted to
view.... yahoo = 100% white site :D

I've seen this problem most often where some student had "attached"
their homework to an email at home, sent it to themselves to pick up
at school, and the attachment contained some proscribed phrases. In
other words almost always the banning has nothing to do with the
"Yahoo!" part, but rather with the emails themselves, particularly
attachments.

Weighted phrase limits are extremely configurable, and every email is
different, so who knows why some of these emails tripped a ban.

Also, my experience is Yahoo! makes fundamental changes to their email
system a couple times a year, so that a more detailed DansGuardian
configuration couldn't possibly keep up.

Post by ░▒▓ ɹɐzǝupɐɥʞ ɐzɹıɯ ▓▒░
i think dansguardian should review the phrade weight by default

The hard truth seems to be that _no_ "default" configuration will work
very well for the huge variety of different DansGuardian uses, that
DansGuardian isn't "turnkey" software. DansGuardian installation
pretty much assumes that the administrator customizes the
configuration at least a little bit.

One way to think of DansGuardian's "default" configuration is as
little more than a springboard to get the administrator started. The
default configuration does try to be at least somewhat useful while
avoiding making too many really glaring errors; it's a sort of "lowest
common denominator". You should expect to do a certain amount of
customization in the weeks following a DansGuarian installation, using
the default configuration as just a guide.

thanks! -Chuck Kollars