On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:27:12 -0500 Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed on electronic parchment:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK, this really irritates me. I have the latest spamassassin. It is > running in daemon mode. I have procmail setup to /dev/null anything that > is identified as spam. I have trained the Bayesian filter (supposedly) to > > identify certain messages as spam...BUT THEY KEEP GETTING THROUGH! > > These are tricky html or other type of spam, they are plain text. > Generally they are viagra messages. The one that really galls me is one > that uses the name "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of the actual > proper > spelling. Nonetheless, this shouldn't matter...or so one would think. > > I have now run "sa-learn --spam --dir Mail/Spam/cur" twice on this > message. It comes back saying it "learned" from the message. About 10 > minutes later that damn message is back and spamassassin let it come right > through. > > What the hell? I REALLY want to nuke the computer from which this comes. > I was doing so well there with nary a spam for weeks getting through, then > > something inane and seemingly simple like this gets through inspite of > "teaching" spamassassin to recognize it as crap. > > Since spamassassin appears to be falling down on the job, what would be a > nice generic procmail recipe that would recognize EITHER iteration of > viagra spelling (in the body or subject) and pass it, no pass go, to > /dev/null? I never ever ever want to see another damn viagra message of > any kind ever again. > > Thank you for any aid in this endeavor. > > praedor > - -- > "Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full > sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our > liberties in full view if they look the right way." > - --Samuel Adams, 1771 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/r+aQaKr9sJYeTxgRAovJAKCiMudQ74dH+XHBd6iS1MQFxMAE4ACgj3CV > 8Rsqd9AcxFtWyG6Iu6/Ejrc= > =PDDb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > By "latest" do you mean 2.55 or 2.60? With 2.60 you have to run "sa-learn --import" to update the Bayesian database. Tim -- _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net
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