[SAtalk] Re: preventing blacklistes messages from impacting bayesian learning?

2003-09-08 Thread Fuzzy Fox
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to blacklist debian-user, cause I get it in digest form, only I > accidently sucscribed to the non-digest form and for some bloody > reason can't get it to stop coming. You can blacklist that without calling SpamAssassin at all. It can be handled by p

Re: [SAtalk] Rbl checks

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Scott Kopel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's clear that my SA is now performing rbl checks and I apologize for > being slow, but I still don't see how to configure my local.cf to get > SA to perform checks at specific rbl lists eg spamcop.net > > I checked the suggested urls, but none of them sh

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Importing DB_File SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used the switch -D and here's the output -- it looks like something > might be off. Why? > Since I've already updated the /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes > files... and the timestamps were just updated now with the SA import: > I'm concerned that I

[SAtalk] How to create a public folder on imap server for use with sa-learn

2003-09-08 Thread Nigel Wilkinson
Hi folks the spammassassin FAQ suggests creating public folders on an imap server for moving missed spam and false spam into so that the bayesian stuff can learn. Could someone point me to some documentation or give me a pointer on how to create these please. Cheers Nigel --

Re: [SAtalk] allowing certain types of spam

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Quinlan
"Jennifer Fountain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some of my users sign up for newsletters that SA views as spam (which is > correct due to the nature of the email). How can I allow these types of > emails through - are whitelists the only way? Any other options? I use > SA with qmailscanner tha

Re: [SAtalk] Rbl checks

2003-09-08 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 23:57 8/09/2003 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: At 08:28 PM 9/8/03 -0400, Scott Kopel wrote: It's clear that my SA is now performing rbl checks and I apologize for being slow, but I still don't see how to configure my local.cf to get SA to perform checks at specific rbl lists eg spamcop.net I check

Re: [SAtalk] grrr - Re: stuff (fwd)

2003-09-08 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:47 PM 9/8/03 -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote: I've been getting a *lot* of these. Not always from "mail.ihyphen.com" but they *always* have PowerMail as the X-Mailer (legit mailer, IIRC) and they put "jnichols@(spamdomain).com" - these are the *only* types that get through at all. Any ideas on

[SAtalk] allowing certain types of spam

2003-09-08 Thread Jennifer Fountain
Some of my users sign up for newsletters that SA views as spam (which is correct due to the nature of the email). How can I allow these types of emails through - are whitelists the only way? Any other options? I use SA with qmailscanner that delivers to an exchange box. Any thoughts would be gre

Re: [SAtalk] Rbl checks

2003-09-08 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:28 PM 9/8/03 -0400, Scott Kopel wrote: It's clear that my SA is now performing rbl checks and I apologize for being slow, but I still don't see how to configure my local.cf to get SA to perform checks at specific rbl lists eg spamcop.net I checked the suggested urls, but none of them shows

RE: Re[2]: [SAtalk] [RD] MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE

2003-09-08 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
We do site wide here, so I've had to make adjustments, too. Not ready to do bayes, yet. Not sure how well it would work for a site wide environment. We do consulting, so most of our FPs used to come from "Dear Sir, look at my resume", flagged with high importance, a subject of only hello, and fro

[SAtalk] Re: [RD] MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE

2003-09-08 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Mike, Monday, September 8, 2003, 6:39:10 AM, you wrote: MK2> We do site wide here, so I've had to make adjustments, too. Not MK2> ready to do bayes, yet. Not sure how well it would work for a site MK2> wide environment. We do consulting, so m

[SAtalk] Rbl checks

2003-09-08 Thread Scott Kopel
It's clear that my SA is now performing rbl checks and I apologize for being slow, but I still don't see how to configure my local.cf to get SA to perform checks at specific rbl lists eg spamcop.net I checked the suggested urls, but none of them shows how they work in SA if someone could paste i

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Feedback on how identified spam is being handled

2003-09-08 Thread Kris Deugau
Replied-to-sender and CC'ed to the list (I usually reply direct to the list, not the sender) as Sourceforge has rejected my reply twice. >:( Bill Polhemus wrote: > Since I don't want the stuff appended by SA to be part of the email used to > train Bayesian, I have to go through each message (I us

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Importing DB_File SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3

2003-09-08 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I used the switch -D and here's the output -- it looks like something might be off. Since I've already updated the /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes files... and the timestamps were just updated now with the SA import: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1633 Aug 29 11:30 bayes_msgcount -rw--- 1

Re: [SAtalk] Fitz, an add-on to Spamassassin

2003-09-08 Thread AltGrendel
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 13:46, Thorsten Sick wrote: > Hello, everybody > > As a part of my diploma thesis I developed an AI to sort Mails into > Ham/Spam. > > The AI alone was able to get about the same results as Spamassassin. > Which means it is very good. > > I released it as Open Source and it

RE: [SAtalk] Synchronizing Whitelists Across Multiple Servers

2003-09-08 Thread Rob Hutton
MySQL/Postgress/Oracle/Some other DB with replication... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Crist > J. Clark > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Synchronizing Whitelists Across Multiple Ser

Re: [SAtalk] Fitz, an add-on to Spamassassin

2003-09-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:46 PM +0200 Thorsten Sick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The results of the AI alone are as good as Spamassassin's results. > Combined it is therefor better. What would make the combined result better? What does Fitz do different from SA? -

RE: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 issues

2003-09-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, September 06, 2003 11:49 PM -0500 Bill Polhemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The RPMs are good, but sometimes I just don't have the patience to wait till > someone comes out with them (and I don't the inclination to learn how to > make SRPMs myself). > > I like compiling from Sourc

Re: [SAtalk] I want SA to handle mailinglists. Need some creativity here.

2003-09-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, September 07, 2003 1:40 PM -0400 "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right. It's hooked up via aliases in the aliases file. I happen to > be using Majordomo2. But my understanding is that *all* mailinglist > managers use the aliases file as the hook. I will ask the m

[SAtalk] grrr - Re: stuff (fwd)

2003-09-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I've been getting a *lot* of these. Not always from "mail.ihyphen.com" but they *always* have PowerMail as the X-Mailer (legit mailer, IIRC) and they put "jnichols@(spamdomain).com" - these are the *only* types that get through at all. Any ideas on how I can get rid of these? They used to hit BAYE

Re[2]: [SAtalk] sa-learn says it learnt from 134 messages but check_bayes__db only reports 19 as nspam?

2003-09-08 Thread Abigail Marshall
>> Can anyone explain why deleting the database seemed to fix it's >> learning? Is it just a corrupt database or something I am liable to hit >> again further down the track? JM> It must have learned those Message-IDs before. It will not learn the same JM> message ID twice. OK, here's the deal.

RE: [SAtalk] redhat 8 rpm packages missing some files?

2003-09-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, September 06, 2003 11:51 PM -0500 Bill Polhemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do what I did: Compile from the tarball sources. It's not that tough (can't > be if even I can do it). Note that for RPM users, the SRPM is essentially the same as the tarball, but provides the distro-spec

[SAtalk] Bypass of invisible text

2003-09-08 Thread Fred
I found another nice spammer trick, using a marquee. This was an image only spam with this huge marquee above the image. Princess Astrid of Sweden was born on November 17, 1905. She was the youngest daughter of Prince Charles of Sweden, Duke of Vastergotland, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. A

Re: [SAtalk] Performance optimization for bigger setups

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Quinlan
[ sorry if this goes to the list more than once, sourceforge.net was rejecting my mail earlier, but you never know ] Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Speaking of profiling, is there anything in the works in the future for > some kind of built in profiling system ? Devel::DProf work

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE

2003-09-08 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
Good call, I'm sorry I missed that. What a shame, I was hoping I was on to something, if nothing other than solidifying the MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE rule. Oh well, back to the drawing board! Mike -Original Message- From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 20

[SAtalk] SA in the news again

2003-09-08 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
http://www.collegian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/08/3f5beeca27bed   Here's a news article of SA in use at a college.  Too bad the news article was calling it: Spam Assassination I contacted them to make corrections :)   Frederic TaraseviciusInternet Information Services, Inc.    

[SAtalk] Is this working ??? Newbie.

2003-09-08 Thread Gary Shine
When I run the solaris solaris-rc-script.sh I see this. unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 207 HOWEVER # ps -ef | grep spamd root 4262 4250 0 01:19:39 pts/10:00 grep spamd root 4258 1 0 01:16:29 ?0:02 /usr/local/bin/perl /

[SAtalk] Synchronizing Whitelists Across Multiple Servers

2003-09-08 Thread Crist J. Clark
Does anyone have any solutions for synchronizing whitelists (and by extension Baysian DBs, but that's not as important to me) across multiple servers? Basically, I have two MTAs at two different sites with independent Internet pipes feeding one internal mail server. Right now, I have to do all spa

Re: [SAtalk] Spam with score of 0.0

2003-09-08 Thread Jason
That seems to be it. For whatever reason, /etc/mail/spamassassin was empty. It is corrected now & messages are receiving scores. HOORAY! :-) On 9/7/03 8:55 PM, "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would guess that's not finding the config files -- if there's no > rules, it'll run throug