RE: [SAtalk] Losing the war against spammers

2004-01-08 Thread Genchev, Sergei
>Yes, but the bayes portion isn't working. Why? Because when SA runs, it >runs with the privileges of the user whose mail is being scanned. I >believe bayes would require that SA (spamc) is run under a specific >user, no? One option that I see would be to copy your bayes database (7K spam and 1.5

RE: [SAtalk] Losing the war against spammers

2004-01-08 Thread Genchev, Sergei
>I have some mail that was received by this particular user. I have put >the tarbal here: http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/SPAM/ and it is in >Maildir/ format. >Looking forward to your observations/suggestions/recommendations. I ran your files through my spamassasin setup an got 6 E-mails that scor

[SAtalk] Bayes upgrade from 2.55 to 2.60?

2003-09-24 Thread Genchev, Sergei
Since there have been "significant changes in BAYES" for 2.60, when I upgrade to 2.60 from 2.55: - will the upgrade keep my old BAYES database (in DB_file format)? - would I have to do any rebuilding/reindexing/whatever of the database? - Did anybody have problems with BAYES after upgrading to

[SAtalk] BAYES_XX scores

2003-07-11 Thread Genchev, Sergei
I use bayes tests and do not use network tests with SA 2.55. Thing that puzzles me is the default scores for my situation. Is there any reason that BAYES_80 score (5.3) is bigger then BAYES_90 score (4.027) and even BAYES_99 score (5.2)? BAYES_10 vs. BAYES_01 vs. BAYES_00 also look strange. As

[SAtalk] Bayes learning on double-byte Email?

2003-06-19 Thread Genchev, Sergei
Hi everyone, Our company gets a lot of legitimate and not-so-legitimate E-mail in Chinese. Our people in Taiwan have quite a bit more spam slip through than our US and European offices. Having read a lot of warnings about using UTF-8 locale, I am running SA 2.55 with LANG=en_US on RH8. Does it

[SAtalk] check_bayes_db ignoring bayes_path?

2003-06-06 Thread Genchev, Sergei
Hi all, I am running SA 2.55/Amavisd/Postfix on RH 8 with site-wide bayes db. My /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf has a line: bayes_path /var/spamassassin/bayes /var/spamassassin and all bayes files are owned by user amavis Amavisd/SA, running as user amavis uses this bayes db a

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn on messages from outlook/exchange

2003-05-29 Thread Genchev, Sergei
> I was wondering if it could be possible to get sa-learn to just look at the message text > and ignore all header information when I feed it with messages from exchange (since exchange screws everything up). > That way all users on the exchange-system could just forward their emails to a spambox

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn on messages from outlook/exchange

2003-05-29 Thread Genchev, Sergei
> I was wondering if it could be possible to get sa-learn to just look at the message text > and ignore all header information when I feed it with messages from exchange (since exchange screws everything up). > That way all users on the exchange-system could just forward their emails to a spambox