RE: [SAtalk] spam/ham corpus in outlook

2004-01-07 Thread Mathew Hendry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been developing a spam / ham corpus from those things > which my config of SA doesn't catch. Problem is I get these > in Outlook, and now I want to Bayes them. How do you guys get > your spam corpus set up? Do you just not use Outlook? Is > there a way to get t

RE: [SAtalk] (semi)automatic Razor reporting options? anyone don e it like thi s before?

2003-11-11 Thread Mathew Hendry
Chip Paswater wrote: > > If you use Windows and Outlook, try Cloudmark's Spamnet product. It's > the commercial version of razor, and feeds the same backend database. > > I think it's still free to use. http://www.cloudmark.com No it's not free (subscription is $1.99 a month or something) but th

RE: [SAtalk] Spammers using SpamAssassin to tailor their emails?

2003-07-07 Thread Mathew Hendry
Tony Earnshaw wrote: > But my Norwegian daughter, running Win 98 > and getting her mail with Outlook Express, finds that most of her > mail is spam and she has to pay her Norwegian ISP extra for filtering > her mail, or pay for a commercial spam filter. She could always use SAproxy, very easy to

RE: [SAtalk] Need rule to filter out spying tags

2003-06-28 Thread Mathew Hendry
MBR wrote: > ... > the contents > of the "src=" attribute on the tag that fetches the image. In > addition to the hostname and path to the image, it sends CGI arguments > which contain MY email address! Ingenious of someone to figure out > that CGI arguments are not limited to , and you can sen

RE: [SAtalk] Public folders, IMAP

2003-06-20 Thread Mathew Hendry
Marek Dohojda wrote: > As most of you know Outlook doesn't forward headers when you forward > an e-mail (and with newer Outlook 2002+, you can't even resend with > headers intact). Therefore Outlook is a bad tool in traning SA. You could try SpamSource: http://www.daesoft.com/SpamSource/index

RE: [SAtalk] Catching fraudulent links?

2003-06-20 Thread Mathew Hendry
Jonathan Nichols wrote: > Mathew Hendry wrote: >> Is there an easy way to detect fraudulent links like the following >> from a recent scamspam. >> >> > href=3D"http://hyperiod.hypermart.net/fraud.html";>> face=3DArial=20 size=3D2>BestBuy.com/fra

[SAtalk] Catching fraudulent links?

2003-06-20 Thread Mathew Hendry
Is there an easy way to detect fraudulent links like the following from a recent scamspam. http://hyperiod.hypermart.net/fraud.html";>BestBuy.com/fraud_department.html i.e. both the href and the visible text look like URLs, but don't come anywhere close (I guess that's the tricky part :) to match

RE: [SAtalk] New User Whitelist Question

2003-06-20 Thread Mathew Hendry
Kent R. Frazier wrote: > Everything seem to be working fine except for this one problem. I > receive daily weather forcasts from weather.com and SpamAssassin is > marking them as spam. I addend weather.com to my whitelist, but it is > still being marked as spam. > > Here is my local.cf file: > >

RE: [SAtalk] Auto-learn vs sa-learn?

2003-06-18 Thread Mathew Hendry
Simon Byrnand wrote: > At 16:38 14/06/03 +0100, Mathew Hendry wrote: > >> No, auto-learn learns only from mails with particularly high or low >> scores. The default thresholds are >> >> auto_learn_threshold_nonspam-0.5 >> auto_learn_threshold_spam

RE: [SAtalk] Auto-learn vs sa-learn?

2003-06-14 Thread Mathew Hendry
Jim Ford wrote: > If auto-learn is on (default setting), is there any point in putting > correctly identified spam and ham through sa-learn? Is the only use > for sa-learn to teach SA when spam or ham is incorrectly identified? No, auto-learn learns only from mails with particularly high or low s