Re: [SAtalk] Acronym Update

2004-01-16 Thread Scott Blomquist
Carl Chipman wrote: For the new people on the list, I was wondering what the following acronyms mean: LART UBE/UCE Are the acronoyms in the FAQ? Carl, Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool Unsolicited Bulk/Commercial Email Google is your friend, HAND, Scott -- Scott V. Blomquist,A-SA-CN-NRKTINL

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Blomquist
Jennifer Wheeler wrote: Snipped btw 42??? what did you mean by that. that was very creepy to see, because i've tried to convince my brother from an early age, that the number 42 *haunts* me and turns up *everywhere*! that'll either be a very good year for me, or that's the year i'll buy t

Re: [SA Says: 05.40] [SAtalk] spamassassin is deleting ALL incoming mails!

2003-11-12 Thread Scott Blomquist
Have you checked your spamtrap folder? Here is the score I got on your message: Paulo Lenz wrote: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been attached along with this report, so you can recognize or block similar unwanted mail in future. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more

Re: [SAtalk] ok to filter on this?

2003-11-06 Thread Scott Blomquist
Jeff Lasman wrote: I've recently seen a bit of spam (not caught by SA as I run it) with the following as the contents of the plain text portion of the email: This message contains an HTML formatted message but your email client does not support the display of HTML. Please view this message in

Re: [SAtalk] perhaps more of a mailscanner question?

2003-10-25 Thread Scott Blomquist
Ian, Who are you going to bounce it to? 99.9% of all the crud that falls into my server has forged FROM: and Rely-to: addresses. Just let your old friend Dave Null read it and forget about it. my $0.02 Scott ian douglas wrote: Right now I have MailScanner configured to delete high scoring s

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [OT] What is next step?

2003-10-23 Thread Scott Blomquist
VonEssen, John wrote: If you go this route then, maybe it might be easier to just aggressively post invalid email addresses all over the internet. By invalid, I mean a mx record exists, but the address will result in a 550. As a result the harvesting of addresses will become a dirtier process, yie

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Scott Blomquist
Frrom somewhere in another dimension Leon Oosterwijk wrote: All, I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would automatically g

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Scott Blomquist
Simon Byrnand wrote: We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43% ham. And thats not counting viruses, which get blocked before spamassassin even runs. Kinda makes you wonder where

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Scott Blomquist
Jeff Lasman wrote: > > I'm still not sure if I should run through "ham" as well as "spam" or > not. Is there a specific answer for this? > > Thanks. > > Jeff Hi Jeff, Bayes won't kick in until it has >200 ham/spam in the database. You should sa-learn --ham against as wide a range of your normal

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin stop filtering SPAM !!!

2003-10-03 Thread Scott Blomquist
O-Zone wrote: Hi all, here's the header of an e-mail of spam passing througth spamassassin. It seems do not work. Why ? Date-warning: Date header was inserted by smtp.telnor.net From: Technical Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Newest Network Patch To: MS Corporation User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SAtalk] Highest Score

2003-10-03 Thread Scott Blomquist
Jack Gostl wrote: Out of curiosity, what is the highest scoring anyone has seen SA give a message? I had one come through at 37.54 the other day. In my current batch of "caught" spam I have some in the high 50s, but I think I once saw a 70+. -Mike Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uselesstho

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

2003-09-09 Thread Scott Blomquist
Nigel Wilkinson wrote: 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] SA Score in Subject Line???

2003-08-27 Thread Scott Blomquist
jpf wrote: Is there someway that I can edit the subject line to get the SA score in there? I am using SA 2.55 and procmail. TIA jpf Here is the top two lines from my local.cf file. Works great rewrite_subject 1 subject_tag [SA Says: _HITS_] It gives the following results: [SA Says: 63.3

[SAtalk] Odd scoring message

2003-08-11 Thread Scott Blomquist
Hi folks, I just received the attached maessage, it tripped SA at 5.6 but the only thing that got hit was the BL rules. How did this get such a low score? curious, Scott X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.6 required=5.0 tests=PRIORITY_NO_NAME,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_NJABL

Re: [SAtalk] how much work to install and maintain

2003-06-19 Thread Scott Blomquist
I have SA running for my company of 56 fulltime users and about 20 part-timers. Linux/sendmail/procmail It took about an hour to install and configure. I was paranoid at first and only ran it on my account and my catch-all box for testing, I did that for 2 days to be sure of the program. I the