[SAtalk] Re: To lalong@balanone.info not matching

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, July 25, 2003, 10:44:12 PM, I wrote: RM> I'm probably doing something dumb, but I've tried variations on this, RM> and I'm not getting anywhere. SA version 2.55 I'm not the only one who sends such an email out, and then finds the and fixes th

Re: [SAtalk] Oops... running 2.60

At Fri Jul 25 16:42:09 2003, Tony Hoyle wrote: [reformatted] > I've found 2.60 is a generaly bit better than 2.55, but recently the > spammers have worked around it... I now get about a couple of dozen > spams a day coming in with ridiculously low scores (<2, usually) - > they're heavily exploitin

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie... some questions

In data Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:27:44 -0400 Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scriveva: > If you want to know in-depth, check out the changelog: > > http://www.spamassassin.org/dist/Changes > > 2.44 was released 2003-01-31 and 2.55 was released 2003-05-19. OK, I'll check it. Now, as I got SpamAssas

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian filtering and forwards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 the pop3 protocol does not change the contents of the message. Hence, anybody downloading it their mail via pop or accessing it via IMAP has the same options later downstream, should their client of choice permit. Forwarding a mail as an attachment i

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian filtering and forwards

Hi, Yuval Kojman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another way to manage all this would be to create a web form that accepts mbox files, which most MUAs can export. But i doubt there will ever be an MUA which can't forward as an attachment properly. Outlook can not forward as a

[SAtalk] Comparing two headers...

Hi, I've been having problems with recuring spam getting through. It pretty much looks the same, and I'd like to add a rule to my local.cf file. For now, I've added the following: header X_ORIG_EMAILX-Originating-Email =~ \[.*@(msn|hotmail|yahoo)\.com\] describe X_ORIG_EMAILX-Originatin

RE: [SAtalk] bayes question

> First, run spamassassin -tD output. Is bayes even enabled? are there enough tokens? debug: Score set 0 chosen. debug: running in taint mode? no debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir debug: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir debug: using "/root/.spamassassin

Re: [SAtalk] spam funny

Ian Douglas wrote: > Daniel Carrera wrote: > > Like wise we can go on with more consonants: > > > > score MY_CONSONANT_4 0.15 > > score MY_CONSONANT_5 0.30 > > score MY_CONSONANT_6 0.60 > > score MY_CONSONANT_7 1.20 > > score MY_CONSONANT_8 2.40 > > Dumb question from a ru

[SAtalk] Looking for spamasasssin.bat

Hi, I'm trying to get Spamassassin installed on a Win32 OS using the instructions at: http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa250.html I followed the instructions down to "PART VIII: Cleaning Up The Quirks" and ran into a snag. It says I need to change the \perl\bin\spamasasssin.bat file. That ba

RE: [SAtalk] bayes question

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, ian douglas wrote: > > First, run spamassassin -tD > output. Is bayes even enabled? are there enough tokens? > > debug: Score set 0 chosen. > debug: running in taint mode? no > debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir > debug: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin

RE: [SAtalk] bayes question

> > debug: debug: Only 86 ham(s) in Bayes DB < 200 > > There's your answer as to why Bayes isn't scoring for you. Gotcha, thanks. -id --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Porta

[SAtalk] Dummy Guide for installing SA

Is there a dummy's guide to installing SA on a RH 8 system which uses sendmail (allowing for each user to customize SA settings and sa-learn, rather than a single set)? I'm not a total Linux neophyte, but email seems to be somewhat of a blackbox. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

Re: [SAtalk] Comparing two headers...

At 7/26/03 06:02 AM , Jean-Sebastien Morisset wrote: But what I'd really like to do is compare the X-Originating-Email header to the From header's email address (scoring a 2 or 2.5 if they don't match). Is this possible using spamassassin? Looking through the config/rule files, it doesn't appear a

Re: [SAtalk] bayes question

- Original Message - From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ian Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SpamAssassin list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 3:05 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] bayes question > First, run spamassassin -tD bayes even enabled? are there enough tok

Re: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter f or another mail server.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 07/07/03 at 22:20: > Hi All, > I've got spam assassin working like a dream on our small sendmail box. > works like a bought one.what i want to do is setup a gateway arrangment > for an Exchange Server (everyone shudders, i know). > > li

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian filtering and forwards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Rick Macdougall wrote: > Hi, > > Outlook can not forward as attachment correctly. Header lines, received > lines etc, all gone. > well, back to your original question then sa-learn is having trouble eating non valid rfc822 m

[SAtalk] What it some spam passes through?

As from the subject... what can I do if some spam passes the filter? Is there any way to strongen the filters, without getting false positives? Thank you... -- Bonny - Registered Linux User #251752 --- VB LUG Moderator --- If a program is useless, it must be documented. pgp0.pgp Des

Re: [SAtalk] What it some spam passes through?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would suggest two things: 1) Use the Bayesian feature of SA so that it can "learn" to distinguish spam better. 2) Instead of blindingly strengtening all rules, try to figure out some new rules that are likely to catch the spam you are getting a

Re[2]: [SAtalk] spam funny

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Alexander, Friday, July 25, 2003, 10:37:51 PM, you wrote: >> The point is, checking the PGP signature is a good way of finding >> out if someone is supposed to be writing to you. If there is a >> recognizable PGP sig, it counts very well (e.g.

RE: [SAtalk] Best way to configure SA for Postfix?

> -Original Message- > From: Garth Serjeantson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've seen several different ways of doing this. I was wondering if > there is a general consensus on which is the best way of > configuring SA for PF on a RH8 box. Any thoughts? I make a non-privileged user

[SAtalk] Want to turn off AWL (at least for my address)

Today two pieces of nasty x-rated spam came through the filters with negative scores because the spammer spoofed the From address to be _my_ address (the address part only; the "real name" is not mine, they don't have that information). Trying to figure out how these weren't tagged as Spam, I see

Re: [SAtalk] Re: netscape and spamassassin

Hi, On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:28:43 -0400 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a solution to using SpamAssassin with Netscape on Linux. > > The mail reader in Netscape Communicator does not directly allow > inserting a program to filter the email, as some other email read