Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler writes: > At 08:57 PM 2/25/2005, jdow wrote: > > >Sometimes SA may time out. If it does there are no SA markups in the > >messages. Makes it easy to test for. > > True, this can happen when using MailScanner.. > > Although, as it turns

Re: Forwarding spam

2005-02-26 Thread Chris
On Saturday 26 February 2005 03:50 pm, jdow wrote: > Forwarding spam? Never do it. Almost never do. So on those once a month > times I do forward the message I send it in the spamassassin wrapper. > > {^_^} Thanks jdow, just for curiosity's sake, is it too much of a PITA to fwd to various sites o

Re: Sanity check: current SARE rules ok for SA 2.6 and 3

2005-02-26 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Jeff, Friday, February 25, 2005, 8:58:37 PM, you wrote: JC> Just want to confirm that the current rules on the SARE site JC> will work with both 2.64 and 3.X. I know it says so on their JC> rules page, but wanted to double check. :-) Yes, all current SARE rules files listed on the SARE r

Re: Forwarding spam

2005-02-26 Thread jdow
Forwarding spam? Never do it. Almost never do. So on those once a month times I do forward the message I send it in the spamassassin wrapper. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When forwarding spam, those of you who do it, do you leave the subject intact, > i

Forwarding spam

2005-02-26 Thread Chris
When forwarding spam, those of you who do it, do you leave the subject intact, ie..*SPAM(35.2)* You've been selected for a low rate or do you change the subject to something like "phishing msg attached" or "lottery scam msg"? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 1

Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:57 PM 2/25/2005, jdow wrote: Sometimes SA may time out. If it does there are no SA markups in the messages. Makes it easy to test for. True, this can happen when using MailScanner.. Although, as it turns out, FN's aren't the poster's concern. As for SA timeouts under MailScanner, they are usu

Sanity check: current SARE rules ok for SA 2.6 and 3

2005-02-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Just want to confirm that the current rules on the SARE site will work with both 2.64 and 3.X. I know it says so on their rules page, but wanted to double check. :-) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

RE: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-26 Thread Jason Bennett
I've built an Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus appliance that I've recently put to market. If you have some suggestions on what makes an appliance really soar above the rest, I'd love you hear about it. Cheers, J. -Original Message- From: Rob McEwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, F

RE: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-26 Thread Rob McEwen
> Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this > particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) A few months ago, I was chatting with an IT contractor guy in my city who had installed the barracuda firewall for many large clients, including a large hospital. I sent this guy a

Re: Barracuda's Spam firewall

2005-02-26 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Richard, Friday, February 25, 2005, 7:58:54 AM, you wrote: GR> Anyone care to comment on how successful/effective this GR> particular product is? (http://www.barracudanetworks.com) I'm an end-user of an Exchange server based system that has a Barracuda front-end, and also the email admin o

Re: bayes database

2005-02-26 Thread Norman Zhang
I'm using spamassassin with amavisd-new. I like to setup a path for system wide bayes database in local.cf. e.g., bayes_path /var/amavisd/.spamassassin/bayes # slocate bayes /usr/share/spamassassin/23_bayes.cf /usr/bin/amavisd-checkbayesdb /var/lib/amavis/var/.spamassassin/bayes_toks /var/lib/amavi

Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread jdow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Justin Mason wrote: > So you're seeing a varying amount of ham, peaking during work hours, > but a constant flow of spam? > > That's about right -- spamware never sleeps, whereas legitimate > user-to-user mail is sent when people are around to send it ;) > > - --j. This

Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread jdow
Sometimes SA may time out. If it does there are no SA markups in the messages. Makes it easy to test for. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Eric A. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jerome Cartagena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: 2005 February, 25, Friday 16:14 Subject: Re: Strange SpamAssa

bayes database

2005-02-26 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I'm using spamassassin with amavisd-new. I like to setup a path for system wide bayes database in local.cf. e.g., bayes_path /var/amavisd/.spamassassin/bayes # slocate bayes /usr/share/spamassassin/23_bayes.cf /usr/bin/amavisd-checkbayesdb /var/lib/amavis/var/.spamassassin/bayes_toks /var/lib/a

Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Justin Mason wrote: > > So you're seeing a varying amount of ham, peaking during work hours, > > but a constant flow of spam? > > > > That's about right -- spamware never sleeps, whereas legitimate > > user-to-user mail is

Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread Jerome Cartagena
So you're seeing a varying amount of ham, peaking during work hours, but a constant flow of spam? That's about right -- spamware never sleeps, whereas legitimate user-to-user mail is sent when people are around to send it ;) You know that is quite an excellent, refreshing, and logical observati

RE: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Justin Mason wrote: > So you're seeing a varying amount of ham, peaking during work hours, > but a constant flow of spam? > > That's about right -- spamware never sleeps, whereas legitimate > user-to-user mail is sent when people are around to send it ;) > > - --j. This causes one of my worries

Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So you're seeing a varying amount of ham, peaking during work hours, but a constant flow of spam? That's about right -- spamware never sleeps, whereas legitimate user-to-user mail is sent when people are around to send it ;) - --j. Jerome Cartagena

Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread Eric A. Hall
That's MailScanner; I'm suggesting that if you look to see if it was processed through SA or not (MS might be skipping if no processes are available, or might be using the wrong queue, or any number of other things could be going wrong). On 2/25/2005 6:51 PM, Jerome Cartagena wrote: > MailScanner

Re: Strange SpamAssassin Statistical Performance

2005-02-26 Thread Ken A
Matt Kettler wrote: At 02:04 PM 2/25/2005, Jerome Cartagena wrote: The main reason I believe this is a performance issue is the strange flat line that is demonstrated by the graph. Although it concerns me that I get much more HAM than SPAM (I believe current industry standards report 80+% spam