Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam

2006-07-15 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 15 July 2006 08:49 pm, jdow wrote: > Somehow I figure a better than 1200:1 scoring ratio is a pretty lopsided > win for SpamAssassin. And yet, in spite of your statistics, there is more spam than ever. Some estimates are that in excess of 95% of all email is spam. If it didn't pay, no

Re: Bayes corrupt?

2006-07-15 Thread jdow
First unlearn that one message. Then read the rest of this message and use sa-learn properly for your mail storage format. Then do it correctly. You're obviously running mbox format for your spam store. So you need to include --mbox as an option on sa-learn. {^_^} - Original Message - Fr

Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam

2006-07-15 Thread jdow
From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Saturday 15 July 2006 03:08 am, Loren Wilton wrote: and if spammers weren't so incompetent in general it would be even harder than it is. An odd comment, especially for a project like Spamassassin which has had to run full out for the last dozen ye

Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam

2006-07-15 Thread John Andersen
Subject: Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam Date: Saturday 15 July 2006 08:15 pm From: John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org On Saturday 15 July 2006 03:08 am, Loren Wilton wrote: > and if spammers weren't so > incompetent in general it would b

Bayes corrupt?

2006-07-15 Thread carnold5
Hello all! I am mostly a lurker here on this list. I have been using spamassassin for about 2 months now. I use it in a site-wide config on an OES-Linux server (based on SLES9). I use hula as my email server with spamd. I noticed that my emails are not marked with any "spam" headings, so i looked i

Re: how to dump message as it enters spamassassin

2006-07-15 Thread jdow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: I have the following test rule in my local.cf: header LOCAL_MISSING_MSGID MESSAGEID =~ /^UNSET$/ [if-unset: UNSET] describe LOCAL_MISSING_MSGIDMissing Message-Id header score LOCAL_MISSING_MSGID 0.010

Re: how to dump message as it enters spamassassin

2006-07-15 Thread Loren Wilton
Thanks! That solved my problem. Do you know why my previous rule, using UNSET, doesn't work? Haven't a clue. I've never used that form. Next question: how can I obtain "message" the way spamassassin sees it, not in its final form (altered by MTA+SA)? Look into 'report_safe'. You can wrap t

Re: using spamdc/spamd getting better results?

2006-07-15 Thread yossim
Steve Thomas wrote: > > Hi Yossi, > >> My mail relay is built on sendmail and MailScanner configured >> wit SA 3.1.1. >> ... >> How do i start spamc? > > IIRC, MailScanner loads the SpamAssassin perl modules directly - it > doesn't use spamc/d, nor does it use the "spamassassin" script. > > H

Re: how to dump message as it enters spamassassin

2006-07-15 Thread sa
On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: I have the following test rule in my local.cf: header LOCAL_MISSING_MSGID MESSAGEID =~ /^UNSET$/ [if-unset: UNSET] describe LOCAL_MISSING_MSGIDMissing Message-Id header score LOCAL_MISSING_MSGID 0.010 header__HAVE_MSGIDe

Re: make bayes autolearn ignore specific scores

2006-07-15 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:16, Alexander Piavka took the opportunity to write: > Hi , i'd like to know if its possbile and how, to ignore specific rule > scores (like ALL_TRUSTED) then calculating the autolearn threshold for > spam and ham? "Like" ALL_TRUSTED, eh? If you have a problem with ALL_

Re: Rejection text

2006-07-15 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 06:16, John D. Hardin took the opportunity to write: > Rejecting (bouncing) spam Isn't there any sort of consensus about the terminology? I like to say that "reject" means giving a negative (permanent (5xx) or temporary (4xx)) reply to a command, whereas "bounce" means

Re: Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam

2006-07-15 Thread Nigel Frankcom
I'd have said the tools were the spammers and the image spams their implements - but that'd just be semantics :-} On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:08:51 -0700, "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> marketing.. or should I expect a huge deluge of Image spam this weekend > >Maybe. Who knows. > >Image

Re: RE: only user_prefs from root read

2006-07-15 Thread Gary V
On 2006-07-15 01:21, Gary V wrote: > Not sure if this still applies, but you have: > > /opt/csw/sbin/spamass-milter -p /var/run/spamass.sock -f > > According to: > http://www.monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-questions/200411/msg01326.html > > "Make sure you are passing spamass-milter the "-u d

Re: Why is there so much hype behind Image spam

2006-07-15 Thread Loren Wilton
marketing.. or should I expect a huge deluge of Image spam this weekend Maybe. Who knows. Image spam has been increasing drastically in the last few months. It is much harder to detect than normal spams, and if spammers weren't so incompetent in general it would be even harder than it is.

Why is there so much hype behind Image spam

2006-07-15 Thread Ramprasad
First it was Iron-port , now postini. http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/88975.html Is Image spam really that BIG. I am missing something. My image spams are getting caught by the BL's ( touchwood ) I think these companies are trying to keep up the hype for their own marketing.. or should I expect a