Re: Can I auto-delete emails scoring 10 and above, yet mark as spam those 5 and above?

2009-09-15 Thread Rob McEwen
drkwc wrote: > My "Why" is that I get 1,500-plus spams daily on some of my older domains. One thing you should double check is that you are blocking all dictionary attack e-mails. What I mean is that a certain percentage of spams are making wild guesses at the particular recipient's e-mail address

Re: Can I auto-delete emails scoring 10 and above, yet mark as spam those 5 and above?

2009-09-15 Thread drkwc
Jdow, you're pretty sophisticated with this. Afraid much of what you described is beyond my skillset and/or patience for mastering at the moment. > >Am wondering if I can have two different settings. One for auto delete > and > >another for marking and delivering emails? >But why? And how woul

RE: keyword scoring on a per domain basis.

2009-09-15 Thread Jeremy Brooking
>> Is it possible to score particular words differently based on >> recipient address? >> >> We have a postfix/maia mailguard/spamassassin setup here hosting >> numerous domains.One particular domain holder (A school) wishes all >> emails containing particular keywords to be blocked, however, som

Re: keyword scoring on a per domain basis.

2009-09-15 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Jeremy Brooking wrote: > Is it possible to score particular words differently based on > recipient address? > > We have a postfix/maia mailguard/spamassassin setup here hosting > numerous domains.One particular domain holder (A school) wishes all > emails containing particula

keyword scoring on a per domain basis.

2009-09-15 Thread Jeremy Brooking
Hi, Is it possible to score particular words differently based on recipient address? We have a postfix/maia mailguard/spamassassin setup here hosting numerous domains.One particular domain holder (A school) wishes all emails containing particular keywords to be blocked, however, some of those k

Re: Can I auto-delete emails scoring 10 and above, yet mark as spam those 5 and above?

2009-09-15 Thread jdow
From: "jdow" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/September/15 20:06 From: "drkwc" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/September/15 17:33 New Spamassassin nb qs: On the configuration panel, I have SpamAssassin set to mark as spam any email scoring 5 or above. Not within SpamAssassin. I have a rule set in Outlook Expres

Re: Moderation?

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Landry
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 16:36 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: Yes, the "buzz"ard has also displayed the same abusive nature under his other email address many times in the past. He uses the same email client (X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3), the same reference in his Message-Id (

Re: Can I auto-delete emails scoring 10 and above, yet mark as spam those 5 and above?

2009-09-15 Thread jdow
From: "drkwc" Sent: Tuesday, 2009/September/15 17:33 New Spamassassin nb qs: On the configuration panel, I have SpamAssassin set to mark as spam any email scoring 5 or above. Not within SpamAssassin. I have a rule set in Outlook Express to route those to a SpamAssassin SPAM folder. That

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 16:36 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: > Yes, the "buzz"ard has also displayed the same abusive nature under his > other email address many times in the past. He uses the same email client > (X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3), the same reference in his Message-Id > (camel), and the same s

Re: Can I auto-delete emails scoring 10 and above, yet mark as spam those 5 and above?

2009-09-15 Thread drkwc
OK, thanks, John. It is cPanel. I'll contact my host and see if they can answer. Best, kwc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can-I-auto-delete-emails-scoring-10-and-above%2C-yet-mark-as-spam-those-5-and-above--tp25463989p25464101.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mai

Re: Can I auto-delete emails scoring 10 and above, yet mark as spam those 5 and above?

2009-09-15 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, drkwc wrote: On the configuration panel, SpamAssassin _has_ no configuration panel. That is some third-party tool. You will have to contact the support resource for whatever control panel tool (possibly cpanel?) that you're using. Sorry we can't help... -- John Hardi

Can I auto-delete emails scoring 10 and above, yet mark as spam those 5 and above?

2009-09-15 Thread drkwc
New Spamassassin nb qs: On the configuration panel, I have SpamAssassin set to mark as spam any email scoring 5 or above. I have a rule set in Outlook Express to route those to a SpamAssassin SPAM folder. Now, I'm wondering, can I ALSO set the auto-delete function to delete -- at server level -

Re: What does "conservative" mean vs "aggressive"?

2009-09-15 Thread drkwc
Very helpful Rob McEwen. And thank you for the referral to Justin Mason's piece. --kwc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-does-%22conservative%22-mean-vs-%22aggressive%22--tp25463445p25463790.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Landry
>> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 18:34 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: >>> I had considered this, but another poster made the worthy point that >>> the (ab)user in question was likely the sort to get another fake >>> address >>> just so they could keep posting their crud. Sometimes 'ignore them' is >>> the >

Re: What does "conservative" mean vs "aggressive"?

2009-09-15 Thread Rob McEwen
drkwc wrote: > "conservative" means vs "aggressive". "conservative" = setting a higher spam score threshold to ensure that LESS legitimate mail mistakenly blocked, even if that means that more spam makes it into the inbox "aggressive" = setting a lower spam score threshold with a goal of blocki

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Landry
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 18:34 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: >> I had considered this, but another poster made the worthy point that >> the (ab)user in question was likely the sort to get another fake address >> just so they could keep posting their crud. Sometimes 'ignore them' is >> the >> simples

What does "conservative" mean vs "aggressive"?

2009-09-15 Thread drkwc
NB user question: I currently have the basic score set at the default 5. Not sure what "conservative" means vs "aggressive". '5' is said to be rather aggressive. 8 or 10 is said to be more conservative and more appropriate for an ISP. Does conservative, in this case mean -- as I'm thinking that i

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
On ons 16 sep 2009 01:08:30 CEST, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote *Please*, everyone -- don't feed the trolls. well i still can drink my beers alone :) but it would be more fun to see the trolls dont have one -- xpoint

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 18:34 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > I had considered this, but another poster made the worthy point that > the (ab)user in question was likely the sort to get another fake address > just so they could keep posting their crud. Sometimes 'ignore them' is the > simplest and b

Re: [sa] Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: See the List-Help header. A mail to users-help returns, among a lot of other info, the users-owner address as a last resort. This will reach the moderators. (Same with all ezmlm lists, btw.) I had considered this, but another poster made the worth

Re: Does Spam Assassin support additional languages?

2009-09-15 Thread Matt Kettler
Chris Arrendale wrote: > > I am running version 3.2.4 and interested to know if there are > additional language packs for Spam Assassin such as German, Turkish, > Chinese, etc.? If they are available, does anybody know where I can > download them? > There are a few language packs that come with SA

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:10 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: > At 01:59 PM 9/15/2009, you wrote: > > > Please feel free to directly ping the list owners or use some other > > channel to quickly trigger the PMC's attention if need be. Rather than > > just posting yet another message to an already crowded t

Re: Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Evan Platt
At 01:59 PM 9/15/2009, you wrote: Please feel free to directly ping the list owners or use some other channel to quickly trigger the PMC's attention if need be. Rather than just posting yet another message to an already crowded thread. The latter is exactly where your call for authority is much

Moderation? (was: Drivel)

2009-09-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Guys, first of all, I personally *highly* welcome the community to step up like you did in this case. There's no need to wait for the PMC to tell some seriously mis-behaving subscriber to watch his language. Thanks for that! Oh, and just in case -- this is not about words, but meaning and intenti

Re: Spamc issues with remote userprefs

2009-09-15 Thread Ryan Thoryk
Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > Using it with the Postfix pipe command makes it very slow. Have you considered > using the Sendmail milter interface integrated in Postfix in combination with > the SpamAssassin milter? I haven't tried that - probably should be using that instead :) Also one other thi

Re: Spamc issues with remote userprefs

2009-09-15 Thread Ryan Thoryk
Jari Fredriksson wrote: > "The old non-lookup line works fine" > > spamc has no option -f > > How can that work fine? > > If the old line works fine, why do you try to raplace with a new line? I noticed the extra "-f", and will remove it. The new line has the "-u" option, since we're trying to

Re: Non scoring 'Bank Deposit' spam

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Martinec
I've opened the: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6203 you can add your e-mail address as a CC if you want. > is the dkim awl not solveing it in 3.3 ? Only if a mail has a valid DKIM signature and the feature is enabled ( auto_whitelist_distinguish_signed 1 ) and AWL datab

Does Spam Assassin support additional languages?

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Arrendale
I am running version 3.2.4 and interested to know if there are additional language packs for Spam Assassin such as German, Turkish, Chinese, etc.? If they are available, does anybody know where I can download them? Thanks for the help on this. Chris Arrend

Re: Spamc issues with remote userprefs

2009-09-15 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Ryan Thoryk : > Hi, > > We're rebuilding a mail server and are having some issues with SQL-based > SA preference lookups. We're running Postfix 2.5.5 and SA 3.2.5 (Debian > Lenny version) - here's our Postfix config from master.cf: > spamassassin unix - n n - - pipe