Re: How to update filters

I used CPAN to install it the first time. Matt Kettler wrote: Peter Marshall wrote: This is probably in a doc .. but since oyu suggesed it .. maybe you coupld possible point me to the doc :) How do I upgrade spamassain .. and can I do it on my production mailserver during the day ... (of

Re: How to update filters

great since the start of the week anyway). Thanks peter Matt Kettler wrote: Peter Marshall wrote: I have SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 Warning: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable DoS attack. Unless you're using a distro port that has backported fixes, upgrade

Re: How to update filters

--- I removed my whitelists .. they had user specific info in them. They were basically for a bunch of hotmail address that were getting marked as spam. Thanks for the suggestions. Peter Matt Kettler wrote: Peter Marshall wrote: Hi, I have not

How to update filters

Hi, I have not updated my filters in a bit, and I getting a load of spam through all of the sudden. Can someone tell me how I can update my filters ?? Thanks Peter

newbie question

What do I have to put in the local.cf file to tell spam assasin to mark a particular email as spam ? Thanks peter

Re: User getting spammed to death

nope .. unfortunitly, that is not the case :( Kristopher Austin wrote: Are the messages coming from the same sending server? If so, I'd blacklist it at your MTA until the storm is over. Kris -Original Message- From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, Februa

User getting spammed to death

I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. Do any of you have a suggestion other than simply turfing the email address ? Thanks Peter

train ham for bays

I have been running spamassassin 3.0.2 for the last month or so. I have bayes set up to run for each user. It is working very well. However, I never get any missed marked spam (ie, messaged marked as SPAM that should not have been), I only get a few messages that don't get flagged. My probl

Re: Still Stuck. bayes

. Peter Bowie Bailey wrote: From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I got this book (slightly outdated) called Spamassassin (by O'Reilly). Anyway, it says if you are going to sa-learn a bunch of directories in Maildir format you should do the following: sa-learn --no-rebuild --spam mail/s

Still Stuck. bayes

---- Thank you for any help -- Peter Marshall, BCS System Administrator, CARIS CARIS 2005 - Mapping a Seamless Society 10th International User Group Conference and Educational Sessions Halifax, NS, Canada E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more.

to sync or not to sync, that is the question - so confused

Hey, I got this book (slightly outdated) called Spamassassin (by O'Reilly). Anyway, it says if you are going to sa-learn a bunch of directories in Maildir format you should do the following: sa-learn --no-rebuild --spam mail/spam sa-learn --no-rebuild ...blah. sa-learn --no-rebuild -

auto_learn and use_bayes

When you use auto_learn it updates the bayes database right ? If you have this in the main local.cf file, does it update the system wide bayes database or the local users ? does "use_bayes" turn on system wide or individual ? I guess, I would like to know how I know which is being used ? How

--username flag

Is the --username flag (with sa-learn) the same as running sa-learn with that user ? ie. as root sa-learn --username bob sa-learn --username fred ... Could you do this and obtain individual bayes databases the same way that you would if you ran individual crons for each user ? Thanks, Pet

Re: WHich is better

t is the best PM> method of doing this if this is a better method. Currently I plan to PM> use this to learn the spam. Does anyone see any problems. PM> (Note: this assumes it is being run as a particular user.) Some people prefer system-wide, others domain-wide, others user-specific. Y

Re: WHich is better

, is it better to run a cron for each user, or have it does system wide by root ? Thank you, Peter Gray, Richard wrote: -Original Message- From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 April 2005 13:30 To: SpamAssassin list Subject: WHich is better I am looking for opinions

WHich is better

being run as a particular user.) /usr/bin/sa-learn --spam --dir ~/Maildir/.Spam/new /usr/bin/sa-learn --spam --dir ~/Maildir/.Spam/cur mv ~/Maildir/.Spam/new/* ~/Maildir/.Trash mv ~/Maildir/.Spam/cur/* ~/Maildir/.Trash Thanks for the input, Peter -- Peter Marshall, BCS System Administrator

ham / spam + autolearn + cron for every user ?

Hi, I have a small question. I finally got postfix working with spamassassin and imap and anomy. I have everything working except bays. I know how to do the learning for spam and ham ... (or a good idea anyway :-). My problem is I am not 100% sure how to have it update for each user. I am ru

Re: bayesian filter training

Jason, I accidently deleted your reply before I could read it ... would you mind re-sending it ... my apologies ... Peter Matt Kettler wrote: At 05:06 PM 2/10/2005, Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: Just a question, It is worth to train the bayes filter with messages already detected and flagged as sp

Re: bayesian filter training

but would that not mean that the bayes filter will learn the headers that spam assassin adds as spam .. and then after a while only start classing mail that already has the spam headers as bayes_99 ? I really do not know, I am just asking. Peter Matt Kettler wrote: At 05:06 PM 2/10/2005, Matias

Re: How to get mailbox to use Bayesian filter?

what are the better ways ? (I use pop to get my mail .. so I haev no handy dandy imap folders that I can copy spam and ham to easaly that scripts can be run on) Peter Thomas Arend wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2005 12:52 schrieb Steve Dondley: Thank

Re: Manually training SpamAssassin by forwarding mail

Stuart Johnston wrote: Peter Marshall wrote: Kevin Sullivan wrote: --On 02/03/05 01:59:21 +0100 Sander Holthaus - Orange XL wrote: I've been interested in offering customers to train manually train the SpamAssassin Bayes filter for ham and spam (to reduce false positives and negatives). Ho

Re: Manually training SpamAssassin by forwarding mail

Kevin Sullivan wrote: --On 02/03/05 01:59:21 +0100 Sander Holthaus - Orange XL wrote: I've been interested in offering customers to train manually train the SpamAssassin Bayes filter for ham and spam (to reduce false positives and negatives). However, I can only find documentation to this for loca

Re: Not sure about autolearn

When I am trying to train bayes ... eveyrone says you have to remove the message header first ?? I assume this means the spam tag that spam assassin adds ? If the spam is in the mailbox on the server, how do you remove the tag ??? Thanks, Peter At 09:56 AM 2/3/2005, Peter Marshall wrote: >

Not sure about autolearn

OK. I am sure you all are going to think this question is related to not reading on the contrary .. I have read countless threads, and I even bought the spamassassin book by orielly .. still confused :( Here is all I have in my local.cf file (system wide) ... I have not done much with it ..

RE: spamassassin scoring message twice

found it ... I had another procmailrc file in /etc ... I was trying something else a little while ago and for got about it. Thanks for the help. I have another question, but I will make a new post. Peter -Original Message- From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday

RE: spamassassin scoring message twice

# Stop daemons. echo -n "Shutting down spamd: " killproc spamd RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/spamassassin ;; -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February

spamassassin scoring message twice

I am not sure why it is doing this ... but everytime i get a spam, it looks like it does the smap rateing twice. And it gives different scores each time. Here is the new header from the last email I got. Notice how it looks like spamassassin ran twice. Any Idea's ??? (yes, my threshhold is low

auto learning

I had spamassassin 2 on a server with sendmail. I am building another mailserver with postfix and spamassassin 3 to replace the old. The original server was here before me so I am learning as I go with the setup. At the moment, I have postfix, qpopper, and spamassassin all working (although prob

how are most people storing spamassassin / bayes prefs / data

I have been doing a bit of reading, and I am a bit confused. Is there any advantage to having your postfix user info, and spamassassin inform stored in a mysql database as opposed to just using the /etc/passwd file for users, and whatever comes with spamassassin to store its data ? It just seems

questions about version 3

I am currently running sendmail and spam assassin version 2.x. I am upgrading my mailserver and installing postfix. I have a few questions regarding "what is best" First, should I store my users (about 150) in the passwd file or in an mysql database ? Does spamassassin v3 require a mysql databa

install

I am currently running version 2 of spamassassin on a rh9 server with sendmail. I am going to switch it to my fedora core 2 server that is running postfix. I am not exactly sure of what I am doing ... Currently I do not use mysql or bayes, although I would like to. When I install spamassassin 3,