Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-05 Thread Chris Purves
On Saturday 04 February 2006 01:10, Jeff Portwine wrote: > Hello... I am a complete newbie with Spamassassin, so I hope you will all > bear with me. The job of fixing our spam filter has fallen on me, as the > person who used to handle everything relating to our mail server recently > left my co

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Jeff Portwine
] - Original Message - From: "Gary V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 5:38 PM Subject: Re: spamassissin filter very broken We're running spamassassin 3.0.2 with perl 5.8.4, and exim 3.35 on Debian. <> Don't wipe out SA, necessarily. I

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Gary V
We're running spamassassin 3.0.2 with perl 5.8.4, and exim 3.35 on Debian. <> Don't wipe out SA, necessarily. It's not time to do that yet. But it is time to update to 3.0.5, at least. 3.0.2 has a DoS vulnerability. <>That's not an option unless you get away from Debian packages. Cla

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Gary V
We're running spamassassin 3.0.2 with perl 5.8.4, and exim 3.35 on Debian. <> Don't wipe out SA, necessarily. It's not time to do that yet. But it is time to update to 3.0.5, at least. 3.0.2 has a DoS vulnerability. That's not an option unless you get away from Debian packages. Installing

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread jdow
From: "Jeff Portwine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello... I am a complete newbie with Spamassassin, so I hope you will all bear with me. The job of fixing our spam filter has fallen on me, as the person who used to handle everything relating to our mail server recently left my company. We're runnin

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Loren Wilton
Don't see much to complain about with your local.cf, other than the two obvious 2.6x lines that weren't updated. As others have mentioned, taking the autolearn ham threshold down to 0 or -0.1 would be a real good idea. I'm not sure about those last two add_header lines. I'm assuming that is somet

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Loren Wilton
Despite the message subject I wouldn't say your SA install is *very* broken, only unmaintained and somewhat broken. One would expect that an unmaintained filter would let more spam through with time. SPam patterns change as the spammers get better at avoiding old blocks, so we have to invent new

RE: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Gary V
In the last 3 weeks or so , we have started receiving a ton of spam, especially a lot of pharmeceutical adds and some other random nonsense. However, Spamassassin isn't completely broken.. it is actually catching some spam but it's letting a lot go. When I look at the headers in the spam, I

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Jeff Portwine
Take a look in the SpamAssassin config directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), and show us which rulesets have been added. You may have some old rulesets that are no longer needed and there are probably some extra rulesets that you could add. Thanks a lot for the responses, here is a copy

RE: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jeff Portwine wrote: > > We're running spamassassin 3.0.2 with perl 5.8.4, and exim 3.35 on > Debian. You may want to upgrade to 3.1. There have been a bunch of improvements recently. > Here are the SA related headers for a couple of spams that are > getting through: > X-Virus-Scanned: by ama

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Jim Maul
> Hello... I am a complete newbie with Spamassassin, so I hope you will all > bear with me. The job of fixing our spam filter has fallen on me, as the > person who used to handle everything relating to our mail server recently > left my company. > > We're running spamassassin 3.0.2 with perl 5.8

RE: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Jeff Portwine wrote: > We're running spamassassin 3.0.2 with perl 5.8.4, and exim 3.35 on > Debian. ... > At some point SA must have been updated with a > apt-get update or something and the configuration file was not > updated along with it.I'm not sure if this is the cause of the > problem t

spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Jeff Portwine
Hello...  I am a complete newbie with Spamassassin, so I hope you will all bear with me.   The job of fixing our spam filter has fallen on me, as the person who used to handle everything relating to our mail server recently left my company.   We're running spamassassin 3.0.2 with perl 5.8.4,

Re: SpamAssissin

2004-09-09 Thread Philippe AMIOT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le Mercredi 08 Septembre 2004 15:03, Seyyed Mehdi Sheikhalishahi a écrit : > Hi > I installed qmail and spamassissin on it. I don't know how configure > spamass to have a blacklist, whitelist ? > How update spam database of spamas

Re: SpamAssissin

2004-09-08 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:03 AM 9/8/2004, Seyyed Mehdi Sheikhalishahi wrote: I installed qmail and spamassissin on it. I don't know how configure spamass to have a blacklist, whitelist ? How update spam database of spamass for new spammer? First, read the manpage for the configuration. This will detail h

Re: SpamAssissin

2004-09-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
> Hi > I installed qmail and spamassissin on it. I don't know how configure > spamass to have a blacklist, whitelist ? > How update spam database of spamass for new spammer? Ahhh, did you even attempt to read through some of the FAQ wiki or any of the documentation on the SA

SpamAssissin

2004-09-08 Thread Seyyed Mehdi Sheikhalishahi
Hi I installed qmail and spamassissin on it. I don't know how configure spamass to have a blacklist, whitelist ? How update spam database of spamass for new spammer? Thanks.