feeding bayes from the honeypot

2011-03-18 Thread LuKreme
OK, I have a 'honeypot' email address that is collecting spam. the bayes mentioning local.cf settings (SA 3.3.1) are: use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 bayes_store_module Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SQL bayes_sql_dsn DBI:mysql:bayes:localhost:3306 bayes_sql_username user bayes_sql_password *pas

Re: Feeding bayes outbounds

2006-09-04 Thread mouss
Logan Shaw wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, jdow wrote: From: "Joe Zitnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Our scanning program has the ability to archive all e-mail, both inbound and outbound, which we have been doing for months now. Given that your outbound mail is almost certainly ham, the majority of it

Re: Feeding bayes outbounds

2006-08-22 Thread Logan Shaw
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, jdow wrote: From: "Joe Zitnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Our scanning program has the ability to archive all e-mail, both inbound and outbound, which we have been doing for months now. Given that your outbound mail is almost certainly ham, the majority of it's content is going

Re: Feeding bayes outbounds

2006-08-22 Thread Joe Zitnik
Well, that was part of my reason for doing it. My bayes is seriously skewed for the spam side, something like 4 to 1. The problem is I'm getting about 90% spam coming in, so it's difficult enough finding legitimate mail to feed it. I wasn't talking about feeding strictly outbounds, but using the

RE: Feeding bayes outbounds

2006-08-21 Thread Kurt Buff
| From: Joe Zitnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Our scanning program has the ability to archive all e-mail, | both inbound | and outbound, which we have been doing for months now. Given | that your | outbound mail is almost certainly ham, the majority of it's content is | going to be specific t

Re: Feeding bayes outbounds

2006-08-21 Thread jdow
From: "Joe Zitnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Our scanning program has the ability to archive all e-mail, both inbound and outbound, which we have been doing for months now. Given that your outbound mail is almost certainly ham, the majority of it's content is going to be specific to our business sect

Feeding bayes outbounds

2006-08-21 Thread Joe Zitnik
Our scanning program has the ability to archive all e-mail, both inbound and outbound, which we have been doing for months now. Given that your outbound mail is almost certainly ham, the majority of it's content is going to be specific to our business sector, wouldn't feeding outbounds through bay

RE: Feeding Bayes Forwarded Emails

2006-01-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Robert Bartlett wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Robert Bartlett wrote: > > > > > > The problem is the original email is not attached, they just forward > > > it to me. Is there a way to just feed the body of the message > > > instead of the he

RE: Feeding Bayes Forwarded Emails

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:48 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Feeding Bayes Forwarded Emails Robert Bartlett wrote: > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Robert Bartl

RE: Feeding Bayes Forwarded Emails

2006-01-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Robert Bartlett wrote: > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Robert Bartlett wrote: > > > If someone forwards me email as a regular forward and not as an > > > attachment, could I still feed it to bayes as the user who forwarded > > > it to me and still be effective? Or will that cause

RE: Feeding Bayes Forwarded Emails

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:30 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Feeding Bayes Forwarded Emails Robert Bartlett wrote: > If someone forwards me email as a regular forward and not as an > atta

RE: Feeding Bayes Forwarded Emails

2006-01-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Robert Bartlett wrote: > If someone forwards me email as a regular forward and not as an > attachment, could I still feed it to bayes as the user who forwarded > it to me and still be effective? Or will that cause problems because > the headers show as the person forwarding the email and not the >

Feeding Bayes Forwarded Emails

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Bartlett
If someone forwards me email as a regular forward and not as an attachment, could I still feed it to bayes as the user who forwarded it to me and still be effective? Or will that cause problems because the headers show as the person forwarding the email and not the original headers? What I mean ab

Re: Feeding bayes

2005-05-19 Thread Craig McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jimsheffer wrote: [snip] | | Next, I tried the following, but it didn't like it. Heres what I did, and | the response I received: | | Root# sa-learn --spam -C /etc/mail/spamassassin --showdots --dir | /var/CommuniGate/Accounts/spam.macnt/INBOX.mbox | |

Re: Feeding bayes

2005-05-19 Thread jimsheffer
Ryan (and others)- Thanks- I've now read the manual on that part- I guess I missed it, been reading so much :) That did the trick! I fed the machine spam, and it shows it when I run lint -D BUT, I received over 200 spam messages into a new box that I had redirected to a mailbox if they reached t

Re: Feeding bayes

2005-05-18 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Thursday 19 May 2005 00:48), Ken Goods wrote: > jimsheffer wrote: > > Any idea what I need to do? (there are over 200 emails in each > > account, but it lookes like it read only 1) Jim, how about reading the sa-learn manpage? man sa-learn > IIRC there's a --mbox switch to te

Re: Feeding bayes

2005-05-18 Thread Ryan Sorensen
RTM :) Just kidding... Use the --mbox switch when running sa-learn. http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/sa-learn.html --mboxInput sources are in mbox format --mbx Input sources are in mbx format - Ryan Sorensen jimsheffer wrot

RE: Feeding bayes

2005-05-18 Thread Ken Goods
jimsheffer wrote: > Ok- > > Root# sa-learn --spam -C /etc/mail/spamassassin --showdots --dir > /var/CommuniGate/Accounts/spam.macnt/INBOX.mbox > > Use of uninitialized value in quotemeta at > ///Library/Perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 928. > . > Learned from 1 message(s) (1 message(s) examin

Feeding bayes

2005-05-18 Thread jimsheffer
Ok- I've got bayes db's all working, lint runs with no errors. Now I need to feed the beast spam/ham messages! 2 questions: I've set up 2 email accounts- ham and spam. I've connected to these accounts via imap, and took several hundred of each and dragged them into these folders. Will this work

Re: Feeding Bayes aswell

2005-03-14 Thread Kelson
Matt Kettler wrote: You can't train SA on most messages from Eudora's .mbx files. Speaking as a user of eudora, eudora completely destroys many important parts of a message when it stores it in the mbox, and it cannot be reconstructed. And this was the main reason that after using Eudora for 8 ye

Re: feeding bayes

2005-03-14 Thread ChupaCabra
Thanks. Glad I havn't started feeding it yet. So what I need to do is look at the attachments and then save then to a file then train on that. correct? That makes sense. Maybe that is why my old SA instance got kinda weird in the end. Thanks Matt Kettler wrote: Well, first, if you aren't stripp

Re: Feeding Bayes aswell

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:52 AM 3/14/2005, Andreas Rust wrote: we are mostly using Eudora (Windows version) and it's saving "Junk" emails (as junked by Eudora itself) into an .mbx file. You can't train SA on most messages from Eudora's .mbx files. Speaking as a user of eudora, eudora completely destroys many impor

Feeding Bayes aswell

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Rust
Hello, we are mostly using Eudora (Windows version) and it's saving "Junk" emails (as junked by Eudora itself) into an .mbx file. Eventhough the .mbx file looks like an ok-formatted mbox file, it carries: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 18 15:28:02 2005 Infront of the normal headers. Such as: From

Re: feeding bayes

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:22 AM 3/14/2005, ChupaCabra wrote: I just noticed that some of my users are attaching multiple spams in one email to my "spam" user for training. Aside from having to have 200 spam/ham mails and the possibiliy of the messages being too large, would this have an effect on training? Well, f

feeding bayes

2005-03-14 Thread ChupaCabra
I just noticed that some of my users are attaching multiple spams in one email to my "spam" user for training. Aside from having to have 200 spam/ham mails and the possibiliy of the messages being too large, would this have an effect on training? Thanks. -- Michael H. Collins Admiral, Penguin