Re: latest rules

2012-09-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 9/22/2012 4:31 PM, James wrote: I am lowering the required score to 3. If I still get spam, I will block everything and just use whitelisting. SpamAssassin's scores have been set to work best with a required score of 5. If you find you have to significantly reduce this score to get good r

Re: latest rules

2012-09-23 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, James wrote: On 09/23/12 18:28, John Hardin wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, James wrote: I wrote this little script to update the bayes rules. I can do this on my imap account but my pop3 account gets way more spam and the messages are no longer on the machine with sa once

Re: latest rules

2012-09-23 Thread James
On 09/23/12 18:28, John Hardin wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, James wrote: > >> I wrote this little script to update the bayes rules. I can do this on my >> imap account but my pop3 account gets way more spam and the messages are no >> longer on the machine with sa once I pop them off. >> >> Any

Re: latest rules

2012-09-23 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, James wrote: I wrote this little script to update the bayes rules. I can do this on my imap account but my pop3 account gets way more spam and the messages are no longer on the machine with sa once I pop them off. Any comments on my script? Bear in mind that spams which

Re: latest rules

2012-09-23 Thread James
On 09/22/12 22:38, John Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, James wrote: >> On 09/22/12 20:50, Glenn Sieb wrote: >>> On 9/22/12 8:36 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 9/22/12 8:32 PM, James wrote: > It didn't help. :-( > I got spam with a low score. > X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=

Re: latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, James wrote: On 09/22/12 20:50, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 9/22/12 8:36 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 9/22/12 8:32 PM, James wrote: It didn't help. :-( I got spam with a low score. X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, INVALID_DATE,MIME_HTML_O

Re: latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread James
On 09/22/12 20:50, Glenn Sieb wrote: > On 9/22/12 8:36 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote: >> On 9/22/12 8:32 PM, James wrote: >>> It didn't help. :-( >>> I got spam with a low score. >>> X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, >>> INVALID_DATE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_DB

Re: latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread Glenn Sieb
On 9/22/12 8:36 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote: > On 9/22/12 8:32 PM, James wrote: >> It didn't help. :-( >> I got spam with a low score. >> X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, >> INVALID_DATE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no >> version=3.3.2 >

Re: latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread Glenn Sieb
On 9/22/12 8:32 PM, James wrote: > It didn't help. :-( > I got spam with a low score. > X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, > INVALID_DATE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_DBL_SPAM autolearn=no > version=3.3.2 If it's spam, then why does it say "X-Spam-

Re: latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread James
On 09/22/12 17:11, Daniel McDonald wrote: > > > > On 9/22/12 3:31 PM, "James" wrote: > >> Great thanks. >> >> I am lowering the required score to 3. > > That is generally not a desirable practice. It didn't help. :-( I got spam with a low score. X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.4 required=3.0 tests

Re: latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread Daniel McDonald
On 9/22/12 3:31 PM, "James" wrote: > Great thanks. > > I am lowering the required score to 3. That is generally not a desirable practice. > If I still get spam, I will block everything and just use whitelisting. I see that you have bayes enabled. You should train your bayes every now and

Re: latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread James
oot root 4096 Aug 27 2011 3.003001/ > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 21 23:59 3.003002/ > > Will it use the latest rules or do I need to delete the older ones? > > Where in a mail header does it say what version of the rules it used? > X-Spam-Checker-Version:

Re: latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
massassin service (Ubuntu). > > $ /var/lib/spamassassin$ ll > total 16 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 15 2011 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 4096 Jun 12 06:40 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 27 2011 3.003001/ > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 21 23:59 3.003002/ > >

latest rules

2012-09-22 Thread James
06:40 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 27 2011 3.003001/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 21 23:59 3.003002/ Will it use the latest rules or do I need to delete the older ones? Where in a mail header does it say what version of the rules it used? X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-