RE: question on training spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread Webmaster
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: March 2, 2006 8:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: question on training spamassassin > > Webmaster wrote: > > >> Also if your

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Webmaster wrote: >> Also if your users are only or mostly forwarding spam, SA's >> bayes is going to have a bayes bias that all messages >> forwarded by your mail clients are spam, regardless of content. >> >> > > Does this also mean that it is almost useless to share bayes from > one server t

RE: question on training spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Webmaster wrote: > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jeff Portwine wrote: > > > Hmm.. I don't quite understand this.At my company, we forward > > > any spam that gets through to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any ham marked > > > as spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... this was set up long

RE: question on training spamassassin

2006-03-01 Thread Webmaster
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: February 27, 2006 5:18 PM > To: Jeff Portwine > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: question on training spamassassin > > Jeff Portwine wrote: > >

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-28 Thread jdow
al Message - From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; "'Theo Van Dinter'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:09 AM Subject: Re: question on training spamassassin Thanks. I read the wiki. This is unfortunate because

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-28 Thread Kris Deugau
Webmaster wrote: This is unfortunate because many clients are still using this client: "Microsoft Outlook Express: It does not appear to have a redirect option" Hmm. OE is actually one of the better clients for retrieving a "true" copy of the original message that was downloaded via POP3. A

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-28 Thread Jeff Portwine
- Original Message - From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; "'Theo Van Dinter'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:09 AM Subject: Re: question on training spamassassin Thanks. I read the wiki. This is unf

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Loren Wilton
> Thanks. I read the wiki. > This is unfortunate because many clients are still using this client: > "Microsoft Outlook Express: It does not appear to have a redirect option" True statement, but not necessarily important. I'm running OE, and I have spam and ham mb's set up on the Linux box as im

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Jeff Portwine wrote: > Hmm.. I don't quite understand this.At my company, we forward any > spam that gets through to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any ham marked as spam to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... this was set up long ago before I even started > working here and the spam filter worked really well. Re

RE: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Webmaster
> -Original Message- > From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: February 27, 2006 11:18 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: question on training spamassassin > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:14:22PM -0500, Jeff Portwine wrote: >

RE: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Webmaster
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: February 27, 2006 11:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: question on training spamassassin > > Webmaster wrote: > > A large numbe

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Jeff Portwine
e it does work for us, but you're saying it shouldn't ? - Original Message - From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: Re: question on training spamassassin Webmaster wrote: A

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Webmaster wrote: > A large number of our clients are using POP. > If I were to ask them to send false negatives to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and false positives to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can place them in > a folder and train, does that hinder the training process in > anyway knowing that the header

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:14:22PM -0500, Jeff Portwine wrote: > I'm a SA newbie myself, but I believe I've read that all the headers, etc, > are stripped before the learning takes place, so it should work fine for > you to have your users go ahead and do that for training. > > Somebody here wi

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Jeff Portwine
riginal Message - From: "Webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:45 PM Subject: question on training spamassassin A large number of our clients are using POP. If I were to ask them to send false negatives to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and false positives to [EMAIL

question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Webmaster
A large number of our clients are using POP. If I were to ask them to send false negatives to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and false positives to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can place them in a folder and train, does that hinder the training process in anyway knowing that the header info is changed with the f