RE: SA Custom Rules

2008-02-11 Thread Michael Hutchinson
This is a good place to start, especially if you want to understand Meta rule writing: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules The rest is up to your knowledge of Perl regular expressions and applying them to match spam. Beware downloading 3rd party custom rules, as what works for

Re: Dell Laptop Givaway SPAM's

2008-02-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 February 2008, Jason Holbrook wrote: >Has anyone seen the dell laptop giveaway spam's over the weekend we >started to get a large volume of them? Any suggestions for a rule from >anyone who has seen them? > I fed them to sa-learn --spam at an equally high rate of speed. /dev/nulled 2

SA Custom Rules

2008-02-11 Thread Jason Holbrook
Where is a good starting place to find information about how to write GOOD rules? Best Regards, Jason Holbrook Chief Technology Integrator / Partner Empower Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] weblog.empoweris.com www.empoweris.com Skype: holbrook.jason

Dell Laptop Givaway SPAM's

2008-02-11 Thread Jason Holbrook
Has anyone seen the dell laptop giveaway spam's over the weekend we started to get a large volume of them? Any suggestions for a rule from anyone who has seen them? Best Regards, Jason Holbrook Chief Technology Integrator / Partner Empower Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] weblog.empow

Stopped working well.

2008-02-11 Thread Marcin Praczko
Hi, Today I discovered something strange with Spamassassin which we're using in our servers. Normally spamassasin works well. A lot of messages has been market as SPAM - what is correct. Only a few didn't get enough points to be market as SPAM. (we have 7.0) limit. But today a lot of messag

Re: test my auto-generated ruleset

2008-02-11 Thread Justin Mason
there a big change in the way rules were created around that time period? well, there was a change in how my mail was collected back in November, but nothing since then. Also, the "scoremap" figures seem to indicate that on the dev testing corpora, it's still predominantly hitting

Re: test my auto-generated ruleset

2008-02-11 Thread Larry Nedry
I've been using Justin Mason's auto-generated rule set since mid October and am fairly happy with it. Up until Jan 11, false positives averaged about 10% of the hits and I can live with that. I noticed a surprising change on Jan 11, 2008. Before that day many of the hits were on low scoring (< 2

Re: Stopped working well.

2008-02-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Marcin Praczko wrote: Hi, Today I discovered something strange with Spamassassin which we're using in our servers. Normally spamassasin works well. A lot of messages has been market as SPAM - what is correct. Only a few didn't get enough points to be market as SPAM. (we have 7.0) limit. But to