> -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Traynor > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 7:49 AM [...] > > > If you're concerned about re-asking questions that have been asked > > before, then the best thing to do is to search the mailing list > > archives - see http://www.spamassassin.org/lists.html for their > > locations. > > Thanks. Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of luck with it. I found > one guy asking one of my questions, but it doesn't look like anyone > answered him. >
In that case, it's perfectly acceptable to ask it again. Maybe you can provide some additional info. that the original poster didn't provide, in order to make it easier to answer your question. > > On the other hand, the whole point of a list is to ask questions, and > > as long as you show the ability to post sensible questions and learn > > from the answers :-) I'm sure no one is going to mind. > > Ok - here goes. > > I've currently got things set up so that my mail is filtered through > procmail, sending mail from my "approved" address and subject lists > directly to my mailbox, sending mail from my "denied" address and subject > lists to /dev/null, and the rest goes to SA. This may or may not be the > best way to do it. I'd appreciate any opinions. > That's basically what I do, though I don't have specific rules that check incoming addresses against an "accept" or "deny" list. Rather, I sort the various e-mail lists that I'm on into their own IMAP'ed folders, and bounce a few known problematic senders. Then I run SA on the messages targeted for my inbox. This has one downside -- it won't filter spam out of the various e-mail groups' messages. But since some of those e-mail groups and newsletters have advertising in them, they might result in unwanted false positives anyway. > My primary question is this - I've got version 2.54, which is nearly the > latest version. But the spammers are customizing their messages to fool > this current version, and I get a fair amount of spam every day. I have > to believe that you all are finding ways to plug these holes, and > perhaps you're all sharing these new rules somehow. At least that's > what I'm hoping. > I've gone with fiddling the default scoring, and adding new rules as required. I currently have 27 custom rules that I've added. > Lately, I'm getting a lot of spam that is primarily a simple email with > little more than an image with a link. A similar one is a paragraph of > seemingly random words, followed by the image/link, followed by another > paragraph of random words. > This has been discussed recently. See related thread "[SAtalk] those pesky small v*agra ads": http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5693626 and Mark's reply: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2883539&forum_id=1981 > I've seen a lot of reference to the Bayes database and sa-learn, but I'm > having a hard time finding somewhere that it explains it all and how I > can utilize it. I haven't tried the Bayes scoring. Over time, I've become a little leary of using Bayes, because I see a lot of spam that seems to be specifically constructed to defeat it. Likewise, although I use "auto whitelists", I've grown ambivalent on its utility, because I don't like it when it negatively scores a spam and the spam makes it under the threshold. I keep it for now, because it would seem to allow my friends to send me something off color without immediately dust binning them. I use Razor2 and recommend it, though it can be a bit difficult to install and set up. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
