The autolearn=no does not mean that bayes is turned off completely. It means that it was not learned as spam or ham. Other messages will show that they are learned as spam or ham and some that they are not learned. ----- Original Message ----- From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> Subject: Re: Another example... Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 00:45:46 -0700
>I'm semi-asleep at the switch. The autolearn=no means you do indeed >have Bayes turned off or completely untrained. Very seriously, a well >trained Bayes is your BEST spam fighting friend. So are the rule sets >at http://www.rulesemporium.com/. > >I am still back on 3.0.6. I have not had a stock spam get by the filters >in over a year. Both Bayes and the SARE rules I run seem to nail them. >But the SINGLE most RELIABLE spam catcher is BAYES_99 set to 5.0, per >user Bayes well trained, and spoon feeding salearn with known cases of >missed spam that do not contain a preponderance of unique words typical >for what I consider ham. > >(I have gotten Bayes to the state that it has not flagged a single ham >in the last month while it has flagged about 90.65% of all spam. Likewise >BAYES_00 has flagged about 0.04% of spam and 81.17% of ham. This is on >about 100,000 messages over 10.5 weeks.) > >{^_^} Joanne >----- Original Message ----- >From: "NW7US, Tomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> >Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 23:42 >Subject: Another example... > > >> Here are headers from another example of spam, that is marked STRONGLY >> as NOT being spam. What is VERY interesting about THIS one, is that >> it seems to actually be FROM me!!! However, it made its rounds on >> other servers, first. Is it possible someone is spoofing my email >> address?? Or, is there a gateway e-mail hole on my server? >> >> Here are the headers: (and, I deleted my whitelists, like the auto learn >> one, etc.) >> >>> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) >>> on helios.hfradio.org >>> X-Spam-Level: >>> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-86.2 required=1.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE, >>> MIME_HTML_ONLY, MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI, >>> MPART_ALT_DIFF,RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO, >>> UNPARSEABLE_RELAY,URIBL_JP_SURBL,URIBL_OB_SURBL, >>> URIBL_SBL, URIBL_SC_SURBL,URIBL_WS_SURBL, >>> USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=3.1.3 >>> Received: from 60.234.111.150 ([60.234.111.150]) by helios.hfradio.org >>> (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k586UPVE019859 for >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 23:30:28 -0700 >>> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Delivery-date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:36:11 +1200 >>> Received: from [242.112.30.100] (helo=86678721) by 60.234.111.150 >>> with smtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) id >>> W3mNJ-2xnyDQA-8Kx for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 08 Jun >>> 2006 18:36:11 +1200 >>> Received: from gallery48.freeserve.co.uk (02055232 [17238173668]) >>> by 124.1.211.112 (Qmailv1) with ESMTP id 0FJ2Y8TBN for >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:36:07 +1200 >>> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:36:07 +1200 >>> From: "Jon R. Pirrello Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.12.00) Personal >>> X-Priority: 3 >>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: General health store >>> X-IMAPbase: 1148015368 4545 >>> Status: O >>> X-UID: 4545 >>> Content-Length: 11005 >>> X-Keywords: >>> X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 7.1.394 [268.8.2/357] >>> Mime-Version: 1.0 >>> Content-Type: multipart=mixed; >>> b0undary="=======AVGMAIL-4487C4C83823=======" >> >> (I changed the last header, in case it might case a problem... the >> message has an attachment that contained a virus or trojan.) >> >> >> I could really use some help in figuring out how to end this sort of >> activity. >> >> Thanks, >> >> 73 de Tomas, NW7US ( http://ic-discipleship-ministries.org/ ) >> >> : Propagation Editor for CQ, CQ VHF, Popular Communications : >> : Creator; live propagation center http://prop.hfradio.org/ : >> : Associate Member of Propagation Studies Committee of RSGB : >> : 122.93W 47.67N / Brinnon, Washington USA CN87 CW/SSB/DIGI : >> : 10x56526, FISTS 7055, FISTS NW 57, Lighthouse Society 144 : >> : Technical Writer for http://entirenet.net (Microsoft KB) : ================================= Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 562-2131 local 448 My Blog: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel ------------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------
