Yeah, I'm strugglin'! I'm new to spamassassin, and don't know what rbl's and uri-rbl's are, and, if you've had a chance to see further emails, my sa-update is broken. When you get to your system, I'd appreciate any further insight you may have.
Thanks! On Sunday 14 September 2008 16:21, Martin.Hepworth wrote: > Well you normally need to add in extra rules from rulesemporium.com also. > 3.1.7 is ages old (there's surprise for a debian port!) and gting sa-update > will help also. I'd check your running rbl's and uri-rbls (check you've got > dns checks set and running ok). If you struggle I'll get more info on this > when i've better access to my system than a windows mobile pda! > > As for bayes, force the bayes to a globally writable dir, as right now only > root can access it! > > -- > martin > > > -----Original Message----- > From: aladdin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 6:35 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Spamassassin Letting a Lot of Spams Through > > Thanks, Martin, for the reply. > > Well, I guess I get the idea; what that doesn't explain now is why my spam > scores (on what one would think is really obvious spam) are so low and why > the log says it can't find the bayes database. > > On Sunday 14 September 2008 12:01, Martin.Hepworth wrote: > > Hi > > > > /usr/share/spamassassin - contains version release time rules, always > > used unless next dir exists. > > > > /var/lib/spamassassin/<version>/ - contains 'sa-update'ed rules to bring > > release time rules upto date without needing a full version release > > > > /etc/mail/spamassassin - contains site wide rules and settings. > > > > ~/.spamassassin contains user specific rules. > > > > So copying rules from /usr/share/spamassassin to ~/.spamassassin will > > achieve nothing. > > > > Get the idea now? > > -- > > martin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: aladdin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 3:13 PM > > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Spamassassin Letting a Lot of Spams Through > > > > On Sunday 14 September 2008 10:06, aladdin wrote: > > > On Sunday 14 September 2008 05:07, you wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 01:05 -0400, aladdin wrote: > > > > > > So, evidently, it can't find my bayes database. So, since I want > > > > > > to use a system-wide database, where is it > > > > > > (/usr/share/spamassassin?, which has a lot of likely looking > > > > > > files in it), and how do I tell spamd to use it? > > > > > > > > By default it is in the .spamassassin directory of the user SA runs > > > > in. > > > > > > > > Using /usr/share/spamassin sounds like a bad idea to me: you're > > > > attempting to mix site-specific data with system files. > > > > > > > > > > > > Martin > > > > > > Hmmm! Oddly enough, that's where apt (the Debian package manager) put > > > them. So, I guess that leads to two more areas of questions: > > > > > > 1. Is there no precedent for stopping spam using system-wide files? I > > > am almost the sole user of this machine and would like to do this, if > > > it's possibe. Why would apt put them there otherwise? > > > > > > 2. If question one leads to user-specific files & directories, do I > > > just take the contents of /usr/share/spamassassin and copy it into > > > ~/.spamassassin? The contents of /usr/share/spamassassin are: > > > ########################################################### > > > total 676 > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-07 19:24 ./ > > > drwxr-xr-x 256 root root 12288 2008-09-07 19:24 ../ > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5681 2007-02-15 00:28 10_misc.cf > > > > <snip> > > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18944 2007-02-15 00:28 triplets.txt > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1843 2007-02-15 00:28 user_prefs.template > > > #################################################################### > > > Are these the files to be copied to ~/.spamassassin? > > > > As it turns out, I do have a ~/.spamassassin directory. It's current > > contents are: > > ################################################################# > > -rw------- 1 anw anw 1306624 2008-09-14 03:38 auto-whitelist > > -rw------- 1 anw anw 88190 2008-07-28 16:52 bayes_journal > > -rw------- 1 anw anw 684032 2008-07-28 16:52 bayes_seen > > -rw------- 1 anw anw 5283840 2008-07-28 16:52 bayes_toks > > -rw-r--r-- 1 anw anw 1487 2008-07-28 16:52 user_prefs > > ################################################################# > > > > Should I just copy the above into it and change the owner/group, and > > that's how spamassassin is supposed to work? -- Thanks and regards, Allen Williams Office: +1.321.309.7931 Mobile: +1.321.258.1272
