try joining the spamassassin user's list and asking about tuning. On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:27, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK, this really irritates me. I have the latest spamassassin. It is running > in daemon mode. I have procmail setup to /dev/null anything that is > identified as spam. I have trained the Bayesian filter (supposedly) to > identify certain messages as spam...BUT THEY KEEP GETTING THROUGH! > > These are tricky html or other type of spam, they are plain text. Generally > they are viagra messages. The one that really galls me is one that uses the > name "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" instead of the actual proper > spelling. > Nonetheless, this shouldn't matter...or so one would think. > > I have now run "sa-learn --spam --dir Mail/Spam/cur" twice on this message. > It comes back saying it "learned" from the message. About 10 minutes later > that damn message is back and spamassassin let it come right through. > > What the hell? I REALLY want to nuke the computer from which this comes. I > was doing so well there with nary a spam for weeks getting through, then > something inane and seemingly simple like this gets through inspite of > "teaching" spamassassin to recognize it as crap. > > Since spamassassin appears to be falling down on the job, what would be a nice > generic procmail recipe that would recognize EITHER iteration of viagra > spelling (in the body or subject) and pass it, no pass go, to /dev/null? I > never ever ever want to see another damn viagra message of any kind ever > again. > > Thank you for any aid in this endeavor. > > praedor > - -- > "Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail > for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in > full view if they look the right way." > - --Samuel Adams, 1771 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/r+aQaKr9sJYeTxgRAovJAKCiMudQ74dH+XHBd6iS1MQFxMAE4ACgj3CV > 8Rsqd9AcxFtWyG6Iu6/Ejrc= > =PDDb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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