Re: Antwort: Re: Bayes - how bad is a small ham corpus with a big spam corpus?

2006-01-18 Thread Nix
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] yowled: > Robert Menschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 17.01.2006 03:41:39: >> Bigger problem: bayes can only learn what it's taught. If you have >> ham that really should be trained, and because of privacy issues it >> should not be kept after training, th

RE: Start from scratch. Really needed?

2006-01-18 Thread Jaime Aguado
Im afraid I dont have that flag available. My spamassassin version is 2.64. Is there a smart way of deleting the bayes db? Thanks. -Mensaje original- De: xueron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves, 19 de enero de 2006 2:16 Para: Jaime Aguado CC: users@spamassassin.apache.org Asu

Re: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:00 am, Mike Jackson wrote: > > It will either remove the existing headers and add it's own, or rename > > the existing headers so that they don't conflict. > > > > If the server is adding markup to the subject line, that may be an > > issue. > > > > My best advice i

Re: Start from scratch. Really needed?

2006-01-18 Thread xueron
Why not delete the bayes database :) Or maybe you can change the value of bayes_expiry_max_db_size to make the older tokens expire? I am not sure for this :) --- Xueron Nee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Alphabetical Content Rule

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Matthew Sill wrote: > I have a question about Spamassassin rules, I searched google, but > didn't find anything like this. >I am looking for a rule that hits a message body like this: > > > augmentation Austrian backstop Ballard blasphemes bluer blurts bondage > bran bunted caption Catalina c

Re: SA scoring not labeling spam as {Spam?}

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Kettler
jason lingnau wrote: > Hi yall! , > > Great time reading this list , thanks for all the submissions! > > SA version 2.83/razor2 Erm, check that version number.. there are no SA version between 2.66 and 2.99. > > Most spam of the spam SA scores ( 5 and over) is getting labeled as > {Spam?} but

Alphabetical Content Rule

2006-01-18 Thread Matthew Sill
I have a question about Spamassassin rules, I searched google, but didn't find anything like this. I am looking for a rule that hits a message body like this: augmentation Austrian backstop Ballard blasphemes bluer blurts bondage bran bunted caption Catalina circulates citadels combed compa

SA scoring not labeling spam as {Spam?}

2006-01-18 Thread jason lingnau
Hi yall! ,Great time reading this list , thanks for all the submissions! SA version 2.83/razor2Most spam of the spam SA scores ( 5 and over) is getting labeled as {Spam?} but not all . Subject: [RE] 01-17-06 Update ReleasedContent analysis details:   (5.7 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name       

Re: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Jackson
I am wondering if anyone can direct me to any books/sites/etc regarding possibly running postfix on one or more servers accepting mail, processing with SA, then forwarding onto a 3rd machine. Currently my setup only includes one Postfix box, which does all of the mail filtering (with spamassass

Re: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Jason Philbrook
We have 1 box facing the internet, and a bunch of boxes to handle pop3/SA/Clam. For 10k email addresses, we had until recently a duron700 with 384MB facing the internet, and it worked fine. We just upgraded it to an athlon 1100 with 1GB. This runs postfix, rejects some network blacklisted email,

RE: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Alan Fullmer
Yes they are rejecting mail for unknown users. However, currently I have it discard flagged spam, rather than reject it. Granted there are some that SA does not catch, therefore go into the whole limbo situation. I currently have no way for this machine to check the validity of a user. :( It resi

RE: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alan Fullmer wrote: > > The setup works, however I get so backlogged. For example, running a > mailq as we speak, comes up with: > 35918 Kbytes in 5257 Requests. > > It eventually gets through, and during the night it catches up. I am > seeing delays up to 3 hours sometimes. I tail -f the mai

Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin]

2006-01-18 Thread Alan Fullmer
Greetings, I am wondering if anyone can direct me to any books/sites/etc regarding possibly running postfix on one or more servers accepting mail, processing with SA, then forwarding onto a 3rd machine. Currently my setup only includes one Postfix box, which does all of the mail filtering (with

Re: SPAMD error question

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Kettler
Robert Swan wrote: > I am getting the following in my Maillog and wondered if anyone knew how > to rectify, I am using Redhat9, Spamassassin 3.1.0 and postfix: > > > > Jan 18 14:09:01 spamma spamd[16397]: prefork: server reached > --max-clients setting, consider raising it Well, first there's

postfix errors

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Swan
Had a problem earlier when postfix stopped working and I had a backup of e-mail in my active queue, here are some errors from the log. Anyone seen this before or know why it might have happened> I reloaded postfix and it fixed it but not sure of the cause.  Jan 18 14:07:05 spamma postfix/qmgr

SPAMD error question

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Swan
I am getting the following in my Maillog and wondered if anyone knew how to rectify, I am using Redhat9, Spamassassin 3.1.0 and postfix:   Jan 18 14:09:01 spamma spamd[16397]: prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it   Thanks in advance,   Robert      

Re: rules better than bayes?

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Maul
Dallas L. Engelken wrote: -Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:55 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: rules better than bayes? Dallas L. Engelken wrote: -Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: emails from auto support systems trip FORGED_RCVD_HELO ?

2006-01-18 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FORGED_RCVD_HELO can be entirely ignored -- it has a virtually-zero score in 1 scoreset, and is zeroed out in all the others. Don't judge a rule's validity by its name, judge by what score the mails get at the end of the process. In this case, 0.7

SARE Rule question

2006-01-18 Thread Joe Zitnik
Any update on when the stock spam rule might be posted?  I've fed dozens in to bayes, and they're still making it through.

Re: Optimum home system setup

2006-01-18 Thread Nix
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stipulated: > From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> I run SA 3.1 on a home system which gets about 200 - 250 msgs a day, the >> majority being spam of course. I have 768mb of ram with >> a swap of 612mb,

Re: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Mike Jackson
> > how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? > > SA is invoked from within qmail there. > > You would have to tell qmail not to invoke SA for your messages. > > But why is it a problem? When you run SA on your server, it should > automatically remove the markup added by

emails from auto support systems trip FORGED_RCVD_HELO ?

2006-01-18 Thread Gregory Zornetzer
Hi, I just noticed something a little weird in a message autogenerated by openoffice.org's bug system. The message tripped several spam rules. Ones like NO_REAL_NAME, SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE, and SUBJECT_EXCESS_BASE64 don't bother me so much. FORGED_RCVD_HELO seems like it shouldn't be tripping for

RE: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Mathias Homann wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? > > > SA is invoked from within qmail there. > > > > You would have to tell qmail not to invoke SA for your messages. > > > > But why is it a problem? When you run SA on your s

RE: rules better than bayes?

2006-01-18 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:55 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: rules better than bayes? > > Dallas L. Engelken wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: rules better than bayes?

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Maul
Dallas L. Engelken wrote: -Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:49 PM To: Chris Lear Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: rules better than bayes? Chris Lear wrote: * Jim Maul wrote (11/01/06 17:48): [...] i dont have

RE: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Mathias Homann
Bowie Bailey wrote: >> how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? >> SA is invoked from within qmail there. > > You would have to tell qmail not to invoke SA for your messages. > > But why is it a problem? When you run SA on your server, it should > automatically remove t

RE: how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Mathias Homann wrote: > > i want spamassassin not to touch my mails at all. > server in question runs SA with mysql for user config. > > reason: i fetch with fetchmail from there, and run my own SA on my > own mail server. > > how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? >

how to configure SA to do nothing at all for one single user?

2006-01-18 Thread Mathias Homann
Hi, i want spamassassin not to touch my mails at all. server in question runs SA with mysql for user config. reason: i fetch with fetchmail from there, and run my own SA on my own mail server. how do i tell SA on the other server not to touch my mails at all? SA is invoked from within qmail t

Re: Antwort: Re: [exim] Exim4 and SA: Overloading the system

2006-01-18 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Uhm, I wonder were you got this information from... It was quite some time ago... early Pentium 1, IIRC. I just hate oversimplifications and "adding more RAM will certainly help" is certainly wrong. I did mention several scenarios which might cause his problems w

Start from scratch. Really needed?

2006-01-18 Thread Jaime Aguado
Our spamassassin system is not able to catch 80% of incoming spam messages I am afraid our bayes db has learned wrong items as it was fed with spam messages directly from Outlook right after the installation and configuration steps. Is there a way to reset the spam/ham learned messages on the bay

Antwort: Re: Bayes - how bad is a small ham corpus with a big spam corpus?

2006-01-18 Thread srunschke
Robert Menschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 17.01.2006 03:41:39: > sad> I'm currently trying to build up a new bayes DB here, ... > sad> ... yet it poses a problem to build up the ham part. > sad> ... Much of the inbound smtp mail either contains private or > sad> confidential information, so I

Antwort: Re: [exim] Exim4 and SA: Overloading the system

2006-01-18 Thread srunschke
Patrick von der Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 17.01.2006 20:47:52: > PS: more RAM usually is a good idea but situations have been reported, > where adding memory just killed performance, so be careful with such > generalizations. There have been Intel-mainboard-chipsets with > 2nd-level-