whitelist_from_rcvd to train bayesdb ?

2007-04-27 Thread kshatriyak
Hi, Although I have some negative-score rules, my ham mails never score too much below zero. I've set auto learning for ham to -12 to be sure spam never gets marked as ham and my bayes database doesn't get polluted- i think it's quite bad if ham mail would be autolearned as spam (i guess

Spamd/spamc and queues

2007-04-27 Thread Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre
Hi all, I'm using spamd/spamc software for mail scanning on my mail server... I'm running spamassassin from (debian sarge 3.1 r1 dvd, it's I think spamassassin 3.0.3). My problem is that I have a mail firewall with 25 spamd proccesses but when arriving this limit I have read that spamd queues

Re: Score Generation for Apache SpamAssassin

2007-04-27 Thread Justin Mason
Duncan Findlay writes: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:15:52PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: thanks Duncan -- a great read, and looks promising! Would it help btw if we came up with a spec for what a score-generation tool needs to generate, in terms of score ranges and so on? This would also

Re: RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA

2007-04-27 Thread Oenus Tech Services
After much testing, we have decided to put the RBLs on Postfix for performance reasons. Before checking with those RBLs, our system does EHLO checks against a known-spammer blacklist database as well to filter the most obvious cases. Then we use zen.spamhaus.org, safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net, and

RE: RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Oenus Tech Services [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 6:33 AM To: Luis HernĂ¡n Otegui Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA After much testing, we have decided to put the RBLs on Postfix

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd to train bayesdb ?

2007-04-27 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Although I have some negative-score rules, my ham mails never score too much below zero. I've set auto learning for ham to -12 to be sure spam never gets marked as ham and my bayes database doesn't get polluted- i think it's quite bad if ham mail would be

RE: Mail Lost? How can this happen?

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: dbsanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:15 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Mail Lost? How can this happen? Not sure this is an SA problem at all, but maybe you can give me a clue. I seem to be losing

RE: RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA

2007-04-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
spam/virus mail had been blocking before this). We stopped using bayesian at all since 1.-Many of our customers get Ps, bayesian isn't just for manual training. Maybe set a high/low score in auto learning, but it does help.

FUN: Help Rob McEwen test his new anti-spam tools!

2007-04-27 Thread Rob McEwen
FUN PROJECT: Help Rob McEwen test his new anti-spam tools! As many already know... I'm one of a **small** handful of organizations with authority to blacklist and whitelist at will on SURBL and I've provided much administrative assistance to SURBL for years, particularly in preventing false

BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-27 Thread Andy Spiegl
...I wonder how to deal with the cases where there is a legitimate internal mailserver behind dialup-IPs. There are quite a few small companies that have a small home office network behind a dialup DSL and run an internal mailserver which relays external mail to the mailserver of their provider

RE: Mail Lost? How can this happen?

2007-04-27 Thread dbsanders
Strange, I checked the log and there is no closing bracket in the message id. Maybe this screwed with something in the SA/procmail process. Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: dbsanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:15 PM To:

'From' containing comma + french accent is getting stripped

2007-04-27 Thread Eric Beaurivage
Dear SpamAssassin Users, X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) Exchange SpamAssassin Sink (www.christopherlewis.com) 1.2.76 I'm using the above versions under Windows 2000 Server and as soon as someone is sending us an e-mail with a name containing a comma + a french accent

Re: 'From' containing comma + french accent is getting stripped

2007-04-27 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Eric Beaurivage wrote: Dear SpamAssassin Users, X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) Exchange SpamAssassin Sink (www.christopherlewis.com) 1.2.76 I'm using the above versions under Windows 2000 Server and as soon as someone is sending us an e-mail with a name containing a

Re: 'From' containing comma + french accent is getting stripped

2007-04-27 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Eric Beaurivage wrote: Dear SpamAssassin Users, X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) Exchange SpamAssassin Sink (www.christopherlewis.com) 1.2.76 I'm using the above versions under Windows 2000 Server and as soon as someone is sending us an

Re: RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA

2007-04-27 Thread Brian Godette
Oenus Tech Services wrote: After much testing, we have decided to put the RBLs on Postfix for performance reasons. Before checking with those RBLs, our system does EHLO checks against a known-spammer blacklist database as well to filter the most obvious cases. Then we use zen.spamhaus.org,

Re: Mail Lost? How can this happen?

2007-04-27 Thread Nigel Frankcom
It won't be SA doing the deleting. SA does nothing with email except scan and add the headers (if so set). What happens to the mail before and after is entirely down to your mail prog. You can't bounce a message from SA, nor can you delete a message from SA; all you can do is scan it and add

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-27 Thread John Rudd
Andy Spiegl wrote: ...I wonder how to deal with the cases where there is a legitimate internal mailserver behind dialup-IPs. There are quite a few small companies that have a small home office network behind a dialup DSL and run an internal mailserver which relays external mail to the

hello, is there anybody out there?

2007-04-27 Thread Anton Melser
Did the filters get me as spam, or are my questions to stupid to even think about? Cheers Anton ps. If there are docs out there that answer my questions, then please stoop to providing a link or two...

R: parsing the summary

2007-04-27 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Anton Melser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am writing a programme which needs to parse the summary (_SUMMARY_) returned by SA, and after combing the docs couldn't find relevant specs. It appears that the lines are a fixed length, but I couldn't be

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-27 Thread Andy Spiegl
John Rudd wrote: When you're just using the BOTNET rule directly, not as a meta-rule, the BOTNET_SOHO code is called internally, so it should automatically kick in an exempt a host from BOTNET if it appears to be a soho type mail server. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by using as a

Re: SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE really wrong?

2007-04-27 Thread alan premselaar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/25/07 11:15 PM, John Wilcock wrote: Andy Spiegl wrote: But the score for SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE is pretty high: 1.723 How does that justify? No doubt it is justified by the fact that the corpora used to determine SpamAssassin scores

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-27 Thread John Rudd
Andy Spiegl wrote: John Rudd wrote: When you're just using the BOTNET rule directly, not as a meta-rule, the BOTNET_SOHO code is called internally, so it should automatically kick in an exempt a host from BOTNET if it appears to be a soho type mail server. I'm not sure I understand what you

Re: parsing the summary

2007-04-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Anton Melser wrote: Hi, I am writing a programme which needs to parse the summary (_SUMMARY_) returned by SA, and after combing the docs couldn't find relevant specs. It appears that the lines are a fixed length, but I couldn't be sure... is there anywhere I can get the specs so my parser