Re: [SLUG] anti spam question
I upgraded spamassassin, and installed razor. Thanks Kevin WARNING: Unsanitized content follows. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Monday 03 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Kevin Saenz wrote: I am looking for a good antispam application. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot of undesirables in. First of all, if you've not upgraded 2.50 then try it, it's well worth it! I've been using SpamAssassin for a while now and the only tweaks I've added have been: 1) Upping the weighting of Web bugs to 5 (i.e. they get caught automatically). This produced some false positives for me, but not many. 2) Configuring the RBL checks and installing DCC, Razor2 Pyzor. 3) Much whitelisting (just in case, and aids point 4 w.r.t ham) 4) Now with 2.50 I've got SpamAssassin autolearning spam and ham for Baysien analysis, which will hopefully reduce any false positives. As a result my wife receives virtually no spam any more (it's trapped 1382 since 30th December against 41 false positives). cheers! Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPmmeA41yjaOTJg85AQEbNAf/a57aV7zNHzPmPRgJYtF2Kfz1+VA3pW2I KHt4S9/rVh6mNOHXK5c2aWg4hEIuc9kT3lRcip9lhDhOXn2DoMayf+HwfWuYXjC2 GvAYNNBg3guXzx6QJMrzMYXM2JtuPLdAxv9MPi4wgjYwg2fRqZnVS7CQ6TS/TYxv 3PwuE1s9ePBb+1NQhfTynpzEZ6gTE9bSt3mtyMOGNzdgl73HvG9P3d/mXIfCU5Um vLFMVSC8fyLz+Er7v8dSXvduMIL108sj6TQREdscmZS92LfJhBMXjiypN+ZZBxXQ 9u/7hfJgRW20ImHn2XnBCWJ+MQ15Ef3jmZutR7zII9ZG21oGmoNIQw== =Dx2N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] anti spam question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Monday 03 Mar 2003 12:22 pm, Kevin Saenz wrote: I am looking for a good antispam application. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot of undesirables in. First of all, if you've not upgraded 2.50 then try it, it's well worth it! I've been using SpamAssassin for a while now and the only tweaks I've added have been: 1) Upping the weighting of Web bugs to 5 (i.e. they get caught automatically). This produced some false positives for me, but not many. 2) Configuring the RBL checks and installing DCC, Razor2 Pyzor. 3) Much whitelisting (just in case, and aids point 4 w.r.t ham) 4) Now with 2.50 I've got SpamAssassin autolearning spam and ham for Baysien analysis, which will hopefully reduce any false positives. As a result my wife receives virtually no spam any more (it's trapped 1382 since 30th December against 41 false positives). cheers! Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel.org/ : Wollongong, NSW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPmmeA41yjaOTJg85AQEbNAf/a57aV7zNHzPmPRgJYtF2Kfz1+VA3pW2I KHt4S9/rVh6mNOHXK5c2aWg4hEIuc9kT3lRcip9lhDhOXn2DoMayf+HwfWuYXjC2 GvAYNNBg3guXzx6QJMrzMYXM2JtuPLdAxv9MPi4wgjYwg2fRqZnVS7CQ6TS/TYxv 3PwuE1s9ePBb+1NQhfTynpzEZ6gTE9bSt3mtyMOGNzdgl73HvG9P3d/mXIfCU5Um vLFMVSC8fyLz+Er7v8dSXvduMIL108sj6TQREdscmZS92LfJhBMXjiypN+ZZBxXQ 9u/7hfJgRW20ImHn2XnBCWJ+MQ15Ef3jmZutR7zII9ZG21oGmoNIQw== =Dx2N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] anti spam question
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:22:54PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot of undesirables in. Dear Kevin, Have you got Razor2 http://razor.sf.net/ installed? It's a distributed spam checksum (of content) network. Think of it as an advanced warning system before the spam reaches you. Hits on their system adds a nice 3.9 points to Spamassassin scores. Yours sincerely, Andrew Netsnipe Lau -- --- * Andrew Netsnipe Lau Computer Science Student Rep, UNSW * * # apt-get into it Debian GNU/Linux Package Maintainer * * netsnipe(+)debianplanet.org\0 alau(+)cse.unsw.edu.au\0 * * GnuPG 1024D/2E8B68BD 0B77 73D0 4F3B F286 63F1 9F4A 9B24 C07D 2E8B 68BD * --- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] anti spam question
On Mon 03 Mar, Kevin Saenz bloviated thus: I am looking for a good antispam application. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot of undesirables in. Bogofilter rocks! bogofilter.sf.net I use it in combination with a bunch of procmail rules and Spamassassin (set to a relatively high 8 threshold). The only piece of the puzzle that gets false positives these days is the procmail rules (which look for things like opt-out phrases, sometimes used in legitimate mass mailings). It took a while but I now get very few spams through to my inbox. It helps that my bogofilter is fed by an obsolete email account which seems to be on every spam list going, so the spams get to it before they get to my real account. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Send email with subject send key pub for public key. Given the choice between two evils, I pick the one I haven't tried before. - Mae West pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SLUG] anti spam question
I am looking for a good antispam application. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot of undesirables in. Oh yeah I am running postfix. :) Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] anti spam question
I've just set up spamassassin and set the score at 3. Most people seem to think this is too low, but a quick look through my spam bucket shows that I get about one in 20 that is NOT spam. Mostly these are people who don't follow good email ettiquette anyway. I still get the odd one, but I'm looking to write a little script to update the spamming url's, plus I've thrown in a few rules of my own, for example the phrase postal mail is nearly always from spam in my experience. I think the spamsters are getting smarter about getting around spam traps. On 3 Mar 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote: I am looking for a good antispam application. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have spamassassin it seems to be letting a lot of undesirables in. Oh yeah I am running postfix. :) Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
