Re: AW: Need God/Christian rule sets
On 10/04/2010 06:51 PM, Hans-Werner Friedemann wrote: That´s not complicated! Only use the RelayCountry-Plugin. Huh? You are suggesting Arabic spam exclusively comes from Arabic countries? The same way English spam only comes from England? ;-) What you want is a properly working textcat plugin (see my previous post are there any alternatives to textcat?). However, language matching is actually a very difficult thing in this Unicode era... Even that apostrophe you put in your email isn't an ASCII apostrophe - a language guesser has to take a lot of things into account... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
AW: Need God/Christian rule sets
That´s not complicated! Only use the RelayCountry-Plugin. I'd like to just block all Arabic. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400
Re: Need God/Christian rule sets
On 10/3/2010 8:10 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: As I said in my original message. The rule itself would have no points. It would be combined with other rules like large sums of money and transfer and I'm someone you don't know. You mean, like the ADVANCE_FEE and MONEY_FRAUD rules? Yes - rules like that. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400
Re: Need God/Christian rule sets
How do you propose to make such relations between the keywords, and how to mitigate false positives? Naïve Bayes deals with words independently. If we want to link between words, I think we are into Natural Language Processing (NLP). If you have any good thoughts please share. --- Mahmoud Khonji
Re: Need God/Christian rule sets
Hello Marc, Am 2010-10-03 09:21:02, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: I think we could catch a lot more spam if we had some God/Christian rules. Hey, thats cool!! I need rules for Allah/Islamic stuff! Problem 1: They are written in arabic, urdu and two other languages I do not know. Problem 2: Arabic, Urdu and Farsi are three of my communication languages and can not globaly filtered. Any suggestions? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack -- # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ## Development of Intranet and Embedded Systems with Debian GNU/Linux itsyst...@tdnet France EURL itsyst...@tdnet UG (limited liability) Owner Michelle KonzackOwner Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 (homeoffice) 50, rue de Soultz Kinzigstraße 17 67100 Strasbourg/France 77694 Kehl/Germany Tel: +33-6-61925193 mobil Tel: +49-177-9351947 mobil Tel: +33-9-52705884 fix http://www.itsystems.tamay-dogan.net/ http://www.flexray4linux.org/ http://www.debian.tamay-dogan.net/ http://www.can4linux.org/ Jabber linux4miche...@jabber.ccc.de ICQ#328449886 Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ signature.pgp Description: Digital signature
Re: Need God/Christian rule sets
As I said in my original message. The rule itself would have no points. It would be combined with other rules like large sums of money and transfer and I'm someone you don't know. On 10/3/2010 10:27 AM, m...@khonji.org wrote: How do you propose to make such relations between the keywords, and how to mitigate false positives? Naïve Bayes deals with words independently. If we want to link between words, I think we are into Natural Language Processing (NLP). If you have any good thoughts please share. --- Mahmoud Khonji -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400
Re: Need God/Christian rule sets
On 10/3/2010 12:09 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Marc, Am 2010-10-03 09:21:02, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: I think we could catch a lot more spam if we had some God/Christian rules. Hey, thats cool!! I need rules for Allah/Islamic stuff! Problem 1: They are written in arabic, urdu and two other languages I do not know. Problem 2: Arabic, Urdu and Farsi are three of my communication languages and can not globaly filtered. Any suggestions? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack I'd like to just block all Arabic. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400
Re: Need God/Christian rule sets
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: As I said in my original message. The rule itself would have no points. It would be combined with other rules like large sums of money and transfer and I'm someone you don't know. You mean, like the ADVANCE_FEE and MONEY_FRAUD rules? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 --- Liberals love sex ed because it teaches kids to be safe around their sex organs. Conservatives love gun education because it teaches kids to be safe around guns. However, both believe that the other's education goals lead to dangers too terrible to contemplate. --- 75 days until TRON Legacy
Re: spam assassin custom rule sets
aquero wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: aquero wrote: Hi, When i checked the third party softwares for spam-assassin i found many custom rule sets. Do I have to install these rule sets manually? If I perform sa-update, will it will include all these rule sets into my spam-assassin rules list? Before you start adding a bunch of 3rd party rules, I would reactivate the RBL checks. Those will catch much more spam than any of the other rulesets. Also, you definitely want to bump your required_score back to 5 before you start adding more rules. That being said, these are the rules that I use (in addition to the stock rules and RBL lists): razor2 dcc sought khop-bl khop-blessed khop-general khop-sc-neighbors Botnet FreeMail iXhash Sought and the khop rules can be updated via sa-update. Thanks for your suggestions. But in my project i would like to use only free rule sets. When i searched about the rules you specified ,razor2 and dcc seems to be paid rule sets.Can you please suggest any free alternatives for these rules? and I would like to know the minimum cost of these rules? Thanks again for your suggestions..:) Razor2 is free for everyone: Razor2 Service Policy V2.0 March 13, 2006 Razor2 agents connect to the Cloudmark Collaborative Security Network to report spam and check for fingerprints. Cloudmark provides free and open access to the CCSN but reserves the right to deny access to anyone. And DCC is free as long as you are not making it part of a commercial filtering product: The non-commercial DCC software is distributed under a license http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/LICENSE that is free only to organizations that do not sell filtering devices or services except to their own users and that participate in the global DCC network. ISPs that use DCC to filter mail for their own users are intended to be covered by the free license http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/LICENSE. Pyzor is another service similar to Razor that is also free. -- Bowie
Re: spam assassin custom rule sets
aquero wrote: Thanks for your suggestions. But in my project i would like to use only free rule sets. When i searched about the rules you specified ,razor2 and dcc seems to be paid rule sets.Can you please suggest any free alternatives for these rules? and I would like to know the minimum cost of these rules? Thanks again for your suggestions..:) On 07.06.10 10:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: And DCC is free as long as you are not making it part of a commercial filtering product: The non-commercial DCC software is distributed under a license http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/LICENSE that is free only to organizations that do not sell filtering devices or services except to their own users and that participate in the global DCC network. ISPs that use DCC to filter mail for their own users are intended to be covered by the free license http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/LICENSE. Note that you must also be using public DCC network, otherwise you'll need commercial version. The public DCC servers limit daily usage to 200k DCC lookups, for more you need own server connected to public network. While it sounds reasonable, DCC is understood as non-free by Debian Free Software Guidelines for this. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Re: spam assassin custom rule sets
Bowie Bailey wrote: aquero wrote: Hi, When i checked the third party softwares for spam-assassin i found many custom rule sets. Do I have to install these rule sets manually? If I perform sa-update, will it will include all these rule sets into my spam-assassin rules list? Before you start adding a bunch of 3rd party rules, I would reactivate the RBL checks. Those will catch much more spam than any of the other rulesets. Also, you definitely want to bump your required_score back to 5 before you start adding more rules. That being said, these are the rules that I use (in addition to the stock rules and RBL lists): razor2 dcc sought khop-bl khop-blessed khop-general khop-sc-neighbors Botnet FreeMail iXhash Sought and the khop rules can be updated via sa-update. -- Bowie Thanks for your suggestions. But in my project i would like to use only free rule sets. When i searched about the rules you specified ,razor2 and dcc seems to be paid rule sets.Can you please suggest any free alternatives for these rules? and I would like to know the minimum cost of these rules? Thanks again for your suggestions..:) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/spam-assassin-custom-rule-sets-tp28782309p28790982.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
spam assassin custom rule sets
Hi, When i checked the third party softwares for spam-assassin i found many custom rule sets. Do I have to install these rule sets manually? If I perform sa-update, will it will include all these rule sets into my spam-assassin rules list? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/spam-assassin-custom-rule-sets-tp28782309p28782309.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: spam assassin custom rule sets
On 4.6.2010 19:33, aquero wrote: Hi, When i checked the third party softwares for spam-assassin i found many custom rule sets. Do I have to install these rule sets manually? If I perform sa-update, will it will include all these rule sets into my spam-assassin rules list? sa-update can be parameterised with a channelfile. Read this: http://khopesh.com/wiki/Anti-spam -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. -- Mark Twain signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: spam assassin custom rule sets
aquero wrote: Hi, When i checked the third party softwares for spam-assassin i found many custom rule sets. Do I have to install these rule sets manually? If I perform sa-update, will it will include all these rule sets into my spam-assassin rules list? Before you start adding a bunch of 3rd party rules, I would reactivate the RBL checks. Those will catch much more spam than any of the other rulesets. Also, you definitely want to bump your required_score back to 5 before you start adding more rules. That being said, these are the rules that I use (in addition to the stock rules and RBL lists): razor2 dcc sought khop-bl khop-blessed khop-general khop-sc-neighbors Botnet FreeMail iXhash Sought and the khop rules can be updated via sa-update. -- Bowie
Re: Custom Rule Sets
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:57 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On Jun 21, 2009, at 23:48, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Yes, there is an include directive (see the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf docs) but by default SA will load *ALL* .cf files from your site rules directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), so includes at the local.cf level are a bit silly. I agree - but the docs seem to imply that you should not put them in here - hence my confusion. No, the docs say not to put them in /usr/share/spamassassin which is not the same as /etc/mail/spamassassin or /usr/local/etc/mail/ spamassassin which is where local.cf and other custom cf files should go. You know something - you are right ;-)
Re: Custom Rule Sets
On Jun 21, 2009, at 23:48, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Yes, there is an include directive (see the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf docs) but by default SA will load *ALL* .cf files from your site rules directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), so includes at the local.cf level are a bit silly. I agree - but the docs seem to imply that you should not put them in here - hence my confusion. No, the docs say not to put them in /usr/share/spamassassin which is not the same as /etc/mail/spamassassin or /usr/local/etc/mail/ spamassassin which is where local.cf and other custom cf files should go. -- Sent from my Bluetooth enabled iTouch.
Re: Custom Rule Sets
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Yes, there is an include directive (see the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf docs) but by default SA will load *ALL* .cf files from your site rules directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), so includes at the local.cf level are a bit silly. I agree - but the docs seem to imply that you should not put them in here - hence my confusion. Where do they imply you should not create additional .cf files?
Re: Custom Rule Sets
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 07:30 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Yes, there is an include directive (see the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf docs) but by default SA will load *ALL* .cf files from your site rules directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), so includes at the local.cf level are a bit silly. I agree - but the docs seem to imply that you should not put them in here - hence my confusion. Where do they imply you should not create additional .cf files? I does not. I've already covered that and thanked a poster earlier for guiding me in my error. Did you not read the follow up I posted?
Re: Custom Rule Sets
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 07:30 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Yes, there is an include directive (see the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf docs) but by default SA will load *ALL* .cf files from your site rules directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), so includes at the local.cf level are a bit silly. I agree - but the docs seem to imply that you should not put them in here - hence my confusion. Where do they imply you should not create additional .cf files? I does not. I've already covered that and thanked a poster earlier for guiding me in my error. Did you not read the follow up I posted? About 20 seconds after I replied.. Sorry, just waking up for the AM here... Didn't think to read the rest of the thread.
Re: Custom Rule Sets
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 07:53 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 07:30 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Yes, there is an include directive (see the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf docs) but by default SA will load *ALL* .cf files from your site rules directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), so includes at the local.cf level are a bit silly. I agree - but the docs seem to imply that you should not put them in here - hence my confusion. Where do they imply you should not create additional .cf files? I does not. I've already covered that and thanked a poster earlier for guiding me in my error. Did you not read the follow up I posted? About 20 seconds after I replied.. Sorry, just waking up for the AM here... Didn't think to read the rest of the thread. Kind of ironic that when you were trying to correct me for not reading the link properly ;-)
Re: Custom Rule Sets
On Mon, June 22, 2009 05:46, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? any file that ends in cf just like local.cf does, will be read if places in the same dir as local.cf no magic includes is needed :) -- xpoint
Custom Rule Sets
Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Thanks
Re: Custom Rule Sets
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Yes, there is an include directive (see the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf docs) but by default SA will load *ALL* .cf files from your site rules directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), so includes at the local.cf level are a bit silly. Just put extra .cf files in the same directory and SA will load them. Generally speaking, the include directive is only used at the user_prefs level, where a single file is parsed by default, not a whole directory. See also: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules
Re: Custom Rule Sets
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Yes, there is an include directive (see the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf docs) but by default SA will load *ALL* .cf files from your site rules directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), so includes at the local.cf level are a bit silly. I agree - but the docs seem to imply that you should not put them in here - hence my confusion. Thank you Matt.
script to upgrade SpamAssassin (itself, not just rule sets)
Gentlemen, every few months we must upgrade Spamassassin (the software itself, not just doing sa-update). So what script do you use to take the bore out of the process? Need something like: set -xeu set /tmp/$USER.SpamassassinUpgrade mkdir $1 cd $1 latest=`(fancy code to determine latest version on nearest mirror or just master)` wget $latest bunzip2 *.bz2 cd `ls|sed q` echo|perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME #answer the question with RETurn make make install
RE: script to upgrade SpamAssassin (itself, not just rule sets)
Typically we do something like this basic outline login to non-root account and change to proper directory wget http://www.apache.org/dist/spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5.tar.g z rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5.tar.gz su to root and change to proper directory yum localinstall perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5-1.i386.rpm spamassassin-3.2.5-1.i386.rpm then when done we run sa-update script and check log files for problems - rh
Rule-sets
Thanks to all of you who replied about the job offer spams. Could anybody point at the best site for the latest rulesets and an explanation of what each one does. Ron -- Ron McKeating Senior IT Services Specialist Computing Services Loughborough University 01509 222329
Re: Rule-sets
Ron, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:23:24AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: Thanks to all of you who replied about the job offer spams. Could anybody point at the best site for the latest rulesets and an explanation of what each one does. The main site for rules is generally http://www.rulesemporium.com/, and spefically the http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm page. They have descriptions for what they do. You'll also find more on http://www.exit0.us/, including the RulesDuJour script at http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour that will automatically check for new rules for you. I can send you the current RulesDuJour settings I am using, if you like, assuming you are not already using it. You should check it yourself and make sure you are happy with the rules yourself, though. I still find that there are some spam messages that don't seem to be covered by rules, so end up writing my own. I'm no expert, but basic rule-writing isn't that hard if you can write regular expressions. Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
Re: Rule-sets
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:53 +0100, Matthew Newton wrote: Ron, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:23:24AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: Thanks to all of you who replied about the job offer spams. Could anybody point at the best site for the latest rulesets and an explanation of what each one does. The main site for rules is generally http://www.rulesemporium.com/, and spefically the http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm page. They have descriptions for what they do. You'll also find more on http://www.exit0.us/, including the RulesDuJour script at http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour that will automatically check for new rules for you. I can send you the current RulesDuJour settings I am using, if you like, assuming you are not already using it. You should check it yourself and make sure you are happy with the rules yourself, though. I still find that there are some spam messages that don't seem to be covered by rules, so end up writing my own. I'm no expert, but basic rule-writing isn't that hard if you can write regular expressions. Matthew Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? Ron -- Ron McKeating Senior IT Services Specialist Computing Services Loughborough University 01509 222329
Re: Rule-sets
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:00:52AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:53 +0100, Matthew Newton wrote: Ron, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:23:24AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: Thanks to all of you who replied about the job offer spams. Could anybody point at the best site for the latest rulesets and an explanation of what each one does. The main site for rules is generally http://www.rulesemporium.com/, and spefically the http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm page. They have descriptions for what they do. You'll also find more on http://www.exit0.us/, including the RulesDuJour script at http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour that will automatically check for new rules for you. I can send you the current RulesDuJour settings I am using, if you like, assuming you are not already using it. You should check it yourself and make sure you are happy with the rules yourself, though. I still find that there are some spam messages that don't seem to be covered by rules, so end up writing my own. I'm no expert, but basic rule-writing isn't that hard if you can write regular expressions. Matthew Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules is good. Remember to run spamassassin --lint before restarting SA to make sure you haven't made any errors. I usually score my rules with 0.1 first to see how messages are hitting them, and then increase after a few days. http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesBasics may also be useful. The most confusing thing I originally found was the difference between body, rawbody and raw. The exit0.us page above seems to explain that fairly well. Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
RE: Rule-sets
Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? You probably also want to learn more about regular expressions too. There Was a lot of stuff that I didn't know before I started doing this. In particular, useful things like back chaining and forward referencing are useful to understand. I wish I could tell you I had found a good site or book about it, but I haven't. If you do find one, would you let me know? HTH R --- This email from dns has been validated by dnsMSS Managed Email Security and is free from all known viruses. For further information contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Rule-sets
Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? Ron see this page: http://www.rulesemporium.com/links.htm I need to add more. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com
RE: Rule-sets
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:27 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote: Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? You probably also want to learn more about regular expressions too. There Was a lot of stuff that I didn't know before I started doing this. In particular, useful things like back chaining and forward referencing are useful to understand. I wish I could tell you I had found a good site or book about it, but I haven't. If you do find one, would you let me know? I use mastering regular expressions by O'Reilly Ron HTH R --- This email from dns has been validated by dnsMSS Managed Email Security and is free from all known viruses. For further information contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ron McKeating Senior IT Services Specialist Computing Services Loughborough University 01509 222329
RE: Rule-sets
From: Ron McKeating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:27 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote: Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? You probably also want to learn more about regular expressions too. There Was a lot of stuff that I didn't know before I started doing this. In particular, useful things like back chaining and forward referencing are useful to understand. I wish I could tell you I had found a good site or book about it, but I haven't. If you do find one, would you let me know? I use mastering regular expressions by O'Reilly Seconded. Excellent book. Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl Published by O'Reilly I found it when I was learning Perl. It has lots of generic RE stuff as well as a whole chapter (100 pages) on Perl specifics. Bowie
RE: Rule-sets
-Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:44 AM Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Rule-sets From: Ron McKeating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:27 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote: Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? You probably also want to learn more about regular expressions too. There Was a lot of stuff that I didn't know before I started doing this. In particular, useful things like back chaining and forward referencing are useful to understand. I wish I could tell you I had found a good site or book about it, but I haven't. If you do find one, would you let me know? I use mastering regular expressions by O'Reilly Seconded. Excellent book. Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl Published by O'Reilly I found it when I was learning Perl. It has lots of generic RE stuff as well as a whole chapter (100 pages) on Perl specifics. Most of my Perl knowledge comes from Theo's random signitures! ;) --Chris (Larry who?)
RE: Rule-sets
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:27:58 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote You probably also want to learn more about regular expressions too. There Was a lot of stuff that I didn't know before I started doing this. In particular, useful things like back chaining and forward referencing are useful to understand. I wish I could tell you I had found a good site or book about it, but I haven't. If you do find one, would you let me know? The best I've found so far is the section on regular expressions in _Programming Perl_. But that's an awfully thick book to buy just for that. ;)
Re: Rule Sets
At 08:29 AM 10/27/2004 -0500, you wrote: Knowing that the more rules sets you add, the longer it takes to scan a message, what rule sets do you recommend? I have found several sites with sure sets such as The Rules Emporium and the SA wiki but I am certain I do not need every rule set from those sites. For what little it's worth, this is my general advice on improving hit rations (covers add-on modules and rulesets). Bear in mind this is just my advice, and I'd really suggest trying things out one-at-a-time so you know how well each works for you: 1) Make sure you have Net::DNS installed, this is an optional perl module, but it allows the RBLs and SURBL checks to run. (If you run spamassassin --lint -D you can watch SA test for DNS functionality.) 2) I've grown to like DCC quite a bit, but never trust it entirely. It does FP, but this is rarely a problem if you don't jack the score up. 3) Same goes for Razor. Just make sure it's 2.61 or better. 4) I really like the Random rules from rulesemporium.com. Not very high hit rate, but very good S/O on these. 5) feed your bayes DB as much fresh meat as you can (if you can). For those with 2.6x versions I add antidrug, backhair and surbl to my recommendations, but 3.0 comes with these.
