RE: [SAtalk] a new rule

2003-11-06 Thread Chris Thielen
Tom, IANABE (I am not a bayesian expert) but with a naive understanding of the algorithm, I think I can see value in learning an email that's already scored at 1.000. There were obviously a lot of spammy tokens in that email which bumped the score to 1. However, even an email that scores 1 can

Re: [SAtalk] a new rule

2003-11-06 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Thielen writes: Tom, IANABE (I am not a bayesian expert) but with a naive understanding of the algorithm, I think I can see value in learning an email that's already scored at 1.000. There were obviously a lot of spammy tokens in that

RE: [SAtalk] a new rule

2003-11-05 Thread Tom Meunier
If it's already 100% sure that it's spam, how is it helpful to train it that it's spam? It's not like it's going to be 110% sure that it's spam. It's already trained! Not trying to be a wise-ass, I've just seen this question come up fairly often, and can't wrap my head around it. -tom

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert

2002-11-16 Thread Martin Radford
At Fri Nov 15 17:53:22 2002, Steve Thomas wrote: I wouldn't recommend doing this, though. E-mail addresses are not case sensitive, That's not correct. The local-part (the bit to the left of the '@' symbol) *is* case-sensitive. It's only the domain (the bit after the '@') that's not

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert

2002-11-16 Thread Adrian Ho
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:31:37AM +, Martin Radford wrote: At Fri Nov 15 17:53:22 2002, Steve Thomas wrote: I wouldn't recommend doing this, though. E-mail addresses are not case sensitive, That's not correct. Neither, strictly speaking, is your assertion. The correct answer is,

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert

2002-11-15 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:24:42PM -0500, Raghu Arni wrote: I would like to add a new rule which is checking to see if the To: field in the recvd email is ALL CAPS and then trash that mail.. Otherwise my spamassassin works great (via procmail).. How do I go about doing this..?? I would try

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert

2002-11-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
Raghu Arni said the following on 15/11/02 17:24: Hi, I would like to add a new rule which is checking to see if the To: field in the recvd email is ALL CAPS and then trash that mail.. header MY_ALL_CAPS_TO To =~ /^[A-Z\s]+$/ score MY_ALL_CAPS_TO 100 See perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf Plus,

RE: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert

2002-11-15 Thread Steve Thomas
man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf There's lots of good info there... Probably, you'll want something in your local.cf like: header TO_ALL_CAPS To =~ /^[A-Z@\.\_\+\-]+$/ describe TO_ALL_CAPSTo field in all caps score TO_ALL_CAPS 1.000 Set the score to however many points you want to

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert

2002-11-15 Thread Raghu Arni
Thx for all that responded..Well I was not gonna trash the mail just assign it a high score.. one more Qn: How do I run spamassassin in test mode..I have an email which I know is spam as a simple text file and want to test it out with my new rules..I did RTFM but ;( I just did spamassassin -t

RE: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert

2002-11-15 Thread Steve Thomas
| How do I run spamassassin in test mode..I have an email which I | | I just did spamassassin -t testmail.txt You need to pipe/redirect the text file into SA. So it'd be: spamassassin -t testmail.txt or cat testmail.txt | spamassassin -t

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert

2002-11-15 Thread Dave Slusher
From: Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin new rule..newbie alert To: Raghu Arni [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raghu Arni said the following on 15/11/02 17:24: Hi, I would like to add a new rule which is checking to see if the To: field