Bayes is letting too much spam through

2004-12-23 Thread Jeff Ramsey
When spam gets through to my inbox, it almost always would have been marked spam, and then I see BAYES_00. By my count, without the BAYES_00 flag, SA would have blocked the message. Should I turn BAYESIAN filters off, or am I doing something wrong? I cannot imagine why anyone would turn

diff for rules_du_jour

2004-12-23 Thread George Georgalis
Hi! Attached is a diff for rules_du_jour. I prefer to manually update my mail rules and push them out to my servers, vs use cron on each. Since rules_du_jour is only one component of my mail setup, I typically execute a script that updates it in addition to other things. Unfortunately that

Re: Bayes is letting too much spam through

2004-12-23 Thread Jeff Ramsey
Per the advice of Loren, I have started my bayes db over. And so far so good. SA is working like I wanted it to. I have another question about my learnspam script. Here is the script: START SCRIPT #!/bin/sh # learnspam v0.34

Re: Bayes is letting too much spam through

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Parker
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:47:35PM +, Jeff Ramsey wrote: ssh $SERVER echo ; echo 'Learning ham...' ; echo ; sa-learn --ham --showdots --mbox $TMPHDIR ; Ok echo 'Unlearning bad ham...' ; echo ; sa-learn --ham --forget --showdots --mbox $TMPSDIR ; Ok,

Re: Bayes is letting too much spam through

2004-12-23 Thread Jeff Ramsey
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 04:17, Michael Parker wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:47:35PM +, Jeff Ramsey wrote: ssh $SERVER echo ; echo 'Learning ham...' ; echo ; sa-learn --ham --showdots --mbox $TMPHDIR ; Ok echo 'Unlearning bad ham...' ; echo ;

Re: Bayes is letting too much spam through

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Parker
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:26:35PM +, Jeff Ramsey wrote: You realize that AWL also serves as a blacklist right? I guess you could remove it all, but I wouldn't recommend it. Granted, it is possible that if you're talking about mail that passed as ham, then the address might have a

Re: A change in tact

2004-12-23 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 04:48 am, Rakesh wrote: Well even i think that has to be the final resort, but one thing wanted to know. How much of similar kind of mails are you guys recieving ? Is it just the begining or are we already in the middle of it. Rakesh Beginning and Middle imply

Re: Bayes is letting too much spam through

2004-12-23 Thread Robert Brooks
Jeff Ramsey wrote: Per the advice of Loren, I have started my bayes db over. And so far so good. SA is working like I wanted it to. I have another question about my learnspam script. Here is the script: START SCRIPT #!/bin/sh # learnspam v0.34

Re: Bayes is letting too much spam through

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas Arend
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Failures after upgrade to 3.0.2

2004-12-23 Thread jpff
I upgraded this morning, from sources. Build was all OK so |I installed, and restarted spamd. Since then I have had a number of cases of spamd just stopping, and log messages like (I call from exim) 2004-12-23 11:46:04 1ChRPw-0001BG-P3 spam acl condition: warning - spamd connection to

How to unsubscribe to the list?

2004-12-23 Thread Brett Romero
I don't see any place on the website that discuss how to unsubscribe to this list. Does any one have suggestions? Thanks, Brett

Need help with Bayes DB

2004-12-23 Thread SpamAssassin User
Hello: I am running SpamAssassin 3.0.1 and have been having a problem. When I run sa-learn -D --dump magic I get the following output. 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0 1084 0 non-token data: nspam 0.000 0

Re: How to unsubscribe to the list?

2004-12-23 Thread Rick Macdougall
Brett Romero wrote: I don't see any place on the website that discuss how to unsubscribe to this list. Does any one have suggestions? Hi, From the headers list-unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Rick

Re: Need help with Bayes DB

2004-12-23 Thread Richard Ozer
Check to make sure that you don't have a phantom local.cf somewhere that's pointing SA to the wrong directory for bayes. For instance, see if you have both a /etc/spamassassin and /etc/mail/spamassassin folder. Make sure it's not putting a new bayes database in your user/.spamassassin

Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread John
Greetings, I did some googling and archive searching but didn't come up with a lot and so I have a question on generating my own scores with mass-check. I ran mass-check on a very small test corpus (437 spam, 99 ham) by untarring Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.1.tar.gz doing the following: 1) cd to

Re: Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:56 AM 12/23/2004, John wrote: This is surely better performance but I would have thought that the new false negative total would be close to zero since these rules were generated on the same spam corpus that I used to test. I ran the tests with no remote tests and no bayes to as these new

Re: Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread John
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: At 10:56 AM 12/23/2004, John wrote: This is surely better performance but I would have thought that the new false negative total would be close to zero since these rules were generated on the same spam corpus that I used to test. I ran the tests

Re: Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:06 PM 12/23/2004, John wrote: Matt, I appreciate this info! Is there a place where I can go to find more about how this all works? Not that I'm aware of. There's some bits of information in the wiki, but there's no one general source of information...

Re: Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread John
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: At 12:06 PM 12/23/2004, John wrote: Matt, I appreciate this info! Is there a place where I can go to find more about how this all works? Not that I'm aware of. There's some bits of information in the wiki, but there's no one general source of

Re: Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread John
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, John wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: At 12:06 PM 12/23/2004, John wrote: Matt, I appreciate this info! Is there a place where I can go to find more about how this all works? Not that I'm aware of. There's some bits of information in the