bayes_journal problem

2004-12-29 Thread Obantec Support
Hi I am using 2.64 with local.cf settings bayes_path /var/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 777 to get round ownership and other issues like space under users accounts. problem i have is with bayes_journal , it always seem to be owned by user.group of the mail owner. log shows Dec 29 1

Fred's Rules @ http://www.rulesemporium.com/other-rules.htm

2004-12-29 Thread Johnson, Robert F
Regarding Fred's rule sets at http://www.rulesemporium.com/other-rules.htm. Do these duplicate any of the other SARE rules? Are they advised for Spam Assassin 3.0x? Are there any known issues with false positives for Asian or other languages? Have they been mass checked? Thanks for any info yo

Re: bayes making me sick now

2004-12-29 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:07 PM 12/29/2004, Rakesh wrote: Can any body tell me when does Bayes00 gives the score. Is it 1) If a mail has a lot of tokens that Bayes has never seen before. or 2) If the mail has a lot of tokens that Bayes has previously learnt has spam. Neither. BAYES_00 fires when there are a lot of tok

Re: bayes making me sick now

2004-12-29 Thread Loren Wilton
> Can any body tell me when does Bayes00 gives the score. Is it > > 1) If a mail has a lot of tokens that Bayes has never seen before. > or > 2) If the mail has a lot of tokens that Bayes has previously learnt has > spam. 3) Neither. Bayes 00 means that Bayes has seen lots of tokens and Bayes is

Re: Bayesian scoring in 3.0

2004-12-29 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:04 PM 12/29/2004, Matt Linzbach wrote: Can someone point me to a thread that would discuss the scoring of the Bayesian rules in 3.0. Specifically why BAYES_99 would score less than BAYES_95 for bayes+net tests? Why would you expect it to be higher? It's a common human perception that ever

Re: Bayesian scoring in 3.0

2004-12-29 Thread Jim Maul
Matt Linzbach wrote: Can someone point me to a thread that would discuss the scoring of the Bayesian rules in 3.0. Specifically why BAYES_99 would score less than BAYES_95 for bayes+net tests? TIA http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/61212/match= just for 1 :) You might

Bayesian scoring in 3.0

2004-12-29 Thread Matt Linzbach
Can someone point me to a thread that would discuss the scoring of the Bayesian rules in 3.0. Specifically why BAYES_99 would score less than BAYES_95 for bayes+net tests? TIA Matt

Re: how to tell SA to NOT scan mailman posts?

2004-12-29 Thread Rainer Sokoll
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:00:48AM -0900, Andy Firman wrote: > I have SA 3.0.1 on a FreeBSD box with Exim/Mailman > and one of my users sends out a newsletter blast to > over 1,000 people and this almost cripples the server > because of the intense SA processing. Depends on how you call SA. With

Re: bayes making me sick now

2004-12-29 Thread Jim Maul
Rakesh wrote: Hii Can any body tell me when does Bayes00 gives the score. Is it 1) If a mail has a lot of tokens that Bayes has never seen before. or 2) If the mail has a lot of tokens that Bayes has previously learnt has spam. The reason of my weird question is that recently I have suddenly star

Re: Whitelist spamassassin.apache.org?

2004-12-29 Thread Rainer Sokoll
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:34:34AM -0500, Jim Maul wrote: > Im using sitewide SA setup so there are no user prefs. I'd really like > a way to do this within one of the tools that im already using if at all > possible. Does anyone else have any suggestions? As of 3.x, this should be possible b

bayes making me sick now

2004-12-29 Thread Rakesh
Hii Can any body tell me when does Bayes00 gives the score. Is it 1) If a mail has a lot of tokens that Bayes has never seen before. or 2) If the mail has a lot of tokens that Bayes has previously learnt has spam. The reason of my weird question is that recently I have suddenly started recieving

how to tell SA to NOT scan mailman posts?

2004-12-29 Thread Andy Firman
I have SA 3.0.1 on a FreeBSD box with Exim/Mailman and one of my users sends out a newsletter blast to over 1,000 people and this almost cripples the server because of the intense SA processing. How do I get SA to not scan certain posts? Or is this an Exim question?

Re: Whitelist spamassassin.apache.org?

2004-12-29 Thread Jim Maul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jdow wrote: From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are better off rearranging things so that this newsgroup simply bypasses SA on your system, if you can. Loren With procmail that's easy. With other tools I cannot say. Exactly. I have been unable to find a wa

Re: Whitelist spamassassin.apache.org?

2004-12-29 Thread hamann . w
>> jdow wrote: >> > From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >> >>You are better off rearranging things so that this newsgroup simply >> > >> > bypasses >> > >> >>SA on your system, if you can. >> >> >> >>Loren >> > >> > >> > With procmail that's easy. With other tools I cannot

RE: Is this a dumb idea?

2004-12-29 Thread Chris Santerre
>I was thinking, would it be feasible to have an option for spamassassin >to exit after a message reached the spam threshold? This comes up a lot, and a lot of people already responded, but I wanted to add one more comment. Think of it simply as: After every rule is run, increment score count. N

Re: Whitelist spamassassin.apache.org?

2004-12-29 Thread Jim Maul
jdow wrote: From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are better off rearranging things so that this newsgroup simply bypasses SA on your system, if you can. Loren With procmail that's easy. With other tools I cannot say. Exactly. I have been unable to find a way to do this on a system

Re: does SA report to razor ?

2004-12-29 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:20 AM 12/29/2004 +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello, I see that SA checks razor DB. Great. I guess SA also report spam to the razor DB by default. Am I right ? Only if you do a spamassassin --report. SA used to auto-report spam over a threshold, but this feature was removed a

Re: Whitelist spamassassin.apache.org?

2004-12-29 Thread jdow
From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You are better off rearranging things so that this newsgroup simply bypasses > SA on your system, if you can. > > Loren With procmail that's easy. With other tools I cannot say. ---8<--- ###

Re: Is this a dumb idea?

2004-12-29 Thread jdow
From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I was thinking, would it be feasible to have an option for spamassassin > > to exit after a message reached the spam threshold? > > This gets discussed periodically, and I think there may be a bugzilla ticket > open on it as an enhamcement request. > >

Re: does SA report to razor ?

2004-12-29 Thread Rainer Sokoll
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:20:16AM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > I see that SA checks razor DB. Great. > I guess SA also report spam to the razor DB by default. Am I right ? No. See the man page for razor-admin. Rainer

does SA report to razor ?

2004-12-29 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hello, I see that SA checks razor DB. Great. I guess SA also report spam to the razor DB by default. Am I right ? -- ASPO Infogérance http://aspo.rktmb.org/activites/infogerance Unofficial FAQ fcolc http://faq.fcolc.eu.org/ LUG sur Orléans et alentours. Tél : 02 38 76 43 65 (France)

Re: Whitelist spamassassin.apache.org?

2004-12-29 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2004 07:10 schrieb Loren Wilton: > You are better off rearranging things so that this newsgroup simply > bypasses SA on your system, if you can. > > Loren If you have unic characteristic in a message it's the best way

Re: Is this a dumb idea?

2004-12-29 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2004 01:03 schrieb Paul J Fries: > I was thinking, would it be feasible to have an option for spamassassin > to exit after a message reached the spam threshold? > > You would need to run all of the negative scoring (non-spammy

Re: Whitelist spamassassin.apache.org?

2004-12-29 Thread Loren Wilton
You are better off rearranging things so that this newsgroup simply bypasses SA on your system, if you can. Loren

Re: Is this a dumb idea?

2004-12-29 Thread Loren Wilton
> I was thinking, would it be feasible to have an option for spamassassin > to exit after a message reached the spam threshold? This gets discussed periodically, and I think there may be a bugzilla ticket open on it as an enhamcement request. It seems there are some implementation annoyances with

Re: Is this a dumb idea?

2004-12-29 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:03 PM 12/28/2004 -0700, you wrote: I was thinking, would it be feasible to have an option for spamassassin to exit after a message reached the spam threshold? That was a feature, in SA 2.1.x if I recall correctly. The problem with that is to do it right SA must make sure to run all the negat

Whitelist spamassassin.apache.org?

2004-12-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
The Wiki is not quite clear, but it sounds like it is only checking the from category, but I am trying to white list you all, so I don't have to dig threads out of my spamfilters. Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA USA

Re: Is this a dumb idea?

2004-12-29 Thread Robin Lynn Frank (SA)
Paul J Fries wrote: I was thinking, would it be feasible to have an option for spamassassin to exit after a message reached the spam threshold? You would need to run all of the negative scoring (non-spammy) rules first, and then start running the positive scoring tests. Then once the message reache

Re: spamc/spamassassin = different scores

2004-12-29 Thread jdow
From: "Thomas Arend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2004 15:34 schrieb jdow: > From: "Thomas Arend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Montag, 27. Dezember 2004 22:01 schrieb jdow: > > From: "

Is this a dumb idea?

2004-12-29 Thread Paul J Fries
I was thinking, would it be feasible to have an option for spamassassin to exit after a message reached the spam threshold? You would need to run all of the negative scoring (non-spammy) rules first, and then start running the positive scoring tests. Then once the message reached the spam threshol