about traing bayes method.

2007-01-31 Thread Monty Ree
Hello, list. I would like to ask some about bayes. If I have recevied ham mail which written ***SPAM***, So in order to train bayes this mail with sa-learn to ham, I forwarded this mail using outlook or outlook express to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and this mail would be saved at /var/spool/mail/ham

Re: How to Limit SA scan jobs

2007-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
Tom wrote: > How do I stop Spamassassin from scanning email for a particular user > (email account) on the server. > > I have Spamassassin 3.1.7 finally working and would like to send all > messages identifed as spam to a user on the server > The problem is now those messages that go to the spam ac

Re: How do I whitelist this?

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Martinec
> >> Ideally a milter will fake a return-path header when it fakes the > >> required received header. > > > > For the record, current versions of MIMEDefang do this. I believe > > someone mentioned that current versions of Amavisd-new also do this. > > YMMV with older releases and other milters. >

Re: How to Limit SA scan jobs

2007-01-31 Thread Michel R Vaillancourt
Tom wrote: How do I stop Spamassassin from scanning email for a particular user (email account) on the server. I have Spamassassin 3.1.7 finally working and would like to send all messages identifed as spam to a user on the server The problem is now those messages that go to the spam account g

How to Limit SA scan jobs

2007-01-31 Thread Tom
How do I stop Spamassassin from scanning email for a particular user (email account) on the server. I have Spamassassin 3.1.7 finally working and would like to send all messages identifed as spam to a user on the server The problem is now those messages that go to the spam account gets rescann

huge cpu usage

2007-01-31 Thread deepak
Hello, Suddenly, i notice huge cpu usage by SA on 3 different servers. nothing was changed in custom rules or configuration recently. kindly suggest, what might have been casing this. Regards ...

Re: spamc using different perl

2007-01-31 Thread maillist
Matthew Bickerton wrote: I am having a problem with the Net::DNS module. It just hangs up when trying to resolve a domain to get the TXT data for SPF tests in spanassassin. If I try to reinstall the module it fail the make test. How did you solve the problem? Matthew -Original Message-

RE: spamc using different perl

2007-01-31 Thread Dhaval Patel
Matthew, I never had a problem with a hang. My problem was that it would get back incorrect results. It was making ham as spam when it should not have. I was told to upgrade Net::DNS it to the latest version. I can only suggest the same to you. Which version of perl and Net::DNS are you running?

Re: How do I whitelist this?

2007-01-31 Thread Jason Haar
Kelson wrote: > Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: >> Matt Kettler wrote: >>> But this assumes that your SA is called after the Return-Path header is >>> added, and not before. If you're using a milter, this won't work, >>> but if >>> you're calling from procmail, it will. >> >> Ideally a milter will fake a

Re: spamc using different perl

2007-01-31 Thread maillist
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Dhaval Patel wrote: I am running a Debian stable system and have perl 5.8.4 installed from the Debian packages. I had a problem with the Net::DNS module a while back and upgrade perl to 5.8.8 using CPAN. This upgrade installed perl 5.8.8 as the default perl version

Skipping OCR on Delivery Failures?

2007-01-31 Thread Josh Graham
I've set up Sendmail to send double bounces to /dev/null but I'm still getting a large about of "Delivery failures" to my spambox, and each one of them has been scanned by OCR. According to my logs in the last 48 hours I've scanned 1.3 million incoming messages and the server is seriously bogged d

Re: MISSING_SUBJECT

2007-01-31 Thread Mark Martinec
Martin, > The MISSING_SUBJECT rule fires on every email, even though they actually > have a "Subject:" header If I remember corrently, this effect can be produced by having syntactically incorrect rules. Make sure to run 'spamassassin --lint' before starting with modified rules! Mark

Re: help a journalist: What do you wish the CIO understood about fighting spam? (fwd)

2007-01-31 Thread Kenneth Porter
Note that I'm not the author of the original message. If you're going to cc, you should cc her.

Re: Learning bayes with spamc

2007-01-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:03:00PM -0500, Jeff Morton wrote: > Is there a way, then, to cause spamc to learn from an entire folder > without writing a bash for loop to pipe the files in one at a time? No. spamc only knows how to deal with single messages. If you want mbox, mbx, or dir handling,

Re: How do I whitelist this?

2007-01-31 Thread Kelson
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: But this assumes that your SA is called after the Return-Path header is added, and not before. If you're using a milter, this won't work, but if you're calling from procmail, it will. Ideally a milter will fake a return-path header when it fakes th

Re: help a journalist: What do you wish the CIO understood about fighting spam? (fwd)

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Jackson
***If you could get your CIO (or top management) to understand one thing, just ONE thing, about fighting spam, what would it be?*** This sounds too fatalistic, but I have one simple thing I wished people understood: You cannot stop all spam, at least not without causing collateral damage to

Learning bayes with spamc

2007-01-31 Thread Jeff Morton
I've set up spamassassin so that the bayes files are owned by 'nobody' and are centrally located, and spamc is used to report spam or ham to train the filter. I have no problem training the filter by piping a single file at a time into spamc. The local.cf file contains: bayes_path /etc/mail/spa

Re: MISSING_SUBJECT

2007-01-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:48:18PM -, Martin Gill wrote: > The MISSING_SUBJECT rule fires on every email, even though they actually > have a "Subject:" header and spam assassin actually modifies the message > to add it's SPAM tag. > Anyone able to explain this to me please? Have I misunderstood

Re: Custom rules

2007-01-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:30:12PM +, Dan Massey wrote: > This obviously does not work in its current format, is there a 'continuation > line' character I can use? No, rules have to be on one line. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: "It's not a huge rocket science thing, but it is a little bit fu

Re: Razor2 servers are down?

2007-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:51:47AM +0500, Roman Serbski wrote: > >> It looks like Razor2 servers are down? >> > > That's the type of question that you'd do much better asking the razor people. > > I agree that's a better place to as. However, I've seen it asked a

MISSING_SUBJECT

2007-01-31 Thread Martin Gill
Hi, I've been watching my spam assassin rules for a while and I'm getting a bit confused with a couple of them. The MISSING_SUBJECT rule fires on every email, even though they actually have a "Subject:" header and spam assassin actually modifies the message to add it's SPAM tag. Also TO_CC_NONE

Custom rules

2007-01-31 Thread Dan Massey
Hi List I have a file of custom rules for spamassassin, but some of the rules have lots of OR conditions and I would like, for the sake of readability to break it over several lines in the file, for example header MYTEST From =~ /( [EMAIL PROTECTED]| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| [EMAIL PROTECT