RE: 0451.com

2006-08-07 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Sietse van Zanen wrote: OK than let's put this in another 'political' context: Caring about 'legitimate' e-mail coming from those domains would be like caring for the few 'legitimate' bombs dropped over Iraq, Afghanistan or Lebanon. It would indeed be better to have no

Re: collecting spam(maybe offtopic)

2006-07-31 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
Hello! It may be a strange request, but i need to collect spam for a research project about the way spammers attack and the way they bypass the antispam filters. Obviously, for this project i need to collect spam in different ways and on different types. Also, my project can be concludent only

Re: (OT) RE: How do I assign a negative score to BAYES_00 ?

2006-07-31 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
Find a floppy disk. Format it. Move cpanel over to the floppy disk. Remove the floppy disk from the system. Wrap the floppy in alternating layers of foil, lead is best, and parafin until it is about 6 thick. Save it until the next full Moon. Take it to a graveyard. In a quiet corner dig a hole

Re: spamassassin doing bad job filtering out spam

2006-07-20 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
I even lowered the required hits to 4.0 from 5.0. for example, the latest batch of spams with your resume in the subject: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_50,FORGED_RCVD_HELO, HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=no version=3.1.3 and

Re: Bayes_00 on spam

2006-07-20 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
Hi all, Bayes seems to be missing quite a lot of spam. I'm getting these results quite often: snip Email:63252 Autolearn: 26740 AvgScore: 14.53 AvgScanTime: 1.69 sec Spam: 51232 Autolearn: 23252 AvgScore: 21.08 AvgScanTime: 1.68 sec Ham: 12020 Autolearn: 3488

Re: spamassassin on a mail relay

2006-06-19 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
Do any of you out there run spamassassin on a mail relay or pop/imap server to add the X-Spam headers to all mail that passes through your gateway? Yep, border MX servers which accept all mail for all domains we host, scan all the mail, then pass it along the line to the recipient servers.

Re: Processing many mbox folders

2006-06-02 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
#!/bin/sh cd mail/Lists for x in `ls` do sa-learn --ham --mbox $x done -Gary On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Kenneth Porter wrote: On Friday, June 02, 2006 9:47 PM -0400 JamesDR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many messages have you trained? You'll need 200 each to get it going, and I recommend

Re: Processing many mbox folders

2006-06-02 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
Gary, doesn't that presuppose that the mail/lists directory does not contain a spam list? Yep, but his original e-mail said mail/Lists was for ham training, nothing about spam, so that's why I put that in there. It really was a quick and dirty answer, and in his other reply, there's more

Re: Processing many mbox folders

2006-06-02 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
Thanks, that handles the top level. ;) Yeah, it was quick and simple for just the one scenario you had in your e-mail. Me, I redirect mail using a combo of procmail and Postfix header checks to 2 users on the border servers (hamfilter and spamfilter), then I do 2 nightly script runs to

Re: Managing Spamassassin Data

2006-04-17 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
2. Is there a way I can put the razor-agent.log into multilog? If not, how do I rotate this log file? For myself on FreeBSD, I installed by source, not by port, so adjust your configs as necessary, but I use the newsyslog facility (/etc/newsyslog) to rotate the log files with the nightly

Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Integration

2006-04-07 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
Attached is what I use, found it on a webpage about installing SA when I was going through it. Customized slightly for my local usernames and ways of doing things. When spamd dies, all mail continues to come through, it just doesn't get analyzed by SA until spamd gets restarted. Here's my

Re: Best way to send spam for learning from OE and Outlook

2006-04-06 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Patrick Sherrill wrote: What is the best way to send spam candidates from Outlook and Outlook Express to spamassassin for learning? Here, I have a generic spam address on my border servers running SA. For the users, I have them set up a rule to send tagged spam to that

RE: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-06 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Gustafson, Tim wrote: I have been using FreeBSD in a production environment for almost 10 years now (since version 2.2.5!) and have absolutely NO complaints about it. I've regularly had servers with uptimes in excess of 6 months, and even those were just rebooted for kernel

Re: Best Practices: SpamAssassin

2006-03-30 Thread Gary D. Margiotta
(sorry for the top-post) Ryan, I use SA with Postfix on FreeBSD in a border MX gateway solution for our customers, which would serve your store and forward requirement to 3 geographic locations, with some nightly scripts to do auto-learning. The border servers accept all mail for our