Bayes not functioning?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff Portwine
Hi everybody, For the past couple of weeks, spamassassin has all but completely stopped blocking email.I am running spamassassin 3.1.0 with exim 3.35.I haven't added any custom rules or anything, it's pretty much a vanilla SA install. In the past, some spam still got past it but it

Re: unpacking spam attachments for sa-learn

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff Portwine
I tried ripmime, and it does extract the attachments but it throws away all of the header information and gives me only the attachment by itself. -Jeff - Original Message - From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeff Portwine" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

unpacking spam attachments for sa-learn

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff Portwine
I'm trying to write or find a script that will extract attachments from an email message and write them to a directory, where I could run sa-learn on them. Right now, mail comes in through exim and our users get their mail via pop3.    I have got them all forwarding the spam they get to

Re: having trouble with SA

2006-04-25 Thread Jeff Portwine
- Original Message - From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeff Portwine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:38 PM Subject: Re: having trouble with SA Jeff Portwine wrote: The spam levels are getting high again, users

having trouble with SA

2006-04-25 Thread Jeff Portwine
I am running exim 3.35 in debian.We were using spamassassin 3.0, but we have been having a lot of trouble with spam getting through.Some gets caught but a lot doesn't and over time it gets worse and worse. The person who originally set up our mailserver and spamassassin left the com

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-28 Thread Jeff Portwine
So is there no good way possible to automate learning spam and/or ham from users?It sounds like the only way possible to do this without losing headers and/or encoding formats is if I intercept everybody's email before they pop it off and go through it manually to separate the ham from the

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Jeff Portwine
Hmm.. I don't quite understand this.At my company, we forward any spam that gets through to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any ham marked as spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... this was set up long ago before I even started working here and the spam filter worked really well. Recently our bayes database

Re: question on training spamassassin

2006-02-27 Thread Jeff Portwine
I'm a SA newbie myself, but I believe I've read that all the headers, etc, are stripped before the learning takes place, so it should work fine for you to have your users go ahead and do that for training. Somebody here will correct me if i'm wrong... -Jeff - Original Message - From

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Jeff Portwine
Well I just did a sa-learn --clear and then sa-learn --ham and sa-learn --spam on ~5000-6000 spam and ham messages... will find out Monday morning when I come back in and look at my mailbox if that helped any. I appreciate the responses from everybody. -Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Orig

Re: spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Jeff Portwine
Take a look in the SpamAssassin config directory (usually /etc/mail/spamassassin), and show us which rulesets have been added. You may have some old rulesets that are no longer needed and there are probably some extra rulesets that you could add. Thanks a lot for the responses, here is a copy

spamassissin filter very broken

2006-02-03 Thread Jeff Portwine
Hello...  I am a complete newbie with Spamassassin, so I hope you will all bear with me.   The job of fixing our spam filter has fallen on me, as the person who used to handle everything relating to our mail server recently left my company.   We're running spamassassin 3.0.2 with perl 5.8.4,