Re: Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-30 Thread LuKreme
On 29-Nov-2009, at 04:59, Jonas Eckerman wrote: > I'd assume that a big ISP using SA (and wants the best from SA install) would > pay to use the better DNSBLs. I've found pretty much the opposite; the larger the ISP, the worse job they do filtering spam for their customers. The only exception i

Re: Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-29 Thread Benny Pedersen
On søn 29 nov 2009 12:59:32 CET, Jonas Eckerman wrote I'd assume that a big ISP using SA (and wants the best from SA install) would pay to use the better DNSBLs. ask recipient if a isp does a well good job of stopping spam to ones inbox, payed dnsbl or not :=) shared rbl listes is silly, s

Re: Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-29 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Martijn Grooten wrote: - I'm happy to add any extensions as long as these are also free and open source -- note that our 'target audience' includes big ISPs and unfortunately for them things as Spamhaus's RBL aren't free; This doesn't make any sense. You are comparing SA to commercial products

Re: Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Alex wrote: Hi, - I'm happy to add any extensions as long as these are also free and open source -- note that our 'target audience' includes big ISPs and unfortunately for them things as Spamhaus's RBL aren't free; Do the commercial vendors get to use publically-available DNSBLs like zen?

Re: Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-28 Thread Michael Scheidell
Martijn Grooten wrote: All, a few months back, there was a discussion on this list about the VBSpam comparative anti-spam tests[1], in which SpamAssassin performed significantly worse than many commercial products. Now I run these tests and I believe something was the matter with (the installati

Re: Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-27 Thread Alex
Hi, >> - I'm happy to add any extensions as long as these are also free and >> open source -- note that our 'target audience' includes big ISPs and >> unfortunately for them things as Spamhaus's RBL aren't free; Do the commercial vendors get to use publically-available DNSBLs like zen? If so, and

Re: Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-27 Thread Ned Slider
Martijn Grooten wrote: - I'm happy to add any extensions as long as these are also free and open source -- note that our 'target audience' includes big ISPs and unfortunately for them things as Spamhaus's RBL aren't free; I'm not in any way trying to jump on what you're trying to do as I firm

Re: Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Martijn, I may be missing something here but I went to your website and you use the terms "malware" and "spam" interchangeably. Now, it may be true that these days in the commercial realm that the antivirus vendors are all jumping into the anti-spam market to enhance revenue, but in reality

Need help running SA in a (comparative) anti-spam test

2009-11-27 Thread Martijn Grooten
All, a few months back, there was a discussion on this list about the VBSpam comparative anti-spam tests[1], in which SpamAssassin performed significantly worse than many commercial products. Now I run these tests and I believe something was the matter with (the installation of) SA that made it pe

Re: spam test

2007-04-10 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
The last one is the lowest scoring here, look at the results: For the first mail: Content analysis details: (13.2 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO ma

Re: spam test

2007-04-10 Thread Spamassassin List
http://hege.li/howto/spam/spamassassin.html Remove everything from Botnet.cf RULES-section and set it up this way: Does the above line mean to remove from the # THE RULES? regards

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On one server I manage, I found Botnet to be a tremendous help in tagging spam, but does produce some FPs, almost entirely because of misconfigured DNS. After notifying several mail/network admins of their fubar DNS, I got tired of trying to clean up the Internet and throttled Botnet back to 4.5 p

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Peter Russell
I have my trusted network setup correctly - but botnet fires on so many domains, domains which would normally like to trust. Yes its entirely possible its not set up right...but i followed the instructions as best i could. Bill Landry wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote the following on 4/9/20

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Landry
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote the following on 4/9/2007 4:37 PM -0800: > Bill Landry wrote: >> Peter Russell wrote the following on 4/9/2007 3:41 PM -0800: >>> We dont use Botnet anymore, it fires on anything/everything and >>> drives me nuts. >>> >> You must not have Botnet and/or your trusted_networks

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Bill Landry wrote: Peter Russell wrote the following on 4/9/2007 3:41 PM -0800: We dont use Botnet anymore, it fires on anything/everything and drives me nuts. You must not have Botnet and/or your trusted_networks setup correctly then. Bill I am running Postfix+Amavisd-new+SA 3.1.7 gateways

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Landry
Peter Russell wrote the following on 4/9/2007 3:41 PM -0800: We dont use Botnet anymore, it fires on anything/everything and drives me nuts. You must not have Botnet and/or your trusted_networks setup correctly then. Bill

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Peter Russell
We dont use Botnet anymore, it fires on anything/everything and drives me nuts. Content analysis details: (7.5 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 1.5 FH_RELAY_NODNS We could no

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Evan Platt
At 01:53 PM 4/9/2007, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can anyone run any of these messages to see how your rules score them? Mostly stock symbol spam. I've been improving our scoring with updates today, but still not able to come up with any rules to cover these: http://esmtp.webtent.net/mail1.txt

Re: spam test

2007-04-09 Thread J.
--- Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone run any of these messages to see how your rules score > them? > Mostly stock symbol spam. I've been improving our scoring with > updates > today, but still not able to come up with any rules to cover these: > > http://esmtp.webtent.n

spam test

2007-04-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Can anyone run any of these messages to see how your rules score them? Mostly stock symbol spam. I've been improving our scoring with updates today, but still not able to come up with any rules to cover these: http://esmtp.webtent.net/mail1.txt http://esmtp.webtent.net/mail2.txt http://esmtp.webte