Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-21 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Karl Runge writes: It is possible you have an oddly named file ^Subject: (ADV:) that contains those missing ~ 100 emails of yours. You're right! $ ls -l *Sub* -rw---1 jrv jrv 2555170 May 13 19:26 ^Subject: Thank you very much! - Jim Van Zandt

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-20 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Thanks for all the replies. need a * here, don't you? ^Subject: (ADV:) Right! Ben Boulanger and Karl Runge spotted this one. I rewrote it this way: :0 H # recognize junk mail by subject * ^Subject: (ADV:) Mail/junk-subject With this change, the rules seem to be

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-20 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you may want to have a look at razor (http://razor.sourceforge.net/). It's a distributed SPAM checking system. I noticed this a while back, and it looks very interesting. However just the other day I read a comment at Slashdot that someone has been

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-20 Thread Rich Payne
(http://razor.sourceforge.net/). It's a distributed SPAM checking system. I noticed this a while back, and it looks very interesting. However just the other day I read a comment at Slashdot that someone has been poisoning the razor database, so that it labeled some legitimate mailing

spam filter problem

2002-05-17 Thread James R. Van Zandt
I've been running a simple procmail filter to get rid of spam from some specific sites. The sample below only includes a few of the addresses, but even with the whole list it's no longer very effective. Last weekend I decided to tune it up to filter out more of the spam. I added the last three

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-17 Thread Rich Payne
I have no idea what's wrong with this...however you may want to have a look at razor (http://razor.sourceforge.net/). It's a distributed SPAM checking system. Basically you don't have to worry about keeping a list of the senders etcyou just use procmail to pass all your mail through

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-17 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 16 May 2002, James R. Van Zandt wrote: If someone has a non-risky way to test procmail rules, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Don't send to /dev/null at first, send to something you can get to with your mail reader - ~/mail/filtered or something usually works for me. :0 H

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Komarinski
I heartily recommend spamassassin. It used a variety of weightings to see if the mail you have is spam. For example, if the mail is listed in Razor, it's worth 2 points, and if it came from a site listed in one of the RBLs, it's worth a few points, and so on. You can configure the weighting as

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-17 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 12:51, Mark Komarinski wrote: I heartily recommend spamassassin. It used a variety of weightings to see if the mail you have is spam. For example, if the mail is listed in Razor, it's worth 2 points, and if it came from a site listed in one of the RBLs, it's worth a