Re: SA works great!

2014-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/3/2014 11:13 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.09.2014 um 19:16 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 9/2/2014 1:52 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.09.2014 um 22:32 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 9/2/2014 4:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: just get a proper MTA, enable debug logging and watch the

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.09.2014 um 19:08 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: there are no countermeasures for a spammer against make it on a RBL or use a zombie on a infected machine and get blocked by Dialup-RBL's before the first mail or by get rejected because the dynamic PTR of the infected zombie Yes, there

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.09.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Reindl Harald: Now as for dynamic or dialup RBLs go, UNFORTUNATELY although many responsible ISPs do insert the word dynamic or dialup in the PTRs of their dialup or dynamic pools, a great many still do not. Which means the RBL's that track those need to try

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-04 Thread Noel Butler
Heh, yeah I know kids of today are so much worse then 20 years ago :) But either way, there needs to be drawn a line, so many newbies are scarred to post there newbie questions on so many lists because of people like Harry, he's got a long history of moderation and bannings, but, even I admit

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-03 Thread Noel Butler
Doesnt take you long does it Harry, you've been on this list a month and already your abusing and putting ppl down, calling child, telling to STFU, and some other tripe you levelled at Ted. Karsten already warned you once, I suggest you remember that. On 03/09/2014 06:52, Reindl Harald

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.09.2014 um 09:13 schrieb Noel Butler: Doesnt take you long does it Harry, you've been on this list a month and already your abusing and putting ppl down, calling child, telling to STFU, and some other tripe you levelled at Ted. Karsten already warned you once, I suggest you

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/2/2014 1:52 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.09.2014 um 22:32 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 9/2/2014 4:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: just get a proper MTA, enable debug logging and watch the commands / responses between client and server due a message transmission and to make it clear for

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
While I appreciate the support, Noel, I'm not in favor of banning people from mailing lists for using what they think are insulting terms. Truth is that Harry's insults are really kind of cute, like the 6 year old all decked out in a Jedi lightsaber doing battle with Darth Vader. My 16 year

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.09.2014 um 19:16 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 9/2/2014 1:52 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.09.2014 um 22:32 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 9/2/2014 4:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: just get a proper MTA, enable debug logging and watch the commands / responses between client and

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 8/31/2014 5:11 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 31 Aug 2014, at 08:08 , Ted Mittelstaedtt...@ipinc.net wrote: Google does it. It's not impossible. [snip] My experience is that the commercial providers like Gmail are now so aggressive that false positives are VERY common on their systems, this

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 8/31/2014 4:46 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Reindl Harald wrote: i think it's impossible to improve that much out-of-the-box because that would make it to sensitive while the bayes has the ham side of your communication too for decisions Google does it. It's not

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 8/31/2014 7:55 AM, Axb wrote: On 08/31/2014 04:08 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Out of the box the default decision point of 5 is too high anyway. SA is the framework - you can tune to your need as much as you want. I think the emphasis on avoiding false positives in the stock

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.09.2014 um 09:57 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 8/31/2014 5:11 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 31 Aug 2014, at 08:08 , Ted Mittelstaedtt...@ipinc.net wrote: Google does it. It's not impossible. [snip] My experience is that the commercial providers like Gmail are now so aggressive that false

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 8/31/2014 7:35 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2014 um 16:08 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 8/31/2014 2:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: Yes, it does work great when you have the bayes filter turned on and you take the time to feed it. And

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Axb
On 09/02/2014 11:06 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: masscheck runs against your spam and ham. But, masscheck does not know if what your feeding it is actually ham or spam until you have gone through your corpora and sorted it - moved the spam to the spam folder and the ham to the ham folder

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/2/2014 2:16 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.09.2014 um 09:57 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 8/31/2014 5:11 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 31 Aug 2014, at 08:08 , Ted Mittelstaedtt...@ipinc.net wrote: Google does it. It's not impossible. [snip] My experience is that the commercial

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Axb
On 09/02/2014 12:37 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I'm just saying that out of box it should catch more spam and assume people will tolerate a few FPs. Because that is what I am seeing people demand in the real world. This insistence that if SA is responsible for even ONE FP it's a disaster is a

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.09.2014 um 12:15 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 8/31/2014 7:35 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2014 um 16:08 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 8/31/2014 2:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: Yes, it does work great when you have the bayes

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/2/2014 3:48 AM, Axb wrote: On 09/02/2014 12:37 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I'm just saying that out of box it should catch more spam and assume people will tolerate a few FPs. Because that is what I am seeing people demand in the real world. This insistence that if SA is responsible for

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.09.2014 um 12:37 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 9/2/2014 2:16 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: and here you prove again that it don't work really out-of-the-box because if i have to look all day long in my spam folder because a noticeable part of my legit mail lands there it *do not work* Are

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/2/2014 3:54 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.09.2014 um 12:37 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 9/2/2014 2:16 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: and here you prove again that it don't work really out-of-the-box because if i have to look all day long in my spam folder because a noticeable part of my

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote on Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:08:11 -0700: Out of the box the default decision point of 5 is too high anyway. No. You can always lower it yourself. With the result of more FPs. If you or your users can live with that. Fine. Many can't. I think the emphasis on avoiding false

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/2/2014 3:48 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.09.2014 um 12:15 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 8/31/2014 7:35 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2014 um 16:08 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 8/31/2014 2:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: Yes, it

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.09.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: as explained above: * the users don't want to see clear spam at all * in many countries *you must* reject before-queue * frankly, where i live for drop a accepted messages you can go up to 2 years *in jail* This is really getting silly

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.09.2014 um 13:54 schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 02.09.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: as explained above: * the users don't want to see clear spam at all * in many countries *you must* reject before-queue * frankly, where i live for drop a accepted messages you can go up to

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread LuKreme
On 02 Sep 2014, at 01:57 , Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: On 8/31/2014 5:11 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 31 Aug 2014, at 08:08 , Ted Mittelstaedtt...@ipinc.net wrote: Google does it. It's not impossible. [snip] My experience is that the commercial providers like Gmail are now so

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Plus Google can undeliver a message from your Inbox if you have not read it yet. Say a spammer slowly sends sneaky spam to 10,000 people. After the first dozen report the message as spam then the next 9988 have the message undelivered from their

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.09.2014 um 22:24 schrieb Bob Proulx: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Plus Google can undeliver a message from your Inbox if you have not read it yet. Say a spammer slowly sends sneaky spam to 10,000 people. After the first dozen report the message as spam then the next 9988

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/2/2014 4:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.09.2014 um 13:54 schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 02.09.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: as explained above: * the users don't want to see clear spam at all * in many countries *you must* reject before-queue * frankly, where i live for drop

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/2/2014 12:19 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 02 Sep 2014, at 01:57 , Ted Mittelstaedtt...@ipinc.net wrote: On 8/31/2014 5:11 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 31 Aug 2014, at 08:08 , Ted Mittelstaedtt...@ipinc.net wrote: Google does it. It's not impossible. [snip] My experience is that the commercial

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:32:26 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: The point of blocking on DNS or IP based blocking is to issue that error 5xx because that is the ONLY thing that is going to cause the spammer to delist. You are an optimist, aren't you? Because at that point they are

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.09.2014 um 22:32 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 9/2/2014 4:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: just get a proper MTA, enable debug logging and watch the commands / responses between client and server due a message transmission and to make it clear for you: until after end of data itslef is

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.09.2014 um 22:40 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: Yes, that is my experience when I setup test addresses on Gmail and stick them into spammer unsubscribe links. Lots of spam starts showing up and over 90% in the junk folder Bruhaha and that is working out of the box? your problem is that you

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 9/2/2014 1:45 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:32:26 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedtt...@ipinc.net wrote: The point of blocking on DNS or IP based blocking is to issue that error 5xx because that is the ONLY thing that is going to cause the spammer to delist. You are an

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Reindl Harald wrote: schrieb Bob Proulx: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Plus Google can undeliver a message from your Inbox if you have not read it yet. Say a spammer slowly sends sneaky spam to 10,000 people. After the first dozen report the message as spam then the next

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.09.2014 um 00:39 schrieb Bob Proulx: Reindl Harald wrote: schrieb Bob Proulx: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Plus Google can undeliver a message from your Inbox if you have not read it yet. Say a spammer slowly sends sneaky spam to 10,000 people. After the first dozen

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Reindl Harald wrote: schrieb Bob Proulx: Being able to undeliver spam after it has been detected later and if it is as yet unread is none of those bad things. This is a positive anti-spam feature in the core feature set of an email provider. honestly i would not want to get a message

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
Unfortunately if Bayes is not turned on, it does not catch more than around 60-70% of spam. As a Spamassassin user server admin, I would really like to see that improve. As a matter of interest, how can one turn Bayes on/off? I take it that the appearance of BAYES_99, etc, in headers

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.09.2014 um 13:19 schrieb Timothy Murphy: Unfortunately if Bayes is not turned on, it does not catch more than around 60-70% of spam. As a Spamassassin user server admin, I would really like to see that improve. As a matter of interest, how can one turn Bayes on/off? I take it

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
On Monday, September 01, 2014 01:28:24 PM Reindl Harald wrote: As a matter of interest, how can one turn Bayes on/off? use_learner 0 use_bayes 0 use_bayes_rules 0 ... Thanks very much. I learn something new almost every time you respond! But someone complained that SA did not work well if

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-01 Thread Axb
On 09/01/2014 02:18 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: use_bayes 0 this the master switch the rest are not necessary if use_bayes ise set to 0

Re: SA works great!

2014-09-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 1. sep. 2014 14.19.23 Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it wrote: On Monday, September 01, 2014 01:28:24 PM Reindl Harald wrote: As a matter of interest, how can one turn Bayes on/off? use_learner 0 use_bayes 0 use_bayes_rules 0 Check all pre files, might be there in a loadplugin, coment

Re: SA works great!

2014-08-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.08.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: Yes, it does work great when you have the bayes filter turned on and you take the time to feed it. And that means you have to feed the learner both ham and spam and setup reliable sources for those. Unfortunately if Bayes is not turned on,

Re: SA works great!

2014-08-31 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 8/31/2014 2:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: Yes, it does work great when you have the bayes filter turned on and you take the time to feed it. And that means you have to feed the learner both ham and spam and setup reliable sources for those.

Re: SA works great!

2014-08-31 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 31.08.2014 um 16:08 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: On 8/31/2014 2:21 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.08.2014 um 02:15 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: Yes, it does work great when you have the bayes filter turned on and you take the time to feed it. And that means you have to feed the learner both

Re: SA works great!

2014-08-31 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:55:50 +0200, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: Axb During the last +-4 years, scores have been set by the masscheck GA Axb system. IF more ppl would contribute with masschecks and rules, Axb detection could be better, but the lack of volunteers doing this Axb shows that

Re: SA works great!

2014-08-31 Thread Axb
On 08/31/2014 10:54 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:55:50 +0200, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: Axb During the last +-4 years, scores have been set by the masscheck GA Axb system. IF more ppl would contribute with masschecks and rules, Axb detection could be better, but the

Re: SA works great!

2014-08-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Reindl Harald wrote: i think it's impossible to improve that much out-of-the-box because that would make it to sensitive while the bayes has the ham side of your communication too for decisions Google does it. It's not impossible. But not out of the box. Google

Re: SA works great!

2014-08-31 Thread LuKreme
On 31 Aug 2014, at 08:08 , Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: Google does it. It's not impossible. [snip] My experience is that the commercial providers like Gmail are now so aggressive that false positives are VERY common on their systems, this leads to people nowadays quite commonly

SA works great!

2014-08-30 Thread Reindl Harald
after two days running SA for the first two test-domains with a well trained bayes for the global milter-user: impressive! the few crap making it through poscreen RBL scroing is detected 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0 1389

Re: SA works great!

2014-08-30 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Yes, it does work great when you have the bayes filter turned on and you take the time to feed it. And that means you have to feed the learner both ham and spam and setup reliable sources for those. Unfortunately if Bayes is not turned on, it does not catch more than around 60-70% of spam.