Thanks a lot for your answer. About the false positive issue : I understand your explanation. What puzzles me is that the emails which were tagged "spam" only contained sources : I am browsing them again : they contain some text and, as attachments, cpp and Fortran sources : this worried me about Razor ability to separate false positive from spam.
.-. Robert GRASSO - CEDRAT S.A. /v\ 10, Chemin de Pre Carre - ZIRST - 38246 MEYLAN Cedex - FRANCE // \\ Tel: +33 (0)4 76 90 50 45 Fax: +33 (0)4 76 90 16 09 /( )\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^-^^ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn --- Support service : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Commercial service : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site : http://www.cedrat.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:46 PM > To: Robert Grasso; Razor Users > Subject: Re: [Razor-users] First use of Razor > > > At 12:31 PM 6/3/2004, Robert Grasso wrote: > >- I installed it in the system procmailrc (/etc/procmailrc), in order to > >catch spam for many users. Indeed, it catched false positive which were > >normal email from people within the company. Could anyboby tell me her or > >his experience about Razor false positives ? I confess that I have been a > >bit surprised that it catched false positives so easily. > > Razor by default will declare a message spam if *any* of the mime > parts are > in the database as spam. > > If you're users are using things like embedded clip-art images, etc, then > they too will be checked separately from the message itself. If a spammer > used the same item and not enough people have issued a revoke with that > item, then it will match. > > You can change the behavior from "any parts" to "all parts" by changing > logic_method to 5. You'll drastically reduce your spam-catch rate, but > you'll avoid some FP cases too. > > >- Razor seems to be sensitive to some configurations : I first installed > >razor-agent.conf in /etc/razor, but I wanted to have it > configured in some > >standard Unix way, so I wanted to have the config file in /etc, > and variable > >parts, such as servers lists, in /var, so I wrote : > > > >listfile_catalogue = /var/razor/servers.catalogue.lst > >listfile_discovery = /var/razor/servers.discovery.lst > >listfile_nomination = /var/razor/servers.nomination.lst > > > >keeping this razor-agent.conf, razor seemed to work correctly, but it did > >not identify any spam, always reporting "mail 1 is not spam". > > If you do that, then whatever user runs razor will have to have RWX > permissions to /var/razor and RW permissions to those files, as they get > updated regularly. > I don't know for sure, but I suspect your problem resolves around > file and > directory permissions. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
