Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:30:10AM -0500, Nathan J. Malmberg wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:24:42AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop > > these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to > > learn. Anyone has any hint / howto's ? > > I found that SA didn't start filtering out the Swen mails until I gave > it enough non-Swen mails (i.e. ham) to trigger the Bayesian filtering. > Once I gave it some good emails that I had saved, SA started working > very nicely for me (it mainly misses a few of the autoreplies generated > when someone else receives the virus). As a counter example, I noticed that once I fed SA enough Swen mails, which was well above 200, 100% of them were blocked. When Swen first surfaced, I was recieving them often enough that it didn't take that much time to accumulate that many. Considering that I still see them in my spam folder, I think it was worth the initial work. Granted, I have SA set to autolearn as well, so my ham statistics were already well trained. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 07:30, Nathan J. Malmberg wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:24:42AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop > > these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to > > learn. Anyone has any hint / howto's ? > > I found that SA didn't start filtering out the Swen mails until I gave > it enough non-Swen mails (i.e. ham) to trigger the Bayesian filtering. > Once I gave it some good emails that I had saved, SA started working > very nicely for me (it mainly misses a few of the autoreplies generated > when someone else receives the virus). By default, you'll need 200 pieces of spam, and 200 pieces of ham before Bayesian filtering kicks in. A good way to see if it started yet is to run spamassassin from the command line with the debug and verbose options. Near the top of the resulting output will be some Bayesian information. It'll either tell you that it's scanning the message, or that Bayesian filtering hasn't been activated yet because of something. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:24:42AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop > these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to > learn. Anyone has any hint / howto's ? Not quite the answer you're looking for, but I have a howto at http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ on how to reject them at SMTP time. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kYj7UzgNqloQMwcRAvzHAJwM6xp0JFPb0SuKnRC8LoBa1rCLPgCdEuPW Hx/NznHAu6RL0ekdK+e88qU= =BKFY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:24:42AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop > these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to > learn. Anyone has any hint / howto's ? I found that SA didn't start filtering out the Swen mails until I gave it enough non-Swen mails (i.e. ham) to trigger the Bayesian filtering. Once I gave it some good emails that I had saved, SA started working very nicely for me (it mainly misses a few of the autoreplies generated when someone else receives the virus). Nate -- "Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." Psalms 37:4 Nathan J. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNUPG ID: 8A9B426E The attachment is a digital signature. Get my key at wwwkeys.pgp.net. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin
On (18/10/03 03:24), ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop > these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to > learn. Anyone has any hint / howto's ? Swen isn't classified as spam and if you search the archive you will find that mailfilter seems to be the preferred method to remove it from the server before download. There have been many posts on this subject. HTH Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin
My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to learn. Anyone has any hint / howto's ? TIA, -- ThanhVu Nguyen Use library functions. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
