Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-28 Thread William Kenworthy
The mail gateway user guide uses a separate email account (spamtrap) for spamassassin's use. I just copy/move spam and ham to the spam or ham folders of this account - a cron job does an sa-learn on these folders. In evolution its a no brainer to dragNdrop between accounts. BillK On Sat,

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-27 Thread Jarry
daniel wrote: I've trained it with sa-learn on a whole slew of ham and spam and it continues to let through nearly all the spam coming in. BTW, in which form do all emails have to be in order to use them as examples for spamassassin-learning? mbox (all mails in 1 file), or maildir (every mail

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-27 Thread Jonathan Wright
Jarry wrote: I've trained it with sa-learn on a whole slew of ham and spam and it continues to let through nearly all the spam coming in. BTW, in which form do all emails have to be in order to use them as examples for spamassassin-learning? mbox (all mails in 1 file), or maildir (every

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:47:57PM +0200, Jarry wrote: daniel wrote: I've trained it with sa-learn on a whole slew of ham and spam and it continues to let through nearly all the spam coming in. BTW, in which form do all emails have to be in order to use them as examples for

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-26 Thread Jonathan Wright
W.Kenworthy wrote: This works very well, though it can be set too zealous (as warned about in the spamassassin section) so needs checking of the trap directories every few days. I've just just it configured with the standard settings, and while it can pull in the occasional valid e-mail,

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
daniel wrote: I've been beating my head against my keyboard all day trying to figure out how get SpamAssassin working on our server and so far I've not had a lot of success. Once of the things I found that helped very quickly was the DCC system (Distributed Checksum Clearing). They store

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 25 August 2005 23:41, Jonathan Wright wrote: Once of the things I found that helped very quickly was the DCC system (Distributed Checksum Clearing). They store the checksum of all know spam mails. Once I enabled that, my level of false spam went down massively. I very rarely get

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
This works very well, though it can be set too zealous (as warned about in the spamassassin section) so needs checking of the trap directories every few days. http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=tct=rescd=1url=http% 3A//www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xmlei=o3kOQ5urCqesYbf74OoE BillK On Fri,