Re: Newbie questions

2004-07-25 Thread Matt Yackley
nadim said: > Hi, Just installed SA on a postfix system. I also use Razor. I have 4.0 as a > threshold. > > I usually get around 100 spam a day. it used to take me 15-30s to delete them > but lately I couldn't delete them everyday and that makes it a bit more > complicated to find the ham. > > I've

Re: Newbie questions

2004-07-25 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 25 July 2004 02:30 pm, nadim wrote: No you should expect to catch about 98% in my expierence/ > RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET, >         RCVD_IN_DSBL,RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no > version=2.63 The fact that these rcvd rules showed up ONLY when you ran it again suggests all

spamd.sh restart (stop) fails in debug mode on FreeBSD

2004-07-25 Thread Chris Pepper
Folks, I'm having trouble with spamd's -u option on FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE, and so tried turning -D on in rc.conf, but "spamd.sh restart" fails when spamd is running in debug mode ("spamd.sh stop" has the same failure). Has anyone else seen this problem, either on FreeBSD or elsewhere?

Newbie questions

2004-07-25 Thread nadim
Hi, Just installed SA on a postfix system. I also use Razor. I have 4.0 as a threshold. I usually get around 100 spam a day. it used to take me 15-30s to delete them but lately I couldn't delete them everyday and that makes it a bit more complicated to find the ham. I've looked at the FAQ b

Re: further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 05:31:35 -0700, "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just reading their summary, I think it is nice research, but not > really useful. The correlation method seems like a good idea. > Except as they point out it makes granite flow look swift. So not > actually useful

Re: further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread Loren Wilton
Just reading their summary, I think it is nice research, but not really useful. The correlation method seems like a good idea. Except as they point out it makes granite flow look swift. So not actually useful at this point intime, but it should be kept in mind. On their second point with html, t

Re: further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread LuKreme
On 25 Jul 2004, at 03:58, John Andersen wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:45 pm, Lucas Albers wrote: The article states The HTML Test: Most people do not send messages in HTML and there are many good reasons for this -- What planet does that writer live on? The estimates I've seen are that at lea

Re: further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:45 pm, Lucas Albers wrote: The article states > The HTML Test: Most people do not send messages in HTML and there are many > good reasons for this -- What planet does that writer live on? The estimates I've seen are that at least 70% of mail users send html, especially

Re: further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread Lucas Albers
Justin Mason said: > Well, we already do the second, and I think it's in 2.6x too (HTML_90_100 > et al). > > We took a look at the first one a while back, but it was very slow. > I wonder if these guys have any more info on their success rate > with it? >>compression/entropy test: For each new m

Re: further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread Lucas Albers
Found another spam detection algorithm: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-db/software/ties/text-class-exp.html description below: Before normalization: 1. Number of errors on the last 10x500 mails 2. False negatives (spam misclassified as nonspam) on the last 10x500 mails 3. False positives (n

Re: further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread Rakesh
Lucas, The concept seems to be interesting, but BrightMail one of the biggest Spam Control company, uses a combination of these two tests (Entropy and HTML test). Which they call it as BrightSig2 technology and is unfortunately patented. In the technology, when a mail comes in it is first clear

Re: further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lucas Albers writes: > This webpage: > http://lynx.auton.cs.cmu.edu/~agoode/spam/spam > > Mentions two other spamassassin algorithms for spam detecting in addition > to the current ones. Well, we already do the second, and I think it's in 2.6x too (

further spam detection algorithms

2004-07-25 Thread Lucas Albers
This webpage: http://lynx.auton.cs.cmu.edu/~agoode/spam/spam Mentions two other spamassassin algorithms for spam detecting in addition to the current ones. Ideas on whether they are worthwhile? " With Professor Atkeson's spam problem in mind, we devised the following tests: The compression/entrop

New user trying to sort out a problem

2004-07-25 Thread Postmaster
I am using a shared server which has Spam Assassin 2.61 installed through Control Panel. So my only access is the user config file. I wanted to change some scores to hit specific spam I am getting but in analysing the messages going through I have come to the following conclusions: 1. When I have

Re: OT: Upgrading postfix to support greylisting (was: Massive Load Issues...)

2004-07-25 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Gary Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anyways, do you have a link to postgrey? You can find it at: http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/ Bill

Re: Quick start guide for CPAN

2004-07-25 Thread LuKreme
--On Saturday, 24 July 2004 09:22 +1200 Tom Munro Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What should you do on FreeBSD if you have already installed various perl modules by other methods, specifically using portinstall/portupgrade? Should those packages be removed with pkg_deinstall and then reinstall

RE: OT: Upgrading postfix to support greylisting (was: Massive Load Issues...)

2004-07-25 Thread Gary Smith
Robin, I tried mailing you directly but my T1 is showing up on your end as a Dynamic/Direct to MX error. Not sure why but I think that you have a slight config problem... Anyways, do you have a link to postgrey? Gary Smith -Original Message- From: Robin Lynn Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0.0-pre3 is released!

2004-07-25 Thread Florin Andrei
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:30, Florin Andrei wrote: > So, if i'm using Cyrus-IMAPd and run SpamAssassin from amavisd-ng, how > do i configure per-user setings and bayes databases with SA-3.0.0? Nevermind, i RTFM'd it, the info is in the tarball in the sql dir. Sorry. -- Florin Andrei http://flo

RE: Filtering with Procmail before it goes to spamassassin.

2004-07-25 Thread Dan Kohn
This is a bad idea. Most spam comes from forged addresses, and your understandable attempt to warn that you're deleting mail can result in a distributed denial of service attack against an innocent user (see Joe Job). Either bounce at the MTA, or if you can't do that, drop the mail on the floor.

Re: OT: Upgrading postfix to support greylisting (was: Massive Load Issues...)

2004-07-25 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Saturday 24 July 2004 16:18, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bob Apthorpe wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:33:21 -0400 "Scot L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Implement greylisting, it will reduce the number of spam messages that > > > spamassas