Spamassassin: Best Practices

2007-04-23 Thread Pradeep Mishra
Hello Friends I am a newbie on spamassassin and would like to know.. 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. 2) Some really Best Practices for implementing and running Spamassassin. Thanks for all your efforts.

PNG vurnability

2007-04-23 Thread WiNK / Bor
Hi Guys, Not sure if this is the right list to ask it, but lots of people with knowledge about it, how serious is the PNG file treat, i noticed it is default denied by mailscanner. However i got some designers behind my mailscanner, which also want receive png files? So i know i can

RE: PNG vurnability

2007-04-23 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Rob Might be worthwhile moving this to the MailScanner list as it's nothing to do with SA per sa. But what version of MailScanner are you running, as I can't see anything that would block png files by default. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865

RE: Spamassassin: Best Practices

2007-04-23 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
Pradeep Mishra wrote: Hello Friends I am a newbie on spamassassin and would like to know.. 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. 2) Some really Best Practices for implementing and running Spamassassin.

Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices

2007-04-23 Thread Mike Jackson
1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. That depends on your MTA. Some make it easy (Postfix), some make it difficult (Sendmail), some you just shouldn't be using (Qmail). (That last one was a joke, people.) 2)

Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices

2007-04-23 Thread maillist
Pradeep Mishra wrote: Hello Friends I am a newbie on spamassassin and would like to know.. 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. 2) Some really Best Practices for implementing and running Spamassassin. Thanks

Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices

2007-04-23 Thread Phil Barnett
On Monday 23 April 2007 03:35, Pradeep Mishra wrote: Hello Friends I am a newbie on spamassassin and would like to know.. 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. What do you figure your outbound spam to ham

Newbie Questions.

2007-04-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been using SA for a number of years now, but have not had enough time to become intimate with some of its finer points. Current Setup is: FreeBSD 6.2 SA-3.1.8 Exim 4.63 I am using spamd/spamc pair. The setup if a virtual pop3 mailbox, as routed through exim. Exim receives the

Re: Newbie Questions.

2007-04-23 Thread Rajkumar S
On 4/23/07, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. Dare I ask if some wants to summerize the Razor installation process? http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RazorSiteWide This works for me. raj

Bayes Question

2007-04-23 Thread Craig
Hello All- My bayes database seems to have problems and I would like suggestion on how to correct. Here is my issue- I take any spam email from my users and run the following commands a. spamassassin -R name of spam file to check b. spamassassin -r name of spam file to check c. sa-learn

RE: Newbie Questions.

2007-04-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Grant Peel wrote: 1. sa-update. After wrestling with a number of required modules, I ran sa-update with the --checkonly option, but it did not return any messages. I then ran it using only the switch --updatedir. It created a couple of what appear to be accounting files, and a new

Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices

2007-04-23 Thread Kelson
Mike Jackson wrote: 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. That depends on your MTA. Some make it easy (Postfix), some make it difficult (Sendmail), some you just shouldn't be using (Qmail). (That last one was a

ANNOUNCE: Update of ZMI_GERMAN ruleset

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
The ruleset for filtering german language SPAMs, ZMI_GERMAN, has just been updated and released. It filters stock pump dump advertisings, as well as some new porn sites. The ruleset is available via rules_du_jour, or via Update Channel 70_zmi_german.cf.zmi.sa-update.dostech.net (to be used

Re: Newbie Questions.

2007-04-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi Bowie, Thanks for taking the time to answer! Please read comments below: - Original Message - From: Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 1:14 PM Subject: RE: Newbie Questions. Grant Peel wrote: 1. sa-update. After

RE: Newbie Questions.

2007-04-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Grant Peel wrote: From: Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grant Peel wrote: 1. sa-update. After wrestling with a number of required modules, I ran sa-update with the --checkonly option, but it did not return any messages. I then ran it using only the switch --updatedir. It

Score Generation for Apache SpamAssassin

2007-04-23 Thread Duncan Findlay
Hi everybody, As you may already know, Steven Birk and I have been working on our 4th year undergraduate project in Math and Engineering at Queen's University. The goal of our project was to examine the use of logistic regression as a potential replacement for the Perceptron/GA currently used by

Re: Newbie Questions.

2007-04-23 Thread Grant Peel
Bowie, Thanks yet again. Please see below. - Original Message - From: Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 5:16 PM Subject: RE: Newbie Questions. Grant Peel wrote: From: Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grant Peel wrote:

R: Score Generation for Apache SpamAssassin

2007-04-23 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: Duncan Findlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...omissis... (Then again, it might just be boring.) It didn't seem this to me. It smells like a good work and I'm interested in seeing the true results against the 1M messages corpus. I'm just a SA user, but let

Don't want hatfield.com to send mail to mccoy.com - can /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf help?

2007-04-23 Thread John Schmerold
SA is protecting 20 domains from evil, I want to keep 2 domains from communicating with one another, I believe local.cf can help resolve this for me, if I can figure out how to do: scoreLOCAL__H_M 50.00 header LOCAL__H_M From =~ /hatfield\.com/i .and. header LOCAL__H_M To =~

Re: Bayes Question

2007-04-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Craig wrote: Hello All- My bayes database seems to have problems and I would like suggestion on how to correct. Here is my issue- I take any spam email from my users and run the following commands a. spamassassin -R name of spam file to check b. spamassassin -r name of spam file to check

Re: Don't want hatfield.com to send mail to mccoy.com - can /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf help?

2007-04-23 Thread Matt Kettler
John Schmerold wrote: SA is protecting 20 domains from evil, I want to keep 2 domains from communicating with one another, I believe local.cf can help resolve this for me, if I can figure out how to do: scoreLOCAL__H_M 50.00 header LOCAL__H_M From =~ /hatfield\.com/i .and. header

Re: Don't want hatfield.com to send mail to mccoy.com - can /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf help?

2007-04-23 Thread John Schmerold
Matt: Thanks, this worked exactly as expected.