<sarcasm> Sounds like it's easier to just get rid of the girlfriend! </sarcasm>
All sarcasm aside, SURBL and SA together have diminished my unwanted volume quite hastily. The rules emporium rulesets have been quite helpful, as well. (my wife complains if any SPAM gets through, or any FPs happen at all). :( Steven -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Lenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:02 PM To: Spamassassin Users Subject: Re: my girlfriend is getting ticked :) On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:45 -0500, Tim Donahue wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 15:27 -0600, Matthew Lenz wrote: > [snip spam info] > > Ideas where to start (other than having her change her email address > > hehe) > > It doesn't look like you are using any of the SARE rulesets. There are > 3 things I would do to start off... First, assuming that the 5000 > messages that you classified as spam have been verified to actually be > spam, I would run them through sa_learn so that bayes can learn from its > mistakes. She gets this volume of spam regularly and I have run all her good (-- ham), spam (--spam, to teach it what its doing correctly) and missed spam (--spam) at least a dozen times on new data. It doesn't help, in fact its gotten worse. > Second, if you haven't done so already, I would decrease the score that > is assigned to the rule ALL_TRUSTED. My false negatives were helped > greatly from this. I've never messed with any of the settings before. Is this something I have to do in the /etc/spamassassin/local.cf ? > Finally, I would look at using some of the SARE rulesets and SURBL. You > may want to take a look at the Other Rules page as well, several > rulesets on that page (especially backhair.cf, chickenpox.cf, weeds.cf, > and 99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf) do a wonderful job at pushing those spams that > are on the border over to the tagged/deleted side. This is my current /etc/spamassassin/init.pre: loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF If they help, why aren't they included with spamassassin by default? SA used to work awesome for me until I upgraded to the 3.x series. Have spammers just figured out how to get around everything since then? :) I only used my GF's email as an example. I'll get spam from the same sender with similar subject lines quite often. 10 of them will match as spam and one seemingly very similar spam will not get caught. > Tim Donahue
