Sorry for the naive question, but how do I get Spamassassin to judge my emails? I've had spamassassin running for a month or so now, and find the default setup to be quite good. Still, some spam gets thru, and I know there is a way to select which emails are spam and which are ham using the baysean filter. But I'm not sure how to do this. Running suse 10.0, mostly dvd packages (kde if that matters). Many thanks, Jim Flanagan
Jim Flanagan wrote:
Still, some spam gets thru, and I know there is a way to select which emails are spam and which are ham using the baysean filter. But I'm not sure how to do this.
A better place to ask is probably on one of the spamassassin lists, but the basic idea is you train the bayes database using known spam and known nonspam. After that you tell spamassassin to use the database to determine a probability of an email being spam. Spamassassin also has some auto-learning features and such. The actual method of training may vary - in some instances, using train-on-error is preferable to e.g. just training a standard corpus of 100K emails. /Per Jessen, Zürich
Jim Flanagan wrote:
Sorry for the naive question, but how do I get Spamassassin to judge my emails? I've had spamassassin running for a month or so now, and find the default setup to be quite good. Still, some spam gets thru, and I know there is a way to select which emails are spam and which are ham using the baysean filter. But I'm not sure how to do this. Running suse 10.0, mostly dvd packages (kde if that matters).
Take a look at "Rules Du Jour": http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour This way you can use additional custom SpamAssassin rules to tag spam (mostly SARE rules from http://www.rulesemporium.com/). If you run your own mail server, you should also set up some sort of RBL (Real Time Blackhole List) service, so that spam from known sources is blocked at SMTP level and doesn't get to your mailbox at all. robert
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:12:19 -0600, you wrote:
Sorry for the naive question, but how do I get Spamassassin to judge my emails? I've had spamassassin running for a month or so now, and find the default setup to be quite good. Still, some spam gets thru, and I know there is a way to select which emails are spam and which are ham using the baysean filter. But I'm not sure how to do this. Running suse 10.0, mostly dvd packages (kde if that matters).
Many thanks,
Jim Flanagan
Subscribe to the spamassassin mailing list and check out the spamassassin web site. www.spamassassin.apache.org Mike- Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:12:19 -0600
Jim Flanagan
and I know there is a way to select which emails are spam and which are ham using the baysean filter. But I'm not sure how to do this. Running suse 10.0, mostly dvd packages (kde if that matters).
man sa-learn Charles -- I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate revenue. (Dave '-ddt->` Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux)
Hi! Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 06:12 schrieb Jim Flanagan:
using the baysean filter. But I'm not sure how to do this. Running suse 10.0, mostly dvd packages (kde if that matters).
If you use Kmail, you can use its assistant to setup filter-rules that pipe spam-email that got through, through spamassasin. Sven
Sven Burmeister wrote:
Hi!
Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 06:12 schrieb Jim Flanagan:
using the baysean filter. But I'm not sure how to do this. Running suse 10.0, mostly dvd packages (kde if that matters).
If you use Kmail, you can use its assistant to setup filter-rules that pipe spam-email that got through, through spamassasin.
Sven
Thanks everyone for your good pointers. I'll tweak SA per your suggestions. I am running postfix as my mail server, using Cyrus IMAP. Jim
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:05 am, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 06:12 schrieb Jim Flanagan:
using the baysean filter. But I'm not sure how to do this. Running suse 10.0, mostly dvd packages (kde if that matters).
If you use Kmail, you can use its assistant to setup filter-rules that pipe spam-email that got through, through spamassasin.
Now if kmail were using imap mailboxes on the server, then any read mail still in the "spam" box, would be good learning material. Is there a way to set this up? -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.
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