Hi, I am using KMAIL on SuSE10.1 and still getting sick each day of big amount of spam. I have created special mailbox in KMail (in mbox format), where I am collecting all junk. Then after some time, I am run: sa-learn --spam --sync --showdots --mbox /home/andrei/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/zzz-DefineSpam The spam database seem to be updated. But later I have the same junk messages NOT filtered by Spamassassin. Anyone have a clue how to remedy situation. I am using Apple Mail at work (with the same incomming mail addresses), and the number of spam at Apple Mail left in inbox is definitely lower than in KMail. Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s)
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 15:54, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi,
I am using KMAIL on SuSE10.1 and still getting sick each day of big amount of spam. I have created special mailbox in KMail (in mbox format), where I am collecting all junk.
Then after some time, I am run:
sa-learn --spam --sync --showdots --mbox /home/andrei/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/zzz-DefineSpam
The spam database seem to be updated. But later I have the same junk messages NOT filtered by Spamassassin. Anyone have a clue how to remedy situation.
Lower the score needed for spam. Learn more often. Seems every so often they figure a new way around the rules and I'll get a bunch of spam. If you wait days to learn the new spam it'll keep coming in. Nick
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 11:54, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi,
I am using KMAIL on SuSE10.1 and still getting sick each day of big amount of spam. I have created special mailbox in KMail (in mbox format), where I am collecting all junk.
Then after some time, I am run:
sa-learn --spam --sync --showdots --mbox /home/andrei/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/zzz-DefineSpam
Are you running network tests? Suse by default turns these off. Network tests are VERY effective at killing lots of spam, but they do make a little more traffic on your internet connection. If you see -L in the spamassassin parameters or spamd parms you are only doing local tests, regardless of what your /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf says. Surf on over to source forge and download razor2. Install that and follow all the configuration steps. Also, as usual, Suse will not upgrade Spamassassin on anywhere near the normal release cycle. (SA 3.1.5 was released today). Usually only security fixes are applied, although last time they actually bumped the version number rather than just patch the old. Once you get up to 3.1.3 (I think), you want to also schedule a sa-update daily as there are new capabilities for updating things that spammers invent on the fly without waiting for a new release. Lately I've been letting SuSE install spamassassin, and then I un-install it with yast, and install the current one via cpan. This way, yast will install most, if not all of the necessary perl modules for me, saving the time in cpan. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Wednesday, 30 August 2006 21:54, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s)
Andrei, I use bogofilter that seems to do its job almost perfectly. Simple and easy. I recommend you to try. All the best to you, dear neighbor, -- Marek Chlopek
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Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) -
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Nick Zentena