Tuning SpamAssassin

[Francesco <sp...@colliniconsulting.it>]

Hello,

i have set 5.0 points score in local.cf file, but i still receive lots of
spam.

I would like to know if every of the test listed in
http://eu.spamassassin.org/tests.html is run or if i have manually to enable
all test in my local.cf site-wide configuration file.

I also would like to know, if i use the autolearn feature, how can correctly
send a message from OutLook Express preserving the oringinal headers.

Thank you in advance for your interest, best regards.

Francesco Collini
(from Italy)

Re: Tuning SpamAssassin

[Paolo Cravero as2594 <pc...@as2594.net>]

harald@deppeler.org wrote:

Hi from another Notes user :-(

> our LN6 clients offer a "source view" (menu: View->Show->Page Source).
> this allows you to pull the message for re-learning. you'll probably want

Good one! Didn't know about that. Too bad we're still using LN5 here.

> LN5 clients don't offer the source view (at least not at our
> environment).

Lotus Domino server can also provide an IMAP access to mail databases 
(they have first to be "converted" from plain LN format to IMAP 
support). Domino IMAP server is disabled per default.

Just remember: if you forward a message in Notes, all headers (and more) 
are gone!

HTH
Paolo

Re: Tuning SpamAssassin

[ha...@deppeler.org]

i'm no notes specialist, just a notes user (at work).
however, i interactively re-learn messages as follows:

our LN6 clients offer a "source view" (menu: View->Show->Page Source).
this allows you to pull the message for re-learning. you'll probably want
to edit a couple of those headers, such as the "serialize" info,
especially, if your spamassassin engine is a gateway 'in front of' the
notes mail server(s).

LN5 clients don't offer the source view (at least not at our
environment).

possibly, you can use perl to extract the source view automatically and
without manual interaction.

cheers - harry


On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:04:47PM -0500, Adam Beatham wrote:
> on a somewhat similar note.. does anyone know how to pull a message from
> ~ Lotus Notes for purposes of re-learning as spam/ham?
> 
> -adam
> 
> on 2/9/2004 5:01 PM Matt Kettler said the following:
> sufficient amount of spam/ham be trained through the sa-learn tool.
> >
> >
> >>I also would like to know, if i use the autolearn feature, how can 
> >>correctly
> >>send a message from OutLook Express preserving the oringinal headers.
> >
> >
> >I know NOTHING about OE, however, many have suggested the "resend" 
> >feature works
> >http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/SiteWideBayesFeedback
> 

Re: Tuning SpamAssassin

[Adam Beatham <sp...@backboard.org>]

on a somewhat similar note.. does anyone know how to pull a message from
~ Lotus Notes for purposes of re-learning as spam/ham?

-adam

on 2/9/2004 5:01 PM Matt Kettler said the following:
sufficient amount of spam/ham be trained through the sa-learn tool.
> 
> 
>> I also would like to know, if i use the autolearn feature, how can 
>> correctly
>> send a message from OutLook Express preserving the oringinal headers.
> 
> 
> I know NOTHING about OE, however, many have suggested the "resend" 
> feature works
> http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/SiteWideBayesFeedback

Re: Tuning SpamAssassin

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 04:44 PM 2/9/2004, Francesco wrote:
>I would like to know if every of the test listed in
>http://eu.spamassassin.org/tests.html is run or if i have manually to enable
>all test in my local.cf site-wide configuration file.

That's a list of the default rules...

All of them are run, however, a few of them may be disabled depending on 
what's installed on your system.

         DCC_CHECK - requires dcc to be installed
         RAZOR* - requires razor to be installed
         PYZOR* - requires pyzor

         RCVD_IN_* requries the perl module Net::DNS to be installed

         BAYES_* requires that bayes be enabled in your configuration AND a 
sufficient amount of spam/ham be trained through the sa-learn tool.


>I also would like to know, if i use the autolearn feature, how can correctly
>send a message from OutLook Express preserving the oringinal headers.

I know NOTHING about OE, however, many have suggested the "resend" feature 
works
http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/SiteWideBayesFeedback

Also, you appear to be confusing "autolearn" with non-automatic bayes 
learning.

Autolearn is just that.. automatic.. you don't do anything at all, sa 
decides for itself if it should learn the message as they come in. You 
don't resend, redirect, or anything else for autolearning to occur.

Manual learning (ie: setting up a script to feed messages to sa-learn) is 
when you might need to resend a message.