MS % rate of catch

[Derek Winkler]

If it's called rules_du_jour.txt that's most likely because you downloaded
it with Windows.

It should be just "rules_du_jour".

I good location to put it is /usr/local/bin.

You don't use spamd when using MailScannner.

Change this command to the command used to restart MailScanner, possibly
/etc/init.d/MailScanner restart. I just set mine to "true" and just do the
regular MailScanner restart, by default every 4 hours I believe,
configurable in MailScanner.conf.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:39 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MS % rate of catch
>
>
> Awesome,
> I am configuring it now having a little trouble.  A lot of my newbness
> is again because I don't use Linux that often, and will hopefully soon
> be familiar with it.
>
> Will you tell me this:
>
> It doesn't state where to put the rules_du_jour.txt file.  I could
> assume the spamassassin rules directory or possibly this line "The
> crontab line above runs /root/bin/rules_du_jour"
>
> Also on the spamd restart process.  I can't get the command
> to work.  I
> think it would be ="/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin restart" but it
> doesn't work when I type it out, and the direcoties exists in
> that path
> except for the spamassassin directory.
>
> Thank you
> Billy Pumphrey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Derek Winkler
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:21 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MS % rate of catch
>
> It does some other ones but for some reason doesn't mention
> them up top.
>
> Look at the arrays for further rules.
>
> I get a lot of hits on BLACKLIST_URI. I also use RANDOMVAL and
> BOGUSVIRUS.
>
> We only use BOGUSVIRUS because the support calls from users, "I got an
> email
> that says I have a virus. What should I do?", get very tiresome.
>
> Keep in mind that the use of more and more custom rulesets increases
> memory
> usage of each MailScanner process.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:19 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: MS % rate of catch
> >
> >
> > Good information.  On the rulesdujour script, I see that it
> > only updates
> > "BIGEVIL TRIPWIRE ANTIDRUG EVILNUMBERS" <-- those.  What
> > about the rest?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:05 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: MS % rate of catch
> >
> > Billy
> > check out the rules emporiam (www.rulesemporiam.com) and the Custom
> > Rules sets
> (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets). This
> > will increase your hit rate quite a bit.
> >
> > You'll need to add these rules into /etc/mail/spamassassin and then
> > restart MailScanner. Make sure the rule files are world readable.
> >
> > It's also very worthwhile training the bayes DB - there's
> > plenty on the
> > spamassassin web site about this.
> >
> > Also worth watching the SA users email list for new/updates
> > to the rules
> > and possibly using the rulesdujour script to automatically pull down
> > updates. The spammers are constantly finding new ways of
> > getting around
> > SA so it's almost a requirement to keep up to date on these.
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >
> >
> > Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> > > Does this seem a little off or about right?
> > >
> > > Out of 110 spam messages, this is what MS did:
> > >
> > > 38 passed through as NOT spam
> > > 72 passed through as spam
> > >
> > > That is about a 65% rate.
> > >
> > > Here are my spamassassin score levels:
> > > Required SpamAssassin Score = 6
> > > High SpamAssassin Score = 7.2
> > >
> > > Or is that about right?  I did have the required score on
> > 5, but I put
> > > it on 6.
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > Billy Pumphrey
> >
> >
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