Scanning for Spam

yossi mor yossimor at hotmail.com
Sat Feb 10 00:50:13 CET 2007


Hi Greg,
 
What should i do in case that the mail box on the exchange? Can i simply copy those emails to a folder on a linux machine and run sa-learn?
 
Thanks,
 
Yossi



> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:17:10 -0500> From: gborders at jlewiscooper.com> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info> Subject: Re: Scanning for Spam> > DAve wrote:> > am.lists wrote:> >>> I also meant to point out that your Bayes was only hitting 50% which > >>> add> >>> nothing to the score. Start feeding these emails into the Bayes> >>> learning system, and it will start to match these emails.> >>> >> So, I guess that's the question.> >>> >> Is there a way to make Bayes learn this when it's not currently > >> tagged as spam?> >> > There are many many ways to make that happen depending on your > > network, your policies, your users. We simply keep messages that we > > feel are spam and once a day I ftp the mailbox up to my MS servers and > > run sa-learn on them.> >> > I can run through our Postmaster mailboxes and gleen 50 a day easily > > (we have no spam scanning on postmaster or abuse). A simplistic > > approach, but so far seems to be working. We may have to get serious > > about it farther down the road.> >> > DAve> >> >>> >> PS: I did get the additional SARE rules added to my rdj config. I hope> >> the admins over there don't ban me since I've downloaded some files> >> than 1x/day today. :-/> >>> >> Angelo> >> >> Here I made a "spam" mail box, and created SYM links to it for users > within their mail folders. As folks find spam that leak thru, they drag > it over the "universal" spam box, and then I feed them via a daily cron > job to sa-learn script which reads them, and then deletes them.> > Also handy is the Mailwatch interface, where I can run searches/reports, > and then checkbox the bad ones for instant SA learning. Works great!> > Greg.> > > > > --> This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential> and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the> intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying,> distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any> reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission> in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in> its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you.> > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is> believed to be clean.> > -- > MailScanner mailing list> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner> > Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting> > Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website! 
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