Do not scan outgoing messages for spam

[Devin Henderson]

Hugo,

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "train your bayesian database
for your network". I use a squirrelmail plugin for marking spam and
ham with sa-learn. What else do I need to do to train spamassassin for
my network ?

Devin


On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Hugo van der Kooij
<hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
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> Devin Henderson wrote:
> | To everyone:
> |
> | Thanks for your ideas and information on this. A couple things I
> | wanted to mention:
> |
> | There really is no "spaminess" to the outgoing mail that is being
> | marked as spam. We are a large irrigation equipment distributor and
> | engineering firm and unless words like sprinkler, valve, pipe and
> | quote are considered spammy there is no "spaminess" here (unless one
> | of my users has selected tons of legitimate irrigation emails and
> | marked them as Spam through sa-learn). I suspect one of the reasons
> | this is happening is because I have my spam score variables very low
> | because of the inability in the past of my spam filter to successfully
> | catch all of the spam we get (we've got a one dictionary word domain,
> | maybe that is one cause for so much spam). Currently my Required
> | SpamAssassin Score is 2 and my High SpamAssasin Score is 5. Since
> | adding spamhaus blacklists to my config this has improved and I think
> | it may be time to raise the spam score levels up to a more standard
> | level but I'm still receiving some mail that to *me* appears to be
> | very obvious spam but either receives a score of 1 or has no score and
> | is simply marked 'Found to be clean' and X-Spam-Status: No.
>
> The obvious answer is that you have not trained your bayesian database
> for your network. That is something you MUST do if you want to detect
> spam correctly.
>
> Hugo.
>
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>        A: Yes.
>        >Q: Are you sure?
>        >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>        >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
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