MailScanner Digest, Vol 53, Issue 8

[arun gupta]

> Dear Sir,


As per said by you i am pasting one spam mail

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From: cdac.in support <pd at cdac.in>

To: pd at cdac.in

Subject: setting for your mailbox pd at cdac.in are
changed



SMTP and POP3 servers for pd at cdac.in mailbox are changed. Please carefully
read the attached instructions before updating
settings.



http://mamapapabrat.googlegroups.com/web/setup.zip


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I tried at least 100 times this type of spam mail to spamassassin through
sa-learn but spamassassin caught as spam after 3 days, please give the some
inputs.

-- 
   With Regards,
   Arun Kumar Gupta
   System Administrator
   C-DAC  Pune
   INDIA

>
> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 15:39 +0530, arun gupta wrote:
> > Dear
> > Sir,
> >
> > I am using MailScanner-4.69 and SpamAssassin version 3.2.4, when
> > I
> > received any spam mail and MailScanner not able to caught as spam,
> > then
> > I
> > teach manually through 'sa-learn' command, but it does not teach as
> > spam
> > immediately, it takes 2 to 3 days, please help me regarding the
> > same.
> >
>
>
> Arun,
>
> Firstly, You should upgrade your SA version. The newer SA is definitely
> a lot better.
>
> Also sa-learn is no magic bullet. This can only feed your spams to
> bayes.  If the spam is still skipping through you might have to check
> the actual rules.
>
> Post a full spam on a pastebin and refer it here .
> You might get some useful inputs on what to check.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ram
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:47:14 -0400
> From: "Naz Snidanko" <nsnidanko at harperpowerproducts.com>
> Subject: RE: regarding training of ham and spam to spamassassin
> To: <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Message-ID:
>        <9453A32CAC9FFB4D8F59285E34B6A5062669 at hotc_exch.harperotc.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi Arun,
>
>
>
> Spamassassin starts using bayes database after you "feed" it over 200
> Spam and 200 Ham emails.
>
>
>
> To check if bayes are working please run the following command:
>
>
>
> spamassassin -lint -D
>
>
>
> And look for the following that will say something along these lines:
>
>
>
>  [11363] dbg: bayes: not available for scanning, only 105 ham(s) in
> bayes DB < 200
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Naz Snidanko
>
> Desktop & Network Support
>
> Harper Power Products Inc.
>
> (p) 416 201- 7506
>
> nsnidanko at harperpowerproducts.com
>
>
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