Spamassassin seems to have become more-or-less non-functional in use with KMail on my server. It appears to be running OK, but only catches about 20% of my spam.
I wonder if others have experienced this decline?
I suspect that sa-learn is not performing properly. (I run sa-learn nightly on my spam, which is saved in ~/Maildir/.Spam/cur/ , through the default spamassassin installation.)
Eg I receive more or less identical spam many times without it being caught.
Also, about 35% of the spam that gets through is in foreign languates - Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish - and it would help if I could get rid of this. I read up about catching such email in spamassassin, but did not understand exactly what changes are required.
One difficultly I have is that there seem many places where one can make changes in spamassassin settings. Am I right in thinking that all such changes can be made in .spamassassin/user_prefs ?
What should I put in this file to change the score for eg 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
On 08/31/2012 04:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
It appears to be running OK, but only catches about 20% of my spam.
If you have old rules and as far as spam evolves, that situation is "fair"
I wonder if others have experienced this decline?
No.
I suspect that sa-learn is not performing properly. (I run sa-learn nightly on my spam, which is saved in ~/Maildir/.Spam/cur/ , through the default spamassassin installation.)
- how old is the Spam to feed sa-learn with? - what weight do you give to bayesean detection?
Eg I receive more or less identical spam many times without it being caught.
Also, about 35% of the spam that gets through is in foreign languates - Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish -
Those are local langages for some...
One difficultly I have is that there seem many places where one can make changes in spamassassin settings. Am I right in thinking that all such changes can be made in .spamassassin/user_prefs ?
Seems OK
What should I put in this file to change the score for eg 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%
Advices: - SA can be asked to report the scores in one header: make it reports and analyze the scoring - SA has a mailingg list you could also trigger in order to help
On 2012-08-31 at 17:57:01 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
On 08/31/2012 04:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Also, about 35% of the spam that gets through is in foreign languates - Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish -
Those are local langages for some...
Unfortunately you don't say what "..." stands for. If it stands for users, you are right.
But Timothy's statement is about a program. And it's a matter of fact that the languages mentioned above had been neglected by programmers in the past. It was a stony way to get to UTF-8, for example, because too many programmers believed that ISO-8859 is sufficient for everyone.
And Timothy only said what he observed with no discrimination in mind.
Regards, Reinhard
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