... It would be interesting how you will try to "figure out a way to bless stuff that I know is ham" out of all the incoming e-mails. Perhaps you'd like to...
Odhiambo G. Washington
wash@...
Oct 1, 2005 8:12 am
85482
... But that's what SA does - learns what's spam and what's ham by Bayesian analysis. I'd have thought any attempt to do this up front would end up duplicating...
Peter Bowyer
peeebeee@...
Oct 1, 2005 8:46 am
85483
... Probably yes, it he does it as stated by the OP, i.e., "find ham" rather than as you (Peter) suggest ... Yes, other than whitelisting, the way that really ...
Herb Martin
HerbM@...
Oct 1, 2005 9:19 am
85484
... And they are likely correct too: in reviewing SpamD (spamassassin) logs the softfail is almost always 100% spam. The key is to not reject on this criteria...
Herb Martin
HerbM@...
Oct 1, 2005 9:32 am
85485
I do not thing thet whitelisting is good, there are a lot of viruses that come that way. blacklisting is more effective, and han no false positive. even...
Leonardo Boselli
leo@...
Oct 1, 2005 12:22 pm
85486
On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:12:48 +0200, Florian Weimer <fw@...> ... lsearch does already exist. The only thing is that the single-key lookup is not...
Marc Haber
mh+exim-users@...
Oct 1, 2005 12:51 pm
85487
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:40:18 -0700, "Fred Viles" ... I appreciate your thinking farther than I was. The authenticator now reads: #...
Marc Haber
mh+exim-users@...
Oct 1, 2005 12:55 pm
85488
I need help to make a autoreply to a inexistents users retry. Example: mail from: <bogusmaillist@domain> ... OK rcpt to: <unknow@mydomain> 550 User not...
Silmar A. Marca
marca@...
Oct 1, 2005 2:52 pm
85489
... I know SA does that but SA is very processor and resource hungry. One of the tricks I use to process the volume of email that I do is to avoid using SA...
Marc Perkel
marc@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:00 pm
85490
... Whitelisting for (avoiding) virus scans is hard to defend, but one doesn't have to whitelist for virus scan to whitelist for spam scans. For instance, with...
Herb Martin
HerbM@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:10 pm
85491
Maybe you could generate a fingerprint based on the first X lines of the email and match? Mail comes in, first 20 lines generate 20 md5 fingerprints. You ...
Lanny Jason Godsey
lannygodsey@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:13 pm
85492
... The point of all this is to avoid using Spam Assassin on known ham because running through SA ads 100x load to the system for that message. I'll call it...
Marc Perkel
marc@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:19 pm
85493
The MD5 fingerprint is an interesting idea. Probably just concatinate specific fields like the From: header and the host it was received from. If the message...
Marc Perkel
marc@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:31 pm
85494
... <snip> ... I am doing this and cannot disagree with you for sure -- if one rejects 90% of spam before SpamAssassin or other 'learning' filters even see it...
Herb Martin
HerbM@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:40 pm
85495
... You really need to use at least the "doublet" who and received from or even the "triplet" used by greylisting: sending_server/From/RCPT If you take a look...
Herb Martin
HerbM@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:46 pm
85496
Hello, I a trying to configure ClamAV (0.87-0) for Exim (4.50-8) on Debian Sarge. I added the follwong line to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template: av_scanner =...
oliver@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:55 pm
85497
Hi again, check if you are using exim-ligh or exim-heavy and also i provide my own howto: http://www.surestorm.com/MAIL/ Best regards, jonathan ... -- ## List...
jonathan gonzalez
jonathangf@...
Oct 1, 2005 4:05 pm
85498
... Do you use the AWL feature of SA? If so, you could have exim query that db directly before calling SA. It'll at least save the time it takes to contact...
Michael Sprague
mfs@...
Oct 1, 2005 4:31 pm
85499
... Thats a good suggestion - I might look into that -- Marc Perkel - marc@... Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog:...
Marc Perkel
marc@...
Oct 1, 2005 6:52 pm
85500
Hi, I am new to Exim. I have a VPS that has two domains hosted there. I have been told that I could use smtp_active_hostname to have each send and receive...
edwarner99@...
Oct 1, 2005 7:45 pm
85501
... apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy. Greetings Marc -- ... Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |...
Marc Haber
mh+exim-users@...
Oct 1, 2005 9:10 pm
85502
... Any chance you know how to do that? -- Marc Perkel - marc@... Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com -- ## List...
Marc Perkel
marc@...
Oct 1, 2005 9:21 pm
85503
On 1 Oct 2005 at 11:50, Silmar A. Marca wrote about ... IMHO, that's a very Bad Idea. You will be generating collateral spam. ... If bogusmaillist@domain is a...
Fred Viles
fv+exim@...
Oct 1, 2005 9:22 pm
85504
... Hello, oh my God, that's it. Many thanks. Can I use the old configuration file or do I need to delete it before deleting exim4-daemon-light and installing...
oliver@...
Oct 1, 2005 9:34 pm
85505
When you reference $h_Received: do you get ALL of the Received headers? Even if they have other headers inserted in the middle of them? -- Marc Perkel -...
Marc Perkel
marc@...
Oct 2, 2005 2:39 am
85506
I have a file with a list of domains: paypal.com ebay.com ... It's in a domain list: domainlist verify_list = dbm;/etc/exim/run/verifylist.db And on an ACL I...
Marc Perkel
marc@...
Oct 2, 2005 4:00 am
85507
... This is incorrect. SpamAssassin is a framework within which different tests to identify spam from ham are applied. Bayesian classification just happens...
Steve Lamb
grey@...
Oct 2, 2005 4:05 am
85508
... Right - lets suppose I'm getting email from truthout.com and I have 50 users who subscribe to that - and it's all ham. Do I want to run 50 copies of the...
Marc Perkel
marc@...
Oct 2, 2005 4:13 am
85509
... I understand what you wanted, Marc. I was not replying to that at all. I was just pointing out that Peter was incorrect in his equation that SpamAssassin...
Steve Lamb
grey@...
Oct 2, 2005 4:23 am
85510
On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:12:35 -0700, Marc Perkel <marc@...> ... If the users have very different mail customs, it might be a good idea to have per-user...