Hello all! New to the list and i have a "basic" question: how do you audit spambayes to make sure it has been integrated correctly and is working the way it is configured to work? The reason i am asking: i have been asked to take over/help out with a companies mail server which uses postfix/squirrelmail and spamassassin. This setup has only been in production for about 2 weeks and spambayes has only been implemented for about 1 week. Some emails that contain the words viagra and the like are coming through as ham and have been asked to audit spambayes and maybe configure some rules for spambayes.
On Mon, June 22, 2009 15:14, Chris Arnold wrote:
Hello all! New to the list and i have a "basic" question: how do you audit spambayes to make sure it has been integrated correctly and is working the way it is configured to work? The reason i am asking: i have been asked to take over/help out with a companies mail server which uses postfix/squirrelmail and spamassassin. This setup has only been in production for about 2 weeks and spambayes has only been implemented for about 1 week. Some emails that contain the words viagra and the like are coming through as ham and have been asked to audit spambayes and maybe configure some rules for spambayes.
Spambayes does not use or understand the concept of rules, but if it has only been in use for a week, I suppose that it hasn't been trained yet. How many ham and spam mails have you trained on?
i have been asked to take over/help out with a companies mail server which uses postfix/squirrelmail and spamassassin. This setup has only been in production for about 2 weeks and spambayes has only been implemented for about 1 week. Some emails that contain the words viagra and the like are coming through as ham and have been asked to audit spambayes and maybe configure some rules for spambayes. Chris, If your system is using SpamAssassin, then you're almost certainly not using SpamBayes. They are two completely different spam filters. -- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ when i wake up with a heart rate below 40, i head right for the espresso machine. -- chaos @ forums.usms.org
Chris,
If your system is using SpamAssassin, then you're almost certainly not using SpamBayes. They are two completely different spam filters. Here was part of my confusion: client said he wants spamassassin rules and spambayes advanced settings. I will have to clarify this tomorrow morning. Also, as i have been reading the FAQ on spambayes: it looks like spambayes runs on the client level? Either a outlook plugin or thunderbird plugin. Spambayes does not get installed at the server level? Do i have this correct?
On Mon, June 22, 2009 20:46, Chris Arnold wrote:
Chris,
If your system is using SpamAssassin, then you're almost certainly not using SpamBayes. They are two completely different spam filters.
Here was part of my confusion: client said he wants spamassassin rules and spambayes advanced settings. I will have to clarify this tomorrow morning. Also, as i have been reading the FAQ on spambayes: it looks like spambayes runs on the client level? Either a outlook plugin or thunderbird plugin. Spambayes does not get installed at the server level? Do i have this correct?
Actually, in theory Spambayes *can* run at the server level, and for some people it does. It is quite versatile. It can run as an Outlook plugin, as a Thunderbird plugin (third party extension), as a POP proxy, as an IMAP proxy, as a procmail filter (that's how I use it) and there are probably a few other ways of using it.
Chris> Here was part of my confusion: client said he wants spamassassin Chris> rules and spambayes advanced settings. I will have to clarify Chris> this tomorrow morning. Also, as i have been reading the FAQ on Chris> spambayes: it looks like spambayes runs on the client level? Chris> Either a outlook plugin or thunderbird plugin. Spambayes does not Chris> get installed at the server level? Do i have this correct? Amedee> Actually, in theory Spambayes *can* run at the server level, and Amedee> for some people it does. It is quite versatile. It can run as an Amedee> Outlook plugin, as a Thunderbird plugin (third party extension), Amedee> as a POP proxy, as an IMAP proxy, as a procmail filter (that's Amedee> how I use it) and there are probably a few other ways of using Amedee> it. (Not sure how I missed Chris's response. Oh well...) What Amedee writes is true. In addition, on the python.org mail server we have SpamBayes integrated with Postfix. I'm not sure how all the pieces fit together, but SpamBayes runs while the SMTP connection is still open. I maintain the training database. We also have minimal integration with Mailman which allows us to score messages coming from Usenet (comp.lang.python -> python-list@python.org). So, yes, you can run SpamBayes on a server in many cases. Skip
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