Make SPAM ASSASSIN work for you... - Page 13

dandoze · November 10th, 2006, 1:35 PM

I would love to take use spamassassin and all of the great how-to info in this thread, but my spamassassin configuration page does not have any of the items you are referring to. Here is what I see:

**Bigjohn** · November 10th, 2006, 3:11 PM

some of the terms have changed a bit - look for something similar on your page....

**Kayla** · November 10th, 2006, 5:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kayla

Hi everyone..

I wanted to ask if anyone here is interested in paying for an extra service for a few dollars a month (no more than $5 I would imagine) for a third party filtering service? I have been thinking about this for a few weeks. There are free tools available to combat spam, but it may be worth it to some to have mail filtered at an outside source before even reaching you.

One I have been researching is: http://www.katharion.com

I think I am going to start testing this out.

I am going to see if they can give us a trial period for a few servers.

I need a few volunteers to help out though - if you have an email account that always receives a lot of spam - I need your help.

Bigjohn - I'd definitely like you to help test their service as well.

Please reply to this thread if you would like to help so that I can make a list of our "test servers". Thank you very much.

**Kayla** · November 10th, 2006, 5:54 PM

Actually it seems I can do a free trial, right now just by filling out a form.

I need to use someone's domain name.

**DewKnight** · November 10th, 2006, 8:03 PM

I have a few domains that get tons of spam daily, I think I even have a few old email addresses that people don't use anymore with lots of spam

**Kayla** · November 10th, 2006, 8:05 PM

Give give! I sign up now.

**Bigjohn** · November 11th, 2006, 1:27 PM

You know what they say about "if it's not broke, don't fix it", right? I'd love to test, but my process seems to be keeping the spams to less than a dozen a day, and almost no false positives...

aaron01 · November 14th, 2006, 1:56 AM

Bigjohn- thanks for all the information you have provided here! I am having a little trouble getting the script to work, in fact the same problem that grokdesigns was having that he mentioned back on page 6. I contacted him to see if he figured anything out about it but he hadn't yet.

The problem is when the script ran, I had the following e-mailed to me:
Learning SPAM
Learning HAM
Done

So I decided to check /home/(user)/mail/(domain)/aaron/ to see if the SPAM and HAM folders were listed there. They were, but they, and every other folder, had a dot "." in front of them. So they were .SPAM and .HAM. So in the script, I decided to add a dot in front of the folder names, and when the script ran this is the result that I received:

Learning SPAM
Processing /home/(user)/mail/(domain)/aaron/.SPAM
Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined)
Learning HAM
Processing /home/(user)/mail/(domain)/aaron/.HAM
Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined)
rm: cannot remove `/home/(user)/mail/(domain)/aaron/.HAM': Is a directory
Done

I do have messages in both the SPAM and HAM folders. I'm not sure why exactly it isn't working, but I would appreciate any help!

riversidekid · November 14th, 2006, 5:40 PM

I've gone through this line by line and I think I'm almost there!!! Although it's that bayes thing that is just not working. I've got over 3,000 spam messages in my spam folder, well over the needed 500. I've deleted the ".spamassassin" folder and let it rebuild itself, copying the user_pref file back. My cron job continues to error.... I'm getting:

Learning SPAM
Processing /home/MyDomain/mail/mydomain.com/email1/SPAM
bayes: bayes db version 0 is not able to be used, aborting! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 196.
Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1659 message(s) examined)
Processing /home/MyDomain/mail/mydomain.com/email2/SPAM
Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (2421 message(s) examined)
Learning HAM
Processing /home/MyDomain/mail/mydomain.com/email1/HAM
bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/MyDomain/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists
bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/MyDomain/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists
ERROR: the Bayes learn function returned an error, please re-run with -D for more information
Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined)
Processing /home/MyDomain/mail/mydomain.com/email2/HAM
bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/MyDomain/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists
Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined)
Done

What gives???

TIA - Thanks In Advance!

November 10th, 2006, 1:35 PM	#109 (permalink)
dandoze surdanity Fresh Surpasser Joined in Nov 2006 Lives in Los Angeles 9 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	Spamassassin config page not as described. I would love to take use spamassassin and all of the great how-to info in this thread, but my spamassassin configuration page does not have any of the items you are referring to. Here is what I see: Attached Thumbnails

November 10th, 2006, 3:11 PM	#110 (permalink)
Bigjohn minor deity Super #1 Joined in Apr 2004 Lives in Georgia Hosted on XEON 7,365 posts Gave thanks: 25 Thanked 94 times	some of the terms have changed a bit - look for something similar on your page.... __________________ Proud to be a Surmunity Mod! XEON PASS60 PASS61 Make a fundamental difference! My Sites: Curious about Brewing Beer? Join the community! >>>>> Some Change is GOOD! Keep your paycheck! Support the Fair Tax Get into an Art museum Victorian London It's your brain -*ON WEB* - mybrainhost.com (under development) What SHOULD Government do? Much Less than it Does!

November 10th, 2006, 5:54 PM	#112 (permalink)
Kayla Searcher Surpass Staff Joined in May 2003 Lives in Orlando 24,699 posts Gave thanks: 943 Thanked 806 times	Actually it seems I can do a free trial, right now just by filling out a form. I need to use someone's domain name. __________________ Follow Surpass on Twitter and Facebook Check out interesting finds on the Surpass Blog .... it's coming.

November 10th, 2006, 8:03 PM	#113 (permalink)
DewKnight Skittles Super #1 Joined in Aug 2004 Lives in a space ship Hosted on dedi 6,723 posts Gave thanks: 98 Thanked 190 times	I have a few domains that get tons of spam daily, I think I even have a few old email addresses that people don't use anymore with lots of spam __________________ Mountain Dew Knight People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

November 10th, 2006, 8:05 PM	#114 (permalink)
Kayla Searcher Surpass Staff Joined in May 2003 Lives in Orlando 24,699 posts Gave thanks: 943 Thanked 806 times	Give give! I sign up now. __________________ Follow Surpass on Twitter and Facebook Check out interesting finds on the Surpass Blog .... it's coming.

November 11th, 2006, 1:27 PM	#115 (permalink)
Bigjohn minor deity Super #1 Joined in Apr 2004 Lives in Georgia Hosted on XEON 7,365 posts Gave thanks: 25 Thanked 94 times	You know what they say about "if it's not broke, don't fix it", right? I'd love to test, but my process seems to be keeping the spams to less than a dozen a day, and almost no false positives... __________________ Proud to be a Surmunity Mod! XEON PASS60 PASS61 Make a fundamental difference! My Sites: Curious about Brewing Beer? Join the community! >>>>> Some Change is GOOD! Keep your paycheck! Support the Fair Tax Get into an Art museum Victorian London It's your brain -*ON WEB* - mybrainhost.com (under development) What SHOULD Government do? Much Less than it Does!

November 14th, 2006, 1:56 AM	#116 (permalink)
aaron01 Registered User Seasoned Poster Joined in Sep 2005 Lives in Lima, OH Hosted on pass55 48 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	Bigjohn- thanks for all the information you have provided here! I am having a little trouble getting the script to work, in fact the same problem that grokdesigns was having that he mentioned back on page 6. I contacted him to see if he figured anything out about it but he hadn't yet. The problem is when the script ran, I had the following e-mailed to me: Learning SPAM Learning HAM Done So I decided to check /home/(user)/mail/(domain)/aaron/ to see if the SPAM and HAM folders were listed there. They were, but they, and every other folder, had a dot "." in front of them. So they were .SPAM and .HAM. So in the script, I decided to add a dot in front of the folder names, and when the script ran this is the result that I received: Learning SPAM Processing /home/(user)/mail/(domain)/aaron/.SPAM Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined) Learning HAM Processing /home/(user)/mail/(domain)/aaron/.HAM Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined) rm: cannot remove `/home/(user)/mail/(domain)/aaron/.HAM': Is a directory Done I do have messages in both the SPAM and HAM folders. I'm not sure why exactly it isn't working, but I would appreciate any help! __________________ I now have a dedi!

November 14th, 2006, 5:40 PM	#117 (permalink)
riversidekid Registered User Fresh Surpasser Joined in Sep 2004 19 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 0 times	I've gone through this line by line and I think I'm almost there!!! Although it's that bayes thing that is just not working. I've got over 3,000 spam messages in my spam folder, well over the needed 500. I've deleted the ".spamassassin" folder and let it rebuild itself, copying the user_pref file back. My cron job continues to error.... I'm getting: Learning SPAM Processing /home/MyDomain/mail/mydomain.com/email1/SPAM bayes: bayes db version 0 is not able to be used, aborting! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 196. Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1659 message(s) examined) Processing /home/MyDomain/mail/mydomain.com/email2/SPAM Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (2421 message(s) examined) Learning HAM Processing /home/MyDomain/mail/mydomain.com/email1/HAM bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/MyDomain/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/MyDomain/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists ERROR: the Bayes learn function returned an error, please re-run with -D for more information Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined) Processing /home/MyDomain/mail/mydomain.com/email2/HAM bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/MyDomain/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined) Done What gives??? TIA - Thanks In Advance!

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