Make SPAM ASSASSIN work for you... - Page 19

kdanieli · June 2nd, 2007, 9:05 AM

A separate question regarding filters:

After turning on SpamAssassin, with the settings at 1 & 4.5, and adding a filter to discard all mail with a header that has an X-Spam-Level of more than 8 *s, I stopped receiving 80% of the spam that I had previously been receiving.

That's great, but perhaps I was too hasty in installing the discard filter (just in case there were some false positives? - or is that not possible?)

I deleted that initial Discard > 8 *s filter and implemented a new one:

$h_X-Spam-Status: contains "X-Spam-Level: ********" forwards to a special email address.

I noticed that one of the dropdown menus in the Add Filter routine includes the option for SpamAssassin Header rather than Any Header. I selected SpamAssassin header and that filter's code is reflected above. Is that OK? Thanks (my other issue in prior post #162 is still open as well)

**Bigjohn** · June 2nd, 2007, 12:05 PM

Outside my skills, dude. Your server might be using a different email storage than the one I wrote this for...

Delete >8 is NOT a hasty measure. VERY few real email messages will go there, but I've been using the filter that Cowboy wrote (elsewhere in these forums) to toss everything beween 4.5 and 10 into a separate email box .... and of that email, I probably 'save' one or two per day out of 50...

kdanieli · June 2nd, 2007, 4:25 PM

I have several email accounts. Each now has SPAM and HAM folders and I've moved emails into each folder.

The SPAM folders have not been purged.

I don't think the first or any scan ever reported "Learned tokens from x message(s)...." etc.

I believe that all of the ones that ran reported the same thing:

"Learning SPAM
Learning HAM
Done"

Is that wrong? thanks

**Bigjohn** · June 2nd, 2007, 4:35 PM

Ok.
i really don't know if I can be of further assistance.

In your root, you have a mail folder?

If so, what's in it?
Mine has a bunch of folders, for subdomains and ultimately the individual email accounts.

kdanieli · June 2nd, 2007, 4:52 PM

thanks. I think I'm on Surpass's 107.

My root has a mail folder. In mail I have these folders and files:

.Drafts 700
.Sent 700
.Trash 700
courierimapkeywords 770
cur 700
"mydomain".com 755
new 700
tmp 700
Create New File
INBOX.Drafts 0 k 0600
INBOX.Sent 11 k 0600
INBOX.Trash 173 k 0600
courierimapsubscribed 0 k 0644
courierimapuiddb 0 k 0644

Inside "mydomain.com" folder are folders for each of my email accounts. Inside each of those are the mail folders for HAM, SPAM, etc.

kdanieli · June 4th, 2007, 10:47 AM

The script seems to be running, but all the SPAM folders still have all the spam in them.

It does not give me the confirmation email that counts how many items it processed. The confirmation emails all say this:

Learning SPAM
Learning HAM
Done

**jdcopelin** · June 4th, 2007, 3:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kdanieli

The script seems to be running, but all the SPAM folders still have all the spam in them.

It does not give me the confirmation email that counts how many items it processed. The confirmation emails all say this:

Learning SPAM
Learning HAM
Done

Quote:

learnspam
File Type: Bourne shell script text executable
_________________________________________________
#!/bin/sh
echo "Learning SPAM"
for FILE in `find $HOME -name SPAM -print`
do
echo "Processing $FILE"
sa-learn --spam --mbox $FILE
done

echo "Learning HAM"
for FILE in `find $HOME -name HAM -print`
do
echo "Processing $FILE"
sa-learn --ham --mbox $FILE
rm $FILE
touch $FILE
done
echo "Done"

Hi,

In another of your posts where you listed the contents of your ./mail folder you have maildir format when your learnspam script is written for mbox format. The script I posted in this thread should get you up and running (read my last post in that thread to correct the typo in the script). Please let us/me know if it works.
I am currently testing a new version of that script that is more intelligent and doesn't run sa-learn on empty folders.

Regards
Jonathan

kdanieli · June 4th, 2007, 5:31 PM

Thanks.

I took that script and put it in in place of the old script.
I removed the "#" from the last line.
I changed "username" to "kdanieli" twice.
I saved it as "learnspam"

Is that all I should do? Thanks

kdanieli · June 5th, 2007, 1:45 AM

After making the above changes, I got the following in email
................
Learning from HAM

Synchronising spam database
bayes: synced databases from journal in 1 seconds: 1053 unique entries (1464 total entries)
..................

Is that good?

Also SPAM and HAM folders still contain the emails I put there.

June 2nd, 2007, 12:05 PM	#164 (permalink)
Bigjohn minor deity Super #1 Joined in Apr 2004 Lives in Georgia Hosted on XEON 7,332 posts Gave thanks: 23 Thanked 93 times	Outside my skills, dude. Your server might be using a different email storage than the one I wrote this for... Delete >8 is NOT a hasty measure. VERY few real email messages will go there, but I've been using the filter that Cowboy wrote (elsewhere in these forums) to toss everything beween 4.5 and 10 into a separate email box .... and of that email, I probably 'save' one or two per day out of 50... __________________ 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!

June 2nd, 2007, 4:35 PM	#166 (permalink)
Bigjohn minor deity Super #1 Joined in Apr 2004 Lives in Georgia Hosted on XEON 7,332 posts Gave thanks: 23 Thanked 93 times	Ok. i really don't know if I can be of further assistance. In your root, you have a mail folder? If so, what's in it? Mine has a bunch of folders, for subdomains and ultimately the individual email accounts. __________________ 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!

June 2nd, 2007, 4:52 PM	#167 (permalink)
kdanieli Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Nov 2006 Hosted on SH107 105 posts Gave thanks: 8 Thanked 0 times	thanks. I think I'm on Surpass's 107. My root has a mail folder. In mail I have these folders and files: .Drafts 700 .Sent 700 .Trash 700 courierimapkeywords 770 cur 700 "mydomain".com 755 new 700 tmp 700 Create New File INBOX.Drafts 0 k 0600 INBOX.Sent 11 k 0600 INBOX.Trash 173 k 0600 courierimapsubscribed 0 k 0644 courierimapuiddb 0 k 0644 Inside "mydomain.com" folder are folders for each of my email accounts. Inside each of those are the mail folders for HAM, SPAM, etc. Last edited by kdanieli; June 2nd, 2007 at 5:04 PM.

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June 2nd, 2007, 9:05 AM	#163 (permalink)
kdanieli Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Nov 2006 Hosted on SH107 105 posts Gave thanks: 8 Thanked 0 times	A separate question regarding filters: After turning on SpamAssassin, with the settings at 1 & 4.5, and adding a filter to discard all mail with a header that has an X-Spam-Level of more than 8 s, I stopped receiving 80% of the spam that I had previously been receiving. That's great, but perhaps I was too hasty in installing the discard filter (just in case there were some false positives? - or is that not possible?) I deleted that initial Discard > 8 s filter and implemented a new one: $h_X-Spam-Status: contains "X-Spam-Level: ********" forwards to a special email address. I noticed that one of the dropdown menus in the Add Filter routine includes the option for SpamAssassin Header rather than Any Header. I selected SpamAssassin header and that filter's code is reflected above. Is that OK? Thanks (my other issue in prior post #162 is still open as well)

June 2nd, 2007, 4:25 PM	#165 (permalink)
kdanieli Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Nov 2006 Hosted on SH107 105 posts Gave thanks: 8 Thanked 0 times	I have several email accounts. Each now has SPAM and HAM folders and I've moved emails into each folder. The SPAM folders have not been purged. I don't think the first or any scan ever reported "Learned tokens from x message(s)...." etc. I believe that all of the ones that ran reported the same thing: "Learning SPAM Learning HAM Done" Is that wrong? thanks

June 4th, 2007, 10:47 AM	#168 (permalink)
kdanieli Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Nov 2006 Hosted on SH107 105 posts Gave thanks: 8 Thanked 0 times	The script seems to be running, but all the SPAM folders still have all the spam in them. It does not give me the confirmation email that counts how many items it processed. The confirmation emails all say this: Learning SPAM Learning HAM Done

June 4th, 2007, 5:31 PM	#170 (permalink)
kdanieli Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Nov 2006 Hosted on SH107 105 posts Gave thanks: 8 Thanked 0 times	Thanks. I took that script and put it in in place of the old script. I removed the "#" from the last line. I changed "username" to "kdanieli" twice. I saved it as "learnspam" Is that all I should do? Thanks

June 5th, 2007, 1:45 AM	#171 (permalink)
kdanieli Registered User Comfy Contributor Joined in Nov 2006 Hosted on SH107 105 posts Gave thanks: 8 Thanked 0 times	After making the above changes, I got the following in email ................ Learning from HAM Synchronising spam database bayes: synced databases from journal in 1 seconds: 1053 unique entries (1464 total entries) .................. Is that good? Also SPAM and HAM folders still contain the emails I put there.

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