Re: [SLUG] spamassassin autolearn

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 20:10:44 EDT


On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, logan wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 18:49 -0400, Eben King wrote:
>> My USF accounts get a fair amount of spam, so I use Spamassassin. (The
>> Verizon one does too, but V already uses it.) It works very well.
>> Recently, I've noticed that somee spam gets a negative score, and is marked
>> "autolearn=ham". Why is it doing this, how can I stop it, and how do I find
>> out what other messages do that? IMO nothing should be autolearned, as I'm
>> reasonably conscientious about piping messages through SA manually.
>
> Hmmm. Take a look at your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

Only vanilla entries:

use_bayes 1
required_hits 0.0
#add_header all Status-Eben

> Or conversely, if this happens user-wide:
>
> /etc/spamassassin/local.cf

Nothing at all there:

# This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.
#
# See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
# tweaked.
#
###########################################################################
#
# rewrite_header Subject *****SPAM*****
# report_safe 1
# trusted_networks 212.17.35.
# lock_method flock

> Those are the configuration locations for spamassassin on my Debian Etch
> box. YMMV.

This is Ubuntu 7.something. You'd think it would at least be similar.

> You can always test your local spamassassin by copying the whole email
> to a text file then run from the command line:
>
> spamassassin -t /path/to/text.file

Hm, I've already resubmitted the offending email as "spam" and deleted it.
But next time one like that appears I will.

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