[Mimedefang] MimeDefang and SpamAssassin

[VCI Help Desk]

    Ok, I added these entries into my "border mail servers" as the older
message that said Bayes was disabled described and have primed it with
sa-learn. In my /var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes/ folder I have 3 bayes_ files
that are being updated after an email arrives. The concern I have is that I
don't see any BAYES_* entries in ANY of the emails that pass into my system.
I have mimedefang adding a header that resembles the following. None of the
rules over the past 3 days have ever said anything about BAYES_*   Shouldn't
there be a BAYES rule added in every message?

    X-Spam-Level: * 1.5 HTML_10_20,HTML_MESSAGE

    As another post mentioned I'm using a site wide installation that
probably makes bayes testing useless. I'm trying to block more spam because
over the past 10-15 days the amount of spam has gone up a LOT. A lot of the
spam emails that come in seem to have one big picture and little text in
them. If all spam emails start doing that they we may as well start
converting our spam reduction services to services that block all emails
except those from people we specifically authorize - which I've considered
also.

      Bill Dunn





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert E. Whale, CISSP" <aewhale at ABS-CompTech.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] MimeDefang and SpamAssassin




VCI Help Desk wrote:

>    Hi,
>
>    I read an earlier post that MimeDefang disables the Bayes filters. Is
>this true? I can't find any documentation in MimeDefang or SpamAssassin to
>support this.
>
>      Bill Dunn
>

Bill,

The answer to that is no.  Once you manually prime the bayes pump (use
the sa-learn command), the filtering will take off on it's own.  You
will need to set the following variables in the
/etc/mail/assassin/sa-mimedefang.cf files:

auto_learn 1
use_bayes 1
bayes_path    /var/spool/MIMEDefang/bayes

That should get you started.

>
>
-- 
Albert E. Whale, CISSP
http://www.abs-comptech.com
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ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer & Networking Specialists
Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant
Founding Board of Directors of Pittsburgh FBI - InfraGard




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