Fedora's spamassassin frontend ??

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 15 22:58:49 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 12:50 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> : I am having a problem with spamassassin registering a false positive.  I
> : have tried to whitelist (unjunk) a particular individual whose name?
> : always seems to be junked.  They are a good friend and I don't want to
> : keep losing their mail.  I am using Evolution 2.10.3 with spamassassin
> : 3.2.3.
> : 
> : If someone knows how to solve this problem I will stop here.
> : 
> : If I can get a SA gui from the Fedora Repo that doesn't interfere with
> : Evolution, I will try that.  I prefer a gui for this job because it's
> : not something I will have to do often.
> 
> I use GUIs for very little and I don't use evolution at all so this
> may be of no help.  But I suggest you look in
> ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs to see if it contains a line like
> 
> whitelist_from   your_friend at your_friends_domain
> 
> On my system the presence of such a line starts my SPAM score out at
> -100 for that incoming message.  Mail must pass a threshold of 4.5 to
> be tagged as spam so the mail must contain a wopping lot of indicators
> for this to happen. (It never has, so far.)  Here's the Spam-Status
> line from a message from a Whitelisted person on my system:
> 
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-101.9 required=4.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS,
> 	USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=disabled version=3.2.3
> 
> Note the presence of USER_IN_WHITELIST.  Does yours have that?
> 
> It my case the Bayesian test pulled the score below -100, because it
> judged it to be non-spam from other factors.  But even a Bayes score
> of "100% spam" only adds 4.3 points to the total (on my system).
> (Being entirely HTML adds another 4.5.)
> 
> : Can someone suggest a spamassassin gui that I can download from the
> : Fedora 7 repo and that will fix this problem?  The spamassassin site
> : recommends several front ends but I couldn't find any of them on the
> : Fedora add programs list (pirut).
> 
> It's easy to edit your user_prefs file and insert that one line under
> the comment.
> 
Evolution does not uuse the options of user_prefs except I think the
baysian database.
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