spam filtering setup

spam filtering setup

[Cezar]

Hello,

  I have read the manual a few times by now but I still can't make my
gnus filter spam and I don't know what am I doing wrong.

  The problem is I still get a lot of spam and think filtering doesn't
actually happen.

  I am using emacs from cvs and gnus 5.11.

  Here is my .gnus.el :

(require 'bbdb)
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases)
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.readfreenews.net"))
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml "private"))

(setq mail-sources
      '((file :path "/var/mail/cezar")
        (maildir :path "/home/cezar/.maildir")))

(require 'spam)
(spam-initialize)
(setq spam-use-bogofilter t)
(setq gnus-install-group-spam-parameters nil)
(setq gnus-spam-process-newsgroups
      '(("nnml:.*" (gnus-group-spam-exit-processor-bogofilter
                    gnus-group-ham-exit-processor-bogofilter)))
      gnus-spam-process-destinations '(("nnml:.*" "nnml:spambox"))
      gnus-ham-process-destinations '(("nnml:spambox" "nnml:reclassify"))
      spam-junk-mailgroups '("nnml:spambox")
      spam-split-group "nnml:spambox")

(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy)
(setq nnmail-split-fancy
  '(|
    ("subject" ".*SECURITY" "WebSecurity")
    ("subject" ".*Webappsec" "WebSecurity")
    ("subject" ".*WSG" "WebStandards")
    (: spam-split)
    (to "me@mydomain.com" "Personal")
    (from ".*@mydomain.com" "Personal")  ;; from work
    "mail.other"))

(setq gnus-visible-headers
      '("^From" "^Subject" "^Date" "^Newsgroups" "^Followup-To"
        "^User-Agent" "^X-Newsreader" "^X-Mailer"))

(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
      smtpmail-smtp-server "mixandgo.ro"
      smtpmail-auth-credentials
      '(("mixandgo.ro" 25 "cezar@mixandgo.ro" "askjdh983JK")))

(setq smtpmail-debug-info t smtpmail-debug-verb t)

(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
          (function (lambda()
                      (local-set-key (kbd "<tab>") 'bbdb-complete-name)
                      )))

(setq gnus-message-archive-group
      '((if (message-news-p)
            "sent.news"
          "sent.mail")))

(defun signature-to-end-of-forwarded-message ()
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (re-search-forward
     (concat "^" (regexp-quote mail-header-separator) "$") nil t)
    (forward-line 1)
    (let* ((start (point))
           (end (progn
                  (save-excursion
                    (re-search-forward "^------- Start of forwarded message -" nil t)
                    (beginning-of-line)
                    (point)))))
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer) start end)
      (delete-region start end))))

(add-hook 'gnus-mail-forward-hook 'signature-to-end-of-forwarded-message)

(defun my-gnus-summary-view-html-alternative-in-mozilla ()
      "Display the HTML part of the current multipart/alternative MIME message
    in mozilla."
      (interactive)
      (save-current-buffer
        (gnus-summary-show-article)
        (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
        (let ((file (make-temp-file "html-message-" nil ".html"))
              (handle (nth 3 (assq 1 gnus-article-mime-handle-alist))))
          (mm-save-part-to-file handle file)
          (browse-url-firefox (concat "file://" file)))))

(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map [?K ?M]
  'my-gnus-summary-view-html-alternative-in-mozilla)

;; Rs Gnus Summary
(require 'rs-gnus-summary)
(rs-gnus-summary-line-initialize)
;; Alias for the content-type function:
(defalias 'gnus-user-format-function-ct 'rs-gnus-summary-line-content-type)
;; Alias for the size function:
(defalias 'gnus-user-format-function-size 'rs-gnus-summary-line-message-size)
(setq gnus-balloon-face-0 'rs-gnus-balloon-0)
(setq gnus-balloon-face-1 'rs-gnus-balloon-1)
(rs-gnus-summary-tree-arrows-ascii)

Re: spam filtering setup

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:31:45 +0300 Cezar <cezar@mixandgo.ro> wrote: 

C>   I have read the manual a few times by now but I still can't make my
C> gnus filter spam and I don't know what am I doing wrong.

C>   The problem is I still get a lot of spam and think filtering doesn't
C> actually happen.

Your setup looks OK, but I would use the latest Gnus from CVS, it's
quite stable and has many improvements.

Make sure your bogofilter database is working.  Filter a few spam
messages through it to see what it thinks.  If it is passing spam
through, there's not much spam.el will do about it.  Gnus will just rely
on bogofilter (when spam-use-bogofilter is set) to decide what's spam
and what isn't.

Ted

Re: spam filtering setup

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:46:27 +0300 Cezar <cezar@mixandgo.ro> wrote: 

C> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:31:45 +0300 Cezar <cezar@mixandgo.ro> wrote: 
>> 
C> I have read the manual a few times by now but I still can't make my
C> gnus filter spam and I don't know what am I doing wrong.
>> 
C> The problem is I still get a lot of spam and think filtering doesn't
C> actually happen.
>> 
>> Your setup looks OK, but I would use the latest Gnus from CVS, it's
>> quite stable and has many improvements.
>> 
>> Make sure your bogofilter database is working.  Filter a few spam
>> messages through it to see what it thinks.  If it is passing spam
>> through, there's not much spam.el will do about it.  Gnus will just rely
>> on bogofilter (when spam-use-bogofilter is set) to decide what's spam
>> and what isn't.

C> How can I do that ? How can I test if bogofilter is doing it's job ?

Read the Bogofilter documentation.  Basically you have to take a message
and pipe it into Bogofilter.  From Gnus you can go to an article (AKA
message) and type 

M-: (spam-check-bogofilter)

and that should show you the article's score.  But I would check from
the command line first, so you're sure that if something unexpected
happens it's not because Bogofilter is misconfigured.

Note your reply went only to me.  It should go to the Gnus mailing list
so a) others can comment if I'm wrong, and b) it will be saved in the
mailing list archives.

Thanks
Ted

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[jidanni]

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sunshine_ (lack of spam indicates network failure... Condition Red.)

Read more about how I do it in my
http://jidanni.org/comp/spam/spamdealer.html