Junk mail and spamassassin...

Hello all,

OpenSuSE 10.1 both server and workstation. I use Evolution on
my Workstation.

I've had this problem twice before but never got a reply. My mail server
is postfix and courier but the problem is on my workstation (about 99%)
sure.

I'm getting more and more spam in my inbox that I've ever had before. I'm
running spammassassin on both my server and workstation but the problem
seemed to have started to happen after I backed up my email. Mabey it's
just a coincedance. Here is how I backed up my evolution email.


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Shutdown evolution and gconftool-2:
$gconftool-2 --shutdown
$evolution --force-shutdown

Step 2:
Create an archive with the data and configuration files:
Note: To completely save the Evolution data and configuration, you need to save the following directories/files:

1. ~/.evolution/
2. ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/
3. ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution

The following command will take care of these
$cd
$tar -cvzf evolution-backup.tar.gz .evolution .gconf/apps/evolution .gnome2_private/Evolution

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The above steps are copied from an article by Falko Timme.

Then after I backed up and opened up Evolution I started to get
all of my spam in my Inbox and very little in my Junk folder. Before that
all of the spam went into my junk folder. This is is why I say that there
is a problem on the workstation and not my mail server.

Thinking that it was a problem with Evoloution I uninstalled it and then
reinstalled it but the problem is still there.

I spent alot of time getting my workstation set up to my liking and I
don't want to reinstall the OS just to fix this problem.

If anyone at all can give me some help with this I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

Steve

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On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:10:55 +0000, Steve Thompson wrote:

> Hello all,

[Major snippage]

One more thing I forgot to mention; spamd is running on both my mailserver
and workstation. I even stopped it and restarted it on both machines.

/etc/init.d/spamd restart

After that didn't work I used CPAN as such...

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install HTML:arser
install Net:NS (when prompted to enable tests, choose no)
install Digest::SHA1
perlinstall DB_File
q (to leave the Perl shell)

The above was also written by Falko Timme

(http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_suse_9.3_p6)


> Thanks in advance.
>
> Steve

--
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

On Monday 25 December 2006 21:10, Steve Thompson
<sthompson@creativewebnet.com> wrote in
opensuse.org.suse-linux.support.general-applications:

>
> I'm getting more and more spam in my inbox that I've ever had before.
> I'm running spammassassin on both my server and workstation but the
> problem seemed to have started to happen after I backed up my email.
> Mabey it's just a coincedance.

Take a look at the spamassassin headers to see what the score is on this
spam. The **** that I am getting runs at about 3.5 despite repeated
training.

It's almost like whoever wrote the bot that is posting from so many
Windoze machines was aware of the spamassassin rulesets
--
Robert
I am not where I *can* see myself,
Where I *can't* see myself, I *am*,
I guess I'm virtually transparent ...