On Monday 16 Feb 2004 4:11 am, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:21 pm, Chris wrote: > > Being a newbie to spamassassin also, just set it up over the past week > > using CPAN to upgrade to the newest version. I've got actually two > > filters setup for spamassassin, one being "size is less than 25000, > > filter action is to "pipe through spamc", the other is "X-Spam-Flag > > equals Yes, move to folder Spam" Not sure if screenshots are allowed on > > the list so if what I've said above isn't clear let me know and I'll send > > you the screenshots. > > > > Chris > > And that is the way to do it. Be sure to setup filter rules for your > mailing lists in Kmail, and have them placed before the SpamAssassin rule > so that SA won't check them. After that, you should be good to go, but > again, I'll mention backhair.cf (copied into /etc/mail/spamassassin). > Also, adding the following two rules into > /home/your_user/.spamassassin/user_prefs is an extremely good move, I > think, because it really does catch a lot of the "sneaky" spams that would > otherwise get through. As I mentioned in another post, I have my score set > at 4.0, and I've only had one false positive since November. That low of > a score may be a bit radical for anyone else, but it works for me. I'd > also like to give a special thanks to Derek Jennings: > http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&; >artid=15 for his Bayes rules example, which is what I use in my own > /user_prefs as well, plus I've added these two lines: > > score HTML_10_20 2.0 > score HTML_20_30 2.2 > > I'm hoping all this is of help, > > e.
Thanks for the plug Erylon. That page is actually a bit out of date now, but is still useful to understand how user_prefs work. You can find a more up to date version of my user_prefs down the page in here http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html which also contains details of how to configure Spamassassin to use DNS blacklists as supplied by Bryan Phinney When you add DNS blacklisting to Spamassassin **very** few spams get through, although I must say in the last few days a lot more Spams are arriving without being detected by any DNS blacklist. I am wondering if these could be from computers recently infected with MyDoom? derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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