Fake MX Record(s) Trick
Hi, I'm a linux noob and a spam assassin noob so please reply in simplified language. Thanks. I saw on the wiki a trick to use fake mx records in order to weed out spam ( http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/OtherTricks). I'm using Evolution at home and on my laptop and I have the spamassassin plugin so I'm constantly clicking the junk icon. I have access to my shared web hosting account and I sure do get TONS of spam. I'm a bit confused as to how to implement it though. My web host uses WHM so my form looks something like this: digitalalias.net 14400 IN MX 0 digitalalias.net What is 14400, I'm guessing a port of some kind. Besides that the wiki suggests that my first fake mx record should be set at 10, then my real mx record at 20, and then another fake one at 30. Why is this since my current mx record is set to 0? fake0.example.com 10 realmx.example.com 20 fake1.example.com 30 Marc F. ..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come.. -Rev1:4
Re: How do I Test SpamAssassin
Hi, I am a total newb to spamassassin and some network tools you mentioned so I don't know how to do what you suggested. I looked up spamc and I see it's the client to spamd, but I didn't understand fully what I read. Besides testing to see if spamassassin is working I wanted to increase the filters. I don't know if i'm saying it right. Mail does go to my junk box but i'd like more mail in my junkbox. I do not have full control over my mail server. Thanks. On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 11:32 +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2008 09:13:28 Marc Ferguson wrote: Hi, I looked on the wiki to see how do I test my installation of spamassassin. I'm confused because it's not really giving me a method that works right out-of-the-box. It looks like the preferred method is The GTUBE. Based on that page it looks like I would use an external mail client, such as Gmail, Yahoo, or anything else besides my local desktop email client - and send mail to myself making sure a specific 68-byte string is in the body of the email. My results have been that Gmail won't send it because their spam filter recognizes it. I've tried Yahoo and they did the same thing. I'm a regular user and I'm trying to apply this to my evolution application. Thanks for any clarification. Marc F. just use spamc and feed a message manually, unless you want to test your MTA, in which case you need to check the manual of your mta. You can as well just send a message to yourself using telnet from your home computer. a properly setup spamfilter will match XBL, no matter the content of your message. Marc F.
Re: How do I Test SpamAssassin
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Please don't top-post. It makes it much harder to read. Marc Ferguson wrote: Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: just use spamc and feed a message manually, unless you want to test your MTA, in which case you need to check the manual of your mta. You can as well just send a message to yourself using telnet from your home computer. a properly setup spamfilter will match XBL, no matter the content of your message. I am a total newb to spamassassin and some network tools you mentioned so I don't know how to do what you suggested. I looked up spamc and I see it's the client to spamd, but I didn't understand fully what I read. By this I assume that you are using spamassassin directly and not spamc. (That's okay. I use spamassassin directly too. :-) The two are almost the same thing in functionality. In which case you can translate that instruction into feed the message into spamassassin. You can also tell if spamassassin is working by the presence of X-Spam headers in the processed messages. If the header is there then spamassassin is processing the message. If not then it isn't. Besides testing to see if spamassassin is working I wanted to increase the filters. I don't know if i'm saying it right. Mail does go to my junk box but i'd like more mail in my junkbox. I do not have full control over my mail server. Thanks. One very large lever is the Bayes engine. But it needs 200 spam messages and 200 non-spam messages before it will have enough history to add to the scoring. You can see how many messages have been processed using sa-learn like this: sa-learn --dump magic Bob Not top replying is goiing to be a tough thing to get used to. I did the magic dump and this is my result. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sa-learn --dump magic 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0 1312 0 non-token data: nspam 0.000 0693 0 non-token data: nham 0.000 0 112435 0 non-token data: ntokens 0.000 0 1180964576 0 non-token data: oldest atime 0.000 0 1210998882 0 non-token data: newest atime 0.000 0 1210992306 0 non-token data: last journal sync atime 0.000 0 0 0 non-token data: last expiry atime 0.000 0 0 0 non-token data: last expire atime delta 0.000 0 0 0 non-token data: last expire reduction count [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ Marc F.
How do I Test SpamAssassin
Hi, I looked on the wiki to see how do I test my installation of spamassassin. I'm confused because it's not really giving me a method that works right out-of-the-box. It looks like the preferred method is The GTUBE. Based on that page it looks like I would use an external mail client, such as Gmail, Yahoo, or anything else besides my local desktop email client - and send mail to myself making sure a specific 68-byte string is in the body of the email. My results have been that Gmail won't send it because their spam filter recognizes it. I've tried Yahoo and they did the same thing. I'm a regular user and I'm trying to apply this to my evolution application. Thanks for any clarification. Marc F.
