Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices
Mike Jackson wrote: That depends on your MTA. Some make it easy (Postfix), some make it difficult (Sendmail), some you just shouldn't be using (Qmail). (That last one was a joke, people.) Actually, anyone who voluntarily administers any MTA has to be someone who enjoys beating themselves in the head with a baseball bat in the first place... g -kgd
RE: Spamassassin: Best Practices
Pradeep Mishra wrote: Hello Friends I am a newbie on spamassassin and would like to know.. 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. 2) Some really Best Practices for implementing and running Spamassassin. That's a how long is a piece of string type of question... You'd probably be better off studying the mail list archives Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Fax. +353 (0) 1 4811 763 --- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845
Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices
1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. That depends on your MTA. Some make it easy (Postfix), some make it difficult (Sendmail), some you just shouldn't be using (Qmail). (That last one was a joke, people.) 2) Some really Best Practices for implementing and running Spamassassin. Like the other poster said, consult the archives. Also look at the wiki. But generally... 1. Properly train your Bayesian filter. 2. Use the default 5 spam threshold. 3. Mark messages as spam only, and let the users be responsible for their own deletion.
Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices
Pradeep Mishra wrote: Hello Friends I am a newbie on spamassassin and would like to know.. 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. 2) Some really Best Practices for implementing and running Spamassassin. Thanks for all your efforts. These questions depend on what all you are running. You will need to be a bit more specific. -=Aubrey=-
Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices
On Monday 23 April 2007 03:35, Pradeep Mishra wrote: Hello Friends I am a newbie on spamassassin and would like to know.. 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. What do you figure your outbound spam to ham ratio is? -- Phil Barnett AI4OF SKCC #600
Re: Spamassassin: Best Practices
Mike Jackson wrote: 1) How can we train the spamassassin using bayesian to FILTER ALL OUTGOING AS WELL AS INCOMING messages from my server. That depends on your MTA. Some make it easy (Postfix), some make it difficult (Sendmail), some you just shouldn't be using (Qmail). (That last one was a joke, people.) Actually, depending on how you call Sendmail, it's sometimes harder to *avoid* filtering outgoing mail along with incoming. If you use a milter interface like MIMEDefang or Amavisd-new to call SpamAssassin, and if you use the same server for incoming and outgoing mail, the default behavior will be to scan all mail, regardless of which way it's going. (If you're using SMTP-AUTH, or if all outgoing mail comes from a specific IP range, then it's pretty easy to separate them.) -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications www.speed.net
