> Do any of you out there run spamassassin on a mail relay or pop/imap > server to add the X-Spam headers to all mail that passes through your > gateway? > > If you do, how do you let individual users (who don't have accounts on > your relay) tweak their user_prefs file to whitelist things that are > not spam or otherwise tweek the rules? > > Do any of you who use spamassassin at the server level (as opposed to > the user level) use it to reject spam (versus just marking it up)?
We don't use it on a mail relay, but we do server-wide and reject (rather drop in an IT account instead of delivering) when the score is above a certain level. We're running in a corporate mail environment, rather than a hosting service. The needs are somewhat different. > > I had this idea that something could add a url to the bottom of the > message that would let the user click on it and white/black list the > user back on the server. Maybe something like this exists already? > > I must say that in my own experience, I could not blindly reject mail > with Spamassassin because it has too many false positives with my > mail. SpamAssassin scores e-mail. If it FPs too much, then maybe you need a higher required_score; or maybe training (sa_learn) a bit more on the FPs would help. Running ham through the learner lets bayes know that certain tokens are appearing in ham and shouldn't be scored as high, and reduces the auto whitelist score both of which should help certain messages avoid being flagged as spam. Bret
