On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 17:01 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > Hi, > > I just setup a new server with vanilla SA
What version? > on CentOS 5 and a lot of obvious > drug/stock/foreign stuff is getting through. I have verified that DNSBL > is being used. In general, I would like to know what the prevailing > wisdom is as to increasing the agressiveness of my filter. Add the SARE rules. They tend to kill most of the drug and stock stuff. > > Are there certain plugins that I need to make sure are working? If so > what are they? That depends. > > Will SA get better as it considers the input? If you have bayes enabled. > > Also, if I drag spam from the inbox into the Spam folder, will SA learn > from that? If I drag non-spam out of the Spam folder will SA learn > from that? That's up to your MUA , but not likely. > Is there a way to add the X-Spam-Report to regular messages for a while > so that I can see exactly why it's getting through? Yes. See http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#basic_message_tagging_options > > How do I properly activate filtering based on character encodings used > in messages? Basically I want to severely penalize non-Latin1 encodings. In 3.1.x, just set ok_locales en in 3.2.x, set ok_locales and also enable the Textcat plugin. Details in http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#language_options > Mike -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com
