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 0 693 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.
