Point me to the documentation of the SpamAssassin framework. Where are rules documented? What are the current rules? Describe, in detail, the new SA technology which fights abuse of new TLDs.
Thank you for your advice. I don’t really plan on devoting my life to administering my generic email service. > On Oct 13, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > > > Am 13.10.2015 um 21:48 schrieb Larry Goldman: >> It seems that a basic function of an email service provider, these days, is >> to keep up with spam. There is nothing unusual about my email. >> >> SpamAssassin is a framework: a framework with seemingly no documentation at >> all > > no documentationat all? > seriously? > > first: most docs are wothless for you until you manage the whole setup > second: you need to *unerstand* the details to manage am mailserber > third: a good start would be to not press "reply-all" on a mailing list > > if you want to setup a good spamfilter you need to learn a ton of details > about all of the involved lyers of mail/dns and invest a huge amount of time, > trying, verify and learning to manage it and even after 10 years of doing it > somehow perfect you will learn each day new things > > in short: it's a lifetime job and if yu don't want to invest the time and > energy just delete the mails making it through - you likely have o ckue what > amount is alreay blocked - in a good setup only 7-10% of all junk makes it to > the content filtes and 95% of all inbound mail is rejected long before > >>> Am 13.10.2015 um 21:34 schrieb Larry Goldman: >>>> I couldn’t pay a full-time guy for what I’m paying to use CPanel. >>>> >>>> I was hoping/expecting that the $ all of us shared users of CPanel are >>>> paying for the product would eventually be paying a full-time guy/gurl >>>> to support the product. >>> >>> that is what you get until a limted degree >>> >>> but you can't expect perfect results as long you don't want to get yout own >>> hands dirty - most pay services are "good enough", not more and not less - >>> they work average good with no time invest for a lot of people >>> >>> it's simliar to "i can do anything somehow good enough but nothing really >>> good" and especially when it comes ot mail filtering it's a sharp dedge >>> because of the moving traget and the risk of false-positives which does >>> much more harm then 20 spam mails >>> >>> accept the result of a managed service or suck the work you need to do it >>> at your own - you can't have both at the same time >>> >>> SpamAssassin is just a FRAMEWORK - not more and not less >>> >>>>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net >>>>> <mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> it's just the truth, maintaining mailservices is a FULLTIME-JOB and >>>>> that won't change in the near future >
