[Cialug] SpamAssassin

[Mark Hesseltine]

Stuart:
I've been using it on a Debian box which gets my mail from my ISP via
Fetchmail. By default, Spamassassin is going to let in, IMHO, quite a
bit of spam. It seems that the spammers are using default setups to
test messages.

Baysian filtering will help if you're using this for just one user.
I'm not sure how well baysian filtering works with multiple users,
since what seems to be spam for one might be "ham" for another.

My solution was to setup Procmail to filter spam into a separate
mailbox (so I can check for false positives). Then, as I get spam in
my regular Inbox, look at which tests got triggered and passed and
adjust the scores locally to make those items score higher (things
like images only, opt-in/opt-out warnings, etc.)

On 8/15/05, Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org> wrote:
> I am working on setting up SpamAssassin and I was wondering if you
> would be willing to share some of your experiences (positive and
> negative, shortcuts and pitfalls) related to setting it up and getting
> it to work right against spam.  I can get the installation information,
> etc from the website, but I always like to find out the experience of
> other users as they have worked with it.  Thought I would see what you
> all had experienced.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart Thiessen
> 
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