[H-GEN] Spamassassin

[Joel Michael]

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On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 09:46, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Hi all.  I setup Spamassassin last night through procmail to nuke spam
> coming to my home a/c.  It is a great tool.  Check it out at
> http://www.spamassassin.org.
> 
> Spamassassin is highly configurable.  Bt default it marks the email with a
> specific subject that can then easily be filtered.  I filter it into my
> spam folder which I then check every few days in case of false positives.
> 
> Next I'll be setting up to filter all mail at the MTA (probably using a
> sendmail milter) as an experiment.

<AOL>Yep, spamassassin is great!</AOL>

I have actually set it up at the MTA level, using qmail-scanner to feed
every email that comes in via SMTP into spamassassin (and into a virus
scanner too).  I configured it to only add headers, not change the
subject or message body, so all my filtering just works on the added
header (X-Spam-Status: YES).  Check out the x-headers in this email, if
they get through.

I've changed the spam score from 5 to 5.5, because if your mail server
is listed in an open relay, you are automatically flagged as spam, and
some ligitimate communication can come through open relays.  But, hey,
the true spam gets scores of at least 10, I've had some that were over
20 :-)
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Joel Michael
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