Re: [SLE] SpamAssassin-Still Having a LOT of Spam

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 11:54, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi,

I am using KMAIL on SuSE10.1 and still getting sick each day of big amount
of spam. I have created special mailbox in KMail (in mbox format), where I
am collecting all junk.

Then after some time, I am run:

sa-learn --spam --sync --showdots --mbox
/home/andrei/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/zzz-DefineSpam

Are you running network tests? Suse by default turns these off.
Network tests are VERY effective at killing lots of spam, but
they do make a little more traffic on your internet connection.

If you see -L in the spamassassin parameters or spamd parms
you are only doing local tests, regardless of what your
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf says.

Surf on over to source forge and download razor2. Install
that and follow all the configuration steps.

Also, as usual, Suse will not upgrade Spamassassin on anywhere
near the normal release cycle. (SA 3.1.5 was released today).
Usually only security fixes are applied, although last time they
actually bumped the version number rather than just patch the old.

Once you get up to 3.1.3 (I think), you want to also schedule
a sa-update daily as there are new capabilities for updating
things that spammers invent on the fly without waiting for a new
release.

Lately I've been letting SuSE install spamassassin, and then I
un-install it with yast, and install the current one via cpan.
This way, yast will install most, if not all of the necessary
perl modules for me, saving the time in cpan.

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John Andersen

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