On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 12:18, Pasha wrote: > Hi, > > What are the possibilities to setup spam filtering in evolution? It > looks that it is possible to pipe messages through spamassassin. Is > there any better way? > > Thanks, > Pavel. I have been using spamassassin as a filter in evolution for some time now. It works very well. You will need to spend some time training the bayes database and possibly add some additional rule sets from the SARE web site. Currently spamassassin is trapping 150 to 200 spam messages a week. I only get 3 or 4 spam a week in my in box. And I have not had any false positives for well over a year. I setup some scripts which I run manually once every couple of weeks to process the spam I have received (including the spam that was tagged and specifically the untagged spam that go through). This is done by having two folders, one where all tagged spam is moved and another folder where I manually move any spam that got through. The scripts process these messages for the bayes database so it is continually improved. One suggestion when using spamassassin in this mode is to setup some additional filters which handle mailing list traffic. In my case I move mailing list traffic to separate folders. Put these filters first in the list with a rule that says stop processing when those filters are hit. This way spamassassin only runs on non-mailing list messages. I have found very little spam going to the mailing lists and this will save a lot of processing time on your system. Now if you are running a full blown MTA and have control of that part of the server I would recommend you implement greylisting along with spamassassin system wide. Greylisting will block 98% to 99% of spam from ever getting on your server. Spamassassin will catch virtually all the rest. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx "It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so." -- Artemus Ward aka Charles Farrar Brown
