On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 19:35, William Case wrote: > Thanks Roger; > > I have responded to you through the Fedora list. Your advice may be > helpful to others as well. > > On Sun, 2006-16-07 at 17:28 -0700, Roger Taranto wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 15:02, William Case wrote: > > > Spamming is not a security issue I have studied. Can anyone give me > > > some suggestions on how I might go about eliminating this annoyance once > > > and for all. > > > > Some thoughts: > > 1. Have you enabled Bayes in your spamassassin configuration? It does > > a good job with stuff where the text of the message is the same over and > > over. > > 2. Have you enabled network tests? > > 3. Have you enabled Razor, DCC, and/or Pyzor? > > 4. Try asking on the spamassassin user's list for more suggestions: > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists > > > > -Roger > > I will try all these suggestions, however, I am not sure what you mean > by "network tests". I don't want an in depth explanation at this point, > but could you point me to some programs or utilities that I could read > about in 'man' or 'info'? Everything I listed all relates to SpamAssassin, so the documentation at http://spamassassin.apache.org/index.html should be your first stop. By network tests, I mean RBLs (and their cousins), i.e., servers that spamassassin can be configured to check against if you so desire (a good thing, IMHO). Setting that up, in addition to configuring and training bayes and enabling Razor, etc., should all be described on the spamassassin web site. A few more notes: be careful training your bayes database, especially at the beginning. You may want to disable auto-learning until you've manually trained at least the minimum amount of ham and spam. Also, take a look at RulesDuJour, too. There are a whole bunch of great add-on rules at the Rules Emporium, http://www.rulesemporium.com, and they can be kept up-to-date easily with the rulesdujour script. Finally, join the spamassassin users list mentioned above. Even lurking you can learn lots of tricks; it's a very helpful list. -Roger
