James Wilkinson wrote: > Anthony Messina wrote: >> how am i stopping processing email? > > It helps if we know how you receive e-mail. If it's through fetchmail, > stop fetchmail from running. If it's through a MTA (something like > sendmail), stop the MTA while you do sa-learn and then re-enable it. > > Any incoming e-mail will be retried (unless it's spam -- you're > effectively greylisting everything while the MTA's down). > well i see what you're saying. i believe the original author was asking if there were any new tips to reduce the spam on the rise, or something to that effect. since what i have done was new to me, i thought i could share it, as it was so simple. i have used spamassassin with mediocre results for a while because i never bothered to train it. now that i started training it (about a week ago), i am catching and tagging about 96%-97% of all spam with absolutely no false positives (i'm sure i'll get one sometime - but for now...). my setup: postfix mta using spamassassin as a *post-queue* content filter. i use postfix's built-in rules to reject as much crap as possible before it's accepted. currently, each user has Junk and Non-Junk folders that are the training base for sa-learn, using the cron job i mentioned earlier in this thread. i don't stop anything with this setup. (we're you all thinking i was using spamassassin as a pre-queue content filter?) of course, i only have about 45-50 email users here so i don't have the constraints of a system with a large userbase. currently, no greylisting effect occurs while sa-learn is running and i don't stop anything. it just works well. -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E
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