Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:46:14 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Olaf Greve <o.greve@axis.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amavisd-new + spam assassin tuning? Message-ID: <2CF27D6E-842D-4B6B-81D3-873D086906AD@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4E56A685-50B0-4039-A29C-9ED8CA2FD63F@axis.nl> References: <4E56A685-50B0-4039-A29C-9ED8CA2FD63F@axis.nl>
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On Aug 15, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Olaf Greve wrote: > The question(s): > I'd like to tune Spam Assassin such that it filters out much more > spam, whilst letting (almost) all proper messages through. > Thunderbird's spam controls are pretty good at filtering out spam, > and I was hoping perhaps Spam Assassin can also be taught and/or > configured to filter out spam very efficiently, whilst letting all > (or at least almost all) of the real messages through. > Can anyone tell me how to best go about this, and/or (in case this > isn't the right place to ask this question) where I can best read > up about achiving this? You want to feed spam and ham messages to sa-learn (it has a manpage), as well as running sa-update every once in a while to pick up updated SpamAssassin rulesets. There's a website with lots more info here: http://spamassassin.apache.org/ -- -Chuck
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