From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 15 20:46:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E681316A418 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:46:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC0FE13C47E for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:46:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (relay6.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05A7E95605; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 9E88510B2A; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:46:15 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807124-a6fbbbb0000007f3-b6-46c366174016 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 8ABEC1010B; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:46:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E56A685-50B0-4039-A29C-9ED8CA2FD63F@axis.nl> References: <4E56A685-50B0-4039-A29C-9ED8CA2FD63F@axis.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <2CF27D6E-842D-4B6B-81D3-873D086906AD@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:46:14 -0700 To: Olaf Greve X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amavisd-new + spam assassin tuning? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:46:16 -0000 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