[ale] SpamAssasin Testing

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Fri May 21 18:45:32 EDT 2004


Is there a way to teach spamassasin by sending it email?

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:13, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:02, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> > Since my last email, I've received about 400 spam, and
> > still about 50% are getting through the filters.  I
> > just added some more rules, and will let you know how
> > it goes the rest of the evening and weekend.
> > 
> Sounds like a normal 4-5 hours around here :)
> 
> Seriously, the volume that SA was letting through is why I fought my way
> through the DSPAM setup. The quarantine was worth the time I spent
> getting it going. It was getting to be more maintenance time that I
> could afford to keep tweaking the SA rules. The statistics rules that
> DSPAM uses seem to be very effective and MUCH less of a hassle to
> maintain. It's really good for my less-technically inclined clients.
> They just look at a web page for oops and send spam that slipped through
> to a special address. It has really solve some issues for a client who
> was getting his email mirrored to his blackberry. About once a week the
> spam flood that SA was missing would lock his blackberry account for
> being too full. He had no way of deleting the crap from the holding
> spool with out a browser. Now, he may have some stuff marked as spam and
> dropped in quarantine by mistake, but all the good stuff he's seen gets
> through and once he checks the DSPAM quarantine, the new, good stuff
> does as well.
> 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Jonathan Glass
> > 
> > --- Jonathan Glass <jonathanbglass at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks all!  In the last 10 hours, I've received a
> > > little over 250 spam messages, and SA caught 130 and
> > > let 120 through.  I guess I need to do a little more
> > > tweaking.
> > > 
> > > Would you guys mind leaving that forwarding on
> > > through
> > > Monday?  That'll give me time to tinker this
> > > weekend.
> > > 
> > > Thanks much!
> > > 
> > > Jonathan Glass
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > enjoy the flood
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 20:36, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> > > > > Would you guys mind forwarding some spam to my
> > > > work
> > > > > address?  I'm tweaking my Spamassassin settings
> > > > and
> > > > > would appreciate any help testing it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > work address: jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
> > > > > 
> > > > > TIA!
> > > > > 
> > > > > jonathan glass
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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