Spamassassin tricks

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:26 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 16:23 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> >> Anyone have any good spamassassin tricks while I'm on the topic?
> >> I have mine set to change the header of anything over a 4.0 but it is very 
> >> rare that anything is given over a 4.0. Even spam will only get a few points 
> >> over a 4.0
> >>
> >> What are people doing to get a 20.0 as some tutorials say to set it at?
> > ---
> > use MailScanner - let it do the heavy lifting...you get a LOT of extras
> > too.
> > (or mime-defang though I like MailScanner). These are wrappers around
> > anti-virus/spamassassin/ and do all sorts of phishing/etc.
> > 
> > http://www.mailscanner.info/
> > 
> > Craig
>  a
> No doubt good advice, Craig. However, you failed to answer the question.
> (couldn't resist) ;)
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OK - SARE and RDJ rules du jour are the popular ones.

to be honest, after greylisting & RBL blocks, spamassassin 3.1.5 seems
to get just about everything that gets past the first 2 (which isn't
much). I haven't implemented either SARE or RDJ but I keep my eye on
them just in case...

Craig