Spamassassin tricks

[Eric "Shubes"]

Craig White wrote:
> 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

Thanks, Craig. I hope you didn't mind my little jab.

BTW, do you have a favorite list of RBLs that you use? Possibly 3 lists, I 
imagine. One for loose, one for moderate, and one for agressive blocking?

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-Eric 'shubes'