Re: Spamassassin tricks

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Author: Craig White
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Spamassassin tricks
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:10 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> 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) ;)
> > ----
> > 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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I think I'm in pretty aggressive mode...

relays.ordb.org,
opm.blitzed.org,
list.dsbl.org,
sbl.spamhaus.org,
cbl.abuseat.org,
dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net,

Craig

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