How SpamAssassin Works ? How to improve Spam Detection

[Farid Izem <fa...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I'm new to this mailling lists and to SpamAssassin too.
In the past mounths, i have built severals smtp gatewas using the followings :
   - Postfix 2.13
   - Amavisd-new (The lastest Stable Version)
   - Clamav (0.80)
   - Mail::SpamAssassin (Lastest Version)

Every works great, no crash, memory and cpu consuming stable !!!

Everyone over Internet says that SpamAssassin is great product to fight Spam?
The result on my smtp gateways does not shown the same result. 
So i'm considering my configuration is uncomplete !!

i'm trying to improve spam detection and i have some questions : 

(Silly question but i cannot answer it) 

Do Mail::SpamAssassin need further version of SpamAssassin (Core
Distribution) to work ? Do i need to install SpamAssassin Core
Distribution on my System ?
My conclusion is yes ?? 

In order to improve SpamAssassin, i 've put CustomRules from
SpamAssassin Web Site in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf ?? Is it
correct ???? I think yes
but confirmation is welcome ?

With this things, i can fight complete my configuration and fight the spam !!!

Best Regards,

Farid

Re: How SpamAssassin Works ? How to improve Spam Detection

[Martin Hepworth <ma...@solid-state-logic.com>]

Farid

Yes you need to add in quite a few extra rules I find.

www.rulesemporium.com/rules.html

is a good place to start.
Yes you are correct to put the local rules in that file (or directory). 
Don't forget to restart spamd/Amavis/MailScanner/whatever-calls-SA in 
order for the new rules to kick in.

Also using the URI-RBLs is good as well, make sure you have the Net::DNS 
perl module installed (at least version 0.48) and the plugin configured 
in init.pre.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Farid Izem wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to this mailling lists and to SpamAssassin too.
> In the past mounths, i have built severals smtp gatewas using the followings :
>    - Postfix 2.13
>    - Amavisd-new (The lastest Stable Version)
>    - Clamav (0.80)
>    - Mail::SpamAssassin (Lastest Version)
> 
> Every works great, no crash, memory and cpu consuming stable !!!
> 
> Everyone over Internet says that SpamAssassin is great product to fight Spam?
> The result on my smtp gateways does not shown the same result. 
> So i'm considering my configuration is uncomplete !!
> 
> i'm trying to improve spam detection and i have some questions : 
> 
> (Silly question but i cannot answer it) 
> 
> Do Mail::SpamAssassin need further version of SpamAssassin (Core
> Distribution) to work ? Do i need to install SpamAssassin Core
> Distribution on my System ?
> My conclusion is yes ?? 
> 
> In order to improve SpamAssassin, i 've put CustomRules from
> SpamAssassin Web Site in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf ?? Is it
> correct ???? I think yes
> but confirmation is welcome ?
> 
> With this things, i can fight complete my configuration and fight the spam !!!
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Farid

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