[opensuse] Help with spamassassin -- Sandy??
Sandy! I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam arsenal. I am finding a dearth of information. usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin is not much help. I have spamd up and running. I am confused by the reference to creating a .procmailrc in my home directory mentioned on the apache.spamassassin.org site and need a little help. Do you, or anyone for that matter, have a good link or some quick advise on getting this set up? I'll keep looking, but if you have a cheat-sheet, I'd be grateful for the help. Thanks -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
david rankin wrote:
Sandy!
I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam arsenal. I am finding a dearth of information. usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin is not much help. I have spamd up and running. I am confused by the reference to creating a .procmailrc in my home directory mentioned on the apache.spamassassin.org site and need a little help. Do you, or anyone for that matter, have a good link or some quick advise on getting this set up?
I'll keep looking, but if you have a cheat-sheet, I'd be grateful for the help.
Instead of struggling to whip up a home-made solution, why not use the nice anti spam package that comes bundled with suse linux? Go into yast->network services->mail server setup and click the box that says "enable spam/virus scanning". It configures amavisd-new to filter your mail with spamassassin and clamav. Once that's set up and working solidly, you can enhance the spam fighting effectiveness with the activation of razor and various 3rd party rulesets and plugins. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-09 at 23:43 -0600, david rankin wrote:
I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam arsenal. I am finding a dearth of information. usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin is not much help. I have spamd up and running. I am confused by the reference to creating a .procmailrc in my home directory mentioned on the apache.spamassassin.org site and need a little help.
If you use procmail, then you have to allow it to sort your email into your folders; it's a very powerfull tool. See more in its manual page (man procmail and procmailex). The recipe for spamd is like this (mutandis mutandi): :0fw | /usr/bin/spamc -s 350000 :0 a * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes $HOME/Mail/in_spam - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFpMRYtTMYHG2NR9URAkq0AJ4tmgaUDO6DEgp9tJqdZFDIVSImwwCfXeSU hglGaeDJmSkQ1uwQMfQWGUQ= =g8Jc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
david rankin wrote:
Sandy!
I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam arsenal. I am finding a dearth of information. usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin is not much help. I have spamd up and running. I am confused by the reference to creating a .procmailrc in my home directory mentioned on the apache.spamassassin.org site and need a little help. Do you, or anyone for that matter, have a good link or some quick advise on getting this set up?
I'll keep looking, but if you have a cheat-sheet, I'd be grateful for the help.
Hello David, I was away from the keyboard for a few days. (^-^) The easiest way to use spamassassin is through amavisd-new, which can be set up in yast. It should work, though I always set it up manually. Amavisd-new is a frameworks that calls spamassassin and virus scanners if you would like to use them (I definitely recommend to use a virus scanner if you use postfix as a frontend for windows clients). You don't need procmail to integrate amavisd-new. If you install amavisd-new from yast, set it to start as a service at boot time, and tell postfix to use amavisd-new as a content filter, you should be able to enjoy spamassassin fairly soon. Though there are some settings you should adjust to your installation and needs: - how many simultaneous content_filters are allowed (system resources) - should viruses/spam be deleted/tagged/quarantined - What to do about logging Sandy PS: suse-linux-e@suse.com has changed to opensuse@opensuse.org, the old address will be deactivated in a few month. The address can be used without any change from your side. -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-01-12 at 22:21 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
The easiest way to use spamassassin is through amavisd-new, which can be set up in yast. It should work, though I always set it up manually. Amavisd-new is a frameworks that calls spamassassin and virus scanners if you would like to use them (I definitely recommend to use a virus scanner if you use postfix as a frontend for windows clients).
The only thing I don't like about amavisd-new handling of spam, is that it doesn't do Bayesian filtering on a per-user basis; ie, with a diferent Bayes database for each user. At least, I don't know how to do it, I think it is not possible. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD4DBQFFqDzHtTMYHG2NR9URAmsDAJwN/rFpUwrhhoIOEJSKLd7+OzO7uwCYl1Tz FmmnMJK+sujWDIeUcI+uZw== =dQOt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2007-01-12 at 22:21 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
The easiest way to use spamassassin is through amavisd-new, which can be set up in yast. It should work, though I always set it up manually. Amavisd-new is a frameworks that calls spamassassin and virus scanners if you would like to use them (I definitely recommend to use a virus scanner if you use postfix as a frontend for windows clients).
The only thing I don't like about amavisd-new handling of spam, is that it doesn't do Bayesian filtering on a per-user basis; ie, with a diferent Bayes database for each user. At least, I don't know how to do it, I think it is not possible.
One answer would be to use Maia Mailguard, which is a heavily modified Amavisd-new. I think it offers Bayes databases per user and also a Quarantine that users can access. Though you won't get the latest Amavisd-new features, since it is build on Amavisd-new 2.2, as far as I know. Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Sandy Drobic wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2007-01-12 at 22:21 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
The easiest way to use spamassassin is through amavisd-new, which can be set up in yast. It should work, though I always set it up manually. Amavisd-new is a frameworks that calls spamassassin and virus scanners if you would like to use them (I definitely recommend to use a virus scanner if you use postfix as a frontend for windows clients).
The only thing I don't like about amavisd-new handling of spam, is that it doesn't do Bayesian filtering on a per-user basis; ie, with a diferent Bayes database for each user. At least, I don't know how to do it, I think it is not possible.
One answer would be to use Maia Mailguard, which is a heavily modified Amavisd-new. I think it offers Bayes databases per user and also a Quarantine that users can access.
Though you won't get the latest Amavisd-new features, since it is build on Amavisd-new 2.2, as far as I know.
Although mailguard does use a single bayes database, that is not really a problem in practice. The per user preferences, individual quarantine management facilities, the automated bayes training and reporting to razor, spamcop etc, put it over the top IMHO. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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From: "Sandy Drobic"
david rankin wrote:
Sandy!
I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam arsenal. I am finding a dearth of information. usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin is not much help. I have spamd up and running. I am confused by the reference to creating a .procmailrc in my home directory mentioned on the apache.spamassassin.org site and need a little help. Do you, or anyone for that matter, have a good link or some quick advise on getting this set up?
I'll keep looking, but if you have a cheat-sheet, I'd be grateful for the help.
Hello David,
I was away from the keyboard for a few days. (^-^)
The easiest way to use spamassassin is through amavisd-new, which can be set up in yast. It should work, though I always set it up manually. Amavisd-new is a frameworks that calls spamassassin and virus scanners if you would like to use them (I definitely recommend to use a virus scanner if you use postfix as a frontend for windows clients).
You don't need procmail to integrate amavisd-new. If you install amavisd-new from yast, set it to start as a service at boot time, and tell postfix to use amavisd-new as a content filter, you should be able to enjoy spamassassin fairly soon.
Though there are some settings you should adjust to your installation and needs:
- how many simultaneous content_filters are allowed (system resources) - should viruses/spam be deleted/tagged/quarantined - What to do about logging
Sandy
Sandy, Darn, I didn't catch your reply until after I setup spamassassin to work with procmail. I love it. I set up the LearnAsSpam folder to do the training and setup a cron job to call sa-learn and I'm catching about 65% after a week. Sure is good to have at least that much of the spam put in the spam folder ; - ) I'll check into amavisd-new! Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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