[ILUG] My spamassassin seems tired ...

[Conor Wynne]

> On Sat 23 Apr 2005 19:08, Rick Moen wrote:
>> > I've noticed that spamassassin does not seem to be doing
>> > as well as it used to on my laptop,
>>
>> Well, try updating the ruleset files.
>> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets
>
> Thanks very much.
> That URL told me all I need to know.
> I don't know how I got so old without knowing more about spamassassin.
> I guess I always assumed I could trust it to do its work, like my TDs.
>
> I've installed antidrug.cf , and will see how that deals
> with these nice men concerned (rightly) about my physical state.
> (That accounts for about 70% of the spam that gets through to me, I
> think.)

I've done the same - just today - and I have hopefully done it corectly.

I simply did:
# spamassassin --lint *.cf
$ sudo service spamassassin restart ; sudo spamass-milter restart

Is that right?

>> And don't forget to train the bayesian filters, from time to time.  Some
>> people autofeed that feed that filter spam from spamtrap addresses, and
>> ham from the despammed incoming mailboxes.
>
> I do actually feed missed spam automatically to Mr Bayes.
> I'm not quite sure how I could automatically feed ham to him,
> as it would seem to mean keeping new mail separate,

I have a HAM and SPAM folder on the IMAP server, I then manually move
relevant HAM/SPAM to the folders, to which a cronjob runs:

sa-learn --spam --mbox mail/SPAM ; sa-learn --ham --mbox mail/HAM

Works for me.

> whereas at the moment I filter it (with kmail)
> into about a dozen folders.
>
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Regards
Conor.