Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm still using version 2.63 of spamassassin, and I now saw that 3.0.4 > is out. I'm using it for filtering my private mail, so it's not like I > need some corporate-scale features. > > So those of you who are already using versions 3.0.x: Is there any > significant change making an upgrade worthy? I simply don't want to play > with a stable setup which deals with my communication with the world...
I've upgraded mine to 3.0.3 (Debian Stable), and there was some reduction in spam, not something big though so unless you have floods of spam escaping the assassin I wouldn't bother with it. The one thing I did do and made my life so much better is grey-listing, it's a controversial method, but for now it just works. The idea is that you disallow the first mail and wait for a retry after 5 minutes or so, you allow the retry. Legitimate mail is allowed while spam which is not retried is dropped. For identification of an e-mail it uses the triplet of sender-receiver-smtpIP. I'm using postgrey and it has auto-learn so after a few successful passes a mail server is cleared for retransmit bypassing the grey listing. Installation on Debian Stable is easy enough, a simple change to the postfix setup and you're done (after apt-get install postgrey). It works for me but YMMV. Baruch -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
