Ok, here are my lessons learned from my bad experience last month :).So far so good. I went ahead and let it learn stuff from this year only, and it's already blocking e-mails that would've otherwise been allowed through. That's a good start.
1) Get both good and bad emails. 2) Do not get too old of a folder of SPAM/HAM as it will weight older dates/patterns too high. 3) Make sure you have more than the 1000 emails of both (or change your numbers in /etc/mail/spamasassisin/sa-mimedefang.cf
Here is my settings for a small site. Make the...the cow spit milk? ...the lama to spit? ...the monkey to sing? ...the girl to make coffee?
[ and yes, I stole your configuration from a previous message already. :) Thanks for sharing it though, it's doing it's job, or at least, I think it is. I haven't had any indication that it's failing yet...]
How often to you run sa-learn?
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IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130
Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6
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