Yea, SpamAssassin is working pretty good for me. In the month or so I've been running it, I've had one false positive. I whitelisted the address (it was one from my own list server) and haven't had any more since. Although, I've been getting a few spams sneaking in under the wire. I've been slowly cranking down the "required_hits" as I get a better idea of how legitimate emails are ranking. I set the SA header to show for all emails so I can look at the rank for legit ones as well (always_add_headers 1 and always_show_report 1). That makes the headers pretty long when I reply so if an email client doesn't filter them it's necessary to scroll through all that stuff. I have my required hits down to 4.5 now. I get a spam every day or two that rates really low and there's no way to filter it. I ended up specifying the HTML tests to rank higher since I don't get many legit emails with a lot of HTML in them and the ones that are sneaking in under the wire usually have a lot (i.e. score HTML_80_90 2.0). That has helped reduce the false negatives.
I get about 10 spams a day. I'm not using autolearn or any of the external data bases like Pyzor or Razor. You can use "setterm -blank 0" to keep the Linux console from blanking. In X you can use "xset s off" - Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:06 PM Subject: [RLUG] SpamAssassin Works Too Well I installed SpamAssassin on Postfix today. It works eerily well. I didn't realize that I was unconsciously taking some comfort from all those spam messages, because they provided feedback every 30-90 seconds that the e-mail system is working. Now my inbox is quiet as a morgue, except for occasional legitimate messages. It's a little creepy, really. Now I keep top running so I can see all the busy little spamassassin processes scurrying about, doing their jobs. Anybody know how to turn off monitor power save? -- Eric Robinson _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
