Fake MX Record(s) Trick

2008-06-23 Thread Marc Ferguson
Hi, I'm a linux noob and a spam assassin noob so please reply in simplified language. Thanks. I saw on the wiki a trick to use fake mx records in order to weed out spam ( http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/OtherTricks). I'm using Evolution at home and on my laptop and I have the spamassassin

Re: How do I Test SpamAssassin

2008-05-16 Thread Marc Ferguson
the filters. I don't know if i'm saying it right. Mail does go to my junk box but i'd like more mail in my junkbox. I do not have full control over my mail server. Thanks. On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 11:32 +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2008 09:13:28 Marc Ferguson wrote: Hi

Re: How do I Test SpamAssassin

2008-05-16 Thread Marc Ferguson
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 22:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Please don't top-post. It makes it much harder to read. Marc Ferguson wrote: Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: just use spamc and feed a message manually, unless you want to test your MTA, in which case you need to check the manual

How do I Test SpamAssassin

2008-05-11 Thread Marc Ferguson
Hi, I looked on the wiki to see how do I test my installation of spamassassin. I'm confused because it's not really giving me a method that works right out-of-the-box. It looks like the preferred method is The GTUBE. Based on that page it looks like I would use an external mail client, such as