Hello all. Ive been lurking for a week or two hoping to learn something, but I think my starting knowledge is too far behind!
I have a Redhat server running sendmail 8.12 that can pre-installed with spamassassin. Ive never used spamassassin before, and Im a sysadmin who going by the trial by fire method currently. When I fired it up and made it live the thresh hold was too low, and spamassassin was catching loads of ham. I put it up to 15 till I could figure things out. I think ideally Id like to start by filtering server wide then perhaps moving to a user controlled environment. I have noticed spamassassin is making user_prefs when they dont exist. My first question is: any way to turn specific rules on/off easily? Where do I do this? /usr/share/spamassassin has some conf files, should I comment things out there? I think that for an isp situation the rules need to be a bit more lax, as there is a plethora of different email coming in at all times, but at the same time i gotta get the viagra crap out of here. I have looked through the wiki and the man pages, but I end up staring at them not sure where to start. anyone help out? EJD
