I doubt anybody here is running spamassassin successfully w/o some additional add-ons such as various RBLs, URIBLs, custom made rules, etc. Some things I reject outright at the MTA, and what makes it through that then has to run a gauntlet of spamassassin rules of all stripes. Since it's so easy to adjust scores, when you add a new series of tests that you're not sure about, it's probably a reasonable practice to change the default scoring to something small - .01 maybe - then let it percolate for a few days. After it's seen a bunch of messages, check to see which rules hit, and then bump up the scores to levels are in line with your needs. There's virtually no risk in that but it does take time...
...Kevin -- Kevin Miller Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept. 155 South Seward Street Juneau, Alaska 99801 Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4588 Registered Linux User No: 307357 -----Original Message----- From: Junk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2017 12:19 PM To: Kevin Miller Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: FIlter I do have scripts to go through 2 folders daily spam % ham but i noticed that although i add tons of messages to spam and some to ham its not enough to catch spam without URIBL or others like Razors. >> Now, back to my ordinal question. >> Is >> >> http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Spam_DNS_Lists#Spam_Assassi >> n_Examples good addition to fight spam or its DB is same as >> URIBL?Glad you got it sorted. > > I've added the hostkarma rules from junkmailfilter.com to my local > ruleset a couple years ago and they do help some. The magic in > spamassassin is lots of small scores add up to big scores so every > little bit helps, in both directions. In the last 30 days it's pushed > 44 messages over the edge. Not a lot, but every little bit helps. > > Long story short, it's worth adding then watching. Tailor the scores > as necessary to tune your system if the defaults aren't a good match > for your corpus of messages. > > ...Kevin > -- > Kevin Miller > Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept. > 155 South Seward Street > Juneau, Alaska 99801 > Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4588 Registered Linux User No: > 307357 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Junk [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2017 9:55 AM > To: Kevin Miller > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: FIlter > > Amazon does not block the dns but the URIBL blocks the requests coming > from the amazon subnet. I pointed the spamassasin to the server i run > somewhere else and i used the port 1053 as a workaround as ATT blocks > incoming udp 53. > > So 1053 on my firewall forwards to 53 dns server. > > Now spamassassin is happy and URIBL db works. > Thx for a tip about the DNS. > > > > > >
