Irina wrote:
Thank you all for answering me.
I found one link that may be very interesting
(http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets)
I first should mention, I am a new SUBSCRIBER, not a new user to SA. I have
been using it for a couple of years. Over that period I have created
thousands of LOCAL_ rules (if I go and grep on describe or score in
/etc/mail/spamassassin.... :-). If you only saw my MISSPELLES. The bad
thing I was not writing it professionally, as I used \d+ for example, or too
many | inside one rule. In short, they work, but not polished.
What I found that creating own rules can be so competitive with a new spam
coming in. As you know spam messages change every minute or so. What I am
trying to achieve? Free up my time. There are few things I've thought
about.
I have been collecting spam (before discarding) for almost a month. Wrote a
little program to rewrite LOCAL_ rules that were found and will not recreate
the ones that were not caught. And I am about to redo all.
Next, I thought if there is a place for automatic uploading rules, then may
be notifying me and I would reload SA. That is what I asked in my email.
It is bad that I want to free up my time by using somebody else's rules.
Sorry, but may be someone shares.
I also have NOT used Bayes. Don't know how safe it is. Would I just submit
a spam message and I don't have to anything else, or ham the same way? Not
sure.
Thank you again.
Let me know what you think.
Hi Irina,
I'm an ex-NAS user myself (left because the ISP I work for now had DSL
for me for free, no other reason.).
You should not feel bad for using the RDJ rulesets (other people's
rules) and you should also look into using Bayes as it can help
dramatically.
I hope you are also using the SURBL network tests at that will also
catch about 80% of the spam that comes in.
If you need any help with anything SA related, feel free to ask and you
can call me directly (I'm up by King's Forest).
Say Hi to Gary and Tim for me and tell Gary that I found a good home for
the servers I offered him.
Regards,
Rick
