Hi, I am a total newb to spamassassin and some network tools you mentioned so I don't know how to do what you suggested. I looked up spamc and I see it's the client to spamd, but I didn't understand fully what I read.
Besides testing to see if spamassassin is working I wanted to increase 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, > > > > 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 Gmail, Yahoo, or anything else besides my local > > desktop email client - and send mail to myself making sure a specific > > 68-byte string is in the body of the email. > > > > My results have been that Gmail won't send it because their spam filter > > recognizes it. I've tried Yahoo and they did the same thing. I'm a > > regular user and I'm trying to apply this to my evolution application. > > Thanks for any clarification. > > > > Marc F. > > > just use spamc and feed a message manually, unless you want to test your MTA, > in which case you need to check the manual of your mta. > You can as well just send a message to yourself using telnet from your home > computer. a properly setup spamfilter will match XBL, no matter the content > of your message. Marc F.
