On 2015-07-17 16:49, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
We use maildir most of the time on our servers. Is that a problem or
are you referring to a mbox file on a client machine? I never ran
spamassassin on a client before. Sorry, just trying to understand your
test environment.
I usually am working and researching based on submissions. Your mail
flow might differ but mutt supports maildir.
Yea sorry I'm totally lost. It happens. Do you test on a production
server, other (test) server, or local mbox with Mutt as your client? By
submissions, do you mean customer submissions of FP and FN hits
submitted by users?
I looked for regression_tests.cf but I couldn't find it in any
directory on my server.
You likely need an svn checkout of trunk to get it.
Understood, that will probably get me on the right path.
Exactly. It's in addition to your cf files now and adds that
regression testing layer to see if they do what you expect. And if
you get a new spam in the same vein, you add the string, modify the
rule and see if it still works on your old patterns and the new, etc.
Wow, I can now obviously see how that can be useful. I will definitely
give it a try.
There really isn't much out there on the subject that is clear enough
for someone getting started. I'm not sure I'm Wiki material, but I may
try to put together a few basic howto's that interested folks can be
pointed to on occasions like this.
Anything is better than a vacuum!
All about combatting spam!
Yeppers!
Allen
am -at- sarules.com
