SpamAssasin rules and custom .cf files

[Stephen Swaney]

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> Behalf Of Jason Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:24 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: SpamAssasin rules and custom .cf files
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> Quick background here. Been running MS for almost 4 weeks now and it has
> been great and doing everything. I have not had to do a whole lot of
> tweaking with things because it was working so well (add to the fact im
> overworked as well :) )...
>
> Anyway, just this past weekend, I noticed that some spam was starting to
> slip through my Mail Gateway server, which prompted me to start thinking
> about tweaking SA a little bit.
>
> Anyway, like I said, have not had to do a lot of tweaking from the get go,
> but here is what I have.
> Setup my default SA rules: low scoring spam is at 5: high is at 10.
>
> I only downloaded to custom .cf files from
> www.rulesemporium.com
> anti-drug.cf
> chickenpox.cf
>
> Since additional spam was starting to leak through, I was going to start
> writing some custom rulesets for SA as well as maybe download a few
> rulesets.
>
> Was curious if anyone has a list of what rulesets work the best? Are there
> a list of favorite rulesets that seem to work well?
>
> Just thought i'd ask before I start downloading a few of these .cf files.
>

Do use my_rules_du_jour. It's a rules_du_jour wrapper script that updates
the rules_du_jour script. The rules_du_jour script will automatically keep
the extra rules you choose to use up-to-date. See:

        http://www.exit0.us/index.php/MyRulesDuJour

Instead of using the BIGEVIL ruleset check out:

        http://www.surbl.org/

Implementing SpamCopURI and the Bigevil_uri.cf (and dropping the bigeveil.cf
from rules_du_jour) has greatly increased accurate spam detection and
dropped memory requirements at our sites. Everyone I have compared notes
with is reporting very good results.

Be careful how many rules you run. You can run out of memory and start
swapping.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

> Thanks guys.
>
> Jason
>
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