spamassassin config questions

[Ugo Bellavance]

John McKee wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  SpamAssassin was installed, but a while back I
> attempted to use dSpam and that was getting in the way.
>
> One more question(s).  Spam is still getting through.  Is there a log of
> spamassassin's actions?  In the webmin module>"what to do with spam" it
> currently says "deliver" for spam actions.  Should this be set to
> something else?  If so, what?

No, deliver is ok if you just want to tag and deliver.  The log is, by
default in the maillog.  There are options in the MailScanner.conf file
that allows you to control how it is logged, but I think the defaults
are OK.

Spam will always get through to some extent, you can probably improve
MailScanner's spam filtering, but you'll never catch 100% of the spam.

I suggest you read the MAQ page if you're beginning with MailScanner
(see the footer of this message).  It will help you understand many
things, including how to catch more spam.

>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 14:14, Julian Field wrote:
>
>>At 20:54 18/05/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>>Good afternoon,
>>>
>>>  I've had MailScanner installed since february and I've been very
>>>pleased with it.  Up to now, I've been using it to strip all attachments
>>>of harmful types and its worked wonders.
>>>
>>>  Now I'm trying to config Spamassassin and not getting far.  Using the
>>>webmin module for MailScanner>spamassassin section, I've set the "Use
>>>Spamassassin" to Yes.
>>>
>>>  Is that it?  Seems too easy.
>>>
>>>  I've searched the archive items to no avail.  Is there a standard
>>>spamassassin config that people on the mailing list are most happy with?
>>
>>You don't say you have installed SpamAssassin.
>>         perl -MCPAN -e shell
>>         install Mail::SpamAssassin
>>         quit
>>         service MailScanner restart
>>
>>Otherwise, if you have installed it, check your maillog for any errors. But
>>otherwise, that's all you need to do. There are extra things you can do to
>>improve its spam detection rate, but that is all you need to get started.
>>--
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