good basic setup for mailscanner and spam assassin

David Ballengee davidb at UNIQUEPHOTO.COM
Thu Sep 2 16:40:32 IST 2004


Just stated using mail scanner, and spam assassin.  What is a general good
setup to start filtering spam.

right now here are my setting for

MailScanner.conf

Spam Checks = yes

Spam List = ORDB-RBL Infinite-Monkeys

Spam List Timeout = 10

Is Definitely Not Spam = /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules

Use SpamAssassin = yes

Max SpamAssassin Size = 50000

Required SpamAssassin Score = 7

SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no

SpamAssassin Prefs File = /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

SpamAssassin Timeout = 30

Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List = yes

Always Include SpamAssassin Report = no


spam.assassin.prefs.conf

skip_rbl_checks 1

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