good basic setup for mailscanner and spam assassin

[Julian Field]

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At 16:40 02/09/2004, you wrote:
>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
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>Spam List = ORDB-RBL Infinite-Monkeys

Infinite-Monkeys died a long time ago. Remove it or else all your mail will
be marked as spam!

>Use SpamAssassin = yes
>
>Max SpamAssassin Size = 50000

You can get away with 30000 quite easily. Makes SA faster on big messages.

>SpamAssassin Timeout = 30

SA has a bunch of internal 30 second timeouts. So if you set this to 40,
you will still get SA results when some internal test times out.

>Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List = yes

Only worth doing if you use the High-Scoring configuration options.

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