Spam getting through...

[Rick Bragg]

On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:08 +0200, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
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> Rick Bragg wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I'm basically a newbe with just a few small domains.  I set up
> | Mailscanner with sendmail/ spamassassin/ clamAV and it seems great
> | except tons of spam are getting through.  They are mostly all marked as
> | {Spam?} and are all delivered.
> |
> | Here is in my MailScanner.conf file
> |
> | Spam List = SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-HTTP SORBS-SOCKS SORBS-MISC SORBS-SMTP
> | SORBS-WEB SORBS-SPAM SORBS-BLOCK SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-DUL SORBS-RHSBL CBL
> | DSBL spamhaus.org spamhaus-XBL spamhaus-PBL NJABL
> |
> | Spam Domain List = SORBS-BADCONF SORBS-NOMAIL
> |
> |
> | Do these look OK? How can I test these out?  Any advice to a newbe as to
> | what I should do?
> 
> Read the book.
> 
> First off I think you are using way too many lists here. It will cost
> you performance and speed of processing.
> 
> How are your messages classified? What scores do they get in general
> from SpamAssassin? Did you tune your bayesian database?
> 
> Hugo.
> 


Thanks Hugo,
I am new to this and would like to get a grasp on managing all these
components.  How should I go about choosing which "Spam List" and "Spam
Domain List" services to use?  Also, I'm not familiar with how to tune
bayesian.  

Thanks
Rick


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