[SWLUG] help required with spamassassin

[Jonathan Wright]

bascule wrote:
> jonathan, would you expect detection to drop below 50% without dcc? since 
> thats what i'm getting, perhaps i have a useless set of rulesets for 
> rulesdujour? i got them from http://www.rulesemporium.com, i hope to upgrade 
> my server shortly and with a faster proc i could add some extra memory to it 
> but at the moment it only has 192mb, it's just a home box that doesn't do 
> very much

I did notice a big improvement when I added it to my server about 2 
years ago. I think the biggest downfall with SpamAssassin alone is the 
highly dynamic nature of Spam at the moment, and rules are not doing a 
very good job of catching them all.

As for RulesDuJour, you'll need to configure it to bring in more sets - 
the two or three that are included by default are not that good. I have

TRUSTED_RULESETS="TRIPWIRE SARE_ADULT SARE_OBFU0 SARE_OBFU1 SARE_URI0 
SARE_URI1 BOGUSVIRUS SARE_FRAUD SARE_FRAUD_PRE24X SARE_SPAMCOP_TOP200"

which does help.


At the moment, there are around 22k Spam mails in my Spam box - begins 
in December last year, which is around 95 a day. I probably get about 
5-10 extra in my Inbox a day at the moment, but that's only recently - 
there's a particular set that keeps coming in and SpamAssassin is having 
a hard time trapping it.

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