[Gllug] Testing spam filter

[Marcus Taylor]

Tim Porter wrote:

> Aside from signing up to loads of dodgy sites all over the net is there
> a way to test that a spam filter is working properly?
> 

You should be able to configure you mail server+scanner to report the 
spam status in the headers if the mail. This should show you if it was 
checked and maybe what it was checked against. If it has a score 
[spamassin] this could also be in there.

In my experience you just have to try it - if you get spam - it's not 
working.

I send mail to a qurantine which we check every now and then to be sure.

If you are using spamassain you can send a mail containing a certain 
string which should always be marked as spam:

http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/

Cheers
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