Re: [PLUG] SpamAssassin. Go get it.

[Marc Soda <marc@aspre.net>]

I can attest to that, SpamAssassin is incredibly effective.

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:26:59 -0400
Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org> wrote:

> I've been running SpamAssassin (via procmail) with Postfix for a few
> weeks now, and all I can say is, "wow, this thing rocks!".
> 
> http://spamassassin.taint.org/
> 
> I *used* to get about 20 spams a day in my inbox.  I'm down to 1 or 2.
> I've got my "score" set to 5, which the FAQ claims will generate some
> false positives.  The good news?  I've only seen one false positive,
> and found out that it was AWFULLY hard to create a message that would
> satisfy the scoring mechanism.
> 
> SpamAssassin, rather than insantly nuking your spams will instead add
> some headers and a bit of text at the top of the message.  Here's my
> procmail rule:
> 
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Flag.*YES
> $HOME/mail/spam
> 
> Every few days, I take a quick glance through that folder, and delete
> (usually) dozens of spams in a couple of seconds.
> 
> In short, try it out, your mailbox will thank you for it.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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Marc Soda
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