[Cialug] SpamAssassin

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> I am working on setting up SpamAssassin and I was wondering if you would 
> be willing to share some of your experiences (positive and negative, 
> shortcuts and pitfalls) related to setting it up and getting it to work 
> right against spam.  I can get the installation information, etc from 
> the website, but I always like to find out the experience of other users 
> as they have worked with it.  Thought I would see what you all had 
> experienced.
> 

I used this for my Debian system:
http://flakshack.com/anti-spam/wiki/index.php?page=Debian

there is also one for OpenBSD:
http://flakshack.com/anti-spam/wiki/index.php?page=FairlySecureAntiSpamWiki

only 1-2 messages a day get past it (of about 100 (spams)), and 
Thunderbird catches those

-barry