Spamassassin Setup

[Don]

Is there a way in which I can set up SpamAssassin to just tag messages as probable spam without including the verbose dialog within the message itself?

[TCH-Bruce]

I'm using this setup here for my Spam Assassin configuration and it's working quite well. Thanks ScooterB!

 

This will catch spam for all your email addresses.

 

I configured Spam Assassin to not rewrite the header. When I download the spam mail, the Spam Assassin report is what I see and the original email is an attachment.

 

Since I set it up this way, it has not caught one false positive so now I am thinking about just discarding the spam instead of looking at it.

[Don]

When I download the spam mail, the Spam Assassin report is what I see and the original email is an attachment.

Yep. I've got it working basically the same way except I don't want to see the SPAM report. I just want it to mark it as SPAM and be done with it.

[TCH-Bruce]

Well that's what I was doing with a program called K9 (keir.net/k9.html).

 

I didn't use Spam Assassin and was just using K9. This program sits between your email client and the mail server. When you check for mail it preprocesses it and just tags the header which you can filter on to move to another folder. It worked but I wanted to just eliminate the messages from coming in. That's where Spam Assassin is going to help. Now that I am satisfied that good email is not being tagged I will change the filter from moving them to the spam@**** address to just discard them.

 

I will keep K9 running between my email client and the server to catch the ones that Spam Assassin misses.

[TCH-Don]

Wow, Bruce, Thanks to you and ScooterB!

I just enabled Spam Assassin set it to rewrite the subject,

and set up a filter in outlook express to move the

e-mails with the subject of "***SPAM***"

to a spam folder.

So far its caught all but one empty one Thumbs Up

[TCH-Bruce]

Don, I had to do something. I get anywhere from 250-400 SPAM messages a day. It was becoming unmanagable. These are my work accounts and cannot be changed for fear of losing business. So this solution is working great so far. At least until the spammers find a way around Spam Assassin.

[Don]

Ahhh! Figured out what I needed to do. It's amazing how much reading the SpamAssassin documentation helps.

[TCH-Bruce]

It's amazing how much reading the SpamAssassin documentation helps.

Yes, sometimes documentation can be our friend.

 

Glad you got it working to your liking.

Edited April 7, 2004 by TCH-Bruce