Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Boxtrapper

date posted 21st November 2007 13:12

Quoting Rob Owen [EMAIL REMOVED]

>
> After many recommendations I have activated SpamAssassin.
>
> I have left the defaults. The score is set at 5.0, should I leave it at
> that? It says that 5 is a little aggressive.

I have it set up so that anything with a score over 4.0 is moved to a =20
spam folder. I never check the contents of that folder. I should =20
probably just send it all to /dev/null.

Anything with a score between 1 and 4 gets moved to a "maybespam" =20
folder. I check this regularly. I find occasional mailings from web =20
sites I'm signed up with and (most annoyingly) mail from the few =20
people I know who use Yahoo! email addresses. But the vast majority of =20
it is spam.

Whoever is telling you that 5.0 is aggressive might be a little out of =20
date. Spamassassin gets better all the time. I'd certainly recommend =20
setting it to 4.

> I have also set it to delete any messages marked as spam, is this
> recommended?

I'd certainly have the confidence to do that. Given that you haven't =20
tried Spamassassin before, I'd recommend just letting it add spam =20
headers to your mail and then using some filtering process (I use =20
procmail) to move marked mail to a spam folder that you can check =20
occasionally until you're confident that Spamassassin works for you.

Dave...