[TriLUG] SpamAssassin is wonderful...

[Benjamin Reed]

Jon Carnes [jonc at haht.com] wrote:
> I grabbed this off the Mandrake Forum a couple of weeks ago, and I've been 
> using SpamAssassin ever since.  I have to say that it is quite awesome.  I 
> still get a kick out of how well it ferrets out Spam!  It tags well over 
> 80% of my spam with absolutely no false positives (so far).

Yup... I really love spamassassin.

> SpamAssassin can act as a Procmail filter and can be added to an individual 
> by editing (or creating) their .procmailrc file and adding the following 
> lines:
> 
>    :0fw
>    | spamassassin -P

Even better... there's a daemon version and a *very* lightweight client, so
you can run a single global spamassassin daemon and have every user on your
system do spam-checking without the overhead of starting the perl interpreter
for every mail message.  It seems to be really well done, and the heuristics
are very configurable.

-- 
Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick (ranger at befunk.com) http://ranger.befunk.com/
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