[TriLUG] Spamassassin question - Bayesian filtering

[Jeremy Portzer]

Hi David,

Spamassassin is actually amazingly easy to get going.  I just downloaded
the SRPMs from spamassassin.org, rebuilt them for the TriLUG server
(rpmbuild --rebuild filename.src.rpm), and installed the resulting
binary RPMS.  Then I just did "service spamassasin start" and made the
.procmailrc modifications I mentioned already.  The default setup, which
is what I wanted for the TriLUG servers, doesn't touch normal mail going
through sendmail, but only gets "activated" when called from procmail.

After the first email gets run through SA, it will create some
preferences files and other stuff in ~/.spamassassin.  See
http://www.spamasssin.org/ for the documentation and gory details.

Hope this helps,
Jeremy

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 13:45, Turnpike Man wrote:
> Jeremy,
> 
> I'd love to get some hands on just getting started with Spamassassin!!  I've
> been running sendmail for over a year now at home for my xyz.net domain and I
> don't really use it for anything on a daily basis, hardly even close friends
> b/c I don't wanna have tons of spam... which is inevitible once you start using
> a certain email address.  I setup my roommate with an email account, he uses it
> often, but I don't use it yet. (thus still my yahoo account)  Not being an
> expert in RTFM (I learn better by show and tell)... where does one get a start!
>  I'd like to be able to use sendmail in production at my place of work one day
> too, and without something like Spamassassin, that would be hard, we get so
> much junk on our generic accounts like info, webmaster, recruiter, etc.  I'll
> be at the meeting tonite, hopefully to formalize my membership into TriLUG. 
> See ya there.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> --- Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Good afternoon folks,
> > 
> > I've been playing around with the new Spamassassin, version 2.50, which
> > includes Bayesian filtering (see http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html for
> > the paper about this, mentioned at ESR's talk, and see the man page for
> > the "sa-learn" command).
> >
> <<snip>>
> > 
> > If anyone else is interested in testing SpamAssassin, it is installed on
> > the TriLUG mail server now.  Just put something like this in your
> > .procmailrc :
> > 
> > :0fw
> > | /usr/bin/spamc
> > 
> > Then your spam will be marked with the X-Spam-Status header, which you
> > can filter on if you like.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jeremy
> > 
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