Spam Question

Hi,

I'm running Spamassassin on my mailserver. I have a cron job that
runs sa update to update the rules. However, I'm still getting 50
SPAM messages a day???

I thought this was supposed to prevent all that from getting
through.......

Can anyone offer some advice?

Thank you,

John

Re: Spam Question

Mtek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Spamassassin on my mailserver. I have a cron job that
> runs sa update to update the rules. However, I'm still getting 50
> SPAM messages a day???
>
> I thought this was supposed to prevent all that from getting
> through.......
>
> Can anyone offer some advice?
>
> Thank you,
>
> John

Nothing is 100%

Re: Spam Question

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Mtek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running Spamassassin on my mailserver. I have a cron job that
> runs sa update to update the rules. However, I'm still getting 50
> SPAM messages a day???
>
> I thought this was supposed to prevent all that from getting
> through.......
>
> Can anyone offer some advice?

Sure....

1. Pick a better place for SpamAssassin advice. comp.mail.sendmail is
for discussion of the Sendmail MTA. SpamAssassin is not Sendmail,
although you can hook SpamAssassin into Sendmail in a variety of ways.
General "SpamAssassin is not working" issues are better directed to
SpamAssassin-specific fora. See
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists

2. SpamAssassin is not a "switch it on and spam vanishes" magic wand. It
is a toolkit. It *can* be extremely effective, but if you don't know or
want to know much about spam or about how SA works or about how the
configuration choices available to you with SpamAssassin can have mixed
effects, maybe SpamAssassin is not the best choice for you.

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Now where did I hide that website...

Re: Spam Question

On 2008-04-14, Mtek wrote:

> I'm running Spamassassin on my mailserver. I have a cron job that
> runs sa update to update the rules. However, I'm still getting 50
> SPAM messages a day???
>
> I thought this was supposed to prevent all that from getting
> through.......
>
> Can anyone offer some advice?

Nothing will be 100% effective at stopping spam. However, this sounds
more like a SpamAssassin issue than a sendmail issue. Have you tried the
SpamAssassin mailing list?

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)