KMail and spam

[Stratos Laspas]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Sunday 23 July 2006 09:06, Ron Morse wrote:
>   
>> On Sunday 23 July 2006 05:14, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
>>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I've set up KMail with spamassasin to fight spam, but I'm
>>> not very happy about it's efficiency. It only flags about
>>> 40-50% of the spam as spam. I've configured spamassassin
>>> with razor2 and dcc.
>>>
>>> Is this the best I can hope for or have I done something
>>> wrong in configuring spamassassin?
>>>       
>
>
>   
>> Doesn't Spamassassin have to be "trained?" 
>>     
>
> Trained and synced.  By default, the kmail "mark as spam" filters do not sync 
> new spam characteristics to the main database.  This is for speed.  Every 
> once in a while, go to the command line and type
>
> sa-learn --sync
>
> This will sync your training to spamassassin so that the training is used.
>
>   
Additionally, you could edit your spamassasin conf file and lower the
"threshhold". I have set mine to 2.5!! And sync from time to time, as
described above.

You could also configure bogofilter rules to run alongside with
spamassasin, through the wizard.