KMail and spam

OOzy Pal oozypal at gmail.com
Tue Jul 25 08:00:13 UTC 2006


On 7/25/06, Stratos Laspas <stratos at laspas.gr> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Where is the spamassassin conf file? Isn't it on the server i.e. (the
host company)?

I think this subject makes a good wiki tutorial--spamassassin and kmail, etc.

Any talented writer?

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OOzy
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