[mdlug] how did you learn Spam Assassin? (and sendmail?)

[Carl T. Miller]

Dean Durant wrote:
> The system we have at work is always completely bogged down.   It gets
> stuck.   Emails back up, and nothing gets through.   Spamassassin is
> installed and seems to work some of the time.   The system also runs
> sendmail and clamav.   In particular, I'd like to keep certain hostnames
> from even connecting.  I can do a ps -ef | grep sendmail and if some
> smtp server in the czech republic or china or wherever is connecting, I
> can see it.   I know it is rarely if ever sending legitimate mail.   Can
> I tell sendmail to just drop those incoming smtp requests?
> The spam rules don't seem to be working at all.

Dean, take a look at ASSP at http://assp.sourceforge.net

It does everything you want without needing to write rules.
You just let it know when it blocks good mail or passes bad
mail.  It's that easy.  And it works.  And after it is trained
it rarely misidentifies email.  You need to watch it closely
for the first hour, and check frequently for the next few
days.  After a few weeks it becomes extremely reliable at
sorting email.

c