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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Hello, if you are fluent with writing rules, blocking spam, and keeping
> the email coming through without many false positives, how did you get
> to that point?   Just online resources, and tinkering?   Are there any
> books?

Ditch all the complex wizardly stuff is my advice.  

I've got a network with ~200 users and we get very little SPAM.  I
publish my address EVERYWHERE on the internet, I don't hide it at all.
And if I get a dozen SPAM messages it is a really bad day.

Edge device, a nothing computer with 256Mb of RAM, runs greylist +
noattach + SPAMCop, and relays surviving messages into the real SMTP
server.  The real SMTP server runs anti-virus and only quarantines 2 to
4 messages a day.

Occasionally I've had to add a domain to the greylist because their SMTP
servers are broken, but beyond that there is no fiddling or maintenance.

> The system we have at work is always completely bogged down.  

Isn't that the purpose of SpamAssasin?
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Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator
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