[ILUG] My spamassassin seems tired ...

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sat 23 Apr 2005 19:08, Rick Moen wrote:
> > I've noticed that spamassassin does not seem to be doing
> > as well as it used to on my laptop,
>
> Well, try updating the ruleset files.
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets

Thanks very much.
That URL told me all I need to know.
I don't know how I got so old without knowing more about spamassassin.
I guess I always assumed I could trust it to do its work, like my TDs.

I've installed antidrug.cf , and will see how that deals
with these nice men concerned (rightly) about my physical state.
(That accounts for about 70% of the spam that gets through to me, I think.)

> And don't forget to train the bayesian filters, from time to time.  Some
> people autofeed that feed that filter spam from spamtrap addresses, and
> ham from the despammed incoming mailboxes.

I do actually feed missed spam automatically to Mr Bayes.
I'm not quite sure how I could automatically feed ham to him,
as it would seem to mean keeping new mail separate,
whereas at the moment I filter it (with kmail)
into about a dozen folders.


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