On Monday, Oct 14, 2002, at 02:16 Canada/Mountain, Nancy McGough wrote:
On 14 Oct 2002 PUTH CHAN CHOTH (choth(_at_)of(_dot_)forum(_dot_)org(_dot_)kh)
wrote:
How can I know the Spamassassin is up and running and do what I want
to protect
against spam? Thank you so much for your assistance.
You could temporarily set
required_hits -99.00
in your SA user_prefs file. This way pretty much everything will
be SA tagged so you can be sure that SA is working. After you
test that, set it back to whatever you want required_hits to be
and then use pine to bounce (B) a spam message to that system and
see if it is handled the way you expect. Note that the process of
bouncing (redirecting) a spam message will probaly lower its spam
score because SA will see that it was routed by someone (you)
who's not a known bad guy.
the SA install includes a sample spam file and directions on hwo to
send it into your mailstream. That's the best way to be sure SA is
working.
more README in the Spamassasin source yeilds:
spamassassin -t < sample-nonspam.txt > nonspam.out
spamassassin -t < sample-spam.txt > spam.out
and
- Send yourself sample-spam.txt and make sure it gets tagged:
/usr/sbin/sendmail yourusername < sample-spam.txt
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only ashtray.
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