Re: [cobalt-users] RE: SPAM FILTER ON A RAQ4

[denial <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:50 11/07/2003 +0100, you wrote:

> > I went with a combination of RBL and SpamAssassin. I
> > went through the
> > instructions found here:
> >
> > http://bluebird.sinauer.com/~morse/cobalt/
> >
> > With some modicum of command line skills you can
> > follow the same
> > instructions. Noticed they were for raq3 but worked
> > equally well on a raq4
> > for me. Have not tested on the 550 yet. Also require
> > some digging around
> > SpamAssassin site to create the correct filters.
>
> What kind of filters are you referring to at the SpamAssassin
> website, do you have url of filters?

Seems I found the information the hard way.

Once installed consult:

/usr/local/src/spamassassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55/rules/user_prefs.template

Also look at:

http://spamassassin.org/tests.html

I edited my preferences to include whitelists of addresses that will never 
be tagged as spam, some blacklists to specify some to always block, and 
changed the default tagging to TAGGEDSPAM rather than SPAM.

Edited

/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

I get a lot of Japanese character set mails through the server so wanted to 
make sure these were not blocked.

During the installation I found it took quite a while to find all the 
needed perl modules and I also recompiled perl in the process to a newer 
version so had to go grab even more perl modules from cpan afterwards to 
make sure that Open WebMail 1.81 worked and to fix the admin GUI.

I can't remember all the perl modules now but if you have any problems drop 
me a mail and I can go through my .bash_history.

        Dan