[Techtalk] spam filters

[Kai MacTane]

At 12:30 AM 10/24/2006, Maria McKinley wrote:

>I am currently using spamassasin to filter spam on our mail server. Lately 
>it has not been doing a very good job. I keep trying to update it, but I 
>always seem to be at the latest release. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Adding some (or all) of the rules from the SpamAssassin Rules Emporium has 
been very helpful for me. This will essentially add a bunch of custom rules 
that jack up the number of points most spam messages score; the core SA 
project considers these rules a bit too experimental to include in the core 
release, but I've had little or no trouble with them.

See http://www.rulesemporium.com/.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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