Russian Spam mail

[nobleclem]

So is there anyway I can get rid of it? Its getting ridiculous.

I have the latest spam assassin but was wondering if there is any settings I can tweak to get this stuff to be caught.

Most of the messages seem to be just getting by at 3.5-4.5 points.

 

[pfft]

if spamassassin is running fine, you have to teach spamassassin what is spam and what is ham (legitamate email). once it learns spamassassin is great...

 

[nobleclem]

and how do I do that? I have heard turning autolearn on can make the system bogg down.

 

[pfft]

you should be able to `sa-learn --ham x` as well as `sa-learn --spam x`... man sa-learn for more info.

I would just set spamassassin so it marks spam for high score mail. And slowly teach what is spam and ham and it'll eventually realize it. Also you can look into razor & dcc, which are a collection of known spam filters.

 

[nobaloney]

Have you set up SpamBlocker on your server? For the domains getting the Russian spam?

SpamBlocker blocks much Russian spam.

Jeff

 

[nobleclem]

I cant remember. Is spam blocker basically some special exim config and a few config files? If so then I have that. But I tried looking at the sa-learn stuff and had it parse a spam folder that I setup with all this russian spam mail and it doesnt look like it worked because it only saw the 30 or so messages as 1.

I was using the following command:
sa-learn --spam 'spam: Spam'

in which 'spam: Spam' is the spam directory. I am a little new at managing email servers so you might want to be blunt with some things. Like I know how to modify config files and what not but the email specifics are different that what I am used to.

 

[nobaloney]

I don't attempt to pretend to understand how SpamAssassin works.

If you're using SpamBlocker you should be refusing most Russian spam but some might be sneaking by.

Jeff