Thanx for the FAQ David, that makes things far more clear
''Hi, Support! My, what an interesting name you have. Were your parents athletic?'' Ha, Ha, Actually, Im just using the support@iquest email so if(when) I leave here, my heir can use the same list. I tried to grab that spam tarball but it gave me permissions denied. I'd like to try using it if you can set the permissions. thanx -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David T-G Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:13 AM To: SpamAssassin Users' list Cc: Support Subject: Re: [SAtalk] How SpamAssassin works & load testing Hi, Support! My, what an interesting name you have. Were your parents athletic? ...and then Support said... % % Hi, % % I have mailscanner and spamassassin installed on a RH7.2 box. A good start. % % Let me get his straight...when new mail comes into the mailserver % spamassassin tries to check whether or not it is spam by looking it's % name/characteristics up on an online database somewhere or does it have a % local database that it updates every now and then? It can do both. It has a list of tests, like looking for all caps, looking for common get-off-a-list phrases, and so on, and it applies these tests and then accrues a score for the message. It also can do off-site tests, like checking with Vipul's Razor to see if that very same message body has been submitted by someone else, and it adds those points to the score as well. Of course, it also has score-lowering tests like checking in your whitelist and such. Once the score is tallied up, it checks your threshold and, if the score is greater, flags the mail as spam, sprays paint all over it, and generally makes it pretty hard to miss that it's junk mail. If it's less, you still have a header or two tucked in but the message is otherwise untouched. >From there, it's handed on down the delivery chain (hmmm... I don't *think* that SA will drop mail directly, leaving that up to your mailfilter or procmail or such, but it might, though that's not the most prudent of courses) and SA is done. % % -2nd Q: % % how can I load test a test server? It's pretty hard to spam myself. Ive % tried forwarding all my hotmail spam to my test account but that's not % enough. I'd like to try 200 messages or so. % Can you guys spam me? I don't want to throw you a bunch of messages (why load my server? :-) + possibility of error, even if small), but if you want my old spam folder I can put a gzipped copy up on my site for you to pull down and shoot yourself. Oh, heck, it can be a symlink so it's no sweat (tick... tick... done), so surf over and grab http://justpickone.org/davidtg/private/OF.spam.gz if you want it. Lots of messages. Have fun. % % thanx HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
