Hi, On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Andrew Allison wrote:
> My Web host uses SpamAssassin to filter e-mail, but quite a bit gets > through. I've looked at the FAQs and don't find a mechanism for a Windows > (2000) user to submit the offending e-mails for inclusion in the filtering. > Is there one? No. Very simply, SpamAssassin has a large library of patterns (rules) that it checks mail against. Those patterns are assigned scores by analyzing a large body of spam and non-spam at the time a new version of SpamAssassin is released. The rules and scores are updated persiodically (with each new version) but not dynamically, and my understanding is there's no means of submitting spam to the testing corpus without being an active SA developer. If this isn't correct, I'm sure someone will tactfully clarify matters... :) SA can be set to compare the message against spam reported to systems like DCC, Razor, and Pyzor, but these are projects outside of SpamAssassin. These systems are dynamically updated and can benefit from people reporting spam to them, especially spam that doesn't get tagged as such by SpamAssassin. Here are links to each of the projects: DCC: http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/ Razor: http://razor.sourceforge.net/ Pyzor: http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/ hth, -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
