My e-mail provider uses Spam Assassin.   Lately I have been getting about a thousand 
e-mails telling me to patch my Windows.   I use MailWasher to delete these, as if I 
leave on vacation my in box gets too large for Outlook to handle.

I let my provider know an they bumped Spam Assassin up to level 3, but all this did 
was filter out good e-mail - I still get my offers to patch Windows.   So I checked 
with my provider and they told me:

> You might try using the SpamAssassin configuration file maker available 
> at:
>
> http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php
> 
> Once setting options.. either download, then upload the file to your 
> server, or cut and paste it into
>
> /home/username/.spamassassin/user_prefs


I'm not sure how to do this, but first started reading the docs.  This language seems 
to be designed for someone with a completely different programming background than I 
have (30 years mainframe CoBOL & database).   I was expecting to be able to add some 
simple rules, but it appears that I have a big learning curve ahead of me to get rid 
of these annoying spam/viruses.

What is the best way to start my education?   I expect to stop as soon as I get this 
task completed.




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