On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:

> Hello list !

Hello.
>
> I am kinda new here chaps, so please bare with me.
>
> A simple question (which I didn't pose on the xmail forum in case I
> get flamed/cursed) :-)
>
> >From what it seems, one must let spamassassin know of what to filter
> as spam mail; So far so good.
>
> It also looks like one has to invoke a special format of expressions
> (regex's?)
> to the .cf file living under /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

Spamassassin is already configured to filter spam, the local.cf is for
customization.

You will find thousands of examples of regular expressions in your
/usr/share/spamassassin directory. You will also find loads of rules
covering recent trends here ....

http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm
http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/spamassassin/
http://www.emtinc.net/spamhammers.htm

There is also this list.

>
> Would anyone out there bother giving me a real-world example for a simple
> spam mail message ?

I don't know what to say here. Simply firing up the mail server should
provide you will all the real world examples that you could ever hope for.

Brad




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