When 3.0.0 came out, Mandrake did not support it yet, and I missed the SURBL discussion. I checked out the website, but I am still clueless about it. Could you point me to something that will clue me in?
And similarly about network tests. I assume that you mean comparing messages against public databases on the net. I thought that TOP_200, and TRIPWIRE did that for me? If not, what should I be using?
Rob
SpamAssassin version 3 is amazing when combined with network tests.
These are my top tests. This shows percentage of spam that each test correctly marked as such:
98.21 % 275 : BAYES_99 96.43 % 270 : RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 96.43 % 270 : RAZOR2_CHECK 91.07 % 255 : URIBL_WS_SURBL
also very, very good:
55.36 % 155 : DCC_CHECK 52.50 % 147 : PYZOR_CHECK
You already have the BAYES test running. I recommend installing Razor2, DCC, and Pyzor. The SURBL rules are already installed and ready to go on SA v3, but they won't run (and neither will Razor, DCC, or Pyzor) if network tests are disabled.
More info on these test:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NetworkTests
To get make sure these things are working I have this in my local.cf (spamassassin conf file):
skip_rbl_checks 0 dns_available yes
These network tests require that you have a network connection when you run SA. If you don't you should try to change that. These DNSRBL tests are key in removing almost all of my spam (as you can see from the statistics).
- Sam Nilsson
