Bowie Bailey wrote:
Andrew wrote:
I've written a Howto document describing my SpamAssassin setup. I
have a site-wide configuration using spamd/spamc with Bayesian and
auto-whitelist data in a MySQL database. If anyone is interested in
having a look, you can find it here:
http://www.arda.homeunix.net/spamassassin.html
Of course, constructive feedback is always welcome.
I scanned through the document and found it to be good overall. I do
have just a few comments.
1) The default value for required_score is 5, not 8.
You're right. I was thinking of a SquirrelMail plugin that sets the
required_score to 8 by default. I'll fix this up.
2) I highly recommend enabling DCC and Razor2.
I've used DCC in the past but not Razor2. I stopped using DCC because my
server was taking a long time to process each email message. Dropping
DCC shaved half a second off the average processing time. There hasn't
been a noticable change in the amount of spam getting through after I
stopped using DCC.
3) This may be a difference between FreeBSD and CentOS, but sa-update
ran just fine for me with no other arguments.
No other arguments? Other than what?
4) Since this is meant to be a howto, you might want to mention that
sa-update will frequently fail on the first attempt leaving a
crippled SA install. A second attempt will download the rules
properly. (or has this problem been fixed now?)
I can't say too much about this because it didn't happen to me.
sa-update worked first time. Can you point me to a document that
describes the failure?
5) Also, the rule files from sa-update have a minor problem with a
variable not being set properly. To fix this, you should specify
report_contact in your local.cf file.
I talk about setting report_contact in the SpamAssassin Setup section of
my document. I specifically say that I have to set it manually because I
use sa-update.
Apart from these minor points, it is a good howto. I'm sure it will
come in handy for new users.
Thanks for the feedback.
Andrew
