RE: On spamassassin usage, from an sa ignoramus>> There may be more than you
think. I do both. I've got a "Big
Machine" (medium volume mail server) at work and I do
Fetchmail->Maildrop->SA at home.
IMHO I think its because most of us belive if you have to fetch the spam,
scan it localy,
then you have already lost the battle by having to waste resources to get
the spam
down to your machine. I realise there are people who don't have a choice.
Only thing
you can do is complain to your ISP.
(The S in ISP is for Service. Most ISPs forget that.)
Or some of us merely don't trust the IPS's scanning solution, and dislike
webmail interfaces to get at the putative spam. For instance I take
advantage of Dirtlink's spam scanner and virus scanner in my SA setup:
# X-ELNK-Info: spv=1; Earthlink says it is a spam!
# X-ELNK-Info: avn=xxx Earthlink says it is a virus!
header EARTHLINK_SEZ_SPAM X-ELNK-Info =~ /\bspv=1;/
score EARTHLINK_SEZ_SPAM 4.5
describe EARTHLINK_SEZ_SPAM Earthlink has classified this as spam
header EARTHLINK_SEZ_VIRUS X-ELNK-Info =~ /\bavn=/
score EARTHLINK_SEZ_VIRUS 10
describe EARTHLINK_SEZ_VIRUS Earthlink has classified this as a virus!
# A bunch of blowback spam from dirtlink as someone spammed a bunch of
people with
# the dirtlink spam blocker enabled and using my addres as a source.
# The following stuff seems to indicate that this is a blowback message.
header EARTHLINK_BLOWBACK X-ELNK-Info ~= /sbv=2; sbrc=-0; sbf=00;
sbw=110;/
score EARTHLINK_BLOWBACK 10
describe EARTHLINK_BLOWBACK Spam Ack from Dirtlink
