Hi folks,
This is the first time I'm posting to the spamassassin-news
announce-only list. We currently have 35 subscribers. Woo hoo!
Maybe I should rename this "SpamAssassin Weekly News"? Except it wont
be weekly. It will be whenever I feel like writing it.
SpamTips.org Blog
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http://www.spamtips.org
I started this new blog. Pretty much the same idea as this list. I
will occasionally notify this list if I feel a particular
spamtips.org
blog post is important or really good. The blog will have some lesser
importance posts that aren't worthwhile to broadcast here on the list. I
am conscious of not posting too often to a list because I know it can be
annoying if the news isn't important. So if you read RSS regularly you
can subscribe to that blog and you don't need to follow this list.
There were two good posts so far.
http://www.spamtips.org/2010/12/cacheredir-rule-prevent-google-cache.html
Simple but effective rule that catches ~1-4% of spam that often slips
past SpamAssassin with a low score. This rule will continue to be
effective until Google has stopped people from abusing their cache as a
URI redirector.
http://www.spamtips.org/2011/01/dnsbl-safety-report-122011.html
Analysis and commentary on DNSBL's: Hostkarma, Spam Eating Monkey,
Tiopan, MailSpike, NiX Spam and PSBL based upon actual statistics.
How to Help Improve SpamAssassin?
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http://www.spamtips.org/2011/01/dnsbl-safety-report-122011.html
Please read the bottom part of this blog post. SpamAssassin upstream is
in serious need of additional participants in the nightly masscheck.
Without a good sample size and variety of mail, SpamAssassin cannot test
the safety and effectiveness of rules and they are unable to make new
releases.
http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/
As SpamAssassin server administrators you are in a unique position of
being most capable of running the masscheck script every night in cron.
Masscheck's log file is uploaded and combined with the logs of other
participants in order to generate the RuleQA statistics you see here.
We are especially in need of non-English or non-technical mail.
RPM Packages
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http://www.spamtips.org/p/rpm-packages.html
Here I will post the RPM packages of the latest spamassassin and related
anti-spam stack. It certainly isn't "official" but I personally use
these packages in production, so I guess it is good enough. If you use
my packages you may report bugs to me.
If you are running RHEL-5 you really want to upgrade to my spamassassin
RPM. It sucks a lot less than the spamasssasin-3.2.x in RHEL-5.
RHEL-6's spamassassin-3.3.1 is good enough for now. I'll let folks know
when I have something clearly better for RHEL-6.
Ultimate Setup Guide
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http://www.spamtips.org/p/ultimate-setup-guide.html
I haven't worked on this page much yet, but I will eventually put *ALL*
of the current SpamAssassin configuration advice here. This way you
wont need to read through hundreds of blog posts to understand the
current (and non-obsolete) configuration advice.
Check out the part about NJABL and
rfc-ignorant.org, where you can
improve your network query efficiency a small bit with a config tweak.
Any Questions/Suggestions?
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Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions or suggestions.
I am especially interested if you have any effective custom rules to
share. I'd love to put your custom rule into the nightly masscheck
where it can be tested on the worldwide corpora currently of 460K spam
and 250K ham. If your rule is good, I will post it to the
SpamTips.org
blog.
Thanks!
Warren Togami Jr.
warren(a)togami.com