Blocking Spam

[jdow]

From: "Florin Andrei" <florin at andrei.myip.org>

> Tim wrote:
> 
>> How do you work out what package it wants to fulfill its needs?
> 
> Um... learn Perl?

Which it? If you mean spamassassin and added rule sets the SARE rules
are documented for their characteristics.

http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm

Read the descriptions. You'll note that "bigevil.cf" exists for legacy
or special needs. It is a delayed version of the filtering you get with
DNS tests to surbl.org. 70_sare_evilnum*.cf looks for known commonly used
addresses and phone numbers. 7x_sare_redirect_* are a host of rules of
varying "strength" from triggers on no ham in the test corpus (updated
more or less continuously) to lets almost no redirect spam trough but
has a bad habit of triggering on some ham messages.

Read. I know this is a foreign concept to young folks these days. But
the data is present. Use it.

{^_-}