On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Phil Savoie wrote: > I have a home setup where I am using Centos 4.4 as a sort of mail > server. This is what I have done. > > I have it configured to pop mail locally. I have fetchmail > configured to dl from my provider my families mail through a cron > job and .fetchmailrc in their home directories. They then pop the > server to retrieve their mail. They send their mail directly through > the provider. > > I have been relying on spamassasin on their local boxes to learn and > filter out the spam but find it is only doing about half of the job > even after months of training. > > I guess my question is this. Is there a way to do further spam > filtering on the mail server incorporating my method of doing mail > or am I not just doing this right? My experience is that the version of spamassassin that ships with CentOS 4 is simply out of date. What works best for me using the Dag Wieers/RPMforge version (currently at 3.1.7). Semi-tricky is that fact that it requires some other packages as well. Here's my /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo (which also includes some packages unlikely to be of interest to you, like cfengine and conserver): ----- %< ----- # Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 4 - dag # URL: http://rpmforge.net/ [rpmforge] name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/mirrors-rpmforge enabled = 1 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck = 1 includepkgs = cfengine clamav clamav-db clamav-milter clamd conserver perl-Archive-Tar perl-IO-Zlib rpmforge-release spamass-milter spamassassin subversion ----- %< ----- Make sure the includepkgs list is all on one line. Then "yum upgrade spamassassin" should get you the new packages. After installing the new spamassassin, 1. Run sa-update to grab the latest stock ruleset from updates.spamassassin.org, though I suggest you read the sa-update(1) man page first to understand what you're doing. 2. For each SpamAssassin user, at the very least, run (as that user) 'sa-learn --import' to update their Bayes databases. It's probably most helpful to read the MIGRATION section of the sa-learn(1) man page. You'll most likely want to disable the fetchmail runs during the migration. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com