Amavisd-new + spam assassin tuning?

[Chuck Swiger]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Olaf Greve wrote:
> The question(s):
> I'd like to tune Spam Assassin such that it filters out much more  
> spam, whilst letting (almost) all proper messages through.  
> Thunderbird's spam controls are pretty good at filtering out spam,  
> and I was hoping perhaps Spam Assassin can also be taught and/or  
> configured to filter out spam very efficiently, whilst letting all  
> (or at least almost all) of the real messages through.
> Can anyone tell me how to best go about this, and/or (in case this  
> isn't the right place to ask this question) where I can best read  
> up about achiving this?

You want to feed spam and ham messages to sa-learn (it has a  
manpage), as well as running sa-update every once in a while to pick  
up updated SpamAssassin rulesets.  There's a website with lots more  
info here:

http://spamassassin.apache.org/

-- 
-Chuck