{"id":213,"date":"2004-08-31T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T07:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=213"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:18:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:18:04","slug":"fine-tunning_spamassassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/08\/31\/fine-tunning_spamassassin.php","title":{"rendered":"Fine-tunning SpamAssassin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootprompt.org\/\">RootPrompt<\/a> I found a nice article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxgazette.net\/105\/youngman.html\">Fine-Tuning SpamAssassin<\/a>.  It covers quite a bit of detail about SpamAssassin and is well worth a read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOver time, however, many of the spammers have figured out how to fine tune their spam and bypass the default ruleset. I find the default setup still picks up at least half the spam, maybe two thirds on a good day, but too much leaks through. If the spammers are tuning their messages, I guess the only thing to do is to tune my scoring. There are at least 8 possible ways of improving SpamAssassin&#8217;s hit rate.<br \/>\n1.  Blacklisting known offenders<br \/>\n2. DNS Blocklists<br \/>\n3. Enable Bayesian filtering<br \/>\n4. Reduce the point threshold for spam<br \/>\n5. Increase the scores on existing rulesets<br \/>\n6. Upgrade SpamAssassin to the latest version<br \/>\n7. Install more rulesets<br \/>\n8. Write your own rulesets\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via RootPrompt I found a nice article titled Fine-Tuning SpamAssassin. It covers quite a bit of detail about SpamAssassin and is well worth a read. Over time, however, many of the spammers have figured out how to fine tune their spam and bypass the default ruleset. I find the default setup still picks up at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,19,29,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}