[clue-admin] Mail issues

[Dennis J Perkins]

I was just using my browser to read my gmail.  I didn't realize I could
use an email program too.

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:30 -0600, Jeff Cann wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Jed S. Baer
> <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
>         
>         Which is why I've made mention of seeking a volunteer who is
>         already a
>         postfix expert. ( /me thinks of Barb Dijker, e.g. -- I don't
>         know if
>         she's a postfix expert, but she gave a CLUE talk on Spam)
> 
> 
> I setup Spam Assassin a few years ago and because we were on ancient
> hardware [P3/500MHZ] it choked the CPU.  I know that the new version
> of SA is also more optimized and we're obviously on much more capable
> hardware.  In the newer versions, the have changed the assignment
> algorithm:
> 
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned
> 
> Integrating SA into postfix and / or mailman [i forget what I did
> exactly] was only a few configuration lines. I'm willing to plug it in
> again and document if someone would kindly install the package.
> 
> Other request - we do need a lot of 'ham' - i.e., spam messages in an
> mbox format.  So Dennis - if you would be so kind as to turn on POP3
> for your new gmail account and download the messages to an mbox
> format.  Then please upload it to the clue server and send me the file
> specification.  This is necessary to 'train' SA on real world spam.
> 
> Finally, I can provide to Jed the integration steps for our particular
> environment to add to the admin wiki docs.
> 
> Let me know if you guys want me to do this activity.
> 
> HTH-
> Jeff
> 
> 
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