Re: SpamAssassin Config Questions

["Stephen Gran" <steve@lobefin.net>]

Michelle Storm writes: 

> in /usr/share/spamassasin/ 
>
> There are a lot of files.
> 10_misc.cf          25_body_tests_es.cf  40_spam_phrases.cf
> 20_anti_ratware.cf  25_body_tests_pl.cf  50_scores.cf
> 20_body_tests.cf    25_head_tests_es.cf  60_whitelist.cf
> 20_compensate.cf    25_head_tests_pl.cf  65_debian.cf
> 20_head_tests.cf    30_text_de.cf        languages
> 20_meta_tests.cf    30_text_es.cf        triplets.txt
> 20_ratware.cf       30_text_fr.cf        user_prefs.template
> 20_uri_tests.cf     30_text_pl.cf 
>
>
> Do I need to? or Should I? Copy those files into my /etc/spamassassin
> folder? 
>
> I've finally got my spamassassin working to the point that I'm actually
> recieving my mail, even with it running. But I don't think it's
> currently filtering. 
>
> All that I currently have in /etc/spamassassin is: local.cf 
>
> # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.
> # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
> # tweaked.
> #
> ###########################################################################
> #
> #rewrite_subject 0
> #report_header 1
> #defang_mime 0 
>
> Any other suggestions would be helpful also.
> Just trying to learn how this all works and get it setup. (want to do
> this before I start getting important emails.

Take a look at the headers of your email - there's an X-Spam-Status header 
added by spamassassin if it's running.  If you see it, it's working.  It's 
up to you what you want to do with meassages marked as SPAM, though - I 
don't trust spamassassin enough to delete them yet, so I just save them all 
to a spam mbox, which I check every once in a while.  The tests in 
/usr/share/spamassassin are the defaults, and they will be used without 
moving them to /etc/, AFAIK.  The local.cf is in case you want to tweak any 
settings (scores, etc) - check the manpage for all the options.  I don't 
have much in there, but the little tweaks help. 

HTH,
Steve