Re: [vps-mail] Spamassassin with Mailman on VPS1

[Bruce Armstrong <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is only slightly off topic, but may save some of you some time.
There is a string defined that will automatically get an email marked as
spam.  Its meant for testing, so you don't have to spend time coming up
with a spammy email (I know, that's the fun part).  Its available here:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/

The site also has a link to the eicar virus test file (a non-virus that
all av software will mark as a virus).  Hope that helps someone.

	--Bruce

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:27 -0700, Abigail Marshall wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Bennett Lanford <benlanford@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > I've probably lost you. To summarize: The technique described above
> > will definitely accomplish what you want, but it is scary to
> > implement. (Good luck!)
> 
> Yeah, I figured out the "scary" part from Scott's post -- way too
> intimidating for my needs. I'm seeing maybe 5 spams a day in the queue
> and it is getting annoying deleting them - but not so bad that I'm
> ready to tackle all the steps laid out in the technoids article.
> 
> I tried installing the scripts at
> http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/ but they don't
> seem to work-- at least they haven't worked to slow down the spam. 
> Remember this is on a VPS1 - so we have that age-old problem that
> out-of-the-box scripts sometimes don't work because the paths aren't
> set correctly for the virtual environment. (I don't know if that's the
> issue - it's just my guess).
> 
> It also occured to me to merely pipe the alias through spamassassin
> via a spamc command in aliases file -- but that didn't seem to work
> for me either. (I sent a test mail with enough spammy words in it to
> at least get tagged - and my messages log showed that it didn't go
> anywhere -- so something in my pipe command killed it rather than
> delivering.
> 
> -Abigail
> 
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