marc at fergytech
May 16, 2008, 6:22 PM
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Hi,
I am a total newb to spamassassin and some network tools you mentioned
so I don't know how to do what you suggested. I looked up spamc and I
see it's the client to spamd, but I didn't understand fully what I read.
Besides testing to see if spamassassin is working I wanted to increase
the filters. I don't know if i'm saying it right. Mail does go to my
junk box but i'd like more mail in my junkbox. I do not have full
control over my mail server. Thanks.
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 11:32 +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2008 09:13:28 Marc Ferguson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I looked on the wiki to see how do I test my installation of
> > spamassassin. I'm confused because it's not really giving me a method
> > that works right out-of-the-box. It looks like the preferred method is
> > The GTUBE. Based on that page it looks like I would use an external
> > mail client, such as Gmail, Yahoo, or anything else besides my local
> > desktop email client - and send mail to myself making sure a specific
> > 68-byte string is in the body of the email.
> >
> > My results have been that Gmail won't send it because their spam filter
> > recognizes it. I've tried Yahoo and they did the same thing. I'm a
> > regular user and I'm trying to apply this to my evolution application.
> > Thanks for any clarification.
> >
> > Marc F.
>
>
> just use spamc and feed a message manually, unless you want to test your MTA,
> in which case you need to check the manual of your mta.
> You can as well just send a message to yourself using telnet from your home
> computer. a properly setup spamfilter will match XBL, no matter the content
> of your message.
Marc F.
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