Linux E-mail

Customizing SpamAssassin

SpamAssassin is very configurable. Almost every setting can be configured on a system-wide or user-specific basis.

Reasons to customize

If SpamAssassin is so good, then why configure it? Well, there are several reasons why it's worth improving spam filtering with SpamAssassin.

• SpamAssassin by default (that is, when installed but not customized) typically manages to detect over 80% of spam. After adding a few customizations, the detection rate can be greater than 95%.
• Everyone's spam is different and one user's spam might look like another user's ham. By trying to be general, SpamAssassin may fail to filter spam for every user.
• Some of the features of SpamAssassin are disabled by default. By enabling them, the spam recognition ...