SpamAssassin

Site

• Homepage
• SA Wiki
• Configuration generator
• fuzzyocr plugin to catch image spam, ths instructions need work: it should be installed where the reset of plugins go,

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin/ or so.

• SpamAssassin Rules Emporium (SARE)

Related software

• sa-stats

Useful commands

• sa-update -D
• spamassassin -D --lint

SpamAssassin and userprefs on MySQL

Useful when using shared bayesdb and squirrelmail sasql. Read /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/sql.

mysql -u root -p
mysql>grant insert,select,delete,update on sasql.* to 'sasqluser'@'localhost' identified by 'sasqlpass';
mysql>flush privileges;
mysql>create database sasql;
mysql>quit

mysql sasql -u root -p < /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/sql/userpref_mysql.sql

and make sure to run spamd with the options -q -x