Spamassassin: test it's working

hamish · 05-13-2005, 05:00 AM

Hey

I have just set up spamassassin with qmail on my server. However, how do I know it is it working properly?

I haven't received any spam, but my new email account is only 2 days old, so I don't get any spam yet. Is there a way to send test emails, or something?

thanks
hamish

scowles · 05-13-2005, 05:31 AM

In the SA documentation directory you will find two files named sample-nospam.txt and sample-spam.txt. I simply mail myself the contents of these files from the command line to test my SA/MTA configuration.

hamish · 05-13-2005, 06:14 AM

do you use the "mail" program to send the files? If so, what is the command to use it?

thanks
hamish