Hi all,

I'm looking for a good tutorial about spamassassin.
The documentation online it's ok but it's too "fragmented".
Anyone know a good tutorial online?
Thanks.

p.s. alternatively this book is good?
http://www.amazon.com/SpamAssassin-A.../dp/0596007078

I've had no issues with SpamAssassin. Here's how I do it:

As root, "perl -MCPAN -e shell" will load CPAN, which is an automated perl application compiling system, etc.

First, I recommend telling CPAN to "get Mail::SpamAssassin". This downloads SpamAssassin first, before installing it.

Then, in another window or shell, go to /root/.cpan/build/Mail-SpamAssassin-$VERSION$ (where $VERSION$ is the version it's currently at. Don't know? "ls" and look).

Now read the INSTALL file. I recommend going through installing ALL the requirements and optional software. If you don't know how or what, you can try to do it all within CPAN. It's really easy. It will say in the install document what to install. It's as easy as:

install Digest::SHA1

This is an example. So install all the required stuff and optional stuff you want BEFORE installing SpamAssassin.

After it does all the compiling for you, go ahead and quit CPAN.

Then you can add "/usr/bin/spamd -d" to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to have the SpamAssassin daemon start up when you start up your computer. For now, since it's recently compiled, running that in a console as root will get it up and running right now.

From there, KMail (and Kontact) knows how to incorporate SpamAssassin. Or you can do it manually: there are documents online that show you how. Here's one I made myself:

TwinReverb - SpamAssassin Tutorial

It should work fine. Right now I'm busy but I'll try to remember to give it a re-read and make sure it's still the right way to do it. Thanks!

I would have to agree with you on this. However, if you want to explain what you are trying to achieve, what your setup is, etc., we can probably help you out a lot.

My problem is: why this email has been marked as spam? Where is the rule relevant in this case?

..and how can I manage the bayes filter?

When I recognize some spam email, how can I stop it for the future? By some strings in the body or... what ?

Thanks

You need to read the SpamAssassin documentation on their website (http://spamassassin.apache.org iirc). It will explain all this.

As for stopping spam, no one has been able to do that yet. That's not what SpamAssassin is for: it's for filtering it out.

You can find a lot of spamassassin tutorials on this page:
http://www.sysadmin.md/spamassassin.html