Question : Fine-tune SpamAssassin

HI
I would like to know some tips on fine-tuing SpamAsassin / MailScanner to block more spam.

I've used pretty much "out the box" settings up to now, and it only marks all the messages as spam. I activated SBL+XBL checks yet, I still receive e-mail from such sources, although I have the setting to mark such messages as "High Scoring" and have "delete" as the action for high scoring spam...

Also, I noticed in the config that you can quarantine spam and virus infected messages, however, how do users access these for revision?

Answer : Fine-tune SpamAssassin

The best way to teach spamassassin is to use sa-learn. Any time spam slips through, get your users to forward it to a local user (on the linux box) such as the user spam. (You will obviously have to create this account). Then use sa-learn to scan the mbox of that user (spam).
http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc/sa-learn.html will show you how.

For the second point, you can setup both mailscanner & spamassassin to send an email to a user who has had a mail blocked because of spam or virus flags with details about how to retrieve the original message.)
Rtfm paul :) ( I think I remember your name is paul? If not, I apologise. You havent been around in a while.)