Question for those using Spam Assassin

[kkozma]

I'm not really sure where to put this since it isn't really technical support, so I'll put it here.

What score settings are you using?

I've got mine set at 3 right now and the crap just keeps coming. It's catching alot of it, but alot is still coming through. Specifically them pesky viagra emails and quite a bit of porn is still making it through.

[rodmusic]

Don't get me started....
I have mine set to 5.0, but it catches non-spam e-mails, so I'm afraid to set it at 3.0 . At 5.0 it will tag a guestbook notification e-mail as spam. At 3.0 you better be looking over e-mail tagged as spam, or else you might delete something important top you.

Make sure you don't put your e-mail address on your website in a form that can be read by spam-bots trwaling for addresses. And use horde to look at your mail, so that you don't call up image files (sometimes not even visible) that let the spammer know you've looked at the spam. Yahoo Mail has a cool feature to block the embedded graphic tags.

I have had the same e-mail address for years, but wouldn't think of changing it because of my business. But when I provide an e-mail to a business (or person) I think might give it out, I give out a unique e-mail ending with my domain name, so I can see if they're sharing it. Later I can block it if it gebnerates spam. For instance, gateway@mydomain.com .

[nsr81]

I have it set on 5 too and some time stuff still slips in.

[patricken]

Hi,
We set ours to 1-2 and the junk is still overwhelming us. :(
It might be an idea for 100megs to start using something as mailscanner or someting similar? ;)

[Murdock]

I've got mine set to 6 and it works pretty well!