Custom SpamAssassin Rules

Last Update: December 10 2010

SpamAssassin can be or is a very good way to fight spam. But there is one problem: The rules are sometimes old, not updated anymore or they don't help you at all (depending what kind of company you work for).

So when I first saw that SpamAssassin still lets through a lot of spam mails, I went on the SARE Rules Website. This site has some additional rules to download, but unfortunately I read on the website that the "SARE Ninjas" are currently too busy with their lives to update the website and the rules. I still use these rules, I am not saying they're bad, but every serveradmin should consider writing your own SpamAssassin rules -> and that's what I did.

I will update this cf file regularly, so you may want to redownload it or start a wget from time to time. The filename will stay the same.You may either download the file and store it with your other SpamAssassin cf files (usually in /usr/share/spamassassin) or copy/paste the content of it into ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs.

-> Download 75_ckrules.cf <-

Please note, the spam scorings are pretty high. I used huge scorings for certain words/expressions where I was sure that they're spam, at least the mails I observed on my mailserver were like this. You may want to adjust that, depending on the types of e-mails you receive.

Here are some notes for some of the rules (not necessarily updated, check out the description rows in the 75_ckrules.cf file instead):