The mailing list for Users is always in need of people to lend a hand to new administrators running SpamAssassin. Fighting Anti-Spam is complex and requires a good knowledge of many technologies, RFCs, acronyms and more.

Technically, here are the steps to complete this task:

0 - Read https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/describecomponents.cgi for at least 1.5 hours

1 - Readhttp://spamassassin.apache.org/presentations/macsysadmin_2009_presentation_final_post.pdfin it's entirety

2 - Review http://spamassassin.apache.org/ for at least 1.5 hours

3 - Review http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ for at least 1.5 hours

4 - Browse the open bugs athttps://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/describecomponents.cgi for at least 1.5 hours

5 - Monitor the mailing list, research the question and write ME (kevin.mcgrail-googlementor@mcgrail.com) a response to the 3 separate users' questions.  Your response should include the URL where you found the answer.

In short, you will start being a manual / wiki reader to get your feet wet in anti-spam.

Hopefully, your responses are good and I will relay or approve (at your choice) the response to the mailing list.  I will also be available to help you out with mailing list etiquette, if required.

6 - I will consider this task finished when you have completed tasks 0 through 4 and written two responses to questions on the mailing list that I can approve in line with #5.