Spamassassin Correct ?

[Andrew Mason]

IIRC the whole idea of spamassassin was not really to increase the amount of 
points but to train your system so that 5 points is roughly correct....

so my suggestion would be ( this worked reasonably well for me ) , grab your 
self a dummy email address that doesn't already have spam filtering on it. 
Sign up to as much porn/ mailing lists and forums as you possibly can.
As you get the spam, copy it over to your mail server, let SA run over it and 
and within around a month it worked reasonably well for me...

at 5 i used to get my most spammed user ( down to around  6-8 a day with 
barely any false positives.)

I do remember having to alter the scores which were given to various rules 
slightly though. I was reasonably picky about the quality of the mail that i 
let through in terms of standards so basically anyone using outlook had 
about .6 points to spare by the end of the filtering, so i'd suggest not 
being as heavy handed on those rules if you can. They worked better for me 
though. That was SA 3.1 i think.

Andrew



On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 04:21:39 pm Brian wrote:
> Recently I was waiting for an email to arrive. It was registration at a
> business portal. The object was to get some Cad drawings. The email did not
> arrive and I was forced to chase them up.
>
> Anyway I found the emails concerned. They were caught by Spamassassin, this
> system. Spamassassin reported the two emails thus.
>
> Does this seem ok ?
>
>
> snip
> ++++++++++++++
>
> Content analysis details:   (3.6 points, 3.4 required)
>
>  pts rule name              description
> ---- ----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------
>  2.5 URI_NO_WWW_BIZ_CGI     URI: CGI in .biz TLD other than third-level
> "www" 1.2 BIZ_TLD                URI: Contains an URL in the BIZ top-level
> domain
>
> and
> ++++++++++
>
> Content analysis details:   (4.5 points, 3.4 required)
>
>  pts rule name              description
> ---- ----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------
>  1.6 DEAR_SOMETHING         BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)'
>  2.5 URI_NO_WWW_BIZ_CGI     URI: CGI in .biz TLD other than third-level
> "www" 1.2 BIZ_TLD                URI: Contains an URL in the BIZ top-level
> domain -0.8 AWL                    AWL: From: address is in the auto
> white-list
>
>
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