Henrik Edlund <[email protected]> writes:

> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Dean Jackson wrote:
>
> DJ> I'll also note that the Bayesian analysis within SpamAssassin version
> DJ> 2.50 is doing a pretty good job of marking spam, without any formal
> DJ> training (it autotrains). In fact, with this enabled, SpamAssassin is
> DJ> doing a better job of finding spam than Bogofilter for me (especially
> DJ> with whitelists)
>
> I am running only SpamAssassin 2.53 but with Bayesian (auto-learning),
> Razor2, DCC and auto-whitelist and all bullt-in RBL lookups. I also payed
> for spamcop.net so I have enabled that RBL for my SpamAssassin as well.
>
> I filter out anything with score 1.0 or above and so far I am getting 100%
> good results, no false positives or false negatives.
>
> The nice thing I have noticed with 2.50 and later is that non-spam no
> longer land around zero but instead gets high minus scores. This while
> spam gets very high scores. This is why it works for me with score 1.0 I
> guess.

What about those really tricky ones that in my experience gets past
Spamassasin and Bayesian?  The short one or two liners of innocuous
phrases with a uri?  Maybe I'll get those if I add Razor in the mix.
Gerald and I have talked about these and thought about keeping a
blacklist from whois data as Gerald noticed these often belong to a
handful of people with multiple domains.  I was wondering about taking
the content from the uri and running it through bogofilter for a
score.  

> I no longer use the Gerald-inspired whitelist functionality with procmail
> that I used to before SpamAssassion. No need anymore.

I didn't adopt whitelisting until after older version of spamassassin
had some false positives.  Spamassassin's whitelist isn't as nice I'd
like to have it file based like the other.  I cron sed my .mailrc into
my whitelist.

> I get about 500 mail per day and of these 50-100 are spam. SpamAssassin
> 2.53 works splendid.

I should upgrade, I got lazy and went with the debian packaged
version.  sarge is at 2.43 might have to go with sid on this one as
it's 2.53 or build.

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