On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 11:28, Mike Klinke wrote: > On Monday 08 November 2004 09:28, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > Actually you don't really want spamassassin to delete the > > messages. It will identify likely spam messages. > > It smelled like a philosophical discussion more than anything else. > After a more than a year using SA I have a lot of confidence in > it and I now use a milter to delete messages with very high SA > scores outright so I don't think it would be a "bad" feature to > implement "delete" within SA. Not a big deal though ..... > I guess it is a little philosophical, but given that the user has the ability to delete based on level and the fact that it can take some time to train it correctly it is probably the best option not to delete automatically. If they did implement that as a feature then they would need an option to disable it for those that are in the process of training it or just paranoid that a false positive may occur. I have found that after the first few weeks of training and setting up my whitelist that I have had no false positives in well over a year and a half. > > > > And if you are running your own MTA I highly recommend you > > implement greylisting. This will block 99% or more of the spam > > out there from ever getting on your system let alone into your > > inbox. > > > > I've been pretty impressed with greylisting too. It cleaned up many > of those pesky spam mails that SA didn't catch and many more that > SA could catch and spent time analyzing, really easing SA's work > load. When I first setup greylisting I was not expecting such a dramatic impact on the level of spam I had been processing. It literally dropped from 3000 to 6000 spam messages a day down to 4 to 8 a day (which spamassassin took care of). Just shows how many zombie systems are being used for spam out there. > > Regards, Mike Klinke -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx When I was little, I went into a pet shop and they asked how big I'd get. -- Rodney Dangerfield
