On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:06, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 22:07 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > The way this is handle usually is to manually run sa-learn on batches of > > ham and spam email. If this is done with a good sample in the first > > week or two of starting to use spamassassin you normally get a good base > > line and get very good results. Occasional training sessions will > > maintain things. About every two weeks I run a script that processes > > all spam I received. I run my inbox through less often. By manually > > doing this I get a chance to do a quick review looking for false > > positives. Anymore I don't spend much time on spam. > > > > And if you are running your own MTA server you can eliminate 99% of your > > spam before every having to invoke spamassassin by implementing > > greylisting. > > > > Seriously, it works that well. > > Around here I create a "Spam", "Whitelist" and "Blacklist" folder > for the users. When spam is manually caught, all you have to do is drag > it over to "Blacklist" where the server will pick it up, about every > hour or so, and learn it as such. The reverse is true for things that > get caught, and you want to keep those mails coming. > > Funny thing, though: I can't remember ever having a 'keeper' getting > marked as spam (false positive). > > If you (or anyone else) wants this simple little script, I'd be > happy to send it to you, just let me know. It runs on the server side > and has been updated to work with SA 3.0.2. > > And that way you get the same effect as the 'junk' mechanism in > Evolution, no matter what client you're using! In over two years I have only seen 2 false positives. I see 5 or 6 missed spam each week. If I was able to run greylisting on the ISPs mail server I would probably not even see those. And I would not see the hundreds of spam that spamassassin catches each week either. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you? -- Garrison Keillor
