[SPAM] Spamassassin trigger?

[Jan Houtsma]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] Namens Mike Klinke
> Verzonden: donderdag 8 januari 2004 22:56
> Aan: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Onderwerp: Re: [SPAM] Spamassassin trigger?
> 
> On Thursday 08 January 2004 10:50, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Do, den 08.01.2004 schrieb Mike Klinke um 15:35:
> > > X-Spam-Flag: YES
> > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=4.0 required=3.5
> >
> > Though the mail get some SPAM points, a required value of 3.5 
> > generated definately too much false positives. Just have a 
> look at the 
> > statistics at spamassassin.org. If you trigger for such low 
> values no 
> > wonder you get many mails as SPAM detected.
> >
>  
> You'll find that you'll have to tune this to the type of mail 
> that you normally get.  We find that this identifies about 
> 99% of the spam mail we get and it's a rare false positive, 
> perhaps one message a month or so with a volume of about 20K 
> messages per week.
> 

Because spamassassin (even via spamc/d) when it processes every incoming
email message really exhausts my 266 MHz machine i first filter out most
messages
via procmail. Like all messages from this list (and others i am subscribed
to) are 
whitelisted as well as addresses from work and friends. All messages
containing
 p*nis enlargements, Viagra, etc... are blacklisted via procmail. Only
messages i 
can not tag myself and get through my procmail filter are passed into
spamassassin
to finish the job. I even have my required value set to 2.0 and i hardly get
false 
positives because most valid mail has already been handled by procmail and
delivered 
into my mailbox. This combo works very nicely.

jan