[ale] Procmail... ?

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu Sep 25 14:44:16 EDT 2003


Here is part of the headers from one that got through

----- Cut Here -----
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.4 required=5.0
        tests=BAYES_60,HTML_60_70,HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_06,HTML_WEB_BUGS,
              MAILTO_TO_REMOVE,MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ,MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ_REMOVE,
              REMOVE_PAGE,SUBJ_REMOVE
        version=2.50
X-Spam-Level: ****
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp)
----- Cut Here -----

Chris

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:33:07PM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> At a guess, I I get 100-150 SPAM a day. Proably 4 get past SpamAssasin with a 
> well educated Bayesian.   And until the recent MS Virus email, I probably had 
> fewer than 2 a day.  AND, I've had no more than one false positive 
> (identified as SPAM, but wasn't) in a month.
> 
> SpamAssassing is good.  I have my cuttoff at 4.0
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday 25 September 2003 14:03, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > Possible, are you using the Baysean and teaching it?
> >
> > I've had mine at 5.1 and in the last 3 months haven't had anything
> > marked as spam that shouldn't have been but I do have some spam get
> > through occasionally.  I was using razor/pyzor but have just started
> > using the baysean regularly and teaching it, it's getting better.
> >
> > Thus spake Christopher Fowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):
> > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:56:33PM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > > > I've got spamassassin + procmail working happily.  By default if it has
> > > > a score of 5.1 I save the email to ~/Spam.  Since spamassassin saves
> > > > the number of hits (7.3, 15.2, 35.1, etc) in the headers, is it
> > > > possible for procmail to /dev/null anything with a score of 10.0+ and
> > > > then put anything between 5.1 and 9.9 in the ~/Spam?
> > >
> > > I still have some spam sneaking thorugh.  Is it possible my score is set
> > > too low?
> > >
> > > > Robert
> > > >
> > > > :wq!
> > > >
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >---- Robert L. Harris                     | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B
> > > >                                          @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu
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> > > >
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> > > >
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