I don't care how much you monitor, you are NOT going to get a 100% capture rate with no false positives. If there was a way to do that, Scott would be a millionaire by now, and have twenty or thirty death threats from spammers. You can get close, like maybe a 90% or 95% if you're super particular, but that is really pushing it.
Unfortunately, there isn't a perfect template you can use. The default will get you close, but then you have to tune. It's different for each site and situation. It took me about 3 or 4 months to get it pretty close with daily checks. Now I check once a week and make a few tweaks. I get about an 90%-95% capture rate with very few false positives. My technique is to delete everything outrageously bad ( 40+ on my scale with my custom weights). If it's over 40 it is seriously warped. If it's over 20 but below 40, I route it to a holding bin where I can personally check it out. Under 20 is good enough to slip through, and a few do now and then, but my users will forward it to me so I can tune Declude a bit more. Obviously, if you're getting over half a million messages a month, this won't work for you. I only get about 18k or so, with maybe 10-20 needing personal attention per day. Personally, I'd rather a few got through, rather than having it delete some of the real stuff, but you can make your own calls. Karl Drugge -----Original Message----- From: T. Bradley Dean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] How good does it get? I just installed the demo (Tuesday I believe) and I have it set to warn only. My plan is to move everything with a weight of 20 or above to a 'spam' folder in each users webmail. I may be able to do 15, so far the highest legitimate mail we've seen was 14. Looking at what's coming in, I'm getting about 80% of all spam. Another user I have watching the headers (Outlook rule) is getting about 40%. I'm going to go through the manual and see how smoothly I can get this running, but of course management wants 100% of spam captured with no legitimate mail blocked. How close can I expect to get? What levels of spam are you guys capturing and what levels of legitimate mail is being blocked? Any tips on what default settings I should mess with first? Any good threads in the archives that I should read through? Thanks in advance, ~Brad --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
