On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 11:38:57PM -0500, The Stovebolt Geek wrote: > I've been running postfix with policyd-weight and spamassassin for > years on a small hobby domain that I manage. I usually have a few > hundred spam messages in the spam folder after a few days. > > Recently I found out about postscreen on this list. After reading > about it, I implemented it in pretty much the default configuration > (copied below.) > > I run all mail through a filter script (copied below) that routes > the mail through spamassassin and then either labels it as spam and > puts it in a folder (/var/spool/spam), sends it to me for analysis > or sends to the intended recipient. > > Since implementing postscreen my spam folder is empty and my daily > message count has been cut about in half. Is postscreen really that > good???
This sounds like an apples to oranges comparison. Have you looked at false positives and false negatives? Cheers, Ken