Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2021-08-17 18:03, David Bürgin wrote: In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no false positives. basicly all above 5 is spam tagged with default spamassassin, it is so as long as spamassassin does

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Alan writes: > I manage email for a couple of hundred domains, so a fair bit of stuff > that arrives to my inbox are spam complaints (they're supposed to open > tickets or use the support mailbox but... users). I flag anything over > 5.0 as spam, but it still comes to my inbox. Anything over 8.0

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Alan
I manage email for a couple of hundred domains, so a fair bit of stuff that arrives to my inbox are spam complaints (they're supposed to open tickets or use the support mailbox but... users). I flag anything over 5.0 as spam, but it still comes to my inbox. Anything over 8.0 goes to the bit buc

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Greg Troxel
David Bürgin writes: [all the other replies sound 100% sensible to me] > In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I > mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no false > positives. There is no certainty; there is only probability. So you have

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17.08.21 18:03, David Bürgin wrote: In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no false positives. The default threshold for spam is 5.0, which works well for me. Only very rarely a ham message scores a

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi David, If your default is in the 5 to 6 range for scoring, we have found that 11.0 has virtually no FPs and 15.0 has not had any FPs at our firm in years. Regards, KAM On 8/17/2021 12:03 PM, David Bürgin wrote: In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I mean t

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 18:03 +0200, David Bürgin wrote: > In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I > mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no > false positives. > I pushed it one notch, to 6.0, but:   (a) I've accumulated a fair collection of p

Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread David Bürgin
In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no false positives. The default threshold for spam is 5.0, which works well for me. Only very rarely a ham message scores above that and lands in my Junk folder. Wo