Re: Spam as attachments

2006-01-26 Thread mouss
Jim Maul a écrit : > > Exactly. Since spam is not very black and white (like viruses) it is > very difficult to detect. Especially since one persons ham is anothers > spam. Deleting these messages entirely could be dangerous. Now if you > tag at a certain score, and delete at a much higher sco

Re: Spam as attachments

2006-01-26 Thread Jim Maul
mouss wrote: Jim Maul a écrit : Well for one, it eliminates the possibility of false negatives being deleted. you mean False Positives. Yes of course, my mistake. The OP probably doesn't know that no filter can detect all spam, and just spam. Any filter will have some amount of: - F

Re: Spam as attachments

2006-01-25 Thread mouss
Jim Maul a écrit : > > Well for one, it eliminates the possibility of false negatives being > deleted. you mean False Positives. The OP probably doesn't know that no filter can detect all spam, and just spam. Any filter will have some amount of: - False positives: ham classified as spam - F

Re: Spam as attachments

2006-01-25 Thread jdow
From: "Michael Di Martino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Michael Di Martino wrote: I am using the latest stable ver of spamassassin along w/ Simscan on an SMTP (qmail) stor-&-forward server. No local Mailboxes. [...] My question is why is a

RE: Spam as attachments

2006-01-25 Thread James Butler
Eliminating spam is not really an option unless you are willing to toss out anything valuable that SA might catch by accident. The plan is to *manage* spam. We pipe spam to a separate mailbox just for that purpose, and then check that mailbox every so often to (a) loosen rules that are catching

Re: Spam as attachments

2006-01-25 Thread Jim Maul
Michael Di Martino wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Michael Di Martino wrote: I am using the latest stable ver of spamassassin along w/ Simscan on an SMTP (qmail) stor-&-forward server. No local Mailboxes. [...] My question is why is an email with an conte

RE: Spam as attachments

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Di Martino
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Michael Di Martino wrote: >> I am using the latest stable ver of spamassassin along w/ Simscan on >> an SMTP (qmail) stor-&-forward server. No local Mailboxes. [...] >> My question is why is an email with an content analysis of 4.3

Re: Spam as attachments

2006-01-25 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Michael Di Martino wrote: > I am using the latest stable ver of spamassassin along w/ Simscan on an > SMTP (qmail) stor-&-forward server. No local Mailboxes. [...] > My question is why is an email with an content analysis of 4.3 being > delivered to me as a

Spam as attachments

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Di Martino
I am using the latest stable ver of spamassassin along w/ Simscan on an SMTP (qmail) stor-&-forward server. No local Mailboxes. I have my simscan configured with the following options. ---enable-spam --enable-spam-hits=4.0 However, SPAM is being sent to me as attactment w/ SpamAssassin letting m