On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Mike Grau wrote: > My question is - is SpammAssassin ready "out of the box" to > differentiate between spam and non-spam "99.94%" of the cases or do I > need customized rules. The reason I ask is because I sent myself obvious > spam (free mortgage quote) and could only get a 3.6 hit rate.
Frankly - no. That 99.94 number is a bit high, IMO. It gets a really high hit-rate against the spam in the spam corpus, but spam in the wild changes pretty quickly, and we all get a different sample of the stuff. I'd estimate it at about 90%. Then again, tools like the DNS blacklists and Razor can bring that number up a bit. You may need to customize the rules to catch things that are missed, and whitelist things that shouldn't be hit. My customers are enormously happy with the thing, though. I don't know of a better product, commercial or open source. > Also is the reference to /etc/spamassassin.cf in the "Welcome to > SpamAssassin" old and has been replaced by /etc/mail/spamassassin/* or > should I have them both? It is old. You should only have /etc/mail/spamassassin/*. > And one more - I want to use SpamAssassin only with site-wide > configuration. Should I run spamd with the -x switch to turn off > per-user config files or do I need the per-user config files for the > user that sendmail runs as? Do the white lists get written site-wide or > written to the sendmail RUN_AS_USER user? I run with -x and put my preferences into /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. Can't answer your auto-whitelist question because I don't use it. I don't think that a site-wide auto-whitelist is recommended yet. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
