[SAtalk] Useful reporting with SA

[Ken Winke]

I've had SA 2.55 with bayes running for some time now, and I'd like to take it a bit further.  Here's what I'm wondering and thinking...I'd like to know if others do similar spam maintenance and if they could respond back with the best methods for gaining useful info from my spam.   - I've got two collections of mail...spam and ham.  I already train bayes, but I'd like to use these for more indepth reports.  I'd like to be able to add new rules to a temp (non-active) config file, and get feedback on how many messages would get flagged with my new rule...and also how many it might flag with the non-spam corpus.   - I'd like to be able to create a quick ranking of the most popular rules, and also the least popular rules that get used on these corpuses.  I think that might be useful for adjusting scores to custom-fit my spam.   - I'd like to get feedback on my range of hits...to see what the average number my spam draws, and consider if I need to adjust my general limit (right now I've got it set at 5.5 with global rules in place, no individual rules).  Also, I'd like to learn what my average hammessage ranks.   - Feedback on domains would be fantastic, but I'm not sure if this is best suited for SA or my mailer (qmail with vpopmail for the user accounts)...get to know what the most popular domains that are sending me spam...   I know there's a few things in the tools directory of SA, but I was hoping to hear some specific examples of how to accomplish these tasks.  Also, it'd be great to hear of any other management/upkeep that admins run on a regular basis to get a better handle on their situation.   Thanks...   ...ken