> -----Original Message----- > From: Bart Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:48 AM > To: spamassassin_list > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:58 AM > > > > > > Do you have a feel for the number of rules that would need to be > > > in user_prefs to have a significant impact on performance > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > I'm not sure about performance loss. I have every rule (That isn't a > > duplicate) in the SA rule emporeum running now. > > You're running all the rules from the SA rule emporeum out of your own > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file? Really?
Nope, sorry. Didn't catch that. THey are run from seperate cf files in the /etc/mail/spamassassin dir. They are run for the entire company! Every bit of email that enters company is subject to all of these rules. > > > On a side note, I'm still using 2.4x and about 70% of my points come > > from custom rules. Using the rules gathered from the > emporeum + the ones > > generated from reg2rule.pl have boosted my average spam > score from 9 to > > about 25!!! Custom rules rock! > > Not that I have anything against custom rules -- I use a > number of them > myself -- but the point of the custom rules should be to > cause the score > to cross the threshold in the desired direction (over for > spam, under for > ham). What's the point in running up the score of messages that are > already being correctly tagged? > My goal is to get every piece of spam over 7 points. At that point they get delivered to spamtrap and not user. When I write a new rule, it isn't to get a spam from 20.3 to 21.5, but to get a 5.5 to a 7.0. Simply marking the email as spam was only the first step. I don't want my users to see any. I take a spam being scored at 6.0 as a failure to me. Sure it was marked, but it was delivered. :-) My biggest spam pain right now is being marked. scores a 5.5 consistantly. But it is driving me crazy to get it over 7.0. Silly embedded mime!! :-P I also have a bunch of negative rules to keep my ham safe. I can't stop either. Rule writing is like crack. Need to write rules. Urge building.....voices.......regex...... --Chris Santerre ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
