Howdy, Well, I've implemented the new bigevil.cf, the nov2rules, and the combined popcorn/weeds/backhair rules (dated from 2003/10/14) from merchantsoverseas.com (Oh, thank you for both, Jennifer and Chris!), and am now getting about 85-88% detection vs. about 70-75% before, using SA 2.60. I've also got Bayes autolearning turned on, and it's definitely active. I am skipping RBL checks, and the other network checks, as being too resource intensive. The good news is that I haven't gotten a single FP since implementing. That's really nice.
Is there anything I can do to help improve the detection rate? I'm willing to share a PST of some examples of uncaught spam (i.e., with scores lower than 5), if desired. I haven't gotten to the suggested tactic of using PFs in Exchange and fetchmail to seed the Bayes database, but that's coming. (Thanks, Kent!) A little explanation might be in order - I'm measuring against mails that I'm getting that are addressed to abot 40 former employees. All emails get forwarded to our Exchange server, and since I can consider all of these mails to the former employees to be spam, all I have to do is save all of those to a separate directory, and analyze them, instead of all of the mails on the Exchange server. This helps a great deal, since it isn't a measurement against all of the current employees, which I think would be far too time-consuming to figure out, given that I'd have to separate out the non-internet mail from the internet mail, then classify what what caught by spamassassin vs. not, etc. I'm making the (hopefully warranted) assumption that the spam that those who are departed is pretty much the same as the spam that those who are currently employed are receiving. Thanks all, Kurt Buff Sr. Network Administrator Zetron, Inc. 425.820.6363 x463 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Box 97004 Redmond, WA 98073 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
