Pierre

glad to see you've got time to check this email - I leave this to the users :-)

tends to be 1-2 per user per day, if that..much better than the 80+ spams a day they where getting!


-- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Pierre Thomson wrote:
I quarantine mail scoring between 6.0 and 12.0 (it's 99% spam) using 
MailScanner's quarantine system.  It's delivered to a spambox that I check 
hourly during the day.  We get only a couple of true FP's per week, and the 
last two were from two different AOL addresses.

For a quick fix, I took AOL off the list of "webmail" providers list in the 
FROM_WEBMAIL_END_NUMS6 test.  I'll admit that it's a bit unusual to use SIX digits to 
make your name unique; addresses with than many digits are likely to be bogus.

Pierre


-----Original Message----- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:43 AM To: Pierre Thomson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?


Pierre

depends on how you handle a score of 6.651 in MailScanner....

I deliver (with Tagged subject) scores from 5-10, and block anything with score > 10, so this kind of thing still ends up in the recipients email.

You could lower the score of the rules in spam.assassin.prefs.conf, or whitelist known users in the same file..


-- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Pierre Thomson wrote:

I have had a couple of FP's recently from valid AOL users.  AOL recommends 
appending digits to your screen name to make it unique, and many users do that. 
 The result (sender using AOL 9.0 client, SA 2.63) is a penalty of 6.39 points 
right off the bat.  Isn't that a bit extreme?

Pierre Thomson
BIC


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