Re: Plesk / SA3 + General setup?

[JamesDR]

I don't personally use Plesk (nor have I ever heard of it :-D ), but as for accuracy of SpamAssassin, I can attest to it. Really if you think of the way SpamAssassin works, bayes is an intergral part of it, it isn't a Bayes filter per se, but it is one of the techniques that SpamAssassin uses to filter messages on. The rules, rbl, uri, bayes, awl, and other plug in tests (dcc, razor, etc) are what make spamassassin so powerful (imho). Spamassassin is more a meld of spam filtering technologies in a single package. I have had 0% real false positives, many messages that sound spammy, are marked as such, and for good reason. If you were having trouble with Outlook spambaytes, you will be happier with spamassassin's method of checking spam. Bayes does require training, and it isn't hard if you have a good corpus. As for per user training, I am not famular with any current methods (I'm currently developing one of my own.)
HTH
Thanks,
JamesDR

Justin Fielding wrote:

Hi guys, I am using a plesk VPS server (7.1.4) and am looking at updating to SA3. There are SA3 rpm's out there for plesk so I guess it is compatable. My main question is on general setup. I have read the docs but couldn't find a real answer to my question.
I was wondering first, how accurate is the baytes function? I used to have the outlook spambaytes plugin, and it wasn't too great. Despite a LOT of training, it constantly made false positives. Is the SA3 baytes much better? I can't work out how a user would tell SA that a mail is not spam, from their outlook or any other client? Acutally, how does a user tell the system about any kind of false +ve's?
Also, does anyone know of a good base config file for a plesk system? For example does a plesk system use sql to store user details/prefs etc?

Many Thanks,
Justin Fielding,
Intelliweb Ltd UK.
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