Gustafson, Tim wrote:
Hi Everyone!
I know that Bayes is "the" defacto best way to fight SPAM right now, but I wonder if anyone out there is running SA without Bayes turned on and what their experience with it is?
I run SA with Bayes enabled right now site-wide for more than 500 e-mail accounts, and my problem is that some of my clients who deal in industries that are very SPAMmy in nature (like a recruiting firm or an insurance agency) are getting e-mails tagged as SPAM that aren't SPAM (at least to my client) at all. Most of these e-mails are being tagged because of their Bayes score, and I'm curious how many false negatives I'll get if I just turn of Bayes altogether.
Is there any log analysis tool that will tell me how many SPAMs would NOT have been marked as SPAM if a given rule was turned off when the e-mail was received?
Can anyone comment on the effectiveness of SA without Bayes activated?
Tim Gustafson
MEI Technology Consulting, Inc
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I can't comment on the effectiveness of SA without Bayes, but I can suggest a couple of things. First, try just lowering the scores given to Bayes a bit so that emails won't be marked as spam solely because of Bayes. Secondly, try using per-user Bayes instead of global. It is a little more work, but if you are serving email for a varied group of email accounts, it will be much more effective.
