Robert Menschel has already addressed most of your points pretty well. <AOL>MEE too!!oneone!1!!</AOL>
Florin Andrei wrote: > <sigh> > > I've a fairly demanding job, i've a few pretty convoluted personal > projects i'm involved in, i've a family and other details that > typically show up if one is not an archetypal pale-faced > geek-in-the-basement. I do try to take care of my personal webserver > (to which i'm the sole admin), mailserver (SA, Postfix, Cyrus, > Squirrelmail), VoIP PBX, etc., despite the schedule overload. Understood. I happen to be in the position of doing this as a part of my day job; I administer a number of local servers for what used to be a local ISP (bought out two years ago). As I noted, however, I don't currently spend a whole lot of time specifically tuning SA, because I've got a well-tuned setup (on the ISP-account filter server and domain hosting server, according to customers; and on my own personal system) that needs all of about five minutes attention to SA per *week*. I've left all three systems running SA 2.64, patched for SURBL lookups, because of this- I have no real need to upgrade. That said, all of those systems have been in more or less continuous operation for several years now, and have had the benefit of quite a bit of my time doing the tuning since I installed SA. I'm also seeing far less customer feedback; whether that's due to lack of FPs and FNs on most accounts (possible) or just nobody noticing (somewhat more likely, sadly) I can't say. Any good filter *will* take some time to get well-tuned for YOUR particular mail flow. :/ > And these days i was looking at SA and i'm, like, "it's not gonna > happen, i don't have time for this." I chose to play the dumb user on > purpose, just because i can't fix everything myself. I know that feeling. <g> > I do apologize for not reporting the actual nature of the problem. Ranting is allowed. <g> But if you really expect help, a brief summary of what you think is wrong and what you've tried to fix the problem lets others provide advice that may allow you to spend five minutes making a VERY noticeable improvement in your setup. Tweaking the Bayes and SURBL (aka URIRBL) scores will probably give you the most visible, immediate improvement in your spam detection rates with SA3.x without having to write or test rules or rulesets. -kgd -- Get your mouse off of there! You don't know where that email has been!
