On 7/12/06, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Catchy subject line eh?
What you really mean is "the best way to use SpamAssassin is as an analysis tool." Which of course is what the best way to use it always was. You're just abstracting the analysis rather than applying it directly.
The reaso [sic] of spam is rejected before I get to SA through a fairly large number of tricks that allow me to determine with near 100% accuracy things that are spam.
There's been a fellow over on the procmail list claiming for well over a year now that he can get better accuracy than SA through message header analysis alone, based on rules he's compiled by analyzing what gets through the rules he already has. Just like you've done so far in this thread, though, all he'll do is claim that without providing any details -- which he says is because he doesn't want to give away all the hours of his work that went into it.
It is none mostly through behavior and karma related lists. Being host blacklisted or URI blacklisted. Similarly, I have created a whitelisting system that tracks hosts and other aspects of the message
The trick, of course, is to be able to automatically feed back into these lists based on the output of the analysis tool. If someone has to do it by hand, it's a losing proposition.
