[Techtalk] spam filters
Raquel
raquel at thericehouse.net
Tue Oct 24 14:11:32 UTC 2006
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:30:34 -0700
Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am currently using spamassasin to filter spam on our mail
> server. Lately it has not been doing a very good job. I keep
> trying to update it, but I always seem to be at the latest
> release. Does anyone have any suggestions? Either an alternate
> spam filter or some secret knob to turn to make it work better?
> ;-) I have the spam level at 5 right now, but I
> don't think turning it further down would help much, because
> most of
> the spam getting through seems to be a 2.5 or less (and a
> depressing amount of them are at 0!). Any advice? Has anyone
> tried turning it down as low as a 2? What sort of false positives
> do you get?
>
> thanks,
> maria
>
>
Do you continue to train the bayesian filters with SPAM that gets
missed? What rulesets do you use?
--
Raquel
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