Anyone using SpamAssassin effectively?

[Tempest]

I have it on a couple of my servers and I had tested it but found it no better than any other spam software.. false positives etc.

This week I started adding some of my own hardcore rules and I'm up to 50% being labeled spam with no false positives (no white list being used yet). Does anyone else use it with their own sets of rules?

[BJ]

I know its surferesque, but spamarrest is pretty failsafe

[BigBen]

I'm using it with qmail and it works great. I don't get too many false positives, and the one's I do get are mostly sponsor newsletters. My overall threshold is set at 2.0. I have some custom rules/filters setup that I've been tweaking for a while so as time goes by it gets better and better so that helps. That, and the bayesian filters.

I also use ClamAV which also works well.

[Tempest]

I'm using it with qmail and it works great. I don't get too many false positives, and the one's I do get are mostly sponsor newsletters. My overall threshold is set at 2.0. I have some custom rules/filters setup that I've been tweaking for a while so as time goes by it gets better and better so that helps. That, and the bayesian filters.

I also use ClamAV which also works well.

I'm trying to get to the point where I can have it auto-delete the email so any false positives isn't a good option... Haven't hooked up anything like ClamAV though at this point.. Almost all of the email is spam and not virus etc.

[BigBen]

I'm trying to get to the point where I can have it auto-delete the email so any false positives isn't a good option... Haven't hooked up anything like ClamAV though at this point.. Almost all of the email is spam and not virus etc.

I auto-delete after a certain threshold, and the rest are sorted into a different folder in my outlook that I can go through every once in a while to make sure I didn't miss anything valid.

Good luck!