Anyone using SpamAssassin effectively? - GoFuckYourself.com

Tempest · 12-15-2006, 04:42 PM

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 · 12-15-2006, 04:49 PM

I know its surferesque, but spamarrest is pretty failsafe

BigBen · 12-15-2006, 05:01 PM

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 · 12-15-2006, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 12-16-2006, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Tempest

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!

12-15-2006, 04:42 PM	#1
Tempest Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: West Coast, Canada. Posts: 10,217	Anyone using SpamAssassin effectively? 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?

12-15-2006, 04:49 PM	#2
BJ Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: asia Posts: 5,590	I know its surferesque, but spamarrest is pretty failsafe

12-15-2006, 05:01 PM	#3
BigBen Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: scv Posts: 2,299	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.