On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:07:18PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: } On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 18:41:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] } > 5) spamassassin user_prefs -- I shouldn't discount this, since I had } > developed it over the course of years on a } > system someone else administered, but it was } > incremental improvements. } } I'd be interested to see the results of such long-considered } improvements (privately if you don't want to post it here). The pressure } is off since I installed greylistd, but I intend to have another go at } spamassassin soon -- my last attempt was abandonned after I brought the } server to its knees! [...]
Well, I have some 90000 spam messages I've trained spamassassin on, so I kind of like it. My .spamassassin/user_prefs, minus my whitelisted email addresses, is below. The important stuff is the scoring adjustments for the Bayesian thresholds. } richard --Greg # SpamAssassin user preferences file. See 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for # details of what can be tweaked. #* #* Note: this file is not read by SpamAssassin until copied into the user directory #* Instead, it will be copied #* to a user's home directory, allowing them to perform personalised #* customisation. If you want to make changes to the site-wide defaults, #* create a file in /etc/spamassassin or /etc/mail/spamassassin instead. ########################################################################### use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.0 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 8.0 bayes_ignore_header X-Virus-Scanned bayes_ignore_header X-Amavis-Alert # How many hits before a mail is considered spam. required_hits 5 #rewrite_header Subject *SPAM* ok_languages en ok_locales en report_safe 0 add_header all Report _REPORT_ # Whitelist and blacklist addresses are now file-glob-style patterns, so # "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", or "*.domain.net" will all work. # whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] unwhitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] blacklist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Add your own customised scores for some tests below. The default scores are # read from the installed spamassassin rules files, but you can override them # here. To see the list of tests and their default scores, go to # http://spamassassin.org/tests.html . # # score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n.nn score IN_REP_TO 0 score PGP_SIGNATURE 0 score BAYES_00 -6 score BAYES_01 -5.5 score BAYES_10 -3.5 score BAYES_20 -2.5 score BAYES_30 -0.5 score BAYES_40 .1 score BAYES_44 .5 score BAYES_50 1 score BAYES_56 2.5 score BAYES_60 3 score BAYES_70 4 score BAYES_80 5 score BAYES_90 6 score BAYES_99 8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
