Recently here we've discussed the increase in false positives showing up in our Spam folders. My increase has been fairly dramatic in the past two weeks. I've been feeding the shared folders, as always, but more and more personal messages sent from reputable ISPs (mostly Yahoo) are being blocked.
I've analyzed the messages and found that the tags that almost always wrongly kick messages over the 5.0 points mark are the "rfc-ignorant" tags. For those who aren't familiar with them, they are tags that poll this "blacklist" of domains that don't maintain servers complaint with certain RFCs, namely those directing to have an [EMAIL PROTECTED] account and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] account. I find this database to do more harm than good, and would like some of you to take a look at your false positives to see if you agree. For example, all messages form Yahoo accounts-- the world's most popular webmail system-- start right out of the gate with 3.5 points, just a few key words or a missing real name away from going straight to the spam folder. I think that's unacceptable. (Now, indeed it is also unacceptable for Yahoo to not play nicely and I've submitted a support ticket as surely many others have.) Could we at least reduce the score for these lists? Especially the postmaster score that's outright excessive at 1.7. I'll figure out how if people are interested in improving our spam filter. I sure am. Frank _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
