Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-18 Thread Kris Deugau
Greg Troxel wrote: Alan writes: It's sent to the bit bucket, not done in the MTA. In this case, each account can set individual thresholds and has an individual set of local rules, so that might be why. I'd prefer to 550 them as well, although I suspect the majority of sources just don't

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Alan writes: > It's sent to the bit bucket, not done in the MTA. In this case, each > account can set individual thresholds and has an individual set of > local rules, so that might be why. I'd prefer to 550 them as well, > although I suspect the majority of sources just don't care. Lately the

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-18 Thread Alan
On 2021-08-17 18:53, Greg Troxel wrote: Alan <> writes: I manage email for a couple of hundred domains, so a fair bit of stuff that arrives to my inbox are spam complaints (they're supposed to open tickets or use the support mailbox but... users). I flag anything over 5.0 as spam, but it

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2021-08-17 18:03, David Bürgin wrote: In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no false positives. basicly all above 5 is spam tagged with default spamassassin, it is so as long as spamassassin

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Greg Troxel
Alan writes: > I manage email for a couple of hundred domains, so a fair bit of stuff > that arrives to my inbox are spam complaints (they're supposed to open > tickets or use the support mailbox but... users). I flag anything over > 5.0 as spam, but it still comes to my inbox. Anything over

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Alan
I manage email for a couple of hundred domains, so a fair bit of stuff that arrives to my inbox are spam complaints (they're supposed to open tickets or use the support mailbox but... users). I flag anything over 5.0 as spam, but it still comes to my inbox. Anything over 8.0 goes to the bit

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Greg Troxel
David Bürgin writes: [all the other replies sound 100% sensible to me] > In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I > mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no false > positives. There is no certainty; there is only probability. So you

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17.08.21 18:03, David Bürgin wrote: In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no false positives. The default threshold for spam is 5.0, which works well for me. Only very rarely a ham message scores

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi David, If your default is in the 5 to 6 range for scoring, we have found that 11.0 has virtually no FPs and 15.0 has not had any FPs at our firm in years. Regards, KAM On 8/17/2021 12:03 PM, David Bürgin wrote: In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I mean

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 18:03 +0200, David Bürgin wrote: > In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I > mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no > false positives. > I pushed it one notch, to 6.0, but:   (a) I've accumulated a fair collection of

Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread David Bürgin
In your experience, what is a good ‘certain spam’ threshold? By that I mean the score above which messages are virtually always spam, no false positives. The default threshold for spam is 5.0, which works well for me. Only very rarely a ham message scores above that and lands in my Junk folder.