On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 13:51, Charlie Watts wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Mike Grau wrote: > > > My question is - is SpammAssassin ready "out of the box" to > > differentiate between spam and non-spam "99.94%" of the cases or do I > > need customized rules. The reason I ask is because I sent myself obvious > > spam (free mortgage quote) and could only get a 3.6 hit rate. > > Frankly - no. That 99.94 number is a bit high, IMO. It gets a really high > hit-rate against the spam in the spam corpus, but spam in the wild changes > pretty quickly, and we all get a different sample of the stuff. I'd > estimate it at about 90%.
Yeah, the 99.94% is really a "marketing" figure -- actual results are probably more in the 90% range in the wild, as Charlie says. > Then again, tools like the DNS blacklists and Razor can bring that number > up a bit. These do push false negatives, but they also increase false-positives, depending on which RBLs you use. I run with -L and am exceedingly happy with the results. > My customers are enormously happy with the thing, though. I don't know of > a better product, commercial or open source. That's because everyone on this mailing list is a genius :) > > Also is the reference to /etc/spamassassin.cf in the "Welcome to > > SpamAssassin" old and has been replaced by /etc/mail/spamassassin/* or > > should I have them both? > > It is old. You should only have /etc/mail/spamassassin/*. Yes, it is old. I can't find the reference to /etc/spamassassin.cf in the README, so I'm just going to assume that this is fixed in CVS. I guess it's probably time to do a new release soon then. > > And one more - I want to use SpamAssassin only with site-wide > > configuration. Should I run spamd with the -x switch to turn off > > per-user config files or do I need the per-user config files for the > > user that sendmail runs as? Do the white lists get written site-wide or > > written to the sendmail RUN_AS_USER user? > > I run with -x and put my preferences into /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. > Can't answer your auto-whitelist question because I don't use it. I don't > think that a site-wide auto-whitelist is recommended yet. "-a", ie turning on auto-whitelisting, is not yet recommended. It will be recommended in the next release, ETA maybe one week or less. C _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
