"Benjamin J. Stassart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:46:13 -0500 >> From: Lloyd Zusman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: TMDA and Spamassassin > >> I use SpamAssassin and TMDA also, but the way I do it is this: >> >> - Set the SpamAssassin threshold to 3. Any email that scores >> higher than this is trashed. > > That is way too low of a SpamAssassin score for most people to delete mail > based on. SpamAssassin scores way too many 3+ false positives. IMO, > SpamAssassin scores too many 5+ false positives to discard mail based on > SpamAssassin alone. > > People have posted 5+ false positives to this list before. Search the > archive if you want to see some. I think I have some in one of my mail > folders too.
Well, I only had 2 false positives a year out of 25,000 emails. (I called them "false negatives" in my previous message, but I'm referring to the same phenomenon). Other users on my system are less stringent, using either 4 or 5 for the SpamAssassin threshold. At any rate, I still believe that overall, it's best to use SpamAssassin to weed out likely spam (whatever threshold is used), and to then send _all_ messages that pass SpamAssassin through TMDA. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
