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Re: Spamassassin and the like

2003-06-25 20:26:44
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:52:10AM -0700, Professional Software Engineering 
wrote:
At 08:48 2003-06-25 -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
How much spam do you get, and what is an acceptable failure rate for
you? Just curious. I cannot see an MTA approach being more than 80-85%
effective,

That's 80-85% less junk messages that you have to sort through - and

Yes, I know. The point I was making is that 80% is not good enough if
you get 100-200 or more unwanted mails a day. It might help, but it is
not a cure by itself. 

I use SMTP blocks, and *then* still filter using my own procmail rules.  No 
SA here, though I don't doubt that it is a fine product (actually, it is 

Same here ...


               Week to Date Spam Summary 
Sun Jun 22 04:08:24 thru Wed Jun 25 23:21:08 EDT 2003
 Postfix Rejected:      549
 Bogofied:               83
 Procmail Filtered:      34
 Spams missed:            1
 Total Spams:           667
 Spams Blocked:         666
 Percent Blocked:     99.85%          


The last line of defense for me is procmail since I can easily adjust
it to patch holes left by the others.

-- 
Hal Burgiss
 

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