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Re: Spam Bouncer

2006-04-28 08:37:34
On 4/28/06, Mr Duck <tld(_at_)codeexamples(_dot_)org> wrote:
   At my office, I've got procmail set up to dev/null anything
that SA set to eight stars or more.  Over the last three years,
I've lowered the number to eight from thirteen, because I've
never had a false positive that high..  in fact, I don't think
I've ever had a false positive above four

I had two false positives scored over 11 just this morning, and that
was in spite of AWL and BAYES_00 adjusting the score downwards.  Both
were cron job logfile output, so the right solution is to
whitelist_from_rcvd them, but if you're routing the mail to /dev/null
how do you know you haven't had a false positive over 8?

I route all the spam into a daily log.  I allowed a few days worth to
pile up, then added a recipe so that when the first spam of a new day
arrives and creates a new mailbox, my procmailrc deletes the oldest
spam mailbox, so I always have a chance to recover but the number of
spam mailboxes remains the same.  (I could have used logrotate, but
I'm using MH-format mailboxes for the spam so that I can locate
individual messages with grep, and logrotate isn't great with whole
directories.)


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