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Re: Recipe Suggestion

2007-09-29 08:34:49
Addressing just this one problem ...

On 9/29/07, CT Guy <procmail(_at_)websites(_dot_)teamhendricks(_dot_)com> wrote:

The rest of the spam designated does not go into
the spam folder, it by passes and ends up in the Sites folder.

So here you assign some variables:

  GIFBOX                = '.gifbox/'      #  IMAP-oriented, see delivery
  DEVNULL               = '.devnull/'
  BLACKLIST             = '.spam/'
  DISABILITYCENTRAL     = '.disabilitycentral/'
  SITES                 = '.sites/'
  SPAMASSASSIN          = '.spam/'

And here you use a couple of them:

#------------------------------------------------------------
#  Spam Assassin Review and Toss
#------------------------------------------------------------

  :0 fw
  * < 256000
  | spamassassin

  :0
  * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
  $DEVNULL

  :0
  * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*
  $SPAM

Do you see the obvious discrepancy?

As an aside, tossing mail that scores a 2 will catch a LOT of
legitimate mail.  In spite of using a scoring system, SpamAssassin is
designed to make a binary decision: less than a score of 5 is
non-spam, a score of 5 or more is spam.  A combination of rules that
adds up to 4.9 and a combination that adds up to 0.49 are considered
equally "non-spam" by the algorithm that pre-determines the score
values of individual rules.  A side-effect of the score assignment
algorithm is that messages with a really large score are unlikely to
be false positives, but "scores between 2 and 5 are likely to be false
negatives" does NOT follow from this.
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