Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:24:55 -0500 From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail, Spam Assassin, and Procmail Message-ID: <20030203182455.GB5267@AndrewNg.com> In-Reply-To: <874r7lmgtn.fsf@strauser.com> References: <044001c2cba5$526c0b10$0e0ea8c0@xerxes> <874r7lmgtn.fsf@strauser.com>
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--/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 0, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote: > At 2003-02-03T16:57:16Z, "Justin P. Michel" <jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca> writ= es: >=20 > > Spam Assassin is tagging the e-mail properly, however, it's still being > > sent out to the clients. >=20 > This is OT to your question, but still: are you certain that you want to > drop all mail that gets marked by SpamAssassin? It works very well, but I > still get a few false positives per month. If any of my clients were > outside of my immediate friends/family group (i.e., paying customers), th= en > I would explicitly take no action on their incoming email other than to m= ark > it, and give the clients instructions on setting up a filter on their ema= il > client. That way, they take the responsibility for deciding to delete > suspect email - you're only providing an estimation service. > --=20 > Kirk Strauser I agree with Kirk, SA works amazingly well for me and I haven't gotten a fa= lse positive for a long long time, but that's because I trained the Bayesian filters well, I also tuned my whitelist so important mails from my banks, domain registrar, etc won't get marked as spam. but default SA gives quite = a=20 few false positive. --=20 andrew y ng <ayn@andrewng.com> http://andrewng.com independent computer consultants http://aynassociates.com --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PrP3vtjogpv8WUwRAr7QAJ9/9G7zmTAZ7/Q/D6/3Nftmfvi9gQCgx10r 5pgBlG5rFLWH+lmwss74RUU= =lnRp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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