Re: Deleting Spam (Linux & Procmail)

> On Thursday 11 October 2007, Mark wrote:
> >I'm new to the list, so I hope this is the right place.
> >
> >I am running my mail through procmail and separating my spamassassin
> >into 3 groups depending on score:
> >
> > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=[2-9][0-9]
> > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=[0-9][0-9]
> > X-Spam-Status: Yes
> >
> >I reason that this must be in order of confidence. I have found that the
> >first group (score>=20) contains more than half of my spam. The last
> >group (score<10) contains about 1/10 of the spam.
> >
> >Would others agree that I can safely get procmail to trash the scores
> >higher than 10?

On 11.10.07 05:23, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I've been sending that stuff to /dev/null at >7, no false hits so far
> according to the procmail.log. My bayes is fairly well trained.

We (ISP I work for) had complaints when the messages scored over 7 were refused. I have even seen some messages that could be taken as false positives scoring a 11.

However I take refusal with score over 10 as safe. Some people just have to fix their submission agents (usually PHP scripts who don't care about proper encoding and splitting lines)

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