Re: Spam Assassin

[John Ackermann N8UR <jra@febo.com>]

I'm using Spamassassin, interfaced with exim to filter before delivery to 
local users.  It works really well -- it catches 40-50% of incoming mail 
(for about 7 users total) as spam, with a false-positive rate of way less 
than 1%.  I've seen a slight increase lately in spams that slip through, 
but typically my inbox gets three or four a day, which still isn't too bad. 
I dump all the suspected spam into a separate mailbox, which I check every 
couple of days by scanning the combination of subject line and sender. 
When I do that check, I may find one or two messages out of several hundred 
that I forward on as likely "real" email.

John


--On Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:59 PM +0200 Craig <craigsc@zdata.co.za> 
wrote:

> Hi fellows
>
> Wanted to get the general impression of how well Spam Assassin
> works in eliminating Spam and if there are any other packages
> we should be looking into.
>
> ..Craig
>
>
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John Ackermann    N8UR         jra@febo.com     http://www.febo.com
President, TAPR                n8ur@tapr.org    http://www.tapr.org