Re: SpamAssassin rules problems (was Re: SpamBouncer)
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:48:55AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 20020208022035.GB1164@dman.ddts.net> dsh8290@rit.edu writes:
> [spamassassin]
> >| The default rule scoring seems pretty far off to me though.
> >Can you expand on this?
>
> (These comments are based on the few dozen mainly spam messages I've fed
> to "spamassassin -t", and some reading of the spamassassin mailing list
> archives.)
>
> Low scores for some obvious spam-only indicators (javascript -- no
> valid mail will ever contain javascript) Any html is a strong spam
> indicator.
>
> High scores for some things that could easily be tripped by valid email.
> (common spam phrases)
>
> Negative score for long messages. Long messages are more likely to be
> spam, not less.
>
> The current auto-whitelist implementation seems to have some problems.
>
> I haven't yet figured out how to configure which DNSBLs are used.
>
> It only seems to catch about 60% of the spam that gets past my other
> filters. (ordb, osirusoft, blarsbl, valid rDNS of relay, valid domain
> in envelope from) (These catch about 90% of the spam, and an occasional
> valid email.)
Those are all checks done by Spambouncer.
Assuming it's not being maintianed anymore, how have you implemented those checks?
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