Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:07:18PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote:
} On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 18:41:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
[...]
} > 5) spamassassin user_prefs -- I shouldn't discount this, since I had
} > developed it over the course of years on a
} > system someone else administered, but it was
} > incremental improvements.
}
} I'd be interested to see the results of such long-considered
} improvements (privately if you don't want to post it here). The pressure
} is off since I installed greylistd, but I intend to have another go at
} spamassassin soon -- my last attempt was abandonned after I brought the
} server to its knees!
[...]
Well, I have some 90000 spam messages I've trained spamassassin on, so I
kind of like it. My .spamassassin/user_prefs, minus my whitelisted email
addresses, is below. The important stuff is the scoring adjustments for the
Bayesian thresholds.
} richard
--Greg
# SpamAssassin user preferences file. See 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for
# details of what can be tweaked.
#*
#* Note: this file is not read by SpamAssassin until copied into the user directory
#* Instead, it will be copied
#* to a user's home directory, allowing them to perform personalised
#* customisation. If you want to make changes to the site-wide defaults,
#* create a file in /etc/spamassassin or /etc/mail/spamassassin instead.
###########################################################################
use_bayes 1
bayes_auto_learn 1
bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.0
bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 8.0
bayes_ignore_header X-Virus-Scanned
bayes_ignore_header X-Amavis-Alert
# How many hits before a mail is considered spam.
required_hits 5
#rewrite_header Subject *SPAM*
ok_languages en
ok_locales en
report_safe 0
add_header all Report _REPORT_
# Whitelist and blacklist addresses are now file-glob-style patterns, so
# "friend@somewhere.com", "*@isp.com", or "*.domain.net" will all work.
# whitelist_from someone@somewhere.com
unwhitelist_from *@amazon.com
blacklist_from info@offers.fye.com
# Add your own customised scores for some tests below. The default scores are
# read from the installed spamassassin rules files, but you can override them
# here. To see the list of tests and their default scores, go to
# http://spamassassin.org/tests.html .
#
# score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n.nn
score IN_REP_TO 0
score PGP_SIGNATURE 0
score BAYES_00 -6
score BAYES_01 -5.5
score BAYES_10 -3.5
score BAYES_20 -2.5
score BAYES_30 -0.5
score BAYES_40 .1
score BAYES_44 .5
score BAYES_50 1
score BAYES_56 2.5
score BAYES_60 3
score BAYES_70 4
score BAYES_80 5
score BAYES_90 6
score BAYES_99 8
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