[TriLUG] Current best anti-spam: Baraccuda/SpamAssassain/etc.

[Jason]

just to compare with CRM114, Ive been running it for many months, but I rarely see 
more than 1 misclassified email in 6 weeks.

Jason

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:14:12AM -0400, Rick 
DeNatale wrote: > On 7/31/06, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> .
> >I talked to someone last year who had setup a rule
> >in procmail that first checked for a special tag in the
> >mail.  If it was there, it passed the mail onto the rest
> >of the rules.  If it wasn't there, it added it and then
> >bounced it to his GMail account.  Over at gmail, he
> >had a filter that just forwarded e-mail back to his
> >e-mail address.  Even with forwarding, gmail still
> >runs e-mail through its spam filter.   The gmail
> >spam filter is just about the best I've seen.
> 
> Neat trick!
> 
> I've always been pretty impressed by gmail's spam filtering.  I
> suspect that it's partially using social networking in part, so that
> when I click on the report as spam, button it modifies the global
> filter and perhaps even moves copies of the same e-mail for other
> users who haven't seen it yet.
> 
> I must say that gmail seems to have gotten a little less efficient
> though, it seems to let a few spams slip by every day not. It seems to
> have a soft spot for nigerian, and "your e-mail has won the lottery!"
> spam.
> 
> I also did a quick scan of my accumulated spam on gmail this morning
> (1200+ messages), and found 1 false positive.  I think that this is
> the first false positive I've seen on gmail, although it was a product
> announcement from a company I'm interested in, so I can understand how
> it got clogged in the filter.
> 
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