[TriLUG] Another seal broken... thinking of installing a C/R anti-spam system

[Cristóbal Palmer]

Okay... sorry to reply to my own mail...

I realized after I sent my message that it's not really fair for me to
characterize SA's performance as negatively as I did. SA reduces the
spam that hits the email address I have in mind by some ungodly factor
>> 20, but when the mail you see in the end is still 3/4 spam, you
still aren't totally happy, y'know?

Thanks,
CMP

On 1/29/07, Cristóbal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll second that.
>
> SA is awesome--with tweaking. Even so, if you have a published address
> that gets a lot of mail and is an initial point of contact, eg.
> sales at foobar.com, you're still going to get a significant amount of
> spam unless you're willing to live with false positives and/or spend a
> lot of time tweaking. I'm itching to try greylisting, too.
>
> Thanks,
> CMP
>
> On 1/29/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
> > David McDowell wrote:
> > > In this thread we've seen some metrics and performance opinions on
> > > greylisting... what about the latest spamassassin working with
> > > sa-update?
> >
> >
> > I've actually not been too impressed.  Lots of spam gets through, and I
> > do maintain a corpus of manually sorted ham and spam that is updated
> > every 24 hours.
> >
> > I tend to err on the side of caution with my UCE controls, though,
> > because I've found repeatedly if I get much more aggressive I get false
> > positives.  Unacceptable.
> >
> > I'm between OpenBSD boxes right now (the new firewall isn't quite to my
> > liking yet) so I'm not getting as much pre-SA filtering as I would like.
> >
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Cristóbal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student -- ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer
TriLUG Vice Chair
"There are many roads to enlightenment, and thus many roads back to
the One True Debian" --crimsun