From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 10:24:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA41537B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:24:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from andromeda.68k.org (callisto.teisoft.com [12.109.66.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58E543F9B for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ayn@andromeda.68k.org) Received: from andromeda.68k.org (ayn@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by andromeda.68k.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6Woody) with ESMTP id h13IOuSY005407 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:24:56 -0500 Received: (from ayn@localhost) by andromeda.68k.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-6Woody) id h13IOu4E005405; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:24:56 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:24:55 -0500 From: Andrew Y Ng To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail, Spam Assassin, and Procmail Message-ID: <20030203182455.GB5267@AndrewNg.com> References: <044001c2cba5$526c0b10$0e0ea8c0@xerxes> <874r7lmgtn.fsf@strauser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874r7lmgtn.fsf@strauser.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 46A1 29FF 893A 0381 DC81 1E1E BED8 E882 9BFC 594C X-GPG-Info: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 9BFC594C Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 0, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-02-03T16:57:16Z, "Justin P. Michel" writ= es: >=20 > > Spam Assassin is tagging the e-mail properly, however, it's still being > > sent out to the clients. >=20 > This is OT to your question, but still: are you certain that you want to > drop all mail that gets marked by SpamAssassin? It works very well, but I > still get a few false positives per month. If any of my clients were > outside of my immediate friends/family group (i.e., paying customers), th= en > I would explicitly take no action on their incoming email other than to m= ark > it, and give the clients instructions on setting up a filter on their ema= il > client. That way, they take the responsibility for deciding to delete > suspect email - you're only providing an estimation service. > --=20 > Kirk Strauser I agree with Kirk, SA works amazingly well for me and I haven't gotten a fa= lse positive for a long long time, but that's because I trained the Bayesian filters well, I also tuned my whitelist so important mails from my banks, domain registrar, etc won't get marked as spam. but default SA gives quite = a=20 few false positive. --=20 andrew y ng http://andrewng.com independent computer consultants http://aynassociates.com --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PrP3vtjogpv8WUwRAr7QAJ9/9G7zmTAZ7/Q/D6/3Nftmfvi9gQCgx10r 5pgBlG5rFLWH+lmwss74RUU= =lnRp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/WwmFnJnmDyWGHa4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message