From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 10 7:37:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D6F37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:37:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [207.200.51.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0EB43ED1 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:37:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBAFb4c24143; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:37:04 -0600 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gBAFb4c07677; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:37:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (electron [204.177.173.173]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBAFb0p07670; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:37:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3DF60A05.5000906@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:36:37 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schultz Cc: Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Spam decisions References: <20021210073508.GB73284@raggedclown.net> <20021210152423.GA8031@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Schultz wrote: [..snip..] > I was going to switch to SpamAssassin, but recently one of the > mail servers I have an account on started running SpamAssassin and > adding huge X-Spam-Report: headers to incoming mail. Up until > then, I was given to believe that the software was better at > avoiding false positives. When one of those ``your order has > shipped'' messages got a score of 4.70 for annoying HTML crap, it > made me a bit nervous. Moreover, it seems like the only SPAM it > can reliably detect is the kind that takes me a sixteenth of a > second to delete. I use spamscan, which basically allows you to forward your mail through it (I use a "|/bla/spamscan userid" in the aliases file) and set up individual filters per user.. it can filter on the body (including subject), from:, and to:.. Of course, I'm biased, because I wrote it.. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message