1 week's spam

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jan 12 17:16:26 GMT 2004


At 17:04 12/01/2004, you wrote:
>  >Morning all,
>  >
>  >Thought I would do a little check that my spam settings are doing okay.
>  >So I have been checking my spam for the past week.
>  >
>  >In the past 7 days, I have received 2,977 bits of spam personally addressed
>  >to me.
>  >That's about 425 every day, which is about half my mail. (Boy, am I glad of
>  >that MailScanner thingy!)
>  >
>  >In that time, there have been 0 false positives, and 23 false negatives.
>  >This gives success rates of 100% and 99.2% respectively.
>  >
>  >Which I reckon is pretty good :-)
>  >
>  >Setup details:
>  >Spam List = ORDB-RBL MAPS-RBL+ spamhaus.org spamhaus-XBL
>  >Max SpamAssassin Size = 40000
>  >Required SpamAssassin Score = 6
>  >SA 2.61 with BigEvil list added
>  >DCC
>  >Razor2
>  >
>
>Are the RBL lists being used by the mta, MailScanner or Spamassassin ?

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