{SPAM} Emails Not Bouncing

[NateDog]

Hey man that's a freaking good idea.  I've heard about razor and stuff but I
haven't messed with it yet.  And setting the scores like that should work
too.  I'll do what you say.  I'll let you know if I have any problems.
Thanks for all your help.

--
Nathan Peters

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Spicer" <kevins at BMRB.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: {SPAM} Emails Not Bouncing


> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:45, NateDog wrote:
> > Ah that's cool no prob.  But do you have any ideas for me?  Like any
> > alternatives?  The only problem I have really is that an email from a
new
> > customer gets sent.  And let's say it's detected as spam.  They have no
idea
> > if it's caught as spam and didn't go through or whatever you know what I
> > mean?  I'm okay with the virus warnings not being kicked back to the
sender
> > because the person it was going to inside our network will get an email
> > saying it had a virus and was deleted.  Anyways.....I'm open to
suggestions
> > :)
>
> I created custom spamassassin rules which matched the names of our
> products in the body of messages, this got rid of almost all of the
> false positives from our clients.
>
> Also throwing DCC, Razor, Pyzor and a handful of RBL's into the
> spamassassin mix helps to raise the average spam score, meaning you can
> set your threshold a little higher and avoid some of the marginal false
> positives.
>
> Keep an eye on the spamassassin rules the false positives match and
> tweak their scores if necessary
>
> Finally consider only blocking high scoring spam and just tagging (or
> tagging and stripping) low scoring spam, then lower your high score to
> be just above the highest false positives you are getting.  That way you
> get rid of most spam, but don't lose real mail.
>
>
>
>
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