Spam detection rates

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Wed May 2 13:42:56 IST 2007


About the same - I've got lots of extra rules and also use dcc/pyzor etc
so it's difficult to say there's been an improvement as I updated from
2.64 when 3.01 came along a few years ago.


BTW - any just noticed 3.2.0 has been released !

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gareth
> Sent: 02 May 2007 13:26
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> Subject: Spam detection rates
>
> I was wondering what sort of detection rates people are getting when
> using Mailscanner.
> Our old spamassassin 2.64 based system was only getting about 80% but
> with Mailscanner and the latest software we seem to be getting over
> 99.5% which is extremely good. False positives are very low aswell.
>
> We do tend to be very strict about pictures attached to emails as I
> think we have a few rules which do the same sort of checks. Some
> external people using the incredimail 'piece of cr**p' mail client get
a
> continuous score about 4.3 which leaves the AWL little room to bring
the
> occasional higher scoring mail back below the 5.0 threshold. It hasn't
> caused any people to complain though.
>
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