Spam detection rates

[Randal, Phil]

We consistently get over 99.5% of spam too.

Last month we blocked around 260,000 at the sendmail level
(cbl.abuseat.org RBL and GreetPause), and 400,000 in MailScanner.

Spam seems to be around 75% of total emails here.

Cheers,

Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----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
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> 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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