Spam detection rates

[Michael St. Laurent]

How long is your greet pause? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Randal, Phil
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:43 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Spam detection rates
> 
> 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
> --
> 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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