[Declude.JunkMail] Tuning Declude

2003-02-13 Thread Dan Geiser
Hello, All, I've been running Declude.JunkMail for a few days now. We have about 90 domains on our IMail v6.06 Server. I have setup Declude.JunkMail to ignore all of the domains except for one, our in-house domain NEXUSTECHGROUP.COM. My $default$.junkmail for NEXUSTECHGROUP.COM still has all of

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Tuning Declude

2003-02-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
For each message I am tracking which Declude.JunkMail tests those messages are failing which has given me a sheet full of data which looks something like this... The first thing to remember is that no one spam test is perfect, and all spam tests will have some false positives (which is what

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Tuning Declude

2003-02-13 Thread David Lewis-Waller
I don't pretend to fully understand Declude (others are far more wise than I). However, I use fairly standard settings with the exception of using SNIFFER (weight 17) for enhanced spam detection. I weight HOLDs (for our domain and few others only) at 30+ and have found that I get no false

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Tuning Declude

2003-02-13 Thread George Kulman
Dan, I feel that this is as much art as science and that there's no simple 'one size fits all' solution. I haven't done any hard statistical testing but here's my setup. I use the JunkMail default weightings and find that a WEIGHT of 16 gives very few false positives, probably less than 1 in a

[Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread paul
Ok guys, what do you see in ratio of junk vs good mail per day? Do you get more junk than legit? Here I notice we're killing more than 50% of incoming mail. Average messages processed per day range from 13K to 23K. Using the log analyzer I found that January we processed 615,082 messages, and 53%

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread Helpdesk
on 2/13/03 2:36 PM, paul wrote: Ok guys, what do you see in ratio of junk vs good mail per day? Spam messages account for over 75% of our incoming messages (we're an ISP). Later, Greg --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread Doug Bevins
We're a relatively low-volume site -- 2k to 3k messages daily in just two domains -- and we're holding between 40 and 50 percent. Our weights are pretty much as they were out of the box, though I;m reading this list in hopes of devoting some time to creating filters to trap more. Doug Doug

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread paul
I didn't, All I did was make an Excel spreadsheet for the month, listing by day, total mail received, total deleted, total moved for review, and untouched. The graph tells me the monthly %. Paul - Original Message - From: Greg Foulks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread paul
Ouch... and how much of that is PREVENTABLE? about all of it I'd say. Just keeps us Imail admins busy. =) Paul I read a statistics a month ago... More than 92% of all email in the world is SPAM. So go figure... Regards, Kami -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread Koree A. Smith
I see around the same amount. Sometimes as much as 98%. I'd say probably 2% of that mail is legit mail that is accidentally caught... Koree Kami Razvan wrote: I read a statistics a month ago... More than 92% of all email in the world is SPAM. So go figure... Regards, Kami -Original

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread David Sullivan
average business - 35%-45% average ISP with home users - 60%-85% --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type unsubscribe

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread Matt Robertson
About 35-50%. I'm a very small ISP with about 30 domains and 3000-4000 daily messages. --- Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com --- -- Original Message

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] how much is junk?

2003-02-13 Thread Scott MacLean
I have a user that receives over 10,000 spam emails a day. I personally get about 500 spam to 50 real emails a day. Of those, typically around 5-10 get past Declude. At 02:46 PM 2/13/2003, Helpdesk wrote: on 2/13/03 2:36 PM, paul wrote: Ok guys, what do you see in ratio of junk vs good mail per

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Tuning Declude

2003-02-13 Thread Dan Geiser
Dear, David, Thank you for replying. I don't pretend to fully understand Declude (others are far more wise than I). However, I use fairly standard settings with the exception of using SNIFFER (weight 17) for enhanced spam detection. What is SNIFFER? I can't find any mention of it in the

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Tuning Declude

2003-02-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
I don't pretend to fully understand Declude (others are far more wise than I). However, I use fairly standard settings with the exception of using SNIFFER (weight 17) for enhanced spam detection. What is SNIFFER? I can't find any mention of it in the Declude.JunkMail manual,

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Tuning Declude

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Newberg
What is SNIFFER? I can't find any mention of it in the Declude.JunkMail manual, http://www.declude.com/JunkMail/manual.htm. There is however a reference to it in both GLOBAL.CFG and $default$.junkmail. Is SNIFFER the same as Mesage Sniffer, http://www.sortmonster.com/? They are one