From Gary V: > I personally find it better to keep the threshold high, tolerate what > comes in, and forget about what goes in the spam bin. I think it's > more efficient. If I get repetitive spam, I act on it with a custom > rule or content filter, or IP address reject, whatever I think might > be effective. Custom tweaks usually catch stuff for about a week.
Exactly. Sending spam to me as a mail administrator is a sure way of getting it blocked sooner or later - the more spam, the sooner it is. This is why I don't bother to have my e-mail address shown in any public place. Matt, Lowering a general kill level is not effective against carefully crafted spam mail, way too much collateral damage. A targeted defense is what solves such cases. I believe that a kill level of 3 is already way too low. Plug in additional rules, check SARE, add RBL/URI tests, ... Mark ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
