Hi everybody, hi Mark, On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:51:01PM +0200, Mark Martinec told us: > 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, ...
just FYI, I'm using a kill level of 5 on my home box and see only a few spam mails not caught per day and haven't seen any false positives for ages, I'm quite pleased by these results. At work and some customers' sites we're using kill levels of ~6 or 6,5 and these results also are quited satisfying, as you and Gary mentioned it's better to receive some few spam mails per day than to get even only one valid mail quarantined (especially at one of our customers, where hundreds of spams correctly get quarantined daily and (of course) no one cares to take a look at the quarantine) Just my 2 cents :-) Sven > Mark > -- Linux zion.homelinux.com 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 #1 Fri Jul 15 00:52:32 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux 23:58:34 up 2 days, 21:52, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.09 ------------------------------------------------------- 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/
