On Fri, November 3, 2006 18:27, Jakob Curdes wrote:

>>> We do not use AWL; this has proven  to be dangerous.
>> how ?
>> did "auto_whitelist_factor" not help ?
>> the reason i use it is that it caches first time senders nicely, with imho
>> is mostly spam senders anyway :-)
> I would not agree to that. Our customers do not want to get the first
> mail of an important business partner rejected.

if its get rejected in the first place its not awl fault

> Let's put it this way : if you use statistical filters you should not in
> parallel use other autotraining methods such as AWL because the results
> are unpredictable.

how ?

> I ended up with a lot of whitelisted spam and switched AWL off.

change scores on whitelist in spamassassin, newer whitelist from, if its not
with trusted rcvd headers

whitelist_from gives -100 with will poison awl scores

>>> We use dspam and Bayes in parallel,
>> how does this work from amavisd-new ?
>> using the patched version for amavisd-new for dspam ?
>>
> No, just integrate dspam into spamassassin. This is documented in the
> RELEASE-Notes of amavisd some versions ago.

okay, i will test when amavisd-new realese the modified dspam version

>>> train Bayes with hamp/spam levels of 0.0 and 5.0 and
>>> score both with 3.5 on spam and -1.0  on nonspam. In conjunction with
>>> the "postfix mini-greylister" aka reject_unverified_sender
>> this is "dangerous" since its posible to disable verify in postfix ?
> It is unclear to me what you mean by "disable verify".

postconf -d | grep disable | grep verify

>> but only 5% mail ?
> Yup.

maybe its time to make snail mail :-)

>> yes true, just that bayes can do this if it was trained manuely with spam /
>> ham , then dspam is not needed, the effictivly of bayes depends on how its
>> configured and used
> But if the customers don't want to spend time with training....

most custommers don't have a life and will sit deleteing mails on there own,
that could have being done for them on the mailserver :-)

well in the end some mails needs to be deleted anyway

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