>I've seen some mention on this list of "freemail" and other tests, but don't
>really see any docs to explain these extras to me.

The FREEMAIL test is a test that someone defined using the "Your own sender 
blacklists" section of the manual (in "Advanced Configuration").

Note that the FREEMAIL test, as originally designed (to list E-mail coming 
from free E-mail services like yahoo.com) isn't meant to be a spam test by 
itself (since lots of legitimate mail comes from such accounts).  However, 
it might add to the weighting system, or be used to add a warning to the 
headers.

>I would like to work AS MANY test into my checks as
>possible to provide the best possible protection.

Then you'll want to take a look at 
http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm , which lists over 50 of 'em.

>I'm currently thinking of 3 levels.
>
>The "often tripped" and less serious tests would be a 5.
>         DSN
>         NOABUSE
>         NOPOSTMASTER
>         etc.
>
>The more serious infractions would get a 10.
>         MAILFROM
>         PERCENT
>         ROUTING
>         SPAMHEADERS
>         etc.
>
>The "almost definitely SPAM" tests would get a 15.
>         SPAMCOP
>         etc.
>
>I want to mark the 15 threshold as SPAM in the subject so my customers can
>do their own filtering.

That sounds like a good plan.  I'd change the SPAMCOP to a 14, though, as 
we're now hearing of more false positives than it used to have.  By setting 
it to 14, and having 15 be the threshold, it will require another test 
besides SPAMCOP to be triggered before the spam would get caught.

>I will probably also HOLD anything hitting a mark of 20 or 30.
>
>I assume this would be as easy as:
>
>#  Defined in global.cfg
>WEIGHT15        weight          x       x       10      0
>WEIGHT20        weight          x       x       20      0
>
>#  Setup in $default$.JunkMail
>WEIGHT15        SUBJECT
>WEIGHT20        HOLD

That's correct.

>I'm assuming that what I've listed above would work, and that I understand
>the weighting system correctly. The one thing that would really help me
>would be a full list of the types of tests that are available to me, and
>their severity (the ones that aren't self-explanatory).

There is no full list, because you can define your own (such as the 
FREEMAIL test), as well as use others that could appear at any time in the 
future (DNS-based tests).

But, the manual and the URL above should list almost all of the ones that 
may be useful.  Also, the latest default configuration files include all 
the tests that we know about that we think may be useful (plus a few that 
may not be useful).
                             -Scott

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