First, I would just delete anything older than 7 days. If it was something important, either you would have heard about it by now or it was resent.
I use SpamReview daily to review messages. During the review, I also look for ways to adjust tests and filters. John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Geiser > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:30 PM > To: Declude JunkMail > Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] "Held" Spam Management > > Hello, Everyone, > First let me say thanks to all who responded to my e-mails late yesterday. > It helped clarify things for me regarding SPAMDOMAINS and also alternatives > to "per domain" whitelisting. > > On a separate topic, I'm curious to know how everyone handles the spam which > makes it into the "imail\spool\spam" directory. My current implementation > of Declude JunkMail Pro is enabled for only 5 domains. A couple of those > domains have only been active for a week. We have about 100 domains on our > IMail server so I can't imagine what it's going to be like when I roll this > out on a large scale. > > It's been 45 days since we bought our copy of Declude JunkMail and so far we > have accumulated 23,236 files in the "spam" directory. Am I correct that > each message that was caught has 2 files representing it, i.e. 23,236 files > is actually 23,236 / 2 = 11,618 spam message caught? > > Assuming that's right it looks like we're holding about 258 spams a day. > Which I'm sure is not much compared to some out there. Unfortunately I > don't have time to monitor the "spam" directory every day so if a few days > go by for me then wading through all of those messages to check for false > positives becomes quite a chore. And like I said this is only for 5 > domains. > > I guess, what I'm looking for is hints for handling all of the files which > are filtered out by DJM? I've been using Spam Manager to peruse the "spam" > directory. I'm also planning on setting up a clean-up task which will > delete any files older than 90 days just so my hard drive doesn't fill up. > I'm guessing that one route I could take is to take a "DELETE" action on > spam which has a particularly high weight. Given the DJM default weight is > there any weight which people have decided is a good "DELETE" weight. Is > there anything else I'm not thinking of? > > Thanks In Advance, > Dan > > =============================================================== > ===== > This E-mail is scanned and free from viruses. www.nexustechgroup.com > > --- > [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 Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [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 Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
