Hi, Jose, > Being a 2 months-old user of JunkMail I'm trying to find out "best > practices" for dealing with spam. Sorry in advanced if this topic > has been to death, but I couldn't find any helpful threads on the archives. > Anyhow, I'm using the following rules but a TON of spam still making it > through: > WEIGHT10 WARN > WEIGHT15 HOLD > WEIGHT20 HOLD
First of all, I believe using... WEIGHT15 HOLD WEIGHT20 HOLD ...in your $default$.junkmail is redundant. Using... WEIGHT15 HOLD ...alone encompasses what... WEIGHT20 HOLD does as well. > Of course, the spam comes through because it doesn't meet the HOLD criteria. > For example, I have spam emails with a weight of 7, others with 11, etc. > My question is, what WEIGHT do you guys use to HOLD email? My configuration > is still sub optimal. Our primary domain, NEXUSTECHGROUP.COM, has a "hold" weight of 9. But we use "per-domain" settings so some of our domains also have a "hold" weight of 5, 7 and 10. The thing is, there is no one one right weight. It all depends on the type of traffic that your IMail server is seeing. To any new Declude JunkMail user, the first thing I would recommend doing is establishing the optimal "hold" weight for either the server, if you aren't using "per-domain" settings, of for the domain, if you are. Now different people will have different definitions of optimal. For me, the optimal "hold" weight is the weight at which most spam is caught and hardly any false positives are generated. Another person might want to set their "hold" weight so high that zero false positives are caught. And yet another might want to set the weight so low such that zero spam makes it through. I like to have a mixture of both. Once you have established a "hold" weight you can then take further steps to add points to the weight of any spams making it in under the hold weight, thereby causing that spam to get caught. And you can take steps to subtract points to the weight of any legit e-mails that are over the hold weight, thereby keeping those legit e-mails from being caught. I think a good start for anyone is to establish that "hold" weight and then have just the one active line... WEIGHTXX HOLD ...in your $default$.junkmail file, where XX is your "hold" weight and WEIGHTXX is defined in GLOBAL.CFG as... WEIGHTXX weight x x XX 0 That's how I would start if I knew then when I began what I know now. Others may differ with me. > TIA, > Jose Take Care, 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.
