Yeah, what Matt said. In my own words: Everybody has a custom configuration, so what works for them WON'T work for you.
Since you've only just re-joined the list, I'll mention that Markus Gufler and Pete McNeil have collaborated on the back-end for a nifty graph indicating just how useful the tests are on Markus' domain: http://www2.spamchk.com/public.html See the bottom of the page for a link to the explanation. Besides acquiring Message Sniffer, you really ought to make a trip to http://www.declude.com and check what's current in the manual. Downloading the current package of declude and the global.cfg would be useful as well, as you're really the only one that can compare and contrast what's new since you've been away. You'll probably frequently find mention of IP4R tests that are new to you. See the Declude page that lists all known IP4R tests. In the manual, you'll find new additional syntax for a few things like REVDNS. If you want to save processing time on your text filters with the Declude JunkMail Pro version, there are new directives for stopping the processing early or controlling the amount of weight returned, like SKIPIFWEIGHT, MINWEIGHTTOFAIL and MAXWEIGHT. Based on the those new abilities, you'll probably also want to check into combination tests, which are tests that check if some other test has passed or failed. You'll need to understand the order of the processing as it is listed in the manual. Scott Fisher and Matthew Bramble have done a lot of work on combination tests and pushed advances in Declude's grammar. Both share a great deal of useful stuff on their websites. Scott's website: http://it.farmprogress.com/declude/declude.htm Matt's website (You won't hear much from Matt, though. He's the shy, retiring type): http://www.mailpure.com/software/decludefilters/ A lot of this is "advanced stuff" and you'll need to spend special attention to all your brand-new false positives. As with everything in IT, don't go changing everything at once. SPF, SPAMDOMAINS, the SpamHaus SBL and XBL are all things you'll want to use to stay on top of things. Check the archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ is not the best, but is a decent way to find more about those buzzwords. It looks like it's a week behind right now. Also very new and popular is a cool script that fetches the SpamCop SURBL list and converts it to a BODY filter. Feel like you're drinking from a firehose yet? Andrew 8) -----Original Message----- From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sample Configs It's been my experience that such requests aren't generally answered, at least on the list. More specific requests such as "what DUL lists are you using" however generally get answered. The issue is probably related to people not wanting to give away all of their own work. Besides, you would otherwise get as many different answers as replies, and it would still come down to you making a choice and needing to be more informed about what to do. My first suggestion for anyone running Declude would be to get Sniffer (http://www.sortmonster.com). It's reasonably priced and Sniffer alone can tag +95% of your spam with +99.8% accuracy. The instructions might be a little bit confusing at first, but if you make the commitment to do this, there are plenty that will help you get it configured. Matt Imail_Forum wrote: >Hello, > > Just signed back up for this list again. I was wondering if people could >share some sample default junkmail files and cfg files? I am using Declude >for anti-spam only as of now and would be interested in seeing how >other people are setting theirs up. Our current config is working >pretty good, but would love to make it better. > >Thanks, >Mark Mitchell >Inwave Internet Inc. > > >--- >[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. > > > > -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ ===================================================== --- [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.
