On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Gary Funck wrote: > > One of the speakers at Spamcon 2004, talked about the effectiveness of > automatically generated white lists. As I recall, his scheme depended upon > two sources of info: the mail addresses that typically appeared in your > To: From: and Cc: lines in your corpus of ham, during training and > automatically > collected from similar info. in mail that you send out. This of course > assumes > that you don't correspond directly with spammers. <g>
I'm not sure I'd do this. One day (for a bunch of reasons) I whitelisted my own address, and promptly got a bunch of spam "from" myself. > > I was wondering how this might be integrated with SA. In particular, how > does one intercept addresses on the outbound mail route? Would this be > done in some sort of milter (like mimedefang, if you're using sendmail > as your MTA)? > > It seemed to me that if one can build a more effective white list, that > the number of false positives can be reduced considerably, and thus, the > spam cut-off could be lowered, making sure more actual spam makes it over > the dam. > > Separate question (may be a faq): is there a database (SQL, etc) > implementation > of from/received white lists? This would make updating a whitelist easier, > and more efficient than hacking the user_prefs file, for example. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > -- Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
