Bryan Britt said:
>
> Now with a default autolearned Bayes of about 18000 messages, which has
> quite a few mis-learned emails, I'm correctly catching 99.1% of my spam
> messages with only 1 FP. at a setting of 5.0 spam level.
>
> After getting Pyzor running, I'm going to dump my Bayes database and
> actively train it.
>
> So sitting at a set and forget a rate of 80% is good. If you babysit it
> for a few thousand emails (a couple of days here), you can hit those
> numbers.
>
Look at the tar ball and it has a statistics file in masscheck, that lists
the fn/fp for each score level.
Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63/rules/Statistics.txt.
it's alright if your bayes database has a few miss-learned email in it,
the bayes will adjust for it.
Set set your learn hamd/learn spam levels good enough so you have very few
miss learnings.
I throw in pyzor/dcc/razor and on average that knocks the average score
upt to 17.5.
This is the average score for all email that scores 6 or higher, so is not
the actual average score.
In my case I'm only catching around 65%-70% of the incoming spam, but I
have too high a mail volume to relearn, nor can I have individual user
preferences. I catch more of the mail at the second SA install, which has
more customized installs.
I was too afraid of fp to use the sare rules except for:
backhair.cf, and randomword.cf, they both work well.
randomword.cf for bayesian poisoning.
body RANDOMWORD_10
/(?:\b(?!(?:from|even|more|were|with)\b)[a-z]{4,12}\s+){10}/
describe RANDOMWORD_10 String of 10+ random words
score RANDOMWORD_10 1
body RANDOMWORD_15
/(?:\b(?!(?:from|even|more|were|with)\b)[a-z]{4,12}\s+){15}/
describe RANDOMWORD_15 String of 15+ random words
score RANDOMWORD_15 3
body RANDOMWORD_20
/(?:\b(?!(?:from|even|more|were|with)\b)[a-z]{4,12}\s+){20}/
describe RANDOMWORD_20 String of 20+ random words
score RANDOMWORD_20 5
#then I upped those scores by .4 to .6
#normally .1
score HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNSAFE .5
score HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN .5
#normally .4
score HTML_FONTCOLOR_INVISIBLE 1
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Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana
