Bob George wrote: [ re: rescoring whitelist/blacklist ] > I'm thinking +/- some small multiple of spam threshold will suffice. > Any spammy content will drive it up, non-spammy down (esp. with > bayes) and AWL won't go nuts on 1st post. Any comments?
I'm a little surprised at the trouble this seems to cause some people; in about a year and a half running the ISP filter server here, I've yet to see much more than "simple" mail-volume-exceeds-processing-capacity problems. But making the whitelist and blacklist scores smaller is probably not a bad idea. I've yet to meet any legit mail that's scored more than ~20 (before Bayes/RBLs/AWL), so you might want to keep the whitelist score in the -15 to -20 range, maybe a bit larger. Most FPs have been in the 5-8 range. The blacklist score should probably be equal magnitude in case one user really REALLY *REALLY* doesn't want to receive nominally legit mail that has been globally whitelisted. I've got a few of those here. :/ -kgd -- "Sendmail administration is not black magic. There are legitimate technical reasons why it requires the sacrificing of a live chicken." - Unknown
