> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Priddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: stop quarantine after sufficient confidence level
> 
> 
> My company currently receives vast amounts of UCE... 
> SpamAssassin has been doing a pretty decent job of tagging 
> spam and I am currently working on training the Bayes filters 
> to make it even more effective.  I am not currently not 
> blocking any mail - for selected users, I have my production 
> mail server forwarding a duplicate message to my spam filter 
> machine, which in turn runs the tests, redirects spam to a 
> "junk" mailbox and good mail to a "ham" mailbox.  I currently 
> use these mailboxes to train my Bayes filters, moving 
> messages to the appropriate mailbox if necessary. When I 
> begin blocking for real, I will not want keep a duplicate of 
> every mail message we get but a quarantine will be necessary. 
>
>  I will probably still use a mailbox for quarantine purposes, 
> but I do not want every message that fails the tests to be 
> kept.  Any message that scores above a certain number, say 
> 20.0, I would like to drop without quarantining since I would 
> be pretty certain that it wouldn't be spam.  Then my 
> quarantine would only contain mail items that scored between 
> my kill threshold and 20.0. Is there something built in that 
> enables me to do this, or has anyone monkey'd around with SA 
> and figured this out? 
> Thanks in advance 

SA does not do anything with e-mail aside from scanning and tagging.  You
will need some other program to take that information and act on it (e.g.,
procmail).

How do you currently have SA incorporated into your email "infrastructure"?

-Joe K.

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