On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:05:07AM -0400, Chris L. Franklin wrote: > For starters AWL, white lists and black lists in my option ar ethe worst > things ever. I disable them from the start. If your going to whitelist > some one, why would you want them to even go though SA. (I don't)
Because a source that regularly sends you legit email, e.g. a mailing list, might send email that is borderline spammy and the only thing that tips it back into legitimate territory is the autowhitelist and bayes based on what YOUR users consider ham. > if there blaklisted I don't want them even want the server > accepting a email for me / the user if they are black listed. There are lots of blacklists and DNSBLs that work best as contributors, not as absolute yes/no arbiters of what should be accepted. > And again negative-scoring is useless if u need to write a negative > score you problitly should rethink your positive scoring rules. I don't understand why you are using SpamAssassin if you really believe the above. > All this taking into a account Removing AWL, and negative-scoring. There > are no real problems. > > And as a side note about net rules, if your really into using these then > you'll probabliy just want to tune the server not to accept email from > non-RDNS or invaild dns lookups. Masses of legitimate email comes from hosts with no reverse DNS, incorrect HELO and other borderline or actual RFC violations. I don't think you have thought this through and I believe that you would do well to accept some of the wisdom of those that have. If not, well, try it, and report back as to how well that works out for you, so that everyone else can see how wrong they are.
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