From: "Ricardo P. Jasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all,
the system administrator in our university recently started using
spamassassin in our mail server. Unfortunately, I can't say this has been a
good thing for me and for many other users, and I'll try to explain why.
First, for each mail that the tool assumes to be a spam, I receive an email
with the original message as an attachment. Obviously, this way my spam
count could never decrease.
Second, now I have no control over what I consider as a spam. What I
evaluate as spam is not the same as what my colleagues do. But now, we are
forced to living by the same rules.
As a previous spambayes outlook plugin user, I was used to having really
good results on spam elimination and customization. My immediate feeling is
that the adoption of spamassassin has tremendously worsened my spam-dealing
routine. Since for every mail that spamassassin considers a spam it
generates new a message describing the rules it used, spambayes has no way
of sorting it by the contents anymore.
This is what upsets me: I (almost) was free from spam hell, now I'm back at
having to open manually all my messages, which are now hidden inside
attachments, and there is no way of improving or training my spam detecting
engine.
I hope you understand that I am having a terrible experience with
spamassassin. Since my system administrator will not tell this to me, I
would like to know from you guys if there is a way of disabling spamassassin
for my individual mail address, and if this is an easy thing to do.
Thank you immensely for your replies. Also, I would like to receive comments
if you guys can think of any other way out of my situation. Any solution
that does not depend on the admin is more likely to work for me, though.
1) Does the spam mail have a score in some part of the message on which
a sane person can sort and redirect the spam to a spam folder FOR A
PERIODIC QUICK REVIEW? (Mismarked ham is a bad thing. SpamAssassin
lets you see the messages to make SURE the are spam. Any tool which
does NOT do this is broken.) And note that Outlook is its own
punishment for using it. At LEAST use Outlook Express, which is not
quite so nanny driven. Either one can sort to folders on the subject
line, though.
2) If you line SpamBayes then continue to run it.
3) Welcome to the real world of "system administrators" who may well be
orders of magnitude more clueless than you feel you are.
4) Any tool which uses a Bayes filter requires training. If the training
goes bad the results are terrible.
5) Any tool which uses GLOBAL Bayes filter is going to be much worse than
the same tool using personal Bayes filters that can be personally
trained.
{^_^}
