On Thursday 16 November 2006 9:21 am, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > Given that what are people's thoughts on using DCC in SA? > > > > DCC gives a high hit rate on SPAM here, but also contributes highly to > > false positives. Since setting up DCC I seem to have lots of list > > emails reported as false positives, and spend a fair amount of time > > checking and tweaking whitelisting settings for these. And in most > > cases a combination of DCC and a highish Bayes score is enough to tip > > these over. I know I could adjust the DCC score, but was wondering > > what other people do? > > The thing with DCC is that it combines checking and reporting, which is > why it is an indicator of bulkiness and not spamminess, as you say. To > get around that you should whitelist all mailing lists so that mailing > list mail isn't checked against DCC, both to avoid false positives > yourself and to help others avoid false positives. > > So basically you're right and I haven't added anything. What I can add is > that I don't use DCC myself, for precisely the aforementioned reason, > i.e. that it requires to much fiddling with mailing lists.
If you happen to be running procmail its easy to have your list mail processed into the correct folders before spamassassin is even called. -- Chris
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