Re: Working with overly aggressive anti-spam measures [SOLVED]

On Wed, October 11, 2006 9:14 pm, Google Kreme wrote: > On 10 Oct 2006, at 19:57 , Dave M G wrote: >> It took me a little while to realize that the Spamassassin always >> says that an email is possible scam if it has any score above zero, >> but it takes a score of 5.0 to actually be deleted as spam. > > No no no, this is not at all true. > > First off, Spamassassin does not delete mail. It, in point of fact, > CANNOT delete mail as it has no mechanism to do so. Sorry -- I was very ambiguous. Everywhere I typed "SA" in my post should be replaced with: "The squirrel-mail interface provided by my webhost, combined with a custom PHP IMAP inbox-scanning/filtering script I hacked up for my own unique needs, along with the Spam Assassin scoring also provided by my webhost" My apologies for imprecision. But I get bonus points for brevity in the original post :-) > Anyone who is automatically deleting mail on their own with a score > of 5.0 or higher _will_ miss some legitimate email. Not might, > WILL. Even at a score of 10.0 (where I auto-delete my mail) you will > miss as much as 0.004% legitimate mail, iirc. (so, 4 messages in > 100,000) Yes, but getting 10,000 messages per day[*] means I don't READ email anymore. I do email triage. :-) I'm losing 4 real emails every 10 days to my triage. I can live with that. I cannot live with skimming through 10,000 emails per day searching for the ~1 email every other day that is valid. YMMV [*] It's been several years since I've seen a report on how many unfiltered emails per day I received. 10,000 was the number back then. It is inconceivable that the number has decreased, by any realistic projection. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?