On Friday 01 August 2003 8:59 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.07.31 at 14:17, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Does a higher score reduce spam or label it as not spam?
It's easy to see. This is a spam report headers from one email:
X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=14.6 required=5.0
tests=DEAR_SOMETHING,MIME_BOUND_MANY_HEX,NIGERIAN_BODY,RISK_FREE, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS,URGENT_BIZ,US_DOLLARS,US_DOLLARS_3 version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: **************
The 'hits' level is 14.6, quite high, undoubtedly spam. The 'X-Spam-Flag' is set to trigger at '5', so it is yes.
If I lowered the level, from, say, 5 to 4, more mails would be marked as spam.
I do the following: 1) Set the hit level to 4. 2) Count the number of emails that get /dev/null'd (just curious) 3) Do a test in procmailrc to see if the hit level is 10 or higher. If so: /dev/null/ 4) Put those in the 4 to 9 range into a special folder where they can be looked at. (I might get about 8 of these a day, and about 25% might be false positives including some from the list.) 5) Below 4, they get normal processing.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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