[Mimedefang] typical spamassassin results

[Rudolph Pereira]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:20:10PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Rudolph Pereira wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to work out "typical" results for how much spam SA catches
> > in it's default configuration, without bayes or dnsrbl (or any network
> > tests) configured. My understanding was that it would be in the order of
> > 70%, but I am getting between 30-40% on the corpus I have (~2k spam all
> > from the last few months).
> 
> What version of SA do you run?  I find it's highly variable; some people
> get 80% coverage with stock SA, and others only get 25%.
2.63
> 
> I strongly recommend the SURBL rules, and some of the other rules from
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/, and the "popcorn", "weeds" and
> "backhair" rules at http://www.spamfighter.org/bb2/download.php?list.6
With the additional static rules, it goes up to about 50%. DNSRBL adds
about 10% on top of that.

Thanks for the feedback.