Spam tagging ?

[Dominic Lepiane]

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:35, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My wife's company has a integrated firewall/antivirus/antispam appliance
> that tags messages that it considers to be spam and delivers it to the
> user mailbox. This gives the user the opportunity to review it, instead
> of automatically deleting it.
>
> I think that's a good idea and since I have almost completed my dry run
> and documentation for a new mail server, I was wondering if there is
> something equivalent in spamassassin or some other open source project.
>
> Is it a configuration option in spamassassin?
>
> Thanks in advance!

I use Amavis (http://www.amavis.org/) which uses whatever virus checking and 
spam filtering facilities you have available.  I use ClamAV 
(http://www.clamav.net/) and spamassassin (http://spamassassin.apache.org/) 
which are somewhat simple to configure within Amavis.  In my setup, mail is 
untagged under the minimum threshold, mail is tagged up to the max threshold 
but delivered still, and then anything about that is discarded.  I haven't 
seen any false-positives above "10" so we do discard some obviously spammy 
messages.  Current settings throw out probably 90% of spam, 8-9% are tagged 
as spam but delivered to the user just in case, maybe a couple percent are 
not caught.

-- 
Dominic Lepiane

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