Spam tagging ?

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 11:43 -0700, Dominic Lepiane wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hmm... I'm not sure I understand what you're describing here. I'm just
getting started in spam filtering, so I'm afraid I'll need a little
hand-holding. 

My setup is Postfix + Spamassassin and what I was thinking was setting
it up so that it would tag spam instead of getting rid of it. The reason
is I don't know where to begin to start defining sensible rules for the
spam filter. I want to avoid a situation where legitimate mail gets
identified as spam and blocked. By tagging and sending it anyway, my
mail users have the option of checking through.

What are these settings you speak of, and do you have any tips on
sensible configurations that you can share with me?

Thanks and Regards.

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