Hi again,
I'm still making use of this appliance, as I think it's got great potential, and I'm really pleased the author takes on board the feedback he gets.
I've been testing this using a few domains I have, that aren't in real use, but sadly receive lots of spam mail.
Today's statistics (at almost 22:00 local time) are:
Reject: 3
SPAM: 229
Bad Header: 4
Passed: 509
Virus: 20
Banned: 0
Totals: 509 / 765 = 66.5359 % accepted
That means out of the 765 e-mail that Spam Vigilante has processed, it's passed on 509 of them to my mailbox, classifying them as "CLEAN" (see script I've used below).
I've not checked all 509 mails, but I'm pretty sure, all 509 were SPAM! Which means more SPAM is getting through than is blocked. Which is not really good enough for what I was expecting of Spamassassin.
Has anyone got any good ideas please on how I can improve the detection of SPAM and reduce the number of mails that get through to me, whilst not stopping any hams? (Currently I've used the default settings as provided with the appliance)
Hoping someone can help me tweak my config,
Jobber
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Script used:
cat /var/log/maillog | awk '$8 == "SPAM," \{ spam++ }
$8 == "CLEAN," \{ ham++ }
$8 == "BANNED" \{ ban++ }
$8 == "INFECTED" \{ virus++ }
$8 == "BAD-HEADER," \{ badh++ }
$7 == "reject:" \{ reject++ }
END {
print "Reject:",reject+0;
print "SPAM:",spam+0;
print "Bad Header:",badh+0;
print "Passed:",ham+0;
print "Virus:",virus+0;
print "Banned:",ban+0;
print "Totals:",ham,"/",ham+reject+spam+virus+ban+badh,"=",ham/(ham+reject+spam+virus+ban+badh)*100.0,"% accepted";
}'
The script came from the web somewhere, but can't find it again, so can't credit the author - if I find it - I will add another post. It has been amended slightly to include bad header mails and banned mails.
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