Mail Filtering Best Practices

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:15:42 -0800 (PST) 
alvin  <alvin at maggie.linux-consulting.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Danny Howard wrote:

>> Over the years, I've come up with this general algorithm:

...deletia...

> - i dont get many/any "false positives" .. 

I use the following user.prefs for SpamAssassin under procmail:

  required_hits           5
  auto_report_threshold  30
  ok_locales             en
  rewrite_subject         0
  report_header           2
  defang_mime             0

That's worked out extremely well for me.  After that I run TMDA on all
my public impersonal accounts (postmaster, webmaster, list-owner etc).
Wonderful tool -- especially the dated and sender addresses.

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