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  1. Re:SpamAssassin works for me (even on Exchange) by vanyel · · Score: 4, Informative · on Sorting the Spam from the Ham

    I run a small ISP with spamassassin installed, and I had to increase the default quota when I upgraded to the version with Bayesian filtering and its multi-megabyte databases per user. Combined with spamd bugs forcing me to switch back to running spamassassin individually and the fact that spamd still doesn't serialize processing, so the system still gets hammered by a flood of spam, I'm looking forward to greylisting to help take the load off spamassassin.

  2. My POPFile currently at 99.1% correct by sdo1 · · Score: 1 · on The Next Step in Fighting Spam: Greylisting
    I'm having pretty good success with POPFile. I've got two buckets (spam and not_spam) and it correctly identifies which bucket the message should go into 99.1% of the time. I find that to be quite good because I get a lot of varied "non_spam" email... business messages, personal messages, mass e-mail that I've actually signed up for, etc.

    The biggest problem, as the greylisting paper correctly points out is the false positive. It's only happened a few times, but I have had fairly important emails end up in the POPFile spam bucket. I'd much rather have a way for it to err on the side of caution and let a few more spam through if it means almost never getting a false positive.

    I basically gave up on SpamCop and the like. Most of the spammers send from off-shore and the ISPs don't care.

    -S