[WBEL-users] razor

[Karanbir Singh]

Hi Mike,

Although I have just rolled over to SA 3.0, was running 2.64 till a week
back.

Get SURBL running ( http://www.surbl.org/ ) and get Bayes running (
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesInSpamAssassin )

Also, your 3.5 threshold is way too low - You need to keep in mind that
SA is developed and the rules / test setup to have the best probability
of spam match at a score of 5. Why not jack up the level to something
like 6 for the first few thousand emails that go through the system and
setup Auto Whitelisting ? Tweak the levels once there is some confidence
in the system ?

Unless you plan to do a lot of maintinence work with the install, I
would leave the third-party rules out. Most of the ones that are
worthwhile are implemented in Surbl anyway.

Did you look at http://razor.sourceforge.net/ for info on Razor ? On my
setup, razor tends to pick up about 70% of all US originating Spam, the
levels are lower for Euro / Asia originated spam - However, I have never
had a false positive with Razor.

HTH

- KB


Mike Staver wrote:
> I've heard about razor and spamassassin working nicely together. 
> However, I'm not sure what razor is exactly or how to implement it. I've 
> noticed that spammers have really got SA's number for version 2.64, and 
> almost 60% of all spam is getting into my inbox as of yesterday even 
> though my threshold is set to 3.5 and I have no custom rules turned on 
> or off, just using defaults.  Is anybody using spamassassin in combo 
> with something else like razor that helps out at all?


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