Mail Users - Delete spam messages scoring 5?

[sangiro 26]

If you use the Dropzone.com Mail application, then this poll is for you. if not, please just give it a skip.

I'm still looking for ways to fight spam more effectively. As you know SpamAssassin assigns a "spam value" to each message. If the value is over 5 it marks the message with ***** SPAM ***** in the subject line. You can then use this to filter likely spam to a special folder.

I'm considering deleting everything that scores a 5 from the server and never passing it on to you. This will allow you to filter on something more granular (for examle those messages that score only 3) but it also has the potential of catching a few legitimate emails. In most cases a legitimate email will VERY seldom score 5. It may however happen when you for subscribe to a mailing list which sends out its newsletters as rich HTML files. SpamAsssassin will likely mark something with a lot of HTMl and images as spam.

So what are your thoughts?

Safe swoops
Sangiro

[skymama 37]

Please do something. I have the filter set up and I still delete at least 300 spam e-mails a week. I use this account in my profile and sometimes people write to me in e-mail instead of pm's if they have a question about the site. It's a real pain to surf through all the spam to find legitimate mail.

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[slotperfect 7]

I have the filter set up that way as well, and my InBox is still crammed with spam every day. Anything that will automatically delete obvious spam messages is great with me.

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John

[Jib 0]

I have ***spam*** deleted (and still get spammed to death). So, it wouldn't negatively impact me at all.

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[AndyMan 7]

I administer Spam Assassin on a network with 50 or so users.

On average, we'll get about 5 false-positives in spam-assassin per month.

What I've done is I create a folder called "Bulk-email", and have all SA positives put there. This keeps users happy because it keeps the emails out of their INBOX, but it also doesn't delete the messages.

Quotas ensure that people go into their Bulk-email folder periodically to delete spam. This is when they peruse their messages looking for false positives, so that they can move those mesages before deleting.

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[flyangel2 2]

Wow, I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I don't get any spam and I've been using my e-mail account a lot.

BTW Sangiro, did you get my PM asking about my e-mail account allowing more MB while I'm working on this calendar?

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[skymick 0]

Is it possible to add in functionality to allow users to change the value themselves? At the ISP I work at we allow this and it works pretty well.

[hookitt 1]

I've set up a spam filter but the messages don't get marked as spam so they sit in my inbox. It's 100% full so for now, I've quit using it.

I'll clear it out in a week or 2 and see how it goes.

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[sangiro 26]

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I've set up a spam filter but the messages don't get marked as spam so they sit in my inbox. It's 100% full so for now, I've quit using it.

I'll clear it out in a week or 2 and see how it goes.

All messages that score above 5 gets marked as SPAM, whether you have a filter set or not. If you're not seeing any then I suspect your filter is working... Those that you are still seeing are the spam messages scoring under 5!

Forward me one of your SPAM messages (mark it clearly) and I'll take alook at it...

Safe swoops
Sangiro

[hookitt 1]

Will do Unfortunately when I read the tip on how to delete all from the folders I did just that so it's empty. I'll send some in a couple days.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[hookitt 1]

Email Sent. I only forwarded 1 of the emails.

Thanks

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