jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Jul 15 22:40:22 CDT 2003
After the remainder of a single day - my results are 81 correctly identified as spam, 0 incorrectly identified as spam, 19 not identified as spam. So approximately 80% of all spam is being correctly identified as such. While I certainly wish it were a higher percentage, for a free solution that's not too bad. More results later. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of jcolby at colbyconsulting.com Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:50 AM To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] OT: SpamAssassin and SAProxy Folks, I have found a shareware (or freeware) email proxy that implements SpamAssassin for POP clients. http://saproxy.bloomba.com/ For those who don't know, SpamAssassin is software originally developed for Linux (I think) and usually runs on the server. It does a wonderfully complete analysis of email and makes a determination of whether the email is spam. If so it adds [SPAM] in the header so that your email client can apply a rule to filter these emails out into a subdirectory. I have never (until now) been able to find one that works on my computer. SAProxy does just that. I have it installed now and functioning and it seems to be doing it's usual fine job of figuring out what is spam, It doesn't get all but it seems to correctly identify > 90% of the spam messages, and incorrect designations run in very low - <1% in my experience so far. I'll keep a directory of all the misses (not identified as spam) and all the hits (correctly identified) and let you guys know the stats. I get probably about 150 spam messages a DAY so it won't take long to get a good feel for the numbers. At any rate, it is well worth using to help win the war on spam! John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com