Filtering and ignorelists
Tom Allison
tallison at tacocat.net
Tue Mar 9 11:48:10 CET 2004
Jozef Hitzinger wrote:
>>I suppose you could periodically remove words from your list using fgrep
>>-vf as previously described.
>>
>>Could you try it and see what the differences are in results.
>
>
> I'd need to manually select what should go out, and that's not possible.
> The database is on a server with 2000+ messages a day (not counting the
> worm-induced mess), meant to serve 500+ different users. You see that
> manual intervention like this is out of question.
>
> In fact, I've run for a month with the same database, without noticing any
> degradation. In numbers (for my mail account): 0-15 spams got through,
> from daily 30-70, ~ 4-10% FN. 0 FP. Now I'm updating it with spam that got
> through, we'll see if FNs will go down.
>
Then I would invest in procmail/formail.
Using formail you should be able to mold any email to your liking.
As a fast approximation you could run only the body through bogofilter
and skip the header entirely.
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