[PLUG] better spam filtering through google
Carlos Konstanski
ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Sat Apr 12 18:03:49 UTC 2008
I had a major spam problem on my hands. Even with a mail setup that
includes amavisd and spamasassin, tons of spam was getting through.
Then I stumbled across
dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-GoogleSafeBrowsing (at least this is
what it is called in the gentoo portage tree). The URL to it is
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-GoogleSafeBrowsing&mode=dist
I've only been running it for a week, but this spamasassin module has
been working with a 100% success rate. There must be over 500 spams
in my quarantine thanks to it, but no false positives whatsoever.
I also installed mail-filter/spamassassin-botnet
( http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/ ), which also has
contributed to higher spam scores. I think the problem I had was that
spams were being identified, but not generating high enough scores to
reach the threshold. More filters = higher scores.
Carlos Konstanski
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