Hi,
I am currently looking into spam filtering on a mail relay (i.e.
filtering mails coming into an external mail server, which will
relay mails to the inner network).
I.e. (most) users are not defined on that external server, there
is no chance whatsoever that users can be made known to that
server.
The MTA is postfix.
I must heavily insist on extremely low false-positive rates, even
if this means more spams not being identified as such.
Mails also will be tagged only and passed on, not rejected or
anything (for spams anyway - not necessarily in the case of
viruses). I can't exclude based on countries, as it is perfectly
conceivable that people will receive legitimate emails from china
or korea etc. Also, using "hot" blacklists like SpamCop is out of
the question, as these (from my own experience) are not reliable
(false positives, blacklisting legitimate servers etc.).
I have tests running with a combination of SpamAssassin (directly
tied into postfix, via the daemon version) and amavisd-new/clamav
for the antivirus part.
These tests look interesting, but I quite obviously need to fine-
tune the SpamAssassin configuration (using Debian defaults right
now - I'm not happy with the ID rate).
I'm looking into dspam right now, but this seems to make quite
some use of feedback from users, which I don't have here, so
that's not useful.
I was wondering what other spamfilter might be interesting in
this context (i.e. no training by users).
Also, I was wondering how to best "burn" an email address so it
will receive lots of spam. I did post into a couple of usenet
groups (alt.test, de.test), but didn't receive much other than
viruses.
Any ideas?
Greets & thanks, Eric
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