• Mailspam db buildup /maint ?

    By David Daum 2 decades ago

    A question. Is there an optimal size or number of messages for the mailspam.nsf to build up to? Is there a point that it gets too big? I'm at about 10K messages and I presume that I will just continue to confirm as spam the messages that come in.

    Thanks, any thoughts on this are appreciated

    • The way i do it....

      By Matthew Smith 2 decades ago

      I only add messages that are incorrectly categorised…



      ie messages with +80% that are actually good or messages that have low rating that are actually Spam, this helps keep this list small. So far seems to be working very well.



      I have about 500 good and 1100 spam messages this has been over a 2 month period.



      Matt

      • sounds like a lot of work

        By David Daum 2 decades ago

        I'm sifting through nearly 800 per day, I don't have the resources to check individual messages. I need this thing to be as automatic as possible.

        • Nah...

          By Matthew Smith 2 decades ago

          Mate if your going through 800 then i'm guessing your reading through lots of "other" peoples mail files.. Rather than doing that, let them do it.



          I've built a mail template that allows users to work out whats real and not, they then set it as mailgood or mailspam.



          As an admin all you do is check the list occasionally, i've built a bunch of views that let you see domains etc at a high level, makes it easier to track down.



          You can read more about my template mods here http://www.taet.com.au/mb.nsf/plinks/MSMH-5ZSCWT



          Also some other people are doing some cool things like emailing the users a newsletter with the captured email etc..



          Matt

          • thanks

            By David Daum 2 decades ago

            Your right, thanks I'll check out what you've done

      • This way ...

        By Tom Lyne 2 decades ago

        …is called 'train on error'. I haven't tried it yet but it is supposed to be very good.



        -tom