• Accuracy Not Good

    By John Q Parker 2 decades ago

    I am wondering if I am not the only one with this issue - I seem to get a ton of spam breezing through with no problems. I have a habit of copying and pasting spam from my mailbox into mailgood.nsf, marking as spam, then going to mailspam.nsf and confirming.



    Is this doing anything? I ask because I must have done this a hundred times with some identical spams which still get to my mailbox every time.



    I also must say the accuracy of kSpam is very poor, I find it catches at best about 25% to 50% of incoming spam, yet with a significant number of false positives. Is anyone else having any better results? If so can you please share your setup?



    Also, with no releases in the last two years, perhaps I am flogging a dead horse here?



    Thanks for any input.

    • By Heini Schwammerl 1 decade ago

      Yes, your probably flogging a dead horse but..

      With DNS Blacklists, some kSpam rules and the Bayesian Filter you should be able to get at rates far beyond 90% (and I only have little false positives). It still involves a lot of work. I can only assume that in your configuration the bayesian filter is not working.

      Is the nbload task enabled?

    • Well, it still works in some way

      By Heini Schwammerl 1 decade ago

      Yes, your probably flogging a dead horse but..

      With DNS Blacklists, some kSpam rules and the Bayesian Filter you should be able to get at rates far beyond 90% (and I only have little false positives). It still involves a lot of work. I can only assume that in your configuration the bayesian filter is not working.

      Is the nbload task enabled?

      • Yes, nbload is enabled

        By John Q Parker 1 decade ago

        I do use the zen blacklist, and have several kSpam rules, and have the nbload task enabled and running.



        It does filter some spam, but lots go through no problem. In the KS_REASON field of the spam (identified as ham), it will usually have an unprintable character in it.

        • Empty Rule

          By Nico Vis 1 decade ago

          Hi,

          it happened to me, too.



          I found that there was an empty rule, can you check this?



          Best regards.