Tuning Orcon's spam settings?

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openmedia

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#28772 11-Dec-2008 11:54

Got an awful lot of false positives from Orcon's spam filters and I'd like to try and tune the settings.

Does anyone know of a way to mark messages so that Orcon's DSPAM setup with learn?

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

old3eyes

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#183489 11-Dec-2008 12:27

Go to My Services > Email >Spamblocking. I believe that you can change setting in there..

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Jarno

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#183513 11-Dec-2008 13:55

I've got my threshold set at 13, and it's still somewhat overeager to mark emails as spam. I've found it does that periodically. My theory is that the learning filter is reset every once in a while when it starts becoming ineffective, so it needs a bit of time to retune itself to what is and isn't spam.

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openmedia

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#183545 11-Dec-2008 15:23

old3eyes:
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Go to My Services > Email >Spamblocking. I believe that you can change setting in there..

That sets the level at which mails are marked as spam. I've played with that and I can't get a good balance.

To avoid false positives I have to turn the spam filter off altogether. With the highest setting I still get a lot of spam that DSPAM doesn't catch.

I'd like to provide some data to help it learn and improve which doesn't appear to be an option.

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

kerrin

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#183706 12-Dec-2008 10:36

Spammers are getting too cunning these days putting in random text to fool the filters.

openmedia

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#183730 12-Dec-2008 13:19

What i'm more worried about is the sheer amount of false positives I get as soon as I enable their spam filters.

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

PhoneMonkey

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#184002 14-Dec-2008 12:17

hay,

With the spam threshold 0=best. the higher the less sessitive the filtering.

Spam is part of the internet, why not just use gmail or another free 3rd party address that has world class spam blocking if you are not happy with what your ISP serves you.