Comments on: You’ve likely lost many e-mails in 2010!

By: Craig Welch

Craig Welch — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:06:15 +0000

Tell me you don’t allow mail that’s flagged by SpamAssassin to be deleted automatically, rather than be put aside for review?

If so, the problem is *your* fault, not SpamAssassin’s.

Oh my. You use unreadable captchas on your blog. Let’s see how many attempts it takes me to submit this comment.

Second try.

By: Dennis Crane

Dennis Crane — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:41:56 +0000

We’ve two threshold. If the message’s score is between 5 and 10 then it’s marked as SPAM but is still delivered. If it’s greater than 10 then it’s deleted. I don’t think this is wrong practice because it’s impossible for a “good” message to receive 10 points and to be erased.

In 2010 we’ve started to receive too many “good” messages marked as SPAM with score about 7-8 due to this extra 3.7 points. So, I noticed the problem and I hope that we didn’t lost many messages because the majority of them are still below 8 points. I just want to alert other SA users.

By: Craig Welch

Craig Welch — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:46:01 +0000

“… because it’s impossible for a “good” message to receive 10 points and to be erased.”

I disagree. It’s not common, but it happens. So I never set any score to be automatically deleted, and I never accidentally lose any messages.

It only takes a moment to have a look at the junk folder, looking for ‘from’ addresses that are known.