[Spambayes] "Blank" Emails clogging my inbox.

Coe, Bob rcoe at CambridgeMA.GOV
Thu Nov 3 13:58:32 CET 2005


I suspect your 90% cutoff is too high. I've been running at 75% for a
long time, and I can't remember the last time I saw a false positive. I
could probably drop it another 10 points without significant effect.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Snuffy2
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 5:47 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] "Blank" Emails clogging my inbox.
> 
> 
> 	Over the past 2 weeks, I've been getting 12+ of these 
> blank emails a day.  Every one I mark as spam bumps the level 
> a but higher, but they're not high enough to be automarked as 
> spam (90% is my setting).  I know there are very few tokens 
> in the email, but is there anyway to force them up higher? 
> Outlook can't seem to filter these emails either by using 
> rules or their Junk Mail Rules.
> 
> I'm using the Outlook Plugin 1.04
> WinXP SP2
> 
> Combined Score: 84% (0.836593)
> Internal ham score (*H*): 0.109375
> Internal spam score (*S*): 0.782562
> 
> # ham trained on: 4405
> # spam trained on: 940
> 2 Significant Tokens
> token                               spamprob         #ham  #spam
> 'message-id:invalid'                0.702885          384    194
> 'to:none'                           0.811493          116    107
> Message Stream
> 
> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:52:23 +0000 (GMT)
> X-Comment: Sending client does not conform to RFC822 minimum 
> requirements
> X-Comment: Date has been added by Maillennium
> Received: from 166-82-196-32.quickclick.ctc.net ([166.82.196.32])
> 	by sccrmxc14.comcast.net (sccrmxc14) with SMTP
> 	id <20051102205220s14009r1nbe>; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:52:22 +0000
> X-Originating-IP: [166.82.196.32]
> Received: from localhost.localdomain (166.82.196.32 [166.82.196.32])
> 	by 63.240.76.26 with ESMTP id e44si51[7]qbe.2615.22.62.85.13.53;
> 	Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:52:27 -0800
> Message-ID: <198t2[3
> 
> 
> All Message Tokens
> 11 unique tokens
> 
> 'cc:none'
> 'content-type:text/plain'
> 'from:none'
> 'header:Date:1'
> 'header:Message-ID:1'
> 'header:Received:2'
> 'message-id:invalid'
> 'reply-to:none'
> 'sender:none'
> 'to:none'
> 'x-mailer:none'
> 
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