Sure, people complain about false positives; then again, giving up email effectively trests all legitimate mail as false positives.
Also, unlike spamassassin and other content-based systems, SAUCE either rejects your mail or it doesn't - if it does, there's some definite problem with your system to fix. Spamassassin, by contrast, will always have an odd failure mode where a legitimate sender gets unlucky because they really are talking about fake Viagra prices or whatever.
SAUCE also (almost) never accepts mail at SMTP transaction time and then decides to bounce or blackhole it later, eliminating bounced bounces and legitimate senders left with no reason to believe their mail was not delivered.
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Date: 2004-03-04 05:47 pm (UTC)Or we could all run SAUCE.
Sure, people complain about false positives; then again, giving up email effectively trests all legitimate mail as false positives.
Also, unlike spamassassin and other content-based systems, SAUCE either rejects your mail or it doesn't - if it does, there's some definite problem with your system to fix. Spamassassin, by contrast, will always have an odd failure mode where a legitimate sender gets unlucky because they really are talking about fake Viagra prices or whatever.
SAUCE also (almost) never accepts mail at SMTP transaction time and then decides to bounce or blackhole it later, eliminating bounced bounces and legitimate senders left with no reason to believe their mail was not delivered.