Re: mailspike dot net Minus 1?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>On 2025-01-15 at 04:21:41 UTC-0500 (Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:21:41 +0100)
>Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
>is rumored to have said:

>>It seems that RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 is the only one that produces 
>>significant score:
>>
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_ZBI     2.7
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L5      2.5
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L4      1.7
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L3      0.9
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3      -0.01
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4      -0.01
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5      -1.0
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_BL      0.01
>>50_scores.cf:  score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL      -0.01

>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_BL        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2        0.001 -1.794 0.001 -1.794
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L2        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L3        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L4        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L5        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL        0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001
>>72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_ZBI       0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001

On 15.01.25 09:23, Bill Cole wrote:
>It is worth noting that the 72_scores.cf file is what the RuleQA 
>process produces. I haven't dug into the details, but it looks like 
>Mailspike is ONLY really useful at the H2 level.

that's possible, but according to https://mailspike.io/ip_verify/usage
H2 is supposed to be indication of "Possible legit sender"

50_scores.cf should be generated by mass-checking, where H2 generated no 
score (why?)

and yet, H2 has more significant score that what mass-check generated
L5 (excellent reputation) which should be stronger indicator of hamminess.


>>Does it make sense to use this WL with this score?
>
>That has to be a local question.

This is what I'm curious about. Of course I can locally increase the score 
locally. 

>For the people going to the trouble of submitting human-classified ham 
>and spam results to RuleQA, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 was a fairly strong 
>indicator of non-spam. So it makes sense IF your mailstream looks a 
>lot like that of the submitters. Sadly, mailstreams vary a  great 
>deal, so no individual site is likely to match the non-random sample 
>that we have access to.

should I assume that RuleQA works with different corpus than masscheck?

>I don't think the listing of behemoth sources as "good-ish" is wrong 
>per se, because many sites can show that they get more ham from GMail 
>than spam. MS is a somewhat different story, because they try to 
>segregate their suspect mail to a subset of output points. If your 
>mail does not include much GMail ham, it may make sense to set the 
>scores locally. E.g. I have:
>
>/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:score      RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 0.2
>/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:score      RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3 0.1
>
>Those are based on careful analysis a few years ago, so I can't even 
>be sure that they make sense for me today, but they certainly are not 
>causing visible trouble,

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