[Novalug] Hosting email

Rich Kulawiec rsk@gsp.org
Tue Dec 13 09:46:05 EST 2016


On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 04:52:04PM -0500, pereira via Novalug wrote:
> The principal reason to set
> things up this way was indeed Google's excellent spam filtering.

I've tested their spam filtering *extensively*.  It gets a gentleman's C,
no better.  For example, the false positive rate is unacceptably high
on routine traffic through common Unix/Linux/open-source mailing
lists while the false negative rate on obviously-forged messages with
URLs directed at drive-by malware downloads is too low.

---rsk



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