On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:22:52 -0800 Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> typed:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:42:11PM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
Hello. What is dspam? How hard is it to set up? Is it similar to Spam Assassin? I'm running qmail under Linux and had an extremely hard time setting up spam filtering, so I eventually gave up. I have not heard of that antispam package before. More information would be appreciated.
I did a very informal comparison of dspam to Spam Assassin, and found them to be about the same. They have some different features, but basically both "learn" based on your mail patterns. dspam takes a little longer to get trained, and is tuned to have a very low portion of false positives (that is, it very seldom flags non-spam as spam). With any spam filter, though, it's important to periodically check the logs or spam folders, to see what messages were misidentified as spam.
Another alternative tool is POPFile (or any of the other Bayesian filters) ... http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ ... also free, open source, cross-platform. It has the advantage of being very fast in its processing of incoming mail (POP3 included), and it "learns" very quickly what the user considers spam and "not spam" ... actually, one could set up any number of different categories and, with time, it would learn to sort things however one wished. I get about 10,000 e- mails per months and POPFile has been running at about 99.81% accuracy for me with respect to false-positives, etc.
To stay on topic, I have received no spam from the pglaf.org lists and I do not run a spam filter locally.
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