[ale] DSPAM

[Bob Toxen]

The Enterprise-grade Spam and Virus filter that I created is working
just fine.

Bob Toxen
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   -- Bob Toxen 10/03/2002

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:55:23PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> After watching spamassassin slowly die (even with updates and custom
> tweaks), I gave up and decided to install a new anti-spam engine.

> DSPAM kicks butt!! I preloaded it with a corpus of about 1200 non-spams
> (archived ALE emails and personals) and about 80 spam emails (which only
> took about 3 hours to collect once I turned off spamassassin). 

> My spam load is still 2/3 of my email volume. But DSPAM is quarantining
> the spams. I have had only 3 spams get through and 4 mis-labeled as spam
> that were not out of nearly 300 emails over the last 24 hours. Given
> that the training is still happening, I'm very impressed. My wife's
> stats on the spam are even better (1300+ messages, 3 incorrectly labeled
> as spam, 4 spams delivered).

> As discussions earlier were about spam solutions that were a bit less
> extreme than mutilation and murder, I wanted to pass along a solution
> that seems to fit the earlier criteria.

> Oh, yeah. It's easy to use for non-geeks. If a spam gets through,
> forward it to spam-username at doamin. Check a web page occasionally to
> look for false-positives and mark those as not spam and it reprocesses
> them and sends them on. The speed could be improved by using mysql
> instead of bdb. But my needs here are only for 4 users.
> -- 
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