[ale] DSPAM

[Matthew Brown]

What happened with SpamAssassin?  I've never had trouble with it. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James P.
Kinney III
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:55 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] DSPAM

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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CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
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