[ale] DSPAM

[James P. Kinney III]

It basically started passing too much spam. I would adjust the spam
scores and stuff would get marked but the false positives were so high
it was almost as much of a problem. Plus the slight changes to the spam
would not get picked up by spamassassin. 

Since I admin several dozen machines that have an email address of
admin/webmaster/etc at servername.foo that all point to my admin account, I
was getting slammed with garbage. 

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 21:54, Matthew Brown wrote:
> 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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James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
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