On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 21:08, Scott Henson wrote: > I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering > if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. > I am using Evolution as my mail client, and postfix/woody on my mail > server. I looked on line for some documentation on how to use > spamassassin on my woody system, but the documentation that I have found > says it needs better than the 2.20 that is in woody. I also heard about > this new abyssian filter technique and I was wondering if there was any > of those avaliable for evolution or postfix. I would rather have > something for postfix because I would like to share the spam filtering > capabilities with my roommate. Any howtos or advice on how to get spam > filtering going? Thank you for any help > > -Scott Henson I just switched off SpamAssassin here because what had been an equal number of false positives and false negatives has instead proven to be nearly every spam not already filtered by my own Evolution filters and local blacklisting of a swath of worst-offender smtp-refuser getting through, while most commercially provided requested mailings are getting flagged. I've been far less than impressed by the tremendous inconsistency of it respecting the whitelist on my system - only a couple of entries has it ever applied, and even there, it depends on the day and what else is happening in the message. I think SpamAssassin is a great idea, and it may work well for many, but it is spam filtering like you and I and everyone else are already doing, and if we haven't been able to write our own filters to catch the offending messages, leaving it to someone else is not some magic surety to solve the problem. I'm going to try and re-write some of the valuations and some additional rules over the next few weeks as time permits, but that is no guarantee that it will be anymore effective for my experience. If it does help, I'll offer them upstream to make it more effective, because I'd rather see it work for as many as possible, rather than treat it as Micro$oft quality software. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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