Re: Beginers guide to spamassain ?
On 09 Jun 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting stan <stanb@panix.com>:
> [snip]
> > Looks like the maintainer of the Spambouncer rules is falling a bit
> > behind the stae of the art of spammers, as I'm getting a fair number
> > of spam emails into my primary mailbox each day.
> >
> > I'm thinking that prehaps spamassain will do better. Any opinions on this?
> >
>
> More is getting thru SpamAssassin (SA) lately too. The spammers are
> figuring out how to avoid SA's patterns. They are probably doing the
> same for Spambouncer. Adding Bayesian filtering, either SA's or some
> other package, helps, but requires maintenance of the spam and ham
> (non-spam) samples. I have a setup with shared IMAP folders for false
> positives and false negatives. Once an hour a cron job runs to feed
> the corrections back into the Bayesian databases.
>
> SA is a real CPU and memory hog. I estimate a 266MHz Pentium as a
> minimum. It absolutely choked a 133MHz 486 with 64MB RAM.
>
> HTH,
> Jeffrey
>
I'm getting pretty reasonable performance with spamprobe (a Bayesian
filter). After a few weeks' use I'm getting only about 2 per cent of
false negatives and almost no false positives.
AC
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