Re: spamassassin ?
On 09 Mar 2004, S.D.A. wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:02:53AM +0000 or thereabouts, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 08 Mar 2004, S.D.A. wrote:
> > > Howdy folks:
> > >
> > > Something that has puzzled me for a bit, and I'd appreciate
> > > advice/insight.
> > >
> > > I have Exim running, with spamc activated via Exim (not procmail).
> > >
> > > Now, when I'm training SA, I've been using 'sa-learn' as the user that reads
> > > the mail. However since Exim is run as mail user, should I be running
> > > 'sa-learn' as mail user?
> > >
> > > I'm wondering as I've been training SA for some time, and I'm not sure
> > > it's taking advantage of what's in my ~/Home .spamassassin directory,
> > > bayes_tok et al.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Perhaps this is drawing a red herring across the trail, but I can't help
> > wondering why more people don't use spamprobe in preference to
> > spamassassin. IME spamprobe is easier to set up and extremely effective.
> > I see only about 2 or 3 false negatives a day at most and no false
> > positives at all.
>
> You know, I like spamprobe -- I was using it a year ago, and was quite
> fond of it. Does it do a razor lookup now? That's about the only
> thing I like about SA -- I'd be happy to ditch SA (it's a resource hog).
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
I don't think it does. I know some people are running both apps
consecutively but this seems like overkill to me.
AC
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