[sclug] DSPAM vs SpamAssassin?

[Dickon Hood]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 17:08:22 +0100, David Given wrote:
: Subject line says it all, recently --- my SA + greylister setup seems to be 
: becoming less and less effective, and I've been considering switching to 
: DSPAM + greylister instead. Is this worth it? Any horror stories anyone wants 
: to share?

I jumped about a year ago.  It's fantastic.  I haven't bothered with
greylisting.

Things to note: you can run it in all sorts of ways with all sorts of
backends, but I find it easiest to spawn it from procmail as a filter.
You also need to think carefully about your database: having had some very
bad experiences of DBM files, from a performance and stability point of
view (they tend to get corrupted fairly easily), I went with MySQL, and
the performance is good (<1s to classify an email).  It does take some
training; you'll need a couple of thousand emails of each type.

I wrote some docs on the subject at <http://splodge.fluff.org/docs/>,
which Jonathon has linked to from his site.

-- 
Dickon Hood

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