[sclug] DSPAM vs SpamAssassin?

[David Given]

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 18:31, Dickon Hood wrote:
[...]
> I jumped about a year ago.  It's fantastic.  I haven't bothered with
> greylisting.

Well, after that glowing recommendation, I compiled it and gave it a try... it 
does seem to be working (or at least, passing everything through as ham 
because it hasn't been trained). I just hope it's coincidence that I've had 
very little mail arrive last night.

(I'm using the SQlite backend, BTW. I've used it in the past and found it very 
good; it's very lightweight and blisteringly fast, if you set it to 
asynchronous mode, and doesn't involve all that irritating faffing around 
with MySQL users.)

My only remaining issue is setting up a system for training it. I tend to 
access all my email remotely via IMAP, so running dspam directly won't work. 
What I'd like to do is to set up some drop folders which a cron job looks at 
periodically; to train a message as spam, I just drop it into "Spam/Train as 
spam", the cron job will pick it up, pass it through DSPAM, and dump it into 
"Spam/Really spam". And so on.

So, uh, can anyone recommend any decent command-line tools for accessing IMAP 
folders?

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

Unfortunately these are now *way* out-of-date --- the command-line options are 
quite different these days. To test:

dspam --user dg --stdout --deliver=spam,innocent

To train:

dspam --user dg --stdout --class=spam --source=error

Since dspam doesn't complain if the command-line arguments are incorrect, 
getting this right was irritating...

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