[CLUE-Tech] The SPAM Wars '03

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Sean" == Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at americanisp.net> writes:

>> And not to mention, it would only work for me and not the rest of
>> my account holders for my server.

Sean> No, SpamAssassin is not just attached to a mail client. It can
Sean> be implemented system-wide. I googled up this link, which deals
Sean> with installing SpamAssassin + sendmail on OpenBSD:

Sean>http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/spamassassinopenbsd.html

Yeah, you can even do fancy things like store all the users prefs in a
database backend, or the like. On the basic level you just need to
have spamassassin filter all the mail before it gets delivered to the
user. 

Sean> BTW: I see SpamAssassin has released 2.5, which include Bayesian
Sean> filtering:
Sean> http://news.spamassassin.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

yeah, I have been running the CVS version and then 2.50 once it came
out. The baysean stuff is pretty nice. Took a bit of training, but
once I trained it, it's been doing very well. 

about 1-2spams a day get thru. about 100 or so are filtered
correctly. With the baysean stuff you can pass those that got thru
back to the filter and it learns to be better. 

kevin
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