Doug Laidlaw wrote: > I am new to dspam. Mine is a simple workstation, not a server. I have > tried > white-listing, but find that it causes more problems than it solves. I have > been running SpamAssassin, but it seems powerless to filter any of the > current crop of porn/Viagra spam, although it does seem effective for the "I > am So-and-So" kind from Nigeria. > > I am using the single user setup of dspam from > http://splodge.fluff.org/docs/single-user-dspam, updated and running as > a directory tree under $HOME. I use getmail to do the retrieving, then > send it to dspam as an external filter. Individual filtering is abysmal, > worse than SpamAssassin, but this may need training - a lot of it. Normal > text emails, with nothing obvious about them, get a spam rating of 70% with > SpamAssassin, and 100% from dspam. > > Why can I not tell dspam that a message is or is not spam BEFORE the run? > SpamAssassin does. It has separate runs of identified spam and non-spam. > With dspam, I have to let it make all the mistakes then fix them - a much > bigger job. If I swapped the two databases, the result would be closer to > the truth. > > But my main problem is getting the user to be passed by dspam. I have the > following in my .getmailrc: > > [filter] > type = Filter_external > path = /home/doug/bin/dspam > arguments = --user doug --deliver-spam > > > The docs for getmail say that reinjection is unnecessary. Yet dspam > consistently says that it doesn't know what user to run for. > > Any suggestions? > >
Put Trust doug in your dspam.conf file. Regards, Hugo Monteiro. -- ci.fct.unl.pt:~# cat .signature Hugo Monteiro Email : [email protected] Telefone : +351 212948300 Ext.15307 Web : http://hmonteiro.net Centro de Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre 2829-516 Caparica Portugal Telefone: +351 212948596 Fax: +351 212948548 www.ci.fct.unl.pt [email protected] ci.fct.unl.pt:~# _ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Dspam-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user
