On Wednesday 22 April 2009 7:42:18 pm Hugo Monteiro wrote: > 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.
Sorry. I have already done that. At the moment, I am not using dspam, because the mails go nowhere, and disappear. I will do another test and post exact error messages. Doug. Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
