[expert] The spam war

[Bruce Endries]

I see a lot of activity around Spam Assassin, but haven't notice anyone 
mentioning POPFile.  This is another Bayes method spam filter. I have it 
running on two Mandrake machines at work, and it's averaging 98.8% on 
one machine and about 97% correctness on the other. They are both 
handling e-mail for a number of people, otherwise I bet they would be 
scoring even higher.

It is easy to set up - it's a perl script. It doesn't use any lists - I 
don't think it needs to. After a couple days of learning, it's shown 
itself to work really well.

Just FYI, the one working at 98+% handles 500-750 messages a day, the 
other one probably about 400 or so. Really, the more traffic it sees, 
the better it does.

You can run it locally on a single user's machine, or run it as a proxy, 
and you can use it on Linux or Windows (anything that can run perl, 
probably).

... I'm not trying to change anyone's mind.. This is just a suggestion 
for those having trouble with SpamAssassin. I found out about it from 
enthusiastic people on another list I belong to.

It's been working very well for me, it's GPL, and here's a link to it's 
sourceforge home page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/

Good luck,

Bruce


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