On Fri, 14 May 2004, at 9:09pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for recommendations for spam filtering.
As others have said, SpamAssassin is a very good foundation. Even in the untrained "factory install" configuration, I find it does a very good job. I just used the canned procmailrc rules linked to from the SA Wiki (see the "Documentation" section of the SA web site). I was already using procmail extensively, which helped, but the canned rules are pretty self-explanatory even so. Training SpamAssassin for better results is pretty easy in an environment where people are familiar with *nix. You train SA by giving it samples of ham (not-spam mail) and spam mail. For the not-spam, I just ran it on my "saved mail" collections. Since I have well over ten-thousand saved messages, it had plenty of samples. For spam, it just meant that, rather then deleting spam, I moved it to an "also-spam" mail folder. Then I periodically run the SA learning program on that folder. With regular training, SA does an absolutely fantastic job of separating the wheat from the chaff -- or the ham from the spam, if you prefer. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss