> http://zeitlin.homeunix.com/cgi-bin/mbugs/show_bug.cgi?id=891
> Maintaining our own spam filters is a waste of time, they're not good enough. Agreed. > Either we should rely on external (ISP-based for example) spam filters or we > should integrate an existing spam detection library. One possible condidate is > http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ I spend some time in anti-spam circles and I have never heard of anyone using it. I also notice that a prerequisite for using it is a unix based mail server. This would suggest it is going to be a server based solution rather than a client based one (or is that what you intended)? The site appears to me (at first glance) to be full of buzz words but somewhat short on substance. > If you know of others, please add them here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] PERL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Both can be used as is or further integrated into mail packages. Both inherently platform independant. I have used Popfile for years and can attest to it's efficacy. 99.85%+ success is very achievable. It uses the Train on Error system so you only classify messages it got wrong reducing corpus size and reducing corpus poisoning attempts by spammers et al. It is also aimed at being a text classification system more than just a spam detector and with very little work could replace most of the filtering capabilities found in Mahogany at present. It can also be very successfully trained to sort out the spam and the ham from a particular address. Case in point, I am on the wxPython mailing list. It is often spammed, gets those "unsubscribe" messages in-list, gets malware type messages, gets on-vacation annoucements from list users, bounced messages, "I found a virus" messages from anti-virus scanners etc yet I do not see those because I have trained it to discriminate them in multiple languages too! Granted this takes a little more work on my part - I would say I need to show it 1-2 examples of what I do not want to see and after that it is nearly error free. At present, since my last stats reset, I have had 5/2457 errors (since April 2). At present, it's admin is done via a local http proxy but if we could integrate that within Mahogany, I think it would be a winner. I have not used Spambayes but have heard of good experiences with it. HTH Dr. QA ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
