On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:34, Alexander Caldwell wrote: > Here is an excellent article about how to set up an automated, fully > functional Bayesian spam filtering system > on your e-mail with Bogofilter and an excellent mail client called > Sylpheed Claws. After one day of use, > it's already changing my life. > > http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/synd/2003/01/30/bogofilter.html >
I can also recommend SpamBayes, which is giving me excellent results - see http://spambayes.sourceforge.net Two advantages (for me at least) of SpamBayes: a) it is implemented in Python, so I can peek inside and readily understand what's going on b) it has a POP3 proxy mode, in which it sits between your POP3 e-mail client (Ximian Evolution in my case) and the POP3 server at your ISP. The proxy simply inserts an X-Spambayes-Classification header (ham/spam/unsure) into each em-ail message, which your e-mail client can then use to stream the messages to the appropriate folder (or to delete them). c) There is a Web-browser user interface The downside is that it is still a bit under-documented, and you have to get the code from CVS. But gee, it works a treat! Took me about 90 minutes to train it. Tim C
