Allison Sketchley schreef: > > You might have already learnt from other sources that Virus Bulletin is > planning to implement anti-spam testing in the near future and I am > writing to you to see if there might be any interest to participate in > this new and exciting venture with your open source anti-spam product. > > I have attached by way of information the article published in the > January edition of the Virus Bulletin magazine which outlines the > proposed test methodology, as well as a recent press release announcing > the new tests. > > Please feel free to pass this information onto any other potentially > interested parties within your organisation and if you, or they, should > have any questions or feedback please contact Martijn Grooten, Anti-spam > Test Director ([email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>) for any technical based queries > or myself for any financial/administrative queries. > > Look forward to hearing from you.
In the proposed test methodology you write the following: "To take part in Virus Bulletin’s anti-spam tests, products must be able to accept SMTP transfers and classify email into two categories: ham and spam." According to the Spambayes FAQ on http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html, Spambayes is not an MTA (postfix, exchange,...) spam filter. It works by sitting between the MTA or the MDA (procmail,...) and the MUA (outlook, thunderbird, mutt,...) as a POP or IMAP proxy. In case of the Outlook plugin and the upcoming Thunderbird plugin, it even works *after* the MUA. I know that there have been some people who have tried to implement Spambayes as a MTA spamfilter, but these attempts were all very experimental, and they were done by individual Spambayes users. I don't think that there will ever be an "official" build for Spambayes at the SMTP. There is always SpamAssassin for those who want that. However, I am very interested to see how other Software Libre products perform that do work on SMTP level, like SpamAssassin. How well do they compare to commercial products? Disclaimer: I am not a Spambayes developer, I'm just a regular user. By sending your email to a public mailing list, you have agreed that any user of Spambayes may read your email, and that any user may reply to it. Kind regards, Amedee Van Gasse _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Info/Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
