Anti-spam filters

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 19:04 -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> Aaron Konstam escribió:
> > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 18:25 -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> >> I'm moving some mail addresses from one server to another, and I was
> >> thinking about changing my anti-spam system.
> >>
> >> Today, I'm still using bogofilter for my personal account, but it would
> >> be nice to have a multi-user anti-spam system which can have per-user DB.
> >>
> >> I was thinking about dspam, but I see that there are no rpm, at least in
> >> yum and with some google searching (not to much, maybe I should look a
> >> little more).
> >>
> >> Now, what other options do I have?
> >>
> > spamassassin + a procmail that calls it to filter your stream will do
> > that. Each user has his own .procmailrc file.
> 
> How easy is it for users to update spam definitions with SA?
> 
Well some can be done with whitelists, blacklists and rule modification.
But the primary emphasis to make SA better is a bayes based learning
proceedure. You tell the system about its mistakes and it learns.
Another tuning factor is the ability is that you can change the value of
the "spam-ness" value that you will accept as non-spam.
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