Spamassassin needs a spanking

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sun Nov 28 12:24:49 CST 2004


On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:26:30PM +0100, Udo Melis wrote:

> I just wanted to propose spambayes as a new junkmail solution for 
> evolution.
> It is python ( wanted for Ubuntu ) and it has a neat feature that is the 
> "Unsure"
> marking.
> By the way it has much better spamdetection. ( for the first weeks of 
> training
> spamassassin i thought it wasn´t working )
> I use it on my gentoobox with procmail and postfix and i can just send 
> all spam to
> /dev/null. Sometimes spam and ham goes to "Unsure", but spam is 
> definetly spam.

My current preference is for bogofilter due to its speed, but I haven't
really looked at spambayes.  The fact that it is written in python makes it
appealing indeed.

Have you compared it with bogofilter at all?

-- 
 - mdz



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