Art Alexion on 22 Oct 2004 19:03:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Spam programs


Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:06:33AM -0400, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:


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On Oct 21, 2004, at 11:57 PM, Doug Crompton wrote:


How does DSPAM differ from Spamassassin?


DSPAM is the most advanced Bayesian analysis filter for spam categorization available today, bar none. It is also orders of magnitude faster than SpamAssassin. You can make heuristics with a combination of iptables and your LDA, but DSPAM was designed to do per-account Bayesian for domains, so I think it will work just fine for you. Check it out here:

http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/

Alternatively, if the setup of DSPAM is too complex for you, you can use bogofilter for the same purpose but be warned: it is worse and has less features than DSPAM.



I just checked the dspam web site. It looks pretty good.

I've been using bogofilter with essentially no false positives (that
I've found ;-) for the better part of a year.  I get a dozen or two
false negatives a day, though.  I see 50 or so positives a day that I
scan each morning.

I am running bogofilter with a database of 23,272 spams and 43034
non-spam messages.

Alas, dspam is not currently in debian testing, so my trying it will
have to wait for a slightly bigger time slot than it would if I could
apt-get it.  But thanks for the URL and the recommendation.



I also checked out dspam and decided to try it. The configure script complained that libsqlite was missing, so I installed the newest version, but dspam's configure still complains that it is not found. Has anyone else encountered this and solved it?

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