Larry Vaden wrote: > Hi amavis-users, > > I note with interest the two excerpts from the recommended debug below the > sig. > > What is the collective wisdom of the group wrt dspam? (private replies > are OK if you prefer). >
dspam has his fanatics and haters. I have tested it for some time and abandoned it because it didn't fulfill _my_ requirements. now, you'd better see by yourself (my requirements aren't yours). part of my requirements are: - correctness. In many cases (they seemed related to a mysql issue), dspam passed mail unfiltered. - almost zero false positives. for me, this was easier with SA than with dspam. - not too much dependent on training (and retraining). dspam is way too sensitive to training in my experience. This is not a bug, it is how bayesian filters work. The thing is: I can easily configure SA to avoid a lot of FPs. this is harder with a statistical filter (at least, I didn't find a simple way. may be there is some work needed to implement "barriers" against FPs, but this doesn't look simple). - software architecure. dspam looks like a big monolithic program that grows and grows... (it has an anti-virus interface, it can be integrated in N many ways, all using the same program, ...). On the plus side: with careful training, dspam can get very "good" and is faster than SA (SA relies on N expressions to match. the more rules, the more load...). so for individual use by someone who understands what training is, this is a good choice. This isn't my case, as I need a filter for people who won't train at all or won't train correctly (In fact, the "critical" test that I performed was to simulate a user who accumlates undetected spam, then one day feels motivated to train the filter with all that spam. and bang. this feeds too many spam, that subsequent mail gets tagged as spam...) > What about some of the rest of the mentions? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
