Thanks Mark your advice was cracker. I looked at crm114 and have now implemented it as a 2nd scan to keep spamassassin honest. It has had an excellent effect on accuracy.
regards Grant On 07/02/2009, at 2:35 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: > Grant, > >> I have a well established amavisd setup using spamassassin. >> >> I note that amavisd-new has hooks for dspam and looking at the web >> site it looks like an interesting product. >> >> Is anyone using dspam with amavisd-new as an addition to >> spamassassin ? >> >> If it is a good option is there any readme etc on installing/ >> configuring dspam for use with amavisd ? > > I'm not using it myself, only tried it briefly back in 2004. > > Search RELEASE_NOTES for: > - provisional/experimental support for DSPAM spam checker (pre 3.0): > if configuration variable $dspam is nonempty and represents ... > > Instead of two rules described there, you can use a SA plugin > for DSPAM: > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomPlugins > > Other that that I cannot provide further advice on DSPAM. > Btw, the project had its ups and downs, consider now the > dspam-community project: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSPAM > > I'd be much happier if the ad-hoc support were removed from > amavisd and moved to where it belongs: to a SpamAssassin plugin. > The current DSPAM plugin only works in conjunction with header > fields from DSPAM as inserted into a mail header by amavisd. > It should be extended to be able to call DSPAM by itself, > along with auto-learning possibilities, along the lines of > a CRM114 plugin for SA. > > Incidentally, lately I've been playing with the CRM114 plugin > for SpamAssassin by Martin Schütte: > http://mschuette.name/wp/crm114-spamassassin-plugin/ > along with CRM114 version 20081111-BlameBarack. > > and I must admit that the CRM114 works exceptionally well, > after only a few days of auto-learning. I made several > modifications to the plugin (I sent them to the author), > but even as it is, it works well. > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills > and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the > power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR > SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > AMaViS-user mailing list > AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user > AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 > AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/ Grant Maxwell maXan Pty Ltd Ph: 61 2 80050094 Mob: 61 41 9227165 grant.maxw...@maxan.com.au > P please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e- mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail with the subject heading "Received in error" or telephone +61 2 90293452, then delete the email and destroy any copies of it. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this e-mail and any attachments that do not relate to the business of the maXan are neither given nor endorsed by it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
