Mark Rogers skrev, on 26-11-2007 16:13:
Karl Heinz Peters wrote:
Yes, there is a "SPAM-Eicar", but it wont help you with dspam. Its good
for testing SpamAssassin, since it uses static filtering too. but DSpam
is a statistical filtering tool, so it wont usabel.
I found it now: GTUBE (Generic Test for Unsolicited Bulk Email) [1]
I can't see any way to train dspam to pick this up without also learning
that the email address I send it from is a spammer, and I'm reluctant to
try. How complicated would it be to get dspam to pick this up properly
(and not learn as a consequence)? Would anyone find it useful apart from
me anyway?
Forget it, AV software is for virus, anti-spam is for spam.
dspam isn't designed for recognizing the content of attachments, it's
designed for recognizing patterns in headers and bodies and that's all
it can do. And does excellently.
BitDefender and ClamAV under Postfix/amavisd-new (2.4.6/2.4.5) on my
Linux MTAs are designed for de-archiving (if they're archived) each
message and scanning each attachment's content against a database that
gets updated regularly.
My systems recognize just about all (99+%) of all viruses and spam.
AV software doesn't give a good day as to what spam is, dspam doesn't
give a good day about what a message contains - apart from body patterns.
FWIW BitDefender is good - no, more than good, excellent - at doing its
own things, ClamAV at doing its. Both are gratis to non-corporate Linux
users.
You (I presume) don't use a hammer for knocking screws into wood or
steel. This is (supposed to be, sic) an analogy.
Best,
--Tonni
--
Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl
