-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:36:16 +0000 > Von: RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> > An: dspam-community-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > CC: dspam-community-u...@lists.sourceforge.net, > dspam-community-de...@lists.sourceforge.net, > dspam-users@lists.nuclearelephant.com, dspam-...@lists.nuclearelephant.com > Betreff: Re: [Dspam-community-devel] I would appreciate some feedback
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:52:27 +0100 > "Steve" <steeeeev...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > Or if you are not a DSPAM user jet and using something else: Why > > don't you use DSPAM? Why do you use something else? What function / > > feature would motivate you to switch to DSPAM? > > IMO DSPAM tries too hard to appeal to enterprise-level sysadmins at > the expense of individual and soho users. This is rather dangerous > because most such OSS projects tend to draw their new developers from > the latter group. > > I was put-off using DSPAM for a long time because it wasn't clear > to me that it could even be used without mta integration, quarantine > etc. And the idea of managing spam through a webpage, or forwarding > addresses seems very clumsy compared with dragging to a learn-spam > folder or setting a flag. > Funny you mention this because that would require IMAP integration but above you complained about MTA integration. > I think it's a mistake to lump together all > the parts of DSPAM under a single project name, it gives the impression > that it's a Windows-style monolithic application. > Is it so important if it is monolithic or not? I personally care more about the result of the filtering and the level of maintenance it needs then about the question if it is monolithic or not. But that's just me. > Even if you google around and eventually find that it can be used as a > local standalone classifier like Bogofilter or Spamassassin, it still > has rough edges. Most of what you find on google will tell you that > you need to setup an sql backend manually - that's going to loose a > lot of people. If you read around a bit more, you may find out about > the hash driver, and home-directory support. However, the hash driver > support is much less mature, and unlike Bogofilter and Spamassassin, > DSPAM doesn't honour $HOME, so you can't use virtual home directories. > What do you mean with "virtual home directories"? Could you explain me what this is? -- NUR NOCH BIS 31.01.! GMX FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL für nur 16,37 EURO/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a !DSPAM:1011,497ba345150921211911124!
