... has been released, 15:50 CET, for those using SA. For the record: My standard MUA is Evo 1.2.1, secondary is Horde Imp CVS - both with uw-IMAP 2002b and Exim smtp 4.12. Yes, Linux/Gnome 1.4.
For the great unwashed, I've been using 2.50-CVS since Sept. last year and with Bayes analysis since mid Jan. last. And it's absolutely fantastic. Mind you, my solution's an MTA solution, Exim 4.12 with SA-Exim built in (actually a shared *.so library) to the Exim binary. Although Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail and Procmail solutions are available for the unwashed. There are even M$ Windows possibilities. I have my e-post address everywhere, so spam and shitty MS executables are increasing at an exponential rate. My reaction is British English "two horns to the devil," US English "middle finger up." I almost never get to read spam sent to me, nor receive MS viruses. They're mostly refused with an smtp 550 at data time, but with a trigger higher than the "define-as-spam points." Any spam or viruses that pass the smtp trigger, Exim's own filter catches and files/writes to the mail spool either for consenting adults or the sysadmin. 2.50 plusses over 2.43/2.44, according to Justin Mason - one of its pappas: - Bayesian filtering, using a Bayesian-style form of probability- analysis classification. This uses an algorithm based on the one detailed in Paul Graham's 'A Plan For Spam' paper, along with aspects taken from Graham Robinson's work, and the chi-combining technique developed by the SpamBayes project. - Auto-learning. This trains the Bayesian filter automatically, based on the results from traditional SpamAssassin diagnosis. It uses a set of heuristics and separate thresholds to ensure (as much as is possible) that it trains on guaranteed non-spam and spam. Old, unused tokens are automatically expired. - much-improved rule set. A whole new set of rules based on Message-Id analysis is now in place, which accurately detects forged headers from a wide range of spamware. Many inaccurate rules have been dropped. HTML tests much improved, with a set to detect image-only spam. - new default format for detected-spam messages; the message is encapsulated as a MIME part, with a preview and the spam report in the main part of the message. - Score sets. Based on whether you are using just SpamAssassin rules, adding network tests, and using a trained Bayesian database, SpamAssassin will use a set of scores appropriately to gain the maximum degree of accuracy. - Italian, Polish, Spanish, French and German rule sets and translations. - Much improved reliability with spamd. The problems with signals have been cleared up thanks to a pipe-based child tracking system, and all spamd-hanging bugs reported have proved unreproducable. - Unicode problems with Red Hat 8 and perl 5.8 fixed. Works on Perl 5.005, 5.6.x, and 5.8.x. - Taint-safe. SpamAssassin runs with perl's taint-checking enabled for better security. - Razor 1 support is now officially deprecated. - "spamc -c" was not working, fixed. This fix required increasing the revision of the spamd protocol; only difference is that now more than one protocol header can appear in the reply from spamd. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw When you rob a person of his illusions, you are robbing him of his happiness e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.billy.demon.nl _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
