Yes, it can modify the Message Header; or can do nothing but return a score. Check the DSPAM mail list for info.
Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Perkel Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:09 AM To: Felix Schwarz Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [exim] Re: Who likes DSPAM? Felix Schwarz wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Just looking for a quick opinion - who likes DSPAM? > > > Me. > > I switched ca. 9 months ago when SpamAssassin failed to detect more > and more spam (had around 5-10 false negatives in a week with ca. 3500 > mails/week). DSPAM is far better (2-3 false negatives) and produces > less false positives especially for unknown senders/uncommon subjects. > DSPAM classified messages as ham which I would have deleted without > further notice because they look so spammy but in reality they WERE ham. > > DSPAM needed quite a big training corpus for me (10000 ham/spam mails) > and you should test it thoroughly as it rewrites mails (signature in > the body) and imho these routines could be implemented more > conservatively/carefully. For example in 3.4 it destroyed subjects > with umlauts and S/MIME signed messages. While the first bug was fixed > in 3.4, S/MIME signed message were not (at least until 3.4.7, don't > know newer versions). > > fs > > Can it be made to not modify the message at all or to just add one header line with a score? I just want to use it to get a second opinion and then process the scroe with Spamassassin. -- Marc Perkel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/ -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
