Skip, W/o diving into this interesting flame (:-) I would like to make one point regarding your own setup - Myself, and I assume most other users of SB do NOT have access to the step in mail food chain where procmail and similar tools can be installed & configured. We're stuck with the organizational policy of using an end-user mail client (like Outlook) so the only weapon that we have is a plug-in in Outlook (or the SB proxy for POP3).
Just my $0.02 Euros. Amir -----Original Message----- From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 19:37 To: Bryan D. Andrews Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Feature Request Bryan> Better yet if there was a whitelist that allows you to do some Bryan> sort of weighted scoring based on a percentage that could make it Bryan> even more effective. That's pretty much what SpamBayes does already. Who an email is from is one of the clues in a message, but it is just one of many clues, not a hammer used to bludgeon the classifier into submission. Your full name scored 0.16 for me on the message I'm replying to. In addition, your domain (trendcore.com) as well as information in various received headers also scored 0.16. There are thus several clues in your mail message telling me you're a good guy: from:addr:bandrews: 0.16; from:addr:trendcore.com: 0.16; from:name:bryan d. andrews: 0.16; message-id:@tatl0s10.trendinfluence.com: 0.16; received:209.159: 0.16; received:209.159.56: 0.16; received:209.159.56.50: 0.16; received:tatl0s10.trendinfluence.com: 0.16; received:trendinfluence.com: 0.16; If someone was to send me spam and spoof your email address, it's likely most of those hammy clues would be missing (probably all but the first two above). Coming back to the whitelist issue, why is the filter capability in Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla Mail, procmail or other mail software not up to the task? Even Outlook Express, as feeble as it is, has filtering capability modestly better than a simple whitelist based on the From: field of a message. I happen to use procmail as my local delivery tool. I define five delivery recipes before SpamBayes gets a chance to look at a message. They are used to vector various types of messages off to specific mailboxes. You should be able to do the same in other mail software and probably do it more flexibly than anything we would implement for SpamBayes. In my case, three of the five recipes catch viruses and two deliver emails with specific subjects to appropriate mailboxes. None would be amenable to handling by a simple whitelist facility within SpamBayes. Skip _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
