I am using spambayes for almost a year now, and I'm very happy with it. Most spam gets caught (>95%), and no false positives after initial training.
Currently I am using spambayes as a procmail filter, in ~/.procmailrc. For training, I have a few imap folders: ham, unsure, spam, confirmed-ham, confirmed spam. On average, 1 or 2 messages per day arrive in one of the first 3 folders. I move them to one of the confirmed folders. (This setup is described somewhere on the wiki) A nightly cron job then trains on the confirmed folders. This works great, but it's client-side filtering so it only works for me. Recently my spouse showed interest in spambayes because the spam filtering that our isp does is - honestly - crap. Too many false positives and too many getting trough. I'm also hosting a few (low traffic) mailing lists on my server, for friends and for a few associations I'm in. Because of this, I am interested in using spambayes at the server level. I have found this page: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/server_side.html with "postfix notes from Jonathan St-Andre" I still have some questions. If I understand it correctly, the only thing this setup does, is tagging emails with a spam score, just like I am already doing in procmail. Is that a correct interpretation? So it is still up to me to classify the emails in the correct ham/spam folders using procmail? Is it possible to block emails at the server level when they have a spam score above a certain treshold? Like for example, in my current setup (client side), everything with a spam score of .99 gets moved to /dev/null by procmail. On the postfix server level, I would like to fail emails with a spam score of .99 with an SMTP error, like for example error 554: Transaction failed. Is that possible, and if yes, how can I do that? I might have some other questions as I go along, but let's start with these. -- Amedee Van Gasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
