Hello Marten Gallagher & everyone else,
on 24-Dez-2005 at 00:33 you (Marten Gallagher) wrote:
> Could anyone using multiple POP3 accounts with The Bat, tell me what
> anti=spam system they use and could you provide a four or five word
> recommendation?
Just like Darrin and John, I recommend K9, too.
It is small and fast (compared to PopFile), and it does not lose efficiency
(compared to the TB plugins BayesFilter and BayesIt).
Even though it is NOT a plugin for TB, I find its usage easier and more
comprehensible than the TB plugins. The GUI is simple, definition of white-
and blacklist rules is very easy, and it gives a greater feeling of overall
"control" to the user than the TB plugins do.
After the installation and first configuration, and a short training
period, it needs almost no maintenance - this is the most important thing
for me, I don't want to re-classify mails every other day and tweak some
settings and whatnot.
Following are my K9 statistics. Notice the second column. No false
positives for 190 days. The 37 false positives in the first column were
right after installing K9 and using it for the very first time. I have a
large amount of whitelist matches because all mailinglists I'm on are
whitelisted and not used for training the K9 database.
Column 1: Since 10.11.2004 16:40:03 (409 days)
Column 2: Since 17.06.2005 19:34:45 (190 days)
Total number of emails processed 38,942 19,725
95/day 104/day
Number of Good emails processed 37,979 19,250
97.53% 97.59%
Number of Spam emails processed 963 475
2.47% 2.41%
Percentage of emails that matched whitelist rules 83.17% 79.67%
Percentage of emails that matched blacklist rules 0.25% 0.50%
Number of emails re-classified to Good 37 0
Number of emails re-classified to Spam 122 26
Percent misidentified as Spam (false positives) 0.10% 0.00%
Percent misidentified as Good (false negatives) 0.31% 0.13%
99.59% 99.87%
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Best regards,
Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981)
More things are possible in a 4-D world than in a 3-D world. To a
person in a 4-D world, the goings-on in a 3-D world looks as flat and
confined as the action on a movie screen looks to us. -- Michael
Guillen
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