At 18:27 +0000 2/12/04, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: >Chaps, > >I would be gratefull for any takers on this. This is really pressing me now. >..................................................................................................... >Hello again people, > >OK. A simple question. >I am still struggling with "spamassassin" and I don't know how >to continue. >The question is this : > >Should I just "teach" spamassassin or should I install Don >Drakes' filter ? >Or is there another option between the two ? > >Regards,
Spyros, As far as I know these are kind of separate questions (unless you check your mail as local unix mail on your Linux box). For most people who will be checking email through POP, running Drake's filter is the only way to get SpamAssassin to work with XMail, unless you want to write your own filter to do the same thing (and Drake's filter is so good it doesn't make sense, really). The only other way to have SA run would be to have a script feed messages being delivered to a local unix mail folder to spamc. Even if you were receiving your email as local unix mail, the easiest way to have the message scanned would be to use Drake's script. Teaching SA is independent of how you choose to have messages scanned. There is documentation about this online ( http://spamassassin.org/doc/sa-learn.html . Teaching SA only lets it become a better predictor of what is an isn't spam in you inbox (and this uses Bayseian filtering, which is becoming less and less reliable as spammers become more crafty). So you would scan in a whole bunch of spam (letting SA know it is spam for learning purposes) and then do the same for ham. But this is separate from actually having your mail filtered by SA as it is incoming. I guess the short answer is -- no matter what, use Drake's script. Then, in addition, if you want, scan in a whole bunch of spam and ham to teach the bayseian filter. Let me know if you have any questions, Toby -- Toby Reiter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Breezing Internet Communications http://www.breezing.com 1106 West Main St phone:434.295.2050 Charlottesville, VA 22903 fax:603.843.6931 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
