Subject: Re: Multi-layer spam filtering
From: Jon Reynolds (jonr@destar.net)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 16:03:26 AKDT
On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 15:42, J. M. Mason wrote:
> Have you folks all decided that bogofilter (bayesian, yes?) outperforms
> spamassassin in general? My spamassassin install is pretty good; I still
> feel like I get way too much spam in my inbox, but then I look in my spam
> folder and realize it's about 90% accurate...and it has yet to catalog a
> real message as a spam.
>
> As of the most recent release, it's also got a bayesian filter...
>
> I'm curious about this because I may have to try to get a general
> spam-filtering solution on a solaris 9 machine with around 300 users.
>
> It seems to me that with the sheer volume of mail being generated, a
> bayesian system that worked over everyone's mailbox could be very useful;
> of course, there are security issues like crazy with that.
>
> Spamassassin's bayesian can use an sql db to keep track of user prefs and
> help with some of that...how does bogofilter handle it? Can it learn
> system-wide?
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> ~Mac~
>
>
Bogofilter can do sitewide and it is also a lot faster than
spamassassin. It uses the BerkeleyDB but you could possibly use whatever
you like for a DB, on that I am not sure.
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