Re: [Evolution-hackers] Spam filtering thoughts

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 22:22, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> > For the actual spam detection, I think we should just use Spamassassin. 
> > It works great, is actively maintained, and is very simple to interface
> > to.  It also does a great job without any training, although it does
> > support Bayesan filtering.
> 
> I don't think spamassasin is the best solution. It is slow and I don't
> think it "just works". When I used spamassasin with evoluiton a lot of
> spam got passed the filter. I then tried bogofilter which is just a
> bayesian filter and got better results when I had fed it the same
> ammount of mails as I did with spam assasin. 

This is about the opposite experience I've had.  :)

What version of Spamassassin are you using, and do you have the network
tests enabled?

On my machine the impact of running Spamassassin while downloading POP
mail is negligible.

-- Ettore