spamd & claws mail

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

Nikolai wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:06:39 -0500
> "Jeffrey F. Bloss" <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Side note: I prefer Bogofilter for use with Claws-Mail. It's faster
> > by a very noticeable difference, just as good at managing spam
> > (maybe a little better in some respects), and you don't need
> > another daemon eating up system resources. There's a very fine
> > plugin for Claws-Mail that's compiled/installed if you have
> > Bogofilter installed to. :)
> 
> 
> Alright, I enabled Bogofilter instead even though I've managed to fix
> SpamAssassin (turns out it didn't need spampd daemon after all). I
> knew it was a *lot* faster (from reading reports about it on the web)

It truly is. If you handle a good amount of personal mail it can be a
problem. When it's running on a server you really don't notice the lag,
but locally it's *very* annoying in my opinion.

> but I couldn't make it work at first (in Dapper) and now I think it
> works (it didn't give me any errors when mail was received but just
> mentioned it will have to learn what is spam...).

You have to train/update Spamassassin too. In fact dialing in SA can
become a temporary full time job with a part time long term contract. ;)

In my opinion (again), for personal use Bogo just does a better job
overall. The difference in detection and false positives is negligible
once they're both set up, and the Claws-Mail Bogofilter plugin makes
this a pretty easy thing under CM. You can do the same thing with an
'sa-learn' action, but again the speed thing is a factor. A single
large mail can take a few seconds to process. Doesn't sound like much,
and it isn't until you start watching dozens or hundreds of emails a
session being processed in real time like you do with client side
filtering.

SA is far better suited to server installations though. I do believe
it's more able to handle huge volumes of mail, and it's certainly more
feature rich. If you were to invest the time and resources It would
ultimately reduce your spam load over Bogo. But neither one of them
will 100% eliminate all of it without loosing a *lot* of legitimate
mail (or spending a lot of time manually examining the spam you're
trying to avoid anyway).

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