spam deluge: who uses what ?

[Peter L. Peres]

Thanks to all who answered. I installed bogofilter after looking at a few 
of the options others suggested, and it works so far 
(postfix->procmail->bogofilter). I used a ~750 spam message file that I've 
been collecting for some time. bogofilter was a relatively small download 
(600k vs 20M for SpamAssasin and crm114 and other such).

Installation was painless after I got BerkeleyDB and set up the procmailrc 
using the example given in the bogofilter manpage. I trained the 
bogofilter once by feeding it the entire spam mailbox file and several 
'good' mailbox files totaling several megabytes.

It was very fast (a few seconds) learning these files. I understand that 
it would have taken much longer with Perl based tools, from the speed 
comparisons on the web. The words.db file is ~7M. Operation is near 
instant (I cannot feel a slowdown in mail delivery).

The current setup (from the manpage) takes care of the bogofilter training 
by itself (I only need to manually resubmit messages when it fails).

I have already seen two 'good' messages pass and one spam caught. So far, 
so good.

Is there a rule based tool or wizard to set up procmail rules with white 
and blacklists and such ?

thanks to all,

Peter

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The time has come to raise my walls against spam again. I am considering 
> bogofilter. I have looked at other options, and this looks good for my setup. 
> What do others use (spam filter on home server/home workstation under linux).
>
> thanks,
>
> Peter
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