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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:05:42
Message-Id: C9610D50-ADCC-4AD1-A1E1-CBF0E980BAA2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy... by Glenn Enright
1 On 15 Jan 2006, at 16:44, Glenn Enright wrote:
2
3 > On Monday 16 January 2006 04:28, Stroller wrote:
4 >> It does indeed seem very good, but again it requires training, which
5 >> is something I'm trying to avoid in this instance.
6 >>
7 >> Stroller.
8 >
9 > No solution you have is going to be perfect I suspect. Really it
10 > does come
11 > down to individual requirements, because everyone is different.
12
13 Indeed. It very much DOESN'T need to be perfect in this case - just
14 significantly better than 30%.
15
16 > Otherwise, for example with spamassasin, each client can set up
17 > their own
18 > account with some effective filters for their own type of email.
19 > I'm using
20 > kmail with my own account and that has a very useful wizard that
21 > creates a
22 > seperate folder for spam, learns and dumps any that I manually mark
23 > as spam,
24 > and moves it all to that folser, where I can easily review it.
25
26 Outlook - which is a client requirement - seems to do something
27 similar. But either it's remarkably ineffective or it doesn't really
28 like IMAP. I assume the latter to be the case.
29
30 > Also I use another module called mail-filter/dcc that seems to help
31 > greatly.
32
33 I'm looking at dcc now - it looks useful, but I'm not yet clear on
34 how to configure it (with SpamAssassin?).
35
36 Stroller.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy... Glenn Enright <elinar@×××××××.nz>