Anti-spam methods (was: Spam-Filter-Free Options)

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:18 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> >  I think I'm running one of the best solutions available: sendmail +
> >  spamass-milter + spamassassin.
> 
>   Works great for single users or Unix-savvy communities.  Not so well
> with a corporate user population which knows nothing of the command
> line, and also has wildly different mail usage patterns.  (Stuff the
> HR department gets looks like spam to engineering.)

One (current) limitation of maia mailguard related to the interpretation
of what is spam that should be noted... The bayesian filtering/training
is done with a global bayesian filter, not per-user. I can't recall if
per-user is in the plans for the next release or not. In practice, it
hasn't caused any significant problems I'm aware of, but it would seem
there's the potential for it to work even better per-user.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com