From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 20:37:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8E116A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:37:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC73E43D2D for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:37:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1H4c7Gi057939; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:38:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id i1H4bZBe044056; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:37:30 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Message-ID: <20040217043730.GA17079@tao.thought.org> References: <20040216091316.98506.qmail@web9602.mail.yahoo.com> <20040216130911.7d28e700@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040216130911.7d28e700@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Olga Zenkova cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spam removal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 04:37:42 -0000 On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:09:11PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > Give a try to ports/mail/dspam; it uses a combined bayesian algorithm. > If you have problems just email me privately and I'll be glad to help. > but it's extremely easy to setup. User must just fw the spams to an > alias you set up for them. > > Here are some statistics: > > NGStats for Jan 28, 2004: > 43 Systems Participating > 639,217 Spams Caught > 1,008,491 Innocent Msgs Scanned > 758 False Positives > 0.07% False Positive Ratio > > After the training period (some of this systems are very recently > installed), the results are better, about 99.75 - 99.9% with 0.01-0.10% > FP rate. > > >From which uses something called Bayesian Dobly to filter Bayesian Noise > the results seems to be 99.953% ratio and no false positives. > Hi, I'd be grateful for some tips on how to get dspam up. I installed it after reading your mail; then I waded into the long README and felt nearly overwhelmed. I've used mysql to set up several message boards,, but that's about the extent of my knowledge. I've been using /etc/mail/access that catches tons of spam. It would be great if dspam could do the rest! tia, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix