Re: Alpha Linux spam filtter?

[dr john halewood <john unidec co uk>]

On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 4:41 pm, Jon Norstog wrote:
>To the list:
>
>I have been getting huge amounts of spam at my regular email address.  So
>far I have been using the filtering function in Kmail.  Is there a
>late-model spam filter for Linux running on Alpha machines?  Thanks --

There's a fair few. I use MIMEDefang (www.mimedefang.org) in conjunction with 
SpamAssassin (www.spamassassin.org) on my alpha: MIMEDefang runs as a 
sendmail milter (mail filter) and passes incoming mail through SpamAssassin 
and a few other bits and pieces and drops the spam. If you don't want to do 
anything that complicated, you can just use SpamAssassin in conjunction with 
KMail to set a filter on all incoming mail. Both SpamAssassin and MIMEDefang 
seem to be perfectly 64-bit clean so that's not an issue (the latter is 
written mostly in perl and you'll need to add some perl modules to a default 
installation but it didn't present me with much of a problem).. Both are 
available in rpm format (in mimedefang's case there's a spec file inside the 
tarball). I'd recommend getting the most up to date versions of each rather 
than relying on any stock RedHat versions, which seem to be a bit out of 
date. SpamAssassin in particular is updated quite regularly to try and keep 
on top of new spamming tricks - current version is 2.61 released a whole week 
ago. I'd also recommed you use the Bayesian filter in it and feed it with all 
the spam you can find.

cheers
john