spambayes

Justin Zygmont jzygmont at solarflow.net
Tue May 9 17:38:17 UTC 2006


On Tue, 9 May 2006, Claude Jones wrote:

> On Mon May 8 2006 6:58 pm, Frank Cox wrote:
>> Has anyone used this?
>>
>> http://software.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=06/03/24/1728247
>>
>> Comments?  Alternatives?
>>
>> It looks very cool.  Are there any up-to-date rpm packages around anywhere?
>> The only ones that I could find are substantially out-of-date.
>
> I've used Spambayes on both Linux and Windows boxes for over a year now. It's
> a normal part of my installation of a new distro, these days. Spambayes can
> be detected by Kmail's anti-spam configuration wizard these days, and that's
> quite nice.
>
> Installation is extremely simple. Unpack the tarball anywhere you prefer, and
> run 'python set_up.py' as root from the folder in which you unpacked the
> tarball - that installs everything (you can delete the folder after that).
> Then, you want to start it at boot-time. I use
>
> 'nohup python /usr/bin/sb_server.py &'
>
> as a line in rc.local, or better, lately I've been using the above as a script
> file in my /.kde/startup folder - that invokes the spambayes server as user
> instead of root - it works just fine that way.
>
> Then, either reboot, or start the spambayes server manually and open Firefox
> or any browser and put 'http://localhost:8880/' in your address bar and click
> on 'configure' - I usually just worry about the topmost two fields, leaving
> everything else in default.
>
> In the topmost field, you enter the url of your pop mail servers, separated by
> commas. In the ports field, just pick random ports to proxy on, separated by
> commas ( I use 1110,1111,1112, for example)
>
> After that, you have to configure your email client to use localhost for each
> pop server, and the corresponding port you entered in the second field,
> above.
>
> Spambayes should start piping your mail through its filters after that, if
> you've got everything right. It will add a classification line to each mail
> header, labeling it as 'spam', 'unsure', or 'ham' (look at your header lines,
> and you'll this extra line as
>
> 'X-Spambayes-Classification: ham'
>
> - use your email client filters to direct the mail to wherever you'd like it
> to end up according to these classifications. If you use kmail, as already
> mentioned, much of the email client header classification filtering gets done
> for you if you go through the anti-spam wizard...
>
> Hope that helps - there's more that can be configured, and I may have left
> something out, but that should be enough to get you going. You'll have to
> read the faq on the spambayes site to learn about training, but that's fairly
> straightforward. After several days, you'll find Spambayes removing well over
> 90% of your spam with almost no false positives. I get over 400 spams per day
> because of multiple published email addresses, but, Spambayes makes that
> completely manageable. One further comment, while it's true that Thunderbird
> uses bayesian filtering, and it's pretty good, it's not the same as
> Spambayes, which in my opinion is an even better implementation of bayesian
> principles - there are some pretty good docs on the net if you google for
> them, to explain the principles behind bayesian filtering - Spambayes is one
> of several implementations of the principles involved.

Are you able to tell if its much more effective than spamassassin?  I get 
spam coming through spamassassin with a 0.0 score!




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