I used SpamBouncer until a couple weeks ago, when I switched to Spam
Assassin. Spam Assassin is much more accurate at identifying spam. I had to
place
one mailing list I'm on on its whitelist. The only false negative I've gotten
was
a spam advertising spam blocking software. So, Spam Assassin seems to do very
well.
The Spam Bounce feature of SpamBouncer is an interesting idea. It bounces
back the mail it is unsure of ("blocked" instead of "spam") with a message
giving
a password to get past it. This password can be changed by the user. Quite a bit
of my incoming email was "blocked" as possible spam by SpamBouncer, so the
password was useful. SpamAssassin, however, doesn't seem to need it.
Almost all spam had a bad return address, so the stuff that SpamBouncer
bounced was then bounced back to me, doubling the number of messages I had to
delete. It would've been nice it used those bounces to delete the original
message (requiring a good return address on anything that gets delivered).
Again, SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org/) seems to do a great job!
Harold
Professional Software Engineering wrote:
At 02:42 2002-05-20 +0100, Peter A. J. Pilgrim did say:
What is `block.incoming' for?
What is `bulk.incoming' for ? What is the difference?
Again, spambouncer is a script which someone wrote which happens to use
Procmail. It's like asking support questions for some package written in
perl on a Perl list just because it's written using that tool. The
specifics of that package are not common knowledge amongst the users here.
The spambouncer package should be documented and supported through the
author's own website. Check there.
What anti-spam solution do you use?
I haven't made comparisons to spambouncer. I think early on I was turned
off by the prospect that spambouncer actually _bounced_ anything, which is
a worthless prospect for spam. I've used procmail for 8+ years to do a
variety of things, and all my spam filtering is performed via rules I've
written, or which have been written by other users here on the Procmail list.
No doubt, a fair amount of what spambouncer implements had it's origins in
this list as well.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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