[Dovecot] deploying dspam

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, John Peacock wrote:

> Hauke Fath wrote:
> 
> > While this of course depends on your definition of "larger", some
> > people seem to think otherwise:
> > 
> > http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa04/tech/blosser.html
> 
> Not having a Usenix login, I cannot comment on the full paper, but to 
> quote this from the abstract:
> 
> > Bayesian classification has been able to solve the spam problem for
> > this user population for the present and observable future, with a
> > single wordlist, and with no secondary spam filtering techniques
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> The use of a single wordlist is appropriate for limited circumstances. 
> Even in a corporate environment like I manage, there is a very wide 
> definition of what constitutes spam, and a configuration such as 
> described above wouldn't work here.  It would work even less in an ISP 
> environment, with widely varied userbase.
> 
> This is now veering into Off Topic Territory...

I tried to install dspam from Dag's apt repo for RHEL 3.  It seemed rather 
complex...