Re: [dspam-users] DSPAM questions

* On 03/05/06 22:53 -0500, Abel Jeffcoat wrote:
| All,
|
| As noted in earlier posts, I'm really new to DSPAM. I got DSPAM working
| with my QMail setup. My question is this. I understand each user will
| need to train DSPAM. Is it true that you need to send it ham and spam?

Yes, it is important to train DSPAM with some ham and spam so that it
knows the difference. It's the approach to this that differs from site
to site.

There are decisions to be made regarding "Training Mode" to start with.
Then there is the "feeding the daemon" (aka training) decision. In the
later case, there have generally been several approaches:
(a) shared groups
(b) merged groups
(c) classification groups
(d) a hybrid of any of the two (you'll have to read the README all over
    again!

| I have read several different things about training DSPAM. Is there a
| really good document out there?

A lot has been discussed in the archives, but generally, you normally
start with yourself: Grab 1000 ham and another 1000 spam from your
mailboxes and train DSPAM with it to build your own dictionary. Then
decide, from that point, what is your desired training mode and why.
I mean TOE, TUM, TEFT when I refer to "training mode". BTW, for spam,
you can grab from anywhere, including the public corpus at SpamAssassin
site.

After that, you can put DSPAM into use on a test basis, either using
your MTA or your LDA and see what it thinks about the mails you receive.

For your users, there are also the options of the alias addresses: Some
admins have created addresses used for initial training of DSPAM by
their user bases, some have used scripts that read from IMAP folders
where users have been "trained" to drag and drop spam, and there are
also spam@domain.tld and notspam@domain.tld, which are used for
reclassification.

| I am using DSPAM with Qmail and Maildrop, via howto at
| http://dspamwiki.expass.de/Installation/Qmail

I'll not read it because I don't use Qmail. However, I believe the short
explanation above should give you a head-start to go over the README
again and come up with some informed decisions.

| Does anyone on this list use that same setup? I noticed it created a
| .dspam directory in the users home directory, and it is not creating a
| data directory in my /etc/dspam directory. Is this also correct?

Not sure. What is the output of `dspam --version`?

-Wash

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