Sorry to join this discussion so late. Since I have to use my machine mostly on w2000 I am looking for a free solution for mail filtering. Tried annoyance-filter using cygwin environment but there are times it gets stuck and takes 98% CPU. I liked the proxy stuff though. Any recommendation?
shlomo solomon wrote: > On Sunday 26 January 2003 21:39, Amit Margalit wrote: > > The debug info is printed to stderr, but KMail may be capturing this into > > /dev/null. See if you can configure KMail to do otherwise. Do you start > > KMail from an icon / menu? If yes, try starting from commandline and see > > if you get any debug messages on that xterm. > I tried that and it didn't give any messages, so maybe they are being sent to > /dev/null :-( > > But, I do have some news and a theory. I'd be interested to know if it makes > sense. After removing the --local switch, performance again deteriorated, but > it's not nearly as bad as it was before. Without SpamAssassin, I download 50 > messages in about a minute or two. When I originally tried SpamAssassin, it > took me about a minute per message!!! Now, I'm getting about 4 e-mails > downloaded in a minute. > > On the other hand, my filtering results were fairly good, but not at all as > good as what you wrote about. But, now, all of a sudden, with no change to > the system, I'm getting results as good as yours. Before, NONE of the e-mails > were rejected by Razor2 and I was missing about 25% of the spam. Now, Razor > is rejecting 60% (like your statistics) and in the past week, I've had 147 > spams, only 5 misses, and only 4 false positives. The false positives were > all from HTML formatted mailing lists (including lots of advertising) so I > can't blame SpamAssassin for the errors. > > Now, here's my theory. Is it possible that for some reason, during the week I > tried SpamAssassin originally (beginning of January) the Razor2 server was > down? If that's the case, it would explain why I had absolutely no spam > rejected by Razor, and maybe there was a timeout of some sort causing the > terrible performance of SpamAssassin. > > I'm still not happy with the 4 messages per minute, but at least I can live > with that - not like one a minute on my previous attempt. > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://come.to/shlomo.solomon > Sent by KMail (KDE 3.0.3) on LINUX Mandrake 9.0 > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thanks. David Harel, ================================== Home office +972 4 6921986 Fax: +972 4 6921986 Cellular: +972 54 534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
