On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:22:08AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: > > > If you're not comfortable digging around your Perl install > > and manually tweaking files, I recommend looking elsewhere. > > hrmm... i found it fairly easy to install - perl Makefile.pl ; make ; > make install.
On debian it was just 'apt-get update && apt-get install spamassassin' > you need to setup your own copies of the config and user prefs files, > which is perhaps what it's complaining about. > > i've used spambouncer for a long time, and like it, but i think > spamassassin is much easier to configure, and seems to catch as much or > more spam, while catching much less legitimate mail. I agree. Spamassassin uses multiple criteria, assigning each one a point value, and messages that exceed a threshhold are marked as spam. If you have Vipul's Razor installed too, a hit there is worth 3 points with 5 as the threshhold. (These are the default values (I don't know if they are debian or upstream defaults); you can configure them to be whatever you want). I read someplace that they choose the points per criteria by running a sophisticated AI against a large base of legit vs. spam email. (I think it was a genetic algorithm.) ###
