I only used DSPAM for a short time myself but was impressed by it's hit rate 
once trainer with all the spam I had. 

Reading that the project may become stale is sad news. I was looking forward to 
have a fast and efficient spam filter. Spamassassin is great, but without 
spamdyke in front of it, it caused a lot of load issues on busy servers. DSPAM 
pretty much got rid of those.

Anyhow just my 2 cents, I can't really be a judge here since it's been a long 
time ago and only ran for a few weeks.

Cheers,
Sebastian

> On 11.07.2014, at 18:25, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/10/2014 09:00 PM, Eric Broch wrote:
>>> On 7/10/2014 7:55 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>>> I was sad to see Tom Hendrikx announce that he will no longer be
>>> leading the DSPAM project. It looks as though DSPAM will likely just
>>> become stagnate, and probably fall by the wayside.
>>> 
>>> With this in mind, I'm much less inclined to use DSPAM for delivery
>>> (use-specific) spam filtering. If someone wants to make a case for
>>> DSPAM use, it'll be a long uphill battle.
>>> 
>>> For those of you using DSPAM, please let me know how you're using it,
>>> and perhaps we can come up with something using dovecot's deliver and
>>> plugins that will provide the desired functionality in this area.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>> 
>> That's a shame as I am using DSPAM presently with great results. I was
>> using it at the domain level with a call in the .qmail-default file
>> using this format: '| /usr/local/bin/dspamc --user "$EXT@$HOST"
>> --deliver=stdout | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox'
>> , however, I discovered that some attachments, and very few at that,
>> were being stripped only when the call to DSPAM was present. I am
>> currently testing on my own server DSPAM's use in each user's
>> .mailfilter file using this call: 'xfilter "/usr/local/bin/dspamc --user
>> $EXT@$HOST --deliver=stdout".' Hopefully the later will solve the
>> 'stripped attachment' problem.
>> 
>> Anyway I'd be interested in calling DSPAM from Dovecot LDA using
>> Dovecot's configuration files but have yet to find a way.
>> 
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> 
> That might be possible with the dovecot antispam plugin 
> (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Antispam). Have a look at it.
> 
> My thinking for QMT is ultimately to have a global anti-spam scanner run 
> during the smtp connection (to avoid bounces), and another user-specific 
> anti-spam scanner run during delivery, which would not create a bounce. 
> Spamassassin could be used in both places with different configurations, but 
> that's not been set in stone. I was thinking of using DSPAM in one place or 
> the other, but now am rethinking that possibility. Ideally, each user would 
> have their own bayes database which they can train according to their 
> preferences. That might or might not be practical. My present vpopmail bayes 
> database is 84M. I'm a little concerned by what individual bayes databases 
> might do to performance (and storage).
> 
> We'll see how things pan out as we get to implementing dovecot's deliver LDA. 
> That enhancement should be getting close to the top of the list. I'm eager to 
> get server side filtering implemented.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> P.S. Anyone else using DSPAM?
> 
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
> 
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