Re: Semi-OT: SIEVE

* Federico Bianchi <[email protected]> [20050124 11:23]: wrote:
> 
> 
> Is anyone among you using SIEVE filters in exim?
> 
> As you may see from my signature, I am working as a sysadmin in an
> humanities department at the University of Pisa, and have been using
> exim+exiscan+clamav+SpamAssassin for some time now on our mail servers.
> 
> Dealing with spam, what we actually need here is some sort of personalised
> filters for users, and SIEVE (recently integrated in exim) looks a
> reasonable way of implementing them - at a low level. To make it really
> usable for our average users, we should have some sort of very high level
> GUI wrapper, but I have no clear model in mind (much less any actual
> implementation). Any clue?

For average users? By definition, the average user is not any technical,
so you do all the footwork for them, yes?

Why don't you try DSPAM?

Here is a head-start:

http://dspamwiki.woozle.org/giki.cgi?p=DspamWithEximAndSpamAssassin

It's quite clear! You will setup dspam, then ask every user to "train"
DSPAM. Hmm, that is the hard part. Each user should send at least 1000
messages (1000 clean messages and 1000 spam messages) each to
[email protected] and [email protected]
respectively. The 1000 figure was reached by me after experimenting.
There are ways to train dspam and then share the "dictionary" amongst
users if the 1000/1000 method sucks for users. However the 1000-ham,
1000-spam is the best approach, yet the hardest for the "average
users" ;)

Perhaps dspam is overkill? I don't know. I have never even read about
Sieve, leave alone use it!


        cheers
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