Re: spam filter

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:11:57 +0100
Volker Wysk wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have set up getmail for mail fetching. Now I want to plug in a spam
> filter. Which one should I take? Any recommendations?

The three most obvious answers are dspam, bogofilter and spamassassin.
I'd steer clear of dspam, since it's abandonware.  

Bogofilter is a simple fast statistical filter, it's particularly good
if your legitimate mail is not very varied. SpamAssassin can produce
better results if you put effort into optimizing it.



On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:49:11 +0100
Francesco Ariis wrote:

>     I use bmf [1]. Runs locally and plays nicely with my getmail and
> my client, mutt

I had a look at this and it looks like a very basic and incomplete
version of Bogofilter. It's quite  similar to Paul Graham's original
proof of concept filter, and lacks the improvements that other filters
have had over the years. It doesn't even do base64 or QP decoding so in
some modern email it wont be able to tokenize either the
Subject header or the body text.