[clug] spamsum usage in the real world

[Nemo]

Unfortunately we have an imap:pop3 usage ratio in the order of 1 to the
several hundreds - and we're wanting to be as transparent to customers
as possible. Changing customers habits is the last thing we want to do!

.../Nemo


On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:30:43AM +1100, Michael James did utter:
> On Tuesday 14 November 2006 6:52 pm, Nemo wrote:
> 
> > Currently we're just running spamassassin (via spamd/spamc) over all
> > messages (many customers, we don't want to teach them how to train
> > a bayesian filter), but this is a chunky performance hit.
> 
> If you have enough customers using IMAP
>  could they be educated to use this?
> 
> Each user gets a SPAM folder for the auto-detected SPAM.
> You ask them to dump any missed spam in there too, 
>  and to remove any false positives.
> 
> A cron job runs spamassassin or dspam in learning mode,
>  assuming all read messages in the spam folder are actually spam.
> Search the other mail folders for the
>  spamassassin over-threshhold header,
>  and learn it as ham.
> 
> michaelj
> 
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