[Pine-info] bayes filters with pine?

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, S.A. Birl wrote:



> > However, as discussed in prior postings, Pine's filtering is slower

> > and more CPU intensive than, say, procmail.  I cannot speak about

> > SpamAssassin, as I do not run it.  But I do run procmail.



> solution). I was reluctant to use procmail, because - frankly - I would just

> like to plug something in and use it rather than learn a lot how to set it up

> first.


I also did run procmail a lot myself 
(http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/Procmail/) ... and yes, it could 
take a noticeable amount of time to process a message (in part my fault 
that did not use size limits)

... and you need procmail anyhow to run spamassassin as single user (but 
they provide a very simple canned .procmailrc for that), since 
spamassassin by default tags spam, does not discard it. But spamassassin 
has a built-in size limit.  I ran spamassassin in single user mode for a 
while while we were evaluating it.

If your system has already procmail built in as default delivery agent 
(this is the case of our Suse Linux with sendmail ... sendmail is not 
default but if you use it has procmail built in), it is just a matter of 
plugging in a 20-line standard .procmailrc to use it with spamassassin.

But spamassassin in single use has some sense only if you are the only 
user of the machine. Otherwise at least spamc/spamd is more efficient 
(demonized version of spamassassin).

Currently we have integrated spamassassin with amavisd as milter with 
sendmail on our front end servers (which are no more powerful than single 
user workstations (HP dc7100), just do only mail and web, and have no 
problems in filtering some 2000 e-mail per day. That's more efficient and 
allows to reject (quarantine) spam without any work from user's part.


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