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DSPAM v3.0 RC1 Spam Filter Released

Posted by simoniker on from the egg-and-beans dept.

Nuclear Elephant writes "DSPAM v3.0 RC1 is now available for download, with a stable release scheduled for June 13. DSPAM has appeared on Slashdot and in Wired News in the past for its high levels of accurate spam filtering. v3.0 is the product of three solid months of work. Some of the highlights include a very sleek redesigned interface, PostgreSQL support, many mathematical enhancements, and support for many of Gary Robinson's algorithms (such as Chi-Square, Geometric Mean Test, and Robinson's technique for combining P-Values)."

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  1. Good filter by vegetasaiyajin · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am using this filter and after some training it is very effective. Especially useful is the inoculation feature, which you can use to register a spam only address to spam sending sites so that it trains faster.

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  2. Re:Compared to other OSS projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    As far as I know, the main difference is DSPAM does not use weighted filter rules at all like SpamAssassin's hybrid approach does - DSPAM is designed to purely rely on analysis of spam's properties (Bayesian, etc).

    The other cool thing about DPAM is that it is designed to let users add/modify their own spam database - every email DPAM processes is tagged with an identifier, and is logged in a server-side database. If a delivered email is in fact spam but wasn't tagged as such, the user can then forward the email to the designated spam-sorting address, and DSPAM will automatically update that user's spam corpus (eg, because it's tagged with an identifier, you don't have to worry about the user forwarding the full headers, as the server already has that info on file).

    AFAIK you can't do that with SpamAssassin.