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  • From: Alan Hoyle <alanh AT email.unc.edu>
  • To: Cristobal M Palmer <cmpalmer AT email.unc.edu>
  • Cc: unclug AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [unclug] ACK! Spam!
  • Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:48:31 -0500 (EST)

Bogofilter works pretty well for me. I would have much difficulty dealing
with my email if I didn't have it.

I tried setting up mutt because of the keybinding ability, but I wasn't
able to get it to use my Kerberos tokens... I've corresponded with the
pine developers and they claim that spam filtering support is something
they're looking into for a future release. (but I want it now! ;) I wish
they'd go true open source/free instead of their current licensing
model...

If you get mutt to work with kerberos, I'd be very interested in seeing
that....

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 at 17:34, Cristobal M Palmer wrote:

> Sounds like you're right there in the trenches fighting this one.
>
> I'd like to know what you think of bogofilter. I use aptitude instead of
> apt-get, and a quick '/' (search) for 'filter' got me 'annoyance-filter,'
> a similar Bayesian filter program. Anybody used that one? Anybody know if
> there's a real difference?
>
> I also got a response recommending mutt, an email client that
> "sucks less than the others," and I was wondering if anyone else would
> mind sharing her/his ~/.muttrc file.
>
> Apparently in mutt you can skip the whole shell script thing and set up a
> macro and assign it a keybinding that will let you delete as spam/ham.
>
> http://www.rohrbach.de/files/rc/.muttrc
>
> Thanks (anon.) for the link to the .muttrc above; anybody else wanna pitch
> one in?
>
> Also: thanks to those who recommended http://mail.unc.edu/spam
>
> I set that up--we'll see how it performs.
>
> .--.
> |o_o |
> ||_/ |
> Peace, // \ \
> (| | )
> CMP /'\_ _/`\
> \___)=(___/
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Alan Hoyle wrote:
>
> > I get lots of spam. Since the beginning of Feb, I've received almost
> > 10000 spams. Yes, that's ten thousand. My setup has caught and deleted
> > 9668 of them at last count (True positive). It didn't catch roughly 260
> > for a false negative rate of around 3%. Since the beginning of the year,
> > classified as spam roughly 5 non-spam messages (false positive). It's
> > hard to tell given the sheer volume of spams that I get. I don't know how
> > many "true negatives" I've had (i.e. non-spams classified as non-spams).
> >
> > Pine's "Rules" setup doesn't really work well. I tried that for a long
> > while.
> >
> > Here's what I did on my linux desktop. I don't know if it would work on
> > isis. I run the pine out of AFS package space.
> >
> > 1. Downloaded and installed IMAPSpamBegone
> > http://www.rogerbinns.com/isbg/
> >
> > 2. Installed SpamAssassin (with RedHat9)
> >
> > 3. Noticed that SA was an absolute memory and processor pig on my
> > desktop machine.
> >
> > 4. Downloaded and installed Bogofilter (bogofilter.sf.net)
> >
> > 4a. trained bogofilter with collection of spam and non-spam messages
> >
> > 5. Modified ISBG (it's open-source Python) so it works with bogofilter
> > (in addition to some other changes)
> >
> > 6. Installed isbg into my crontab so it runs every 20 seconds or so
> > during the day and every 5 minutes or so at night. Used the pine
> > pipe command ('|') to train on messages in my inbox. (bogofilter -Ns
> > is the most common command I use)
> >
> > ... time passes ...
> >
> > 7. Noticed that every once in a while, ISBG hangs on certain messages
> > (particularly some weird virus messages) or when the mailserver or
> > network goes down. the subsequent build-up of isbg processes
> > eventually crashes my machine if unchecked.
> >
> > 8. Added a "killall isbg" every 5 min to my crontab.
> >
> > ... time passes ...
> >
> > 9. Upgraded bogofilter.
> >
> > 10. Noticed how it broke my ISBG setup.
> >
> > 11. wrote "deisbg" script to remove it from my crontab temporarily and
> > add it back when I'm done.
> >
> > ... time passes ...
> >
> > 12. got tired of typing "bogofilter" in the | dialog box, created "bf"
> > shell script to run it.
> >
> > 13. Noticed that the .bogofilter word list gets big fast.
> >
> > 14. Automated the "compact DB" function to run weekly in my crontab.
> > (weekly run, reduces size from ~100 MB to ~65 MB, yes, it grows
> > almost 40 MB/week)
> >
> > If anyone's interested, I can post more details on my setup.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 at 12:09, Cristobal M Palmer wrote:
> >
> > > I've gotten used to using the isis-based Pine program for my UNC-CH
> > > email
> > > account, but recently I've started getting a lot more spam.
> > >
> > > UNC has server-side filtering, but I can't figure out if there's a
> > > user .config that I could use to train Pine to recognize junk. I know
> > > there's a 'rules' option menu, but that looks like a lot of work.
> > >
> > > If that'd just be too much of a hassle, can anyone recommend a
> > > **lightweight** email client with Bayesian filtering?
> > >
> > > I want to hit a 'delete as junk' button and not have to see the same
> > > message again.
> > >
> > > Sick of hearing about NEW!!1 weight-|oss pi1ls...
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alan Hoyle - alanh AT unc.edu - http://www.alanhoyle.com/
> > "I don't want the world, I just want your half." -TMBG
> > Get Horizontal, Play Ultimate.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

--
Alan Hoyle - alanh AT unc.edu - http://www.alanhoyle.com/
"I don't want the world, I just want your half." -TMBG
Get Horizontal, Play Ultimate.





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