-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-11-17 at 18:04 -0800, J Sloan wrote:
In general, spam is spam. In the odd case that someone wants spam, there are mechanisms within amavis to allow a user increased spam, up to allowing all spam to that user.
While in some cases I suppose one might use amavis for virus only and use spamc/spamd for spam detection, that is the exception, and I've never seen anybody purposely use both spamd and amavisd to run spam assassin. Loading the sa perl classes via amavis is very efficient.
I do, and I did tell you why. I'll try again because you do not understand. Amavis uses one single bayes database for all the users in the system, whereas spamc called from each user procmail uses an independently trained database for each user. This type of setup can be individually tailored to the type of spam received by each one. My system is small, so I can get away with that. So, I have disabled spam scanning in amavis, it doesn't load that part. I would like to know how to tell amavis-new to use a different bayes database for each user, but I don't know how. So I can't dispense with spamd, unfortunately: the bayes spam checking method is the one that makes here the biggest contribution, so I need it. The mail setup at SuSE is of the amavis-new type you propose, with one global bayes database. It doesn't work well, it has had to be disabled for the lists because lots of mails were marked as spam and were not. That proves that is not a good method.
For any serious spam fighting scenario though, we run maia mailguard, which uses a specially modified version of amavisd-new. In mailguard, the per user white/blacklists, and SA thresholds can be set by each user for himself in the web interface.
Seems nice. What about the bayes database? I know that amavis can be independently configured for each user. But I haven't read about doing the same with the bayes database. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFXuMLtTMYHG2NR9URAmEEAJsH6EgImbJeSI2RPs8362MKtLaVtQCglCck dxqP/XVku6XqYZ9y/jpI5KQ= =IA7v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org