Fedora 2, Spam & Mail Transport

[Trevor Smith]

On September 14, 2004 4:21 pm, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Can kmail use both bogofilter and spamassassin, like it can use f-prot and
> clamav [both antivirus programs] ?

I don't run spamassassin (I'm a single user laptop) but my web/mail hosting 
company does. Spamassassin marks everything up and sends it to me, then 
bogofilter judges everything (including the stuff that spamassassin misses) 
and marks it spam or not according to its statistical analysis. So yes, you 
can run the two together.

I believe there are utilities to "remove" the markup/formatting the 
spamassassin does before bogofilter tackles things because I think there may 
be some statistical benefit to doing that, but I don't bother. I have never 
had a false positive with bogofilter (a good message marked as spam). It is 
not super agressive though (although it can be set to be so) so I have the 
occasional spams that get through. But note that they (and many more) also 
got by spamassassin on my hoster's servers.

-- 
Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com