Re: [Ifile-discuss] Ifile

[Jack Bertram]

* Preben Randhol <address@hidden> [030417 17:24]:
> Jason Rennie <address@hidden> wrote on 17/04/2003 (17:44) :
> > 
> > Yeah, ifile is low-overhead and speedy.  You won't get as good spam
> > filtering as spam assassin.  Spam assassin takes advantage of a much
> > better set of features than ifile.  But, I guess that's the perl vs. C 
> > tradeoff... :)
> 
> As far as I know Spamassassin is not a Bayesian spam filter, but a
> pattern matching spamfilter, so to compare is not easy. Besides I
> couldn't have spamassassin sort my mailinglist mails :-) Ifile works
> great on the mailinglists where I had lots of e-mail to train it with.
> However it still thinks the ifile mailinglist mails should be in the Vorbis
> folder, but I made some macros in mutt so I can retrain each mail to the
> correct folder so it will get there I think :-)

The most recent versions of Spamassassin have Bayesian filtering in
addition to pattern matching.

jack