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Re: [Ifile-discuss] Ifile
From: |
Jack Bertram |
Subject: |
Re: [Ifile-discuss] Ifile |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:26:56 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
* 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