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Anyone familiar with DSPAM?

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:19 am
by Chris Corbyn
I was getting sick of spamassassin honking on 25% of my entire system memory (128MB VDS) even when idle so I have removed it and I'm giving DSPAM a go. It's accepted the first 4 spam messages through as being "innocent" so far, but I knew that would happen as it "learns" what's spam and what's not unlike spamassassin which is just rule based.

Does anyone have any experiences with it that they can share because before today I had never heard of it. I still need to get the web frontend running (awkward since I use it for virtual domain users rather than real system users). The configuration just seems overly complicated so I'm practically running on defaults.

I like the MySQL backend to it and the fact I can view my quarantine queue easily (not that you couldn't make Exim/SA do that in a roundabout way!). So far it's not showing any significant memory footprint on the server which was my main objective.

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:15 am
by The Phoenix
I use it where I work, and it is relatively effective, with a low memory overhead. The downside is one of the benefits you mention - mysql. We hardly use mysql for anything (primarily postgresql), so its a bit of a pain for us. :)

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:54 am
by Chris Corbyn
The Phoenix wrote:I use it where I work, and it is relatively effective, with a low memory overhead. The downside is one of the benefits you mention - mysql. We hardly use mysql for anything (primarily postgresql), so its a bit of a pain for us. :)
You can back the latest version on PgSQL, Oracle, MySQL or simply a hash database ;) I'm quite truly amazed at what I've witnessed in less than 24 hours of training it. It's still early to say but this looks like an impressive "learning" speed.

Good, Miss, Miss, Miss, Miss, Miss, Miss, Miss, Miss, Miss, SPAM, Good, Miss, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, Miss, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM.

It starts off missing just about everything and within 10 emails it's learned enough to start blocking most spam, within 18 emails it looks like it's got the hang of it. No false positives as yet.