Yes, it can modify the Message Header; or can do nothing but return a score.
Check the DSPAM mail list for info.
Tim
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Behalf Of Marc Perkel
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:09 AM
To: Felix Schwarz
Cc: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: Who likes DSPAM?
Felix Schwarz wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> Just looking for a quick opinion - who likes DSPAM?
>
>
> Me.
>
> I switched ca. 9 months ago when SpamAssassin failed to detect more
> and more spam (had around 5-10 false negatives in a week with ca. 3500
> mails/week). DSPAM is far better (2-3 false negatives) and produces
> less false positives especially for unknown senders/uncommon subjects.
> DSPAM classified messages as ham which I would have deleted without
> further notice because they look so spammy but in reality they WERE ham.
>
> DSPAM needed quite a big training corpus for me (10000 ham/spam mails)
> and you should test it thoroughly as it rewrites mails (signature in
> the body) and imho these routines could be implemented more
> conservatively/carefully. For example in 3.4 it destroyed subjects
> with umlauts and S/MIME signed messages. While the first bug was fixed
> in 3.4, S/MIME signed message were not (at least until 3.4.7, don't
> know newer versions).
>
> fs
>
>
Can it be made to not modify the message at all or to just add one
header line with a score? I just want to use it to get a second opinion
and then process the scroe with Spamassassin.
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