spamassassin 2.54 released

[Mike Kercher]

pyzor was a bit of a bitch to install on one of my machines.  I finally figured
out that my Python2.2.2 compile was crashing because X wasn't installed.  After
I did a minimal X installation via apt-get, it was easy.

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:32 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: spamassassin 2.54 released
>
>
> At 23:18 13/05/2003, you wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> > > >I am currently running roughly 60,000 messages through 2.54, and
> > > >will then do 2.53, to see what the spam score distribution looks
> > > >like. This will
> > tell
> > > >us if it will detect more spam, and whether you need to move your
> > threshold
> > > >score. Will post later when I have some results.
> >
> > > Attached is a gif of the distribution of spam scores you
> get with my
> > > 60,000 message test set. Basically it generates a lot less "<=0"
> > > values and a lots more 1, 2 and 3 values to compensate.
> Once you get
> > > up to 5 or so, the differences between the 2.53 and 2.54
> are pretty
> > > minimal.
> >
> >Nice graphs.
> >
> >I have upgraded to 2.54 on my boxes, and also installed Razor2. If i
> >have time i will have an eye on DCC and Pyzor... Razor2 took
> up several
> >hits allready, so is looking like a quick win.
>
> I haven't tried Pyzor yet, but dcc is dead easy to install.
> Type "dcc" into Google, and click on the 2nd hit. Click on
> the version number at the top of the web page. Save that on
> your mail server. Unpack it and cd into it. ./configure make
> make install Edit /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf,
> remove the "DCC" line in there altogether and put in dcc_path
> /usr/local/bin/dccproc Then restart MailScanner.
>
> That's it.
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