sieve vs amavis for spam filter rules

Christian Tardif christian.tardif at servinfo.ca
Wed Mar 26 01:23:32 CET 2014


One does not exclude the other. I'm as well filtering spam with amavis, 
tagging emails to a certain value. Then, it's up to the user, with the 
help of sieve, to decide which level he's confortable with, as deleting, 
moving, doing anything with what he considers as spam. Very effective.

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------ Original Message ------
From: "Henning" <henne.gwath at gmx.de>
To: users at lists.kolab.org
Sent: 2014-03-24 15:37:49
Subject: Re: sieve vs amavis for spam filter rules

>Sieve and Amavis are designed for different purposes: Filtering/sorting
>and spam filtering.
>Using amavis/spamassassin for spam filtering has the advantage that it
>has some learning-features, so it gets better the longer you use it
>(network checks (razor, pyzor, dcc), BayesDB).
>
>Additionally you can write custom rules
>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules
>
>There is a nice spamassassin plugin for roundcube, which allows
>user-level configuration.
>
>My advice: sort with sieve, filter spam with amavis.
>
>Henning
>
>Am 20.03.2014 20:01, schrieb Sruli Saurymper:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I created a rule in Amavis for all emails with a score 6.308> should 
>>be
>>  posted in the users Spam folder witht eh Spam Score in the subject, 
>>this
>>  works correctly the downside is I need to set post permissions for 
>>each
>>  users Spam folder, I was wondering if using Sieve would be a better
>>  option however I can't any docs / howtos on using Sieve in Kolab (i
>>  found in wiki but that’s from 2.4 or something I guess) using Sieve I
>>  set a global filter without needing manually to set for each user? if
>>  yes can someone point me to some docs on how to add a sieve filter in
>>  Kolab?
>>
>>
>>  Thanks
>>  Sruli
>>  [Kolab 3.1]
>>
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