Tag Archives: dspam

Chef and dbconfig-common: A world of hurt

5/8/2011 – 9:57 pm

In constructing a Chef cookbook for managing dspam, I happened upon dbconfig-common, a framework that allows a package to manage database backends somewhat transparently. However, it has no affinity for preseeding. Another approach is necessary for the libdspam7-drv-mysql package.
In the relevant section of the recipe below, the file created to cache relevant database [...]

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Configuring Exim4 for dspam on Debian or Ubuntu

2/8/2007 – 1:52 am

My relationship with dspam, a bayesian classifier based spam solution, has been unwavering since I first installed it in 2005. I previously used SpamAssassin. While SpamAssassin offers a wide variety of tests involving potentially dozens of sources including rulesets, DNS blacklists, URI blacklists, checksum databases, and bayesian classifying, I found its false negative [...]

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