DSPAM

What is DSPAM?

DSPAM is a spam filter that checks all e-mail for certain "spam" characteristics. DSPAM is also trainable, meaning that you have to teach it what you consider to be spam versus a good e-mail. It is essential to train DSPAM for the couple months for it to work effectively.

http://dspam.project42.k12.ne.us

How do I enable DSPAM?

1. Open up the following URL in a browser: http://yams.project42.k12.ne.us
2. Type in your full e-mail address and e-mail password
3. Click on "DSPAM Opt In/Out"
4. Click "Yes" to enable DSPAM and then "close"

How do I train DSPAM?

-- Option 1 (e-mail client)
1. If you have an e-mail that has been misclassified as good when it is really spam you can forward that e-mail to spam-<username>@esu10.org
2. If you have an e-mail that has been misclassified as spam when it is really good you can forward the e-mail to notspam-<username>@esu10.org
-- Option 2 (web interface)
1. Open up the following URL in a browser: http://dspam.project42.k12.ne.us
2. Enter in your full e-mail address and e-mail password
3. Click on the "History" tab at the top
4. Look through your e-mail messages and click on "As Spam" for anything that should have been marked as spam. Click on "As Innocent" for anything that should have been marked as good e-mail.
5. Multiple messages can be retrained at once by clicking check boxes next to the messages that should be retrained.