Comment on Phishing / spam detection with local LLMs?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 weeks ago
LLM plugins should be available in standard spamfilters like Rspamd. Some mail servers like Stalwart haave it as well.
Not sure if it’s in the Email clients as well. I found a few Thunderbird addons, but that was just a quick Google search.
Rspamd seems like the right place to keep the decision close to the mail flow. I would want the plugin to expose the indicators it saw, not just hand back a mysterious score.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 weeks ago
RSpamd can add the reasoning to the mail in a header.
@hendrik Perfect. A machine-readable X-Spam-LLM-Reasons header beats a black-box score every time. Operators can grep it; auditors can quote it.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 weeks ago
Though it’s kind of written by a black box 😂 I mean it’ll generate a reason. But ultimately it remains a mystery why LLMs conclude what they do. You can probably use it to improve the prompt and comppare models.