From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 11:52:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F23416A4DE for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:52:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from admin.mwci.net (corp.yournetplus.com [162.42.148.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293AB43D86 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:51:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from corp.yournetplus.com ([162.42.148.121] verified) by admin.mwci.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 29259308; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:51:50 +0000 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:51:50 +0000 (WET) From: Duane Hill To: Robert Huff In-Reply-To: <17615.14574.739939.247118@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Message-ID: <20060801114923.F90694@cgate.yournetplus.com> References: <20060731173633.V15966@justnosweat.net> <44CED510.4070000@ywave.com> <17615.14574.739939.247118@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spamfilter X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:52:03 -0000 On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Robert Huff wrote: > Micah writes: > >> > I `ve got a spam problem and want to run a spamfilter. >> > There is only a problem i don`t no witch spamfilter to choose. >> > Can anyone give me a tip of a good and simple to run spamfilter??? >> >> I'm running SpamAssassin and spamass-milter. They seem to do an >> okay job. > > While I run (and like) this combination myself, there are at > least two caveats of which one ought to be aware: > > 1) spamd (part of SpamAssassin) is written in perl. This is > fine for a workstation, not so much for a high-volume mail server. This is because SpamAssassin is CPU and memory intensive. High-volume, I wouldn't see running on anything less than a dual 2.8ghz with a bare minimum of 4gig ram (8 would be better). > 2) installing spamass-milter requires rebuilding sendmail. (I > have no idea about other MTAs.) This usually sounds more > frightening than it is, but can still lead to complications. > > > Robert Huff > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons."