Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 09:43:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spamfilter Message-ID: <20060801144327.GF63872@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <17615.14574.739939.247118@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20060731173633.V15966@justnosweat.net> <44CED510.4070000@ywave.com> <17615.14574.739939.247118@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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In the last episode (Aug 01), Robert Huff said: > 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. Luckily, most of spamassassin's CPU is spent in startup, so per-message costs in daemon mode, although high, aren't anywhere near what they are when you run spamassassin directly. You can also put your spamd on a different machine from your email server to separate the load. > 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. You shouldn't have had to rebuild sendmail; some OSes don't ship a libmilter with their sendmail, but FreeBSD does. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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