Antispam

Mon Jul 14 22:35:47 PDT 2003

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Quoting Rick Moen (rick at linuxmafia.com):
> Quoting Roy S. Rapoport (rsr at inorganic.org):
> 
> > I've had fabulous luck with SpamAssassin on my UNIX mail server.  What does
> > the NS7.1 client do with spam? How does it identify it? How configurable is
> > it?
> 
> I was just looking over my SpamAssassin setup.  Although one can
> integrate SA into one's MTA (e.g., http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html),
> I instead have it as a system facility that users can apply via their
> MDA (procmail) if they so wish.  

I'm using it with a milter and sendmail.  There are a couple out there.

Anything > 10 gets blocked.
Anything > 5, gets tagged.

My users can use what they want to filter based on the X-Spam-Level: header.
I recommend them filtering all tagged mail into a "quarantine" folder.

In the "we are using real mail" realm, sieve can filter.
In most MUAs, you can filter as you get them.
Just cause it's tagged doesn't mean it's spam.

In my work place, we're evaluating a number of MTA level or
hosted spam solutions.  There is a festival of options from
a festival of companies.

Me?  I'm just waiting for a spammer to be up for many years
in jail and get the option to be caned on TV (FOX, inevitably).