Re: Use postfix and spamd on CentOS 6 - looking for a shortest guide

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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> That is not part of the task of postfix, which is what I was discussing.
> In fact, it is very easy to say what I want to do with viruses and spam.
> I want email to pass through clamd to catch viruses,
> and I want email to pass through spamassassin to catch spam.
> I'm happy to leave the definition of spam to spamassassin,
> and leave Mr Bayes to do my thinking for me.
>

And therein lies the problem.
Unfortunately spamassassin is not really the best way to stop spam.
You need more.
Spamassassin should just be a tool in the toolkit not the entire solution.
It is CPU and bandwidth intensive.
A large proportion of spam can and should be rejected, before the body of
the email is received.
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