For that kind of SLA, I have a feeling your going to have to pay some money. At my office were deeply in bed with NAI, who owns the source for spamassassin, but with the numbers they say (and demonstrate) of spam that will get thru (which is 500 for every million messages), we laid out over 20grand for a product called brightmail, which they tout 1 in 1million spam messages will get thru. Brightmail doesn't work by rules and scoring of messages, but it keeps a database of actual real spam messages, and updates all its brightmail servers with new spam definitions (much the same way virus software works) every 5 minutes. So far its working great for us, but in a "free of cost" environment, in the case of spam, I think you might have to be prepared for less than perfect results. I personally use spamassassin on my sendmail server, and so far it has caught ALL the spam messages that have come in, and it has erroneously tagged 2 mails from a friend, but they were just forwards that I would not have read anyway (these 2 in particular were filled with a ton of html tags). jonathan -----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jake McHenry Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:40 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Spam I'm currently using spamassassin and mailscanner, working well, but my boss doesn't want any spam to get through. I tried telling him that it's not going to catch everything, but he doesn't want to listen. He told me to look into mimedefang, which his friend told him about. Does anyone know if mimedefang is any better or worse than spamassassin? Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
