On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:57:47AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: > 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 As has been said by others spamassassin >= version 1.5 can be trained and very quickly spam disappears. You can decide how much spam you want to see by setting the cut off point. 5-5.5 works well after some training. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
