I notice Alex uses spam assasin, and I thought I would have a look at it also.

Anyone else tried it and have some comments?


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Another URL for it is http://spamassassin.taint.org/. I love it, catches 90% of my spam and labels it as spam and filters it to a spam folder. Only thing missing from it is catching all these Klez email viruses.

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

And don't I know the Klez well!

For nearly a month I received 50+ of them from a *.com.br address.


EDIT: looks like you have a nice box full there Alex!

Nice interface, and I like the points system... I assume this is configurable.


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It has reduced spam in our office by ~80%

- wil

Wow... 80% is good ... I wonder if playing around with it you could increase this to a higher block rate also?

I notice Deersoft has developed a windows version also... but this is a pay one (worth it I would imagine).


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I dunno. Depends how much spam you get ad how much it annoys you. I personally don't get any. I get maybe 5 pieces of junk mail every week. Others in our office recieve hundreds so it's just sitting there on the pop gateway. Seems very effective, yes.

- wil

I would say at least 300 per day on average. I don't know what I did to deserve this other than leaving a few (under 5) email addresses exposed on the web... someone must hate me. I should add that I get a whole variety of viruses in these emails, and a fair percentage of the spam is from blue chip internet companies who will do nothing to take you off their mailing lists, or that of their customers.

My professional web addresses suffer the most.... so this is where I think I am going to try Spam A. out.


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Yeah. Well as I said, if it bothers you - by all means go for it! It's probably the best on the market for this kind of thing.

- wil

Hi Alex

How did you get Spam Assasin to work with Becky!?

- wil

Mmm isn't spam assasin installed on your server and has nothing to do with your mail client?

It can be installed on your mail servers, yes, but it can also be installed locally to work with your mail clients; mutt, pine, procmail and more recently Microsoft Outlook.

- wil

I don't know about Alex's Becky install, but he's got a copy of it installed on the server for us here. Very effective stuff it's caught 110% of spam that's come through so far. (the unfortunate 10% are some of my friends who send through hotmail and certain mailing list messages ;)

On the client end, It still delivers the received mail, but it puts "** SPAM **" into the headers so it's just a matter of setting up a filter to send everything into the trash or a holding bin.

No wonder Alex hasn't been replying to me, I bet he has SpamAssassin to mark paul@*.com as spam

Just discovered this one! And it looks neat! Will try it out when I am at home later.

A SpamAssassin-Enabled POP3 Proxy written in Perl for Win32.

http://mcd.perlmonk.org/pop3proxy/

- wil