On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:52:30PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Same here though I am sticking with SA-Exim because it saves the mail > > > in a certain range so I can throw it at the Bayesian classifier. > > > I usually don't have large enough partitions to hold all the spam (!) > > Certain range. Here it is things scored between 5 and 8. 5 is where > things are considered spam. 8 is where I reject things outright. 12 is where > autolearn is set. I want to send things in that range to the Bayesian > classifier so the score would creep up hopefully to the point of being > rejected. Comes out to about 1-2 a day.
Even so, on most of my servers the traffic is much higher. :/ > > > It also has the option of teergrubing. > > > I'm a bit scared of turning it on, didn't (see|read) enough documentation > > for it. > > Simple concept, if a message scores high enough (25 is default) you just > string the connection out for 5 minutes. I'll have to turn that on then. > > > It's generally accepted that for robust handling of Spam SA-Exim is the > > > better route. For simple handling as well as virus scanning Exiscan-ACL > > > is the better route. Lots of people just use both. > > > Isn't that pretty wasteful? > > Depends on what you consider wasteful. Runs spamc twice. Usually it won't matter, but with higher traffic, the load will increase for obvious reasons... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.