Enda Cronnolly wrote: >> ... and there was no response, so I fixed it myself. I assume that >> the lack of >> response means that noone believes me, noone cares, or everyone already >> knows all about it. Anyway.... > > I've been lurking on this list, and have an intention to install a dspam > system, its very clear that nobody gives any useful help on the users > list, it is very very offputting. The online documentation is scant and > dispersed. >
Well I gave a diff patch on how to fix the preview if you're getting %d's in your links, I reckon that's pretty useful. Yes, the list is quietish. The help is not newbie hand-holding (Eg "I don't know because my crystal ball won't tell me, you need to send logs..") but that's typical of GPL software support lists anyway. I haven't found a good way to search the list; there's a flat page allowing subject search but that's all. Yes, the documentation is dispersed, as I also found with tacacs+ from shrubbery networks. The online docco, the man page, the readme and the other readme all have bits you need, it's like some perverted RPG where you have to find fragments of the ancient map of Zomzibar or some such. However, again this is by no means unique to DSPAM. > Send an email to Zdziarski though, and enquire about his paid support, > you'll get a response in less than 5 mins. How much is the paid support? I'm glad it's available, for many projects it's not. This is a positive thing, not a negative! > The whole setup stinks to high hell... am off now to build an offline > email system that I can safely mess around with before giving this > project a go in a live environment. > Stinks to high hell? It's good software, IMHO. The learning seems to perform better than riskfilters or spamassassin or spambayes or thunderbird or eudora. The terminology can be confusing, as it is with any highly flexible MTA. You probably just accept that postfix or sendmail have so many options because you're more familiar with them. I reckon that if you're employed as a sysadmin, you should be capable of setting up dspam; I could do it and I'm the least capable admin in our team, I've been doing the job about a year with only SME Server (e-smith) as previous experience. The only design flaw I've come across, if you can call it that, is that if your virtual users can send unauthenticated email then, with signatures, they can retrain the mail of other users. According to others on the list, it's uncommon practice to allow your users to send via your SMTP server without authenticating first, so this doesn't matter. Anyway. I hope dspam helps you; I like it.
