I looked into SpamAssassin very seriously but after reading all of the
configuration mumbo jumbo I decided against it. It requires that you install
Pearl, some special Perl modules and more. There was a ton of nearly
contradicting disclaimers in everything I read. Like it needs a certain Perl
Version and build for it to run properly, yet some features will not work
unless you use the latest version of Pearl, which in turn breaks other
features. It didn't take long for it to confuse and frustrate me :)

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Barker
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 3:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Declude vs SpamAssassin

I keep hearing wonderful things about Declude, but for the life of me, I
can't remember what it did that SpamAssassin doesn't do. I installed the
Deculde demo about a month ago, and ran with it for about a week, but ran
into trouble with SPF (Could get Pass and Fail, but couldn't get softfail,
none or unknown). I'm wondering what I'm missing (besides my memory - No
comments please<g>).

The test weighting, user/domain/system rules, databases, etc. are all there
in SpamAssassin, and except for the Copy To feature, I can't remember what
Declude buys for us. I really like the way SpamAssassin makes the spam an
attachment, so you can safely open the analysis report without opening the
spam at all (unless it's one of the rare, false positives).

I also like the price of SpamAssassin (free) and the support is very good
too. They have a very active user list like this one -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - they're mostly *nix guys, but the rules
discussions and spam configurations are platform independent.

Dan


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