I just finished getting SA up and running using the Scott L Henderson document. It passes the tests in the documents. I don't see Spam assassin running as a process like postfix and amavisd. Is there a way to check that it is running ?
Also, what is suggested for hardware to run it on ? I will be dealing with 1500 faculty/staff/students. I have it on a 400 mhz pentium with 32 megs of ram. I know I will need to add more memory before going to production but wasn't sure about the processor. Ron -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Nutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Manager Information Technology Services (502)863-7002 Georgetown College Georgetown, KY 40324-1696 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: John Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Spam FIREWALL software On Tuesday 24 August 2004 12:05 pm, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:00:14 -0400 > > Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Admittedly SA is tweakable to reduce FP's considerably, but being a > > SA user the 1/25,000 FP rate doesn't choke me up at all. If it's > > true, it's quite impressive. Very few spamfilters can claim a FP > > rate anywhere near that low. > > The concern I have is what happens to false positives? They don't get > past the firewall, so what if that's something important? Ask yourself this: What happens to the "important" message just deleted by the user in frustration of dealing with 300 spams per day? Or the "important" message lost by a still too flaky smtp network. My take on this is: Who would send anything "important" by email without a follow-up or confirmation of some kind? If it was important then one should send a follow up or request a return receipt. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
