<snip>I must agree with you. I've been using my email accounts *very* publically for the past few years (posting to mailinglists, usenet with my real address, online trial stuff etc) and after implementing spamassassin, I saw a huge drop in incoming spam.
US $6,000 initially and $1,000 each year after that.<snip>
Yes, TMDA is free and works as well as any commercial product in the "reduce/eliminate spam" space. I receive collateral spam via mailing lists to which I subscribe and deal with them using spamassassin.
Result 0 spam
After adding TMDA to this, I have not yet seen a message go through that was spam, unless it came in via mailinglists I was subscribed to and wasnt caught by SA.
This is both an advantage and a disadvantage:The one design point I like about sendio is making it an appliance and moving the despamification off production mail servers. Of course, you can buy a fair bit of computing power for $1,000/yr.
The chain is as strong as the weakest link, so if there is a design flaw in your appliance, there goes the chain. Offcourse, the great thing about mail is that it can easily be loadbalanced by a loadbalancer or using DNS, but still, a box more means something extra can break.
The advantage would be the resource offload from your main mailhubs, yes, agreed. I can think of a number of instances where you would want to get rid of the time- and resource consuming behaviour of spam-combatting software.
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Nils.
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