Hi Rick,
I've been struggling a bit trying to setup a spam solution. I have tried assp, but find it wanting.. too much training.
Can you give me your opinions on spamassassin? I hear a lot of people using this,
but was curious what kind of commitment is required to get it setup to actually
filter spam as opposed to spam + legit email.
I thought an opinion from someone running it might be helpful. Thanks for your time.
Doug Taggart
Rick DeNatale wrote:
So far, my ISP still allows port 25, which is good because they also use draconian "spam" filtering on incoming mail to their servers. For example:
* Mail from Yahoo groups which goes to my isp account frequently stops
because is using a server which is on the Spamcop RBL.
* I'm continually running into mailing lists which are also on one of the RBL's which my ISP uses to trash incoming mails. This prevents my getting the confirmation e-mail when I try to sign up. IIRC I had this problem with this mailing list, as well as several of the sourceforge lists.
I tried real hard to convince my ISP that throwing away email on this basis wasn't a good idea, but failed. That's why I set up a local mail server. I just hope that they keep port 25 open.
In the meantime my local Spamassassin catches lots of spam which they blissfully pass through.
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