Topic: Spam Blocking Questions

[loveless]

I've got a few questions regarding spam blocking...

1.  I've seen 3 different SpamAssassin contribs, James Price, Greg Zartman, and Michiel Blotwijk all have different versions of e-smith-spamassassin (smeserver-spamassassin in Greg's case).  What are the differences and which one should we be using?

2.  Should I be using other apps instead of SpamAssassin?  Like, Darrell May's ASSP contrib, or Stephen Noble's junkfilter/TMDA app.

3.  What about other contribs, like Gordon Rowell's new Pattern Matching contrib or Craig Foster's MessageWall contrib?

I guess the big thing I'm wondering about is, which of the spamassassin contribs should I use, and whether or not, a combination of the other apps is desirable over spamasassin.

Thanks,
Abe

[duncan]

On 6.0.1 I am using

http://no.longer.valid/mylinks/singlelink.php?cid=81&lid=365http://no.longer.valid/news/

To enable the existing spamassassin package.

I am also using RBL lists with the Pattern Matching
contrib and DMay's mitel-mailrules contrib.

I think the balance of the above helps kill most SPAM. I will add that I found these packages really quite easy to install.

This spamassassin package does not make use of procmail - which I prefer.

[raem]

Abe
I'm using pagefault.org Clamavis-ng, which is great. Lots of features in the server manager panel, easy to instal with yum.
Also using Greg Zartmans spamassassin contrib for sme 6, with the default spamassassin that came with 6.0, it's great also, it has a user configurable white list.
I got into trouble with a low spec box, not enough processor & not enough RAM, but that will apply to using any implementation of spamassassin as it is processor/memory intensive.

The other "things" that have really killed viruses and spam before they get into the server is RBL list blocking and Pattern Matching executable content blocking. Both have been running smoothly for a few weeks now. Se my 2 HOWTOs, the just released Pattern Matching one goes under the name of Virus and file blocking using smtpfront-qmail (for v6.0 or 6.0.1 only).

Regs
Ray