Topic: Spamassassin vs ASSP

[crazybob]

I have been using spamassassin for aboutover a year and it does a good job. I was windering if anyone is using ASSP, and how it is working for them. I was hoping to find something that may work better than spamassassin. Any thoughts or comments.

tai

Bob

[dilligaf]

I have been using spamassassin for aboutover a year and it does a good job. I was windering if anyone is using ASSP, and how it is working for them. I was hoping to find something that may work better than spamassassin. Any thoughts or comments.

tai

Bob

Bob,
Personally I can not say enough good about ASSP. I have 4 servers that come to mind with ASSP, never have a problem, no virus no spam.
10 Other servers with SPAMASSASSIN, can never get the right mix/setting. Plus do get virus.
These are "real" stats from a server I am on right now, ASSP up over 600 days.
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SYSTEM Statistics:
ASSP Proxy Uptime:617.910 days
Total SMTP Connections received:132565
Total relay attempts rejected:2178

MESSAGE HANDLING Statistics:
Messages Processed:125976 (203.9 per day)
Spams Rejected:79138
Local Mails:13547
Viruses Blocked:5647
Mail From Whitelisted Senders:14218
Percentage of non-local mail that is spam:70.4%
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It just works, and works well, I do nothing to it, other than look in on the stats once in a while.
Hope this helps.
Dan

[azche24]

Hi crazybob,

do a search on the forum here at "assp" and you will see me lengthy post on that topic  

In short:

I used both.

Assp works perfectly on offices or other groups with 100+ almost similar mails a day. Assp needs some configuration and user-interaction (whitelists e.g.); but if these conditions apply, it is gorgeous (spell ok, folks?).

Assp produces false positives quite often and this will cause lost mails.

My partner in crime lawyer frank did not accept that, so we use spamass.. again now in our lawyer office. Never any false positives there but quite a lot of spam (3-5 a day per user) getting to the mailboxes.

Lawyer-clients do not like lost mail, so you guess...

[hordeusr]

It really depends on how it works for you.  For us, ASSP works much better, nearly zero false positives.  No lost email, ASSP tags the email as spam and then it's filtered to a junkmail folder.  I switched from Spamassassin because of the attachment filtering...blocking the vast majority of viruses before clamav even has to scan them.

[alejandro]

IMHO The main advantage of assp is it's capability of analyze the first bytes of a message before actually accept the body, saving a lot of bandwith and server resources.
configuration is easy enough, even for me.
the only thing you should care is, during training period, try to teach every user enabled to report spam/notspam or whitelists aditions to do the right job.
I've beeing using assp for years
Spamassasin was not working 100% when i decided to try assp, but I would give a new test when upgrading to version 7 of sme.... i'm sure it was included in the distro for a very good reason!

regards

[alejandro]

IMHO The main advantage of assp is it's capability of analyze the first bytes of a message before actually accept the body, saving a lot of bandwith and server resources.
configuration is easy enough, even for me.
the only thing you should care is, during training period, try to teach every user enabled to report spam/notspam or whitelists aditions to do the right job.
I've beeing using assp for years
Spamassasin was not working 100% when i decided to try assp, but I would give a new test when upgrading to version 7 of sme.... i'm sure it was included in the distro for a very good reason!

regards