Just had to say that SpamAssassin kicks royal a$$. It trapped 3000 spam messages coming into my server in 3 days alone. With only 4 mistakes. And that was with VERY little tweaking. Added some teaks, even better. Totally impressed.

Could you put a link on, or have I missed it elsewhere - looks like just what I'm looking for?

Spamassassin

Oh, and to tie it in I use Mailscanner

Mailscanner is also useful because it wraps sophos into mail filtering as well.

I love it, but too bad spamd is such a pig. My machine was off due to scheduled power outage for 5 hours and the deluge of mail when it came up sent the load to 45!

Scheduled power outage?! Might I ask why? Oh, and my box is a dual Celeron 300, never seems to mind. Is your SpamAssassin Max size set to 50000 or so?

Yeah, SpamAssassin is pretty sweet. I'm using it on my mail server with postfix and I love it to death.

Haven't had any false positives, but had a few low score spams make it through. I still gotta play with the confiig and see what else I can get it to do, and try and filter out more things without creating any false positives.

I and my users are totally loving it

When I get a low score through, I add it to the blacklist. Easy, done. Never happens again from that domain.
Attached is my blacklist so far. It lives in /etc/mail/spamassassin/ on my machine. Prolly the same on yours.

Dammit... from habit I hit continue b4 I attached. Here is the attachment:

The building I work in was getting an aux generator attached but they needed to take power offline to do it. The machine's under a desk in my office.

I have no idea, I should find out.

I used to have a dual celeron 300; I got the CPUs from computernerd long, long ago. I upgraded the bios and both CPUs and it's now a dual p3 750, which means it's still viable as my desktop/fileserver at home.

Ahhhh.... I see. We've had generator power for years... The server room was originally the 911 dispatch room, so 90% of the outlets are generator backups.

Yeah, I could easily upgrade the processors in the mail server, but so far it never ever has an issue with speed. (knock on wood) We currently have 176 users. Not a tremendous amount, but enough.

Just had to say that SpamAssassin kicks royal a$$.

If you're running Unix.

If you're running a plain vanilla standalone system: Win98SE, POP3 mail, and Netscape 4.x, your options are considerably limited and setup is pretty technical.

tanstaafl.

Could that be because win98se was never ever intended to act as a server platform in any way?

Could that be because win98se was never ever intended to act as a server platform in any way?

No, it's not because Win98 wasn't designed to be a server, it because SpamAssassin was designed to run on a server.

I kinda thought that was exactly what I was saying...

it because SpamAssassin was designed to run on a server.

Ah! That's what I didn't know. I thought it was just a mail filter to run on my home PC, but of course it really won't work very well for that, will it?

tanstaafl.

http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/

...works with Outlook, not OE, but it's a client-side spam filter that uses the SpamNet spam database.

I use SpamCops RBL list. It works great and well, is free.
www.spamcop.net

And I'm not running unix but MS Exchange. It blocks over 300 spam a day for a 120 user network. 50,000 since last April.