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- richpav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Bummer, I was hoping this would be an open source version of services like junkemailfilter.com, that go between your ISP and your e-mail client. Our company's ISP uses spamassassin, and apparently all the spammers know how to fool it.
- vlurk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Mmm... I still prefer amavisd-new with postfix/spamassin/clamav integration. When everything is properly configured, it does a great job indeed.
- schnibitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's the only spam filter I know of that actually notifies the sender when their email is being blocked. The sender, if legitimate, gets this notification, and immediately calls the person. The message can be customized, so you can add in your company's main number and such to that notification.
It also is really good at blocking the brute-force kinds of spams, where they try to send to anyone @yourdomain.com until they finally get through. ASSP can optionally check against your directory (even AD) to see if any of those recipients are correct. If not, it doesn't let mail through. It saves a LOT of space that would otherwise be consumed by these kinds of attacks.
I get MAYBE one spam per day. MAYBE. Mostly none though.
Schnib - raccettura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How exactly is it better/worse/complementing SpamAssassin?
- spacetyrant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The company I work for uses it, and it has been very effective to date; I went from around 150-200 pieces of spam daily to around 3-4. To avoid catching false positives, we don't reject any email at the gateway; we tag it instead and set up Outlook rules to filter tagged email into a separate folder to be perused later. To use it to its fullest potential, users need to actively submit spam that slips through to a special email address used by ASSP to integrate submissions into its signature DB. It's not as simple as say the spam button in Gmail, but works well. There is also a corresponding white-list address for flagging false positives. Only complaints I've heard so far have been from the mail admin saying that it can takes several hours for ASSP to recompile its signature DB which can slow down the mail server and lead to delays on mail delivery. It also needs to sit in front of the SMTP daemon (Postfix in our case) to work.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use SpamAssassin and dspam ( http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com ) and am quite happy with the results.
- cohortq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I would like to think the filtering is BETTER than SPAM Assassin! I use it at work and here is how I have it setup
Incoming
INTERNET -> ASSP -> Postfix -> Exchange
Outgoing
Exchange -> ASSP -> Internet
Here are the main AWESOME features
1) Outgoing whitelist
All of your outgoing recipients are automatically whitelisted so they never get tagged as spam, and their messages are used to "tune" the bayesian database to recognize good email
2) PENALTY BOX!
This will blacklist an smtp server for about 72 hours or so from sending to your server if they violate basic SMTP connection conventions over a certain threshold.
3) Updates are easy!
Stop the service. Copy the new perl files over, restart the service!! - threeio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I recently set this up on a test machine and started pushing some of my email traffic and I'm impressed... Their documentation needs work, but it's a good little weekend project.
- mikesol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have been using this for a company of about 100 people, and it works reasonably well except for this one engineering ***** who's always complaining it filters out these stupid newsletters he subscribes to.
I find the whitelisting doesn't work very well, either. Not sure if that's my installation or what, though. - MeatBiProduct, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1its isn't better or wose racc - filtering through a proxy is just running more software on top of your already loaded smtp server(s).
stick with spamd it auto-updates from all the block lists and rule sites.
also if your ISP's spamd isn't filtering all the spam go review your "per-domain" rules in whatever configuration panels that ISP supplies you with. - danboarder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I've been using Spamato on WinXP, and I'm setting up SpamBayes on my Mac, this looks similar.
However, it looks like this howto is geared toward Linux, which I'm not using for mail right now. Does anyone have install info to try this out on a Mac or XP? - Noedel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2hehe it says ass
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2spam3
- breakaway, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3spam2
- breakaway, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Hehe enhance your mail server with "ASSp"
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