Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-25 Thread Daniel Rogers
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:44:13PM -0700, Mike Van Pelt wrote: > What is recommended these days? MIMEdefang is, IMHO beautiful. When used with mimedefang-multiplexor it can handle lots of mail in a very efficient fashion. And, as a bonus, you can virus scan through it. Dan. --

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Van Pelt
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:37:47AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > yep, spamass-milter seems to be a bit flaky, from reports. > Not recommended anymore. What is recommended these days? When I originally installed SA, MimeDefang looked like it was more than we wanted. There was another one I looked

RE: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-24 Thread Dallas Engelken
> > Bryant, Eric D. said the following on 19/10/02 21:01: > > > 4. How well does it perform at large sites? (We process around > > 5-700,000 emails a day) > > We do about 10 million a day, but then we have over 400 mail servers. > SpamAssassin can seriously overload a box, so be very careful.

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-24 Thread Matt Sergeant
Bryant, Eric D. said the following on 19/10/02 21:01: 4. How well does it perform at large sites? (We process around 5-700,000 emails a day) We do about 10 million a day, but then we have over 400 mail servers. SpamAssassin can seriously overload a box, so be very careful. 5. What MTA do y

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-24 Thread Justin Mason
Mike Van Pelt said: > FedEx package tracing got tagged until we whitelisted FedEx. Any chance you could forward a few of these to me? It'd be good to see if we could come up with some kind of meta-rule exclusion for this, as package tracking is a big deal. Just obfuscate any ID strings to "zzz

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-23 Thread Mike Van Pelt
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:01:39PM -0500, Bryant, Eric D. wrote: > I am working on implementing a spam-filtering solution for Purdue > University and SpamAssassin is one of the products at the top of my > list. I'm wondering if you guys can give me some feedback as to what > your experiences have

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-19 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Bryant, Eric D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 5. What MTA do you recommend? (I think the other questions have been addressed, so I'll just stick to this one since you'll probably get a lot of "use the MTA that I use" messages.) I recommend one of sendmail, exim, or postfix. qmail has a lot of

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-19 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So at a default threshold of 5.0, you could expect an FP rate of > 0.62% I think the actual FP rate is much lower than that because we have a very difficult GA corpus with lots of newsletters and other non-spam that looks very similar to spam. It's ve

RE: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-19 Thread Eric Bryant
Actually every user does have a Unix account, but it is separate from the mail server. They are in the process of changing the whole email architecture to be a 16-node Linux cluster right now. Should be interesting to see how it all works out. -Eric --On Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:57 PM -04

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-19 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:01:39PM -0500, Bryant, Eric D. wrote: > I am working on implementing a spam-filtering solution for Purdue > University and SpamAssassin is one of the products at the top of my > list. I'm wondering if you guys can give me some feedback as to what > your experiences have

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:57 PM -0400 Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Watch it so you don't tread on clued users' procmailing. Maybe include > a warning if the user's .procmailrc already exists, or spit the rules > out to a different file... Creative use of environment varia

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-19 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:01:39PM -0500, Bryant, Eric D. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I am working on implementing a spam-filtering solution for Purdue > University and SpamAssassin is one of the products at the top of my > list. I'm wondering if you guys

Re: [SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, October 19, 2002 3:01 PM -0500 "Bryant, Eric D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Can SA work well as an opt-in/opt-out solution? I first encountered SA on The Well (http://www.well.com) and it was offered as an opt-out service. A web page is provided to opt out and to fine-tune se

[SAtalk] Sitewide use of spamassassin

2002-10-19 Thread Bryant, Eric D.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am working on implementing a spam-filtering solution for Purdue University and SpamAssassin is one of the products at the top of my list. I'm wondering if you guys can give me some feedback as to what your experiences have been thus far with SA