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