Re: Spam Assassin - does it work or not?

2014-08-10 Thread jdebert
I should have pointed out that, contrary to popular belief, spamassassin is not a spam filter. It does not hold, refile, move, reject or delete detected spam. It is a tool to judge and score, or classify, spam according to a set of rules. After it's done you, or a filter or script can then decide w

Re: Spam Assassin - does it work or not?

2014-08-10 Thread jdebert
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 07:30:19 -0700 Quoth Lunarpages tech d00d: "..Spam Assassin global blacklists...", "...Spam Assassin blacklists..." and open source software "with no guarantee of a certain functionality" 1, clueless. Proves himself totally ignorant about spamassassin. 2. lame. Disavows any su

Re: Spam Assassin - does it work or not?

2014-08-10 Thread Andy
On Sun, August 10, 2014 9:08 am, David F. Skoll wrote: > > Maintaining an effective spam filter is a lot of work. If LunarPages > does not specialize in that (or at least have a group who specializes in > it) it's almost certainly not cost-effective for them to bother. It's > much cheaper to outs

Re: Spam Assassin - does it work or not?

2014-08-10 Thread David F. Skoll
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 08:07:25 -0700 "Andy" wrote: > I dunno. Anyway, again, I was more curious to anyone's reaction about > how they view SA. I guess it's clear that they COULD manage it better > but they're refusing to do so. Maintaining an effective spam filter is a lot of work. If LunarPages

Re: Spam Assassin - does it work or not?

2014-08-10 Thread Andy
the cpanel controls only offer me raising or lowering the spam score and whitelist or blacklist. they did mention in a much previous email that i should turn on "dkim" but i have no idea what or where it is. it's certainly not in my SA controls. Axb suggested going with MX. I've certainly conside

Re: Spam Assassin - does it work or not?

2014-08-10 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Andy wrote: And then here is the response I received from Lunarpages {snip} it's pretty clear that we have no control over such issues and apart from recommendation to tighten the Spam Assassin blacklist locally or use the commercial spam filter we offer MXLogic for $1.

Re: Spam Assassin - does it work or not?

2014-08-10 Thread Axb
On 08/10/2014 04:30 PM, Andy wrote: Therefore since we cannot control the Spam Assassin global blacklists it's pretty clear that we have no control over such issues and apart from recommendation to tighten the Spam Assassin blacklist locally or use the commercial spam filter we offer MXLogic for

Spam Assassin - does it work or not?

2014-08-10 Thread Andy
Hello it's the toymaker with the spam problem again. I am just wondering if I could get a second opinion on a response I just received from Lunarpages tech support (albeit the first level, and probably a canned response). It would be helpful to present other viewpoints, if any, to the higher level