John Stewart wrote: > > The fact is, I just don't have the time to give SA proper > > care and feeding.
> > I know there are some commercial anti-spam packages based on > > SA. I'd like to > > know if anyone has opinions on their effectiveness and admin > > ease. We can > > afford to shell out some cash if it's easy to implement and > > we can more or > > less forget about it. Chris Santerre wrote: > But I truely feel it isn't needed. As mentioned already, > there are about 5 things you can do to make it easier. > Between SARE, URIBLs, Bayes, and AWL, you should only have to > check up on the system a few times a week. If that! I should have known that y'all would just tell me to do it myself; probably the wrong forum to find an *alternative* to SA. =) Yes, I do do most of these things... SARE, URIBLs, bayes, AWL. No, it doesn't require much attention. However, it's time to upgrade and THAT is what is going to take a bunch of my time. We need new hardware (the thing is running on an old 300MHz workstation class box!) and I need to get the OS and software all up to date. If I could, I would simply do it myself. But I've got a half dozen major projects on my plate in the next few months, too. Our IT department is just too small; management is willing to throw money at problems, but adding headcount is nigh-impossible. So I have to triage what I do. If we can spend way too much money on a reasonable commercial product that we can slap onto our Exchange box, we'd rather do that than have my time be tied up for a few weeks while I get a new SA server built and tested. johnS
