On 23.09.09 10:40, linuxmagic wrote:
> Slightly old thread, but we should clear any misconceptions.  MagicSpam is
> NOT anything like SpamAssassin.  LinuxMagic has been developing Anti-Spam
> solutions for the ISP and Telco markets for quite some time, focusing on the
> SMTP transaction layer.  This approach gives a more 'Zero Day' style
> protection, as it can identify spam sources prior to accepting the email,
> reducing backscatter and overhead.  
> 
> Mail Servers should have the protection during the SMTP transaction, and we
> have been porting our technology to other mail servers which do not have
> this ability.  Our first ports were to Qmail style mail servers, and since
> then we have ported to many others including Linux and Windows platforms.
> 
> Just visit the forums, and see what customers have to say about this
> product, as it speaks for itself.  We have patent pending technology in
> place, to provide for an especially unique methodology, and more
> importantly, we make it very easy to install and operate.
> 
> http://www.magicspam.com and http://forums.wizard.ca/viewforum.php?f=16

and where may I find some usefull info, except positive feedbacks in the
forum and marketing bullsh*t on the page?

> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:11 PM,  <r...@unrealstyle.com> wrote:
> >> Does anybody have any experience with this product?
> >>
> > 
> > It appears *noone* has any experience with it... Google finds only 2
> > links and they are on the company's own homepage.
> > 
> >> My company wants to replace SpamAssassin with this product, due to
> >> SpamAssassin being not being up to par other products.
> > 
> > What is the evidence for this statement?  I move customers from
> > commercial solutions to my company's SA based filtering regularly and
> > they are typically very impressed with what we can do for them with
> > Spamassassin.
> > 
> >>
> >> My argument is that people we give SpamAssassin to have no clue how to
> >> use
> >> it and what it's designed to do, therefore they think it sucks.
> >>
> > 
> > Why would your users even need to know you are using SA?  How are they
> > supposed to "use" it?  Just configure it to make spam go away and they
> > should be OK with that.  You can set up some sort of quarantine or
> > tagging system but people generally aren't going to use it much.
> > 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > From what I can find of the company behind this Magic thing, it looks
> > like their products are repackaged open source software.  (Their
> > "MagicMail" product appears to be qmail).  There's a pretty decent
> > change they are selling you Spamassassin anyway :)

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