From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 9:40:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (att-98-60-141.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E016837B417 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:40:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7]) by smnolde.com with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16bmLY-0002wE-00; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:40:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:40:29 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde To: Stephen Bader Cc: Subject: Re: Virus/Spam Filtering In-Reply-To: <20020215094913.E59566-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> Message-ID: <20020215123638.H25531-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus sayeth the previous author: >Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:55:54 -0600 (CST) >From: Stephen Bader >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Virus/Spam Filtering > >We are in the process of redesigning our mail configuration and would like >to implement a new system to filter out spam and viruses. We would also >like to implement a new webmail system at the same time. What do you guys >recommmend and have had good experiences with? We're considering all of >the options at the moment. Any experiences with spam bouncer, IMGate, >Amavis, IMP, etc? > >-Steve > Personally, I use spamassassin to flag emails as spam. Based on a points system, the more hit points the email has the more it's considered as spam. As the maximum hit count is exceeded the header is rewritten (optional) and the email is tagged with an X-Spam-Status header. Modern MUAs can filter given either of these conditions. Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message