Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:51:50 +0000 (WET) From: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spamfilter Message-ID: <20060801114923.F90694@cgate.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <17615.14574.739939.247118@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20060731173633.V15966@justnosweat.net> <44CED510.4070000@ywave.com> <17615.14574.739939.247118@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Robert Huff wrote: > Micah writes: > >> > I `ve got a spam problem and want to run a spamfilter. >> > There is only a problem i don`t no witch spamfilter to choose. >> > Can anyone give me a tip of a good and simple to run spamfilter??? >> >> I'm running SpamAssassin and spamass-milter. They seem to do an >> okay job. > > While I run (and like) this combination myself, there are at > least two caveats of which one ought to be aware: > > 1) spamd (part of SpamAssassin) is written in perl. This is > fine for a workstation, not so much for a high-volume mail server. This is because SpamAssassin is CPU and memory intensive. High-volume, I wouldn't see running on anything less than a dual 2.8ghz with a bare minimum of 4gig ram (8 would be better). > 2) installing spamass-milter requires rebuilding sendmail. (I > have no idea about other MTAs.) This usually sounds more > frightening than it is, but can still lead to complications. > > > Robert Huff > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons."
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