From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 14:43:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5202916A4DF for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:43:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B8743D49 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:43:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k71EhSfM091766; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 09:43:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 09:43:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Robert Huff Message-ID: <20060801144327.GF63872@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060731173633.V15966@justnosweat.net> <44CED510.4070000@ywave.com> <17615.14574.739939.247118@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17615.14574.739939.247118@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spamfilter X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:43:29 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 01), Robert Huff said: > 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. Luckily, most of spamassassin's CPU is spent in startup, so per-message costs in daemon mode, although high, aren't anywhere near what they are when you run spamassassin directly. You can also put your spamd on a different machine from your email server to separate the load. > 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. You shouldn't have had to rebuild sendmail; some OSes don't ship a libmilter with their sendmail, but FreeBSD does. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com