Re: Fighting Spam - I know I'm repeating myself but...
I like iMail, but have not been pleased with its anti-spam features.. this led me to try the open-source ASSP (assp.sourceforge.net).
My clients are extremely happy with it, as am I. I don't make a cent from recommending it or from anyone using it, except for what my clients pay me to set it up.
I have shut off ALL of the iMail anti-spam features, btw. I and my clients get VERY few false positives, although they do occasionally appear. For example, in the last month I have had two false positives on my own lightly loaded mail server, am rejecting 90% (325 emails or so per day!) of all email as spam, and get 1-3 actual spam emails in my inbox a day. My clients' experiences are similar (79-91% of **their** incoming mail is spam). And maintenance is as close to nil as can be. I now can spend my time on other issues. Manually fighting spam is a bear, as you already know.
So until there's a new Internet standard in place that fights spam better.. ASSP is where I'll be.
-Paul
At 03:00 AM 12/5/2004, you wrote:
From: "Darin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Great MX firewall to put in front of your imail server
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:53:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2% is a lot of spam these days. With a recent spike that lasted for most of
a week we saw ~95% of all incoming mail to our mail servers be spam. If our
filtering had only been as good as 2% then the result to the customer would
have been about 30% of received email being spam....totally unacceptable.
With Declude/Message Sniffer we're currently hovering around 5% of received
email (to user mailboxes) being spam (~1 message in 20)....a 6x better
filtering than the 2% slipping through you mention with Barracuda.
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