> Hmmm, must have been a really old version of SA then, because the most > recent version run very nicely and catch lots of additional crap. > Especially if you run SA with some of the custom rule-sets that many users > have jointly developed and released.
When I started looking was at 2.53. It was after they made some improvements to that when I tried it out, and it seemed to work great on the test machine. But when I went live, it really slaughtered things. We have several churches that both send and receive tons of newsletters. Most of them score higher in SA as spam than pr0n spam does. We also have a number of gamers, and SA killed so many gamer mailing lists it was not funny. I tried the assorted whitelisting, but after spending 4 hours a day for a whole week adding more and more every time, it just got to the point were SA was more hassle than it was worth. Like I said, it depends on the size and diversity of the site. As far as I can tell, SA was largely intended for use on POSIX boxes where an interface could be made to let the user tweak things. That helps cut down on the rules and changes that the administrator needs to do. In a pure gateway environment, I do not have that luxury. And when all the whitelisting, balancing, etc. for SA is added to everything else I already do, it just adds up to being too much for me. --Eric
