----- Original Message ----- From: "Cybertime Hostmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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. How so? SA by itself does nothing to a message except add headers, including a subject tag, if desired. It cannot dispose of messages without the help of some other application like amavisd-new, which can act on those headers and apply user defined process rules. > 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 don't understand how SA alone could kill anything, it has no facilities to dispose of messages. > 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. Okay, I must not be fully understanding how you implemented SA. Did you have something like amavisd-new or MailScanner or something invoking SA that could take action based on the SA message score? > Like I said, it depends on the size and diversity of the site. Okay. > 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. Aren't all Linux OSs POSIX compliant? I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here. > 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. We run SA on our pure gateway boxes, and we spam filter and virus scan messages for several large entities and even more small and medium sized companies, without issue. There must be something about how you had SA configured that I am not understanding... Bill
