Steven Dickenson wrote:
You might be able to get your security group to take responsibility for
it. Many enterprises now consider first-line email servers something of
an application-level proxy, particularly first-line servers that handle
spam and malware filtering. In these cases, they're
JamesDR wrote:
As far as ease of setup? When I first started with SA I was more of the
doze admin than the Linux admin.
I've been doing Linux stuff since around 1996/1997 and have my own
dedicated server that I get to ruin^H^H^H^play with before rolling it
across work-related matters. I'd
Title: RE: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions
2 hours is better than an hour and a half?
{O,o} (Yes, I know that you were free to do other stuff while on
hold with SpamAssassin. The numbers just sort of tickled me.)
Well, of course, let's assume another 30 minutes for the second
2 hours is better than an hour and a half?
{O,o} (Yes, I know that you were free to do other stuff while on
hold with SpamAssassin. The numbers just sort of tickled me.)
Well, of course, let's assume another 30 minutes for the second level support
person to finally fix my
2 hours is better than an hour and a half?
{O,o} (Yes, I know that you were free to do other stuff while on
hold with SpamAssassin. The numbers just sort of tickled me.)
Well, of course, let's assume another 30 minutes for the second level support
person to finally fix my
On 5/27/05, aecioneto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2 hours is better than an hour and a half?
{O,o} (Yes, I know that you were free to do other stuff while on
hold with SpamAssassin. The numbers just sort of tickled me.)
Hi there,
Any idea how many 'commercial solutions'
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Lima Union writes:
On 5/27/05, aecioneto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2 hours is better than an hour and a half?
{O,o} (Yes, I know that you were free to do other stuff while on
hold with SpamAssassin. The numbers just sort of
David B Funk wrote:
Yes, but don't forget, while Kevin was on hold waiting for his
SA support message -he- got to pick the music that he listened to
rather than being forced to listen to the commercial vender's 'elevator
muzak' and ads, makes the price all the easier to take. ;)
That probably
Lima Union wrote:
Any idea how many 'commercial solutions' depend on SA ?
The Barracuda does IIRC and doesn't MessageLabs also use SA (amongst
other things)?
Regards,
Martyn
Eric A. Hall wrote:
Every filtering system requires admin time, and if the reviews don't say
as much then they're junk.
There is a critical difference with SA, however, which is that the admins
need to be proficient at stuff like CPAN, Perl, etc., while some of the
packaged offerings provide
Steven Dickenson wrote:
Eric A. Hall wrote:
simple click-the-button GUI,
apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy spamassassin clamav-daemon razor
Steven, I don't think you give yourself enough credit :)
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Martyn Drake wrote:
Ironically, after many years of faithful Linux use we're going down the
Exchange route and mail handling to be given over to another department.
I doubt we'll see a SA Linux box there. Oh well. I'm used to
disapointments over the years, so it wasn't too much of a
On Thursday May 26 2005 10:30 am, Chris Santerre wrote:
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From: aecioneto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8:36 PM
To: users
Subject: Re: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions
Loren and Chris,
thanks for your replies.
I am aware of SA
Aecio F. Neto wrote:
Is there any *good* and *trustable* comparison between SA and other
commercial solutions?
I looked into a few dedicated commercial spam appliances, but most
(but not all) of which used a customised version of SpamAssassin as
part of their detection process anyway.
I can only speak from the perspective of a small (but growing, thank you)
shop. I was committed to using Linux and FOSS from the get, anyway, but as
a start-up, commercial solutions to a great many of our needs were out of
reach, price-wise. Our email solution was
On 5/26/2005 10:30 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:
Understood, and very good effort by you to educate them. Mostly all the
reviews slam the cost benefit of SA with the Pay an employee to
support it. line of crap.
Every filtering system requires admin time, and if the reviews don't say
as much then
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:30:21AM -0400, Chris Santerre wrote:
[...]
My intention was to have some external opinion - magazine,
site review, you name it - saying that when summing up
cost/benefit of SA comparing to other things out there, it is
best by far (this is my opinion).
Martyn Drake wrote:
Aecio F. Neto wrote:
Is there any *good* and *trustable* comparison between SA and other
commercial solutions?
I looked into a few dedicated commercial spam appliances, but most (but
not all) of which used a customised version of SpamAssassin as part of
their detection
From: Kevin Peuhkurinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If that's not bad enough, I find most support from proprietary software
vendors to be the pits. We have Mcafee's Enterprise Anti-Virus suite
with a support contract. However, I hate calling them because I tend
to have to wait 30+ minutes on
On Thu, 26 May 2005, jdow wrote:
From: Kevin Peuhkurinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip..]
putting me on hold for another 30+ minutes while they try to track down
a second level support person.
That's 30 minutes
On the other hand, I had a question about SpamAssassin the other day
that I
Hi, there.
Is there any *good* and *trustable* comparison between SA and other
commercial solutions?
Any feedback much appreciated.
Regards
-Original Message-
From: Aecio F. Neto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:22 PM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions
Hi, there.
Is there any *good* and *trustable* comparison between SA and other
commercial
Is there any *good* and *trustable* comparison between SA and other
commercial solutions?
It depends on what kind of comparison you are interested in. Every few
months some magazine or online info service will run a comparison of various
spam tools, and the report of their report ends up
Loren and Chris,
thanks for your replies.
I am aware of SA, I have been using it from a very long time ago - having it
well trained and updated - as best as I can.
I understand about all issues you both mentioned about a raw SA and other
solutions out there.
I post such inquiry to the list
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