Well, I think you will likely find that most organizations do use Mdaemon's
built-in SA implementation.  I have it under fairly high load and have no
problems with it.  No tool is perfect, so I use mutlipe tools.  SA gives me
a lot of flexibility in writing my own custom rules, WhiteLists, BlackLists,
etc. as well as using SURBL and URIBL lookups.  It is also nice that it
"Learns" key terminology for our Organization.

If Mdaemon hadn't of created the plugin hook to have Sniffer run inline, I
probably wouldn't have run Sniffer as a content filter rule due to the
overhead.

SA and Sniffer are both great products, and having the ability for them to
work in conjunction with each other seems a natural progression.

Just my two cents worth...  :-)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Pete McNeil
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:36 PM
To: Peer-to-Peer (Support)
Subject: Re[4]: [sniffer]

On Thursday, November 10, 2005, 11:45:48 AM, Peer-to-Peer wrote:

PtPS> _M,

PtPS> <<_M said>> will create a "default" installation that emits 
PtPS> headers and puts a .cf file in place for SA to interpret them.

PtPS> Not sure if this is relevant to your thought process, but we feel 
PtPS> that SA
PtPS> (SpamAssassin) does more harm than good.  Under moderate loads it 
PtPS> bogs-down MDaemon so we always have SA disabled.  Sniffer is by 
PtPS> far superior in every category, (accuracy, speed, dependability 
PtPS> etc...) so there's no need to use SpamAssassin.

PtPS> My point: Keep in mind that some of us use sniffer independently 
PtPS> (not tied to SA).  We're using sniffers .cfg plug-in for MD ver 8.
PtPS> I assume you will, and I probably misunderstood your post, but 
PtPS> just wanted to mention this out-loud.

Thanks for this! I think it's the first time I've heard it said out loud
from anyone involved with MDaemon. As a result I'm operating under the
assumption that folks who install SNF on MDaemon _most likely_ have SA
running and so that would be the simplest default installation.

Is that true (do you think) or is it now more likely that SA would be
disabled?

In any case, the installer is intended for someone who just wants to push
the button and have it work. In that context, what is the best "default
install"?

All that said, once the installation is complete, a technically savvy person
could reconfigure SNF to and MDaemon to work in any way they prefer. We're
definitely not going to do anything to make that more difficult.

Thanks,

_M



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