From: "Thomas Bolioli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have a client who is vacillating between SA and some commercial
> products. Most of the commercial products are not as accurate as SA but
> my client has some valid points. I have limited experience setting up SA
> (always plain vanilla installs through RH and single user systems) and I
> wanted to get some feedback on what is possible/feasible from the list.
> It would be used in a multi mail server env where all external mail
> would be routed through it for checks and modified headers, subjects
> would tag spam.
> The issues are:
> 1) Does SA auto upgrade to newer versions (of the spam defs more
> importantly) or could it be set up to do so through an automated CPAN
> install?
> 2) Can individual users easily have their own training files (I know it
> is possible, looking more for feasibility) when they do not have an
> account on the system. ie; their training file could be located via the
> addressed email. If so, is there anything out there to manage that? If
> not would it be possible to write a mail handler to parse the mail
> addressed to a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail box that users could forward spam to?
> This
> script could then use the from line to determine which user to train on.
> 3) What other issues will I run into in a multi user environment where
> the SA server is simply forwarding on mail between MTAs and not the
> final delivery agent?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
Setup is not all that hard. It takes time to train the filters. My
experience indicates this is required. Generally each user must train
their own Baysian filter or else a generic training must be setup by
the administrator. That involves looking at spam and ham both as they
come through. *I* would not do that since it involves looking at
another person's mail.
And in an environment with (we're stuck with it) Windows Outlook Express
for the mail readers and Linux for the spam filters generating the spam
and ham databases is a royal pita. (I know *I* am not about to run
Outlook. And converting to another mail tool at this point is somewhat
er "awkward" to say nothing about painful.)
Note that I am still using SpamAssassin in preference over other
potential tools. It works. I have personal control over it. But then,
I am a programmer by trade these days. I'd not try to install it for
my brother under these conditions, for example. (He's a rather er
unimaginative counter of Ford automobile dealership beans.)
{^_^}
