free antispam for Linux

[Jamon Camisso]

On September 21, 2007 08:37:07 pm William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:37:44PM -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> >I think Lennard wrote once that he has his email since 1994 and does
> >not care about spam?
> >
> >What was that software you are using?
> >
> >I need to convince my boss that there is free software of high quality
> >around, for Linux, for protecting from spam.
>
> Lennart and myself, and many others are using bogofilter, which is very
> good, and very fast (Spamassassin is not fast).  I also use razor, which
> checks messages against a very large database of known spam.  With just
> these two tools I get about two spam messages per week that might not be
> spam, across six email accounts that are widely public and that I have
> been using for (in most, but not all cases) ten or more years.

My mailserver has processed 604 sent and 624 received messages today, and 
rejected 4728 messages. That via postfix greylisting and spamassassin with 
amavisd. 1 spam got through on me today, and I've got a procmail filter setup 
to automatically put any those into a reserved maildir.

Jamon
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