free antispam for Linux

[JoeHill]

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.

A huge 'me too' for Bogofilter. I've tried other sol'ns but Bogo was by far the
best:

1. Very easy to set up.

2. Amazing results, almost no spam and I very rarely had a false positive.

3. The developer, David Relson, is a super guy, very helpful and responsive if
you ever need assistance.

-- 
JoeHill
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