free antispam for Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:56:26PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> I'm not sure what Lennard (Lennart?) is running, but SpamAssassin is a
> popular solution.  IIRC, It's installed by default on a number of the
> more popular distributions.  (Red Hat based systems have been doing it
> for a few years now I think, but I'm fairly certain I've also seen it
> in other distros as well.)

My experience is spam assassin sucks.  It is slow, cpu intensive, makes
many false positives, and misses a lot of spam.  Don't bother is my
opinion.  You just can't keep up with spam using regular expression
matching.

> Also worth a look is Clam AntiVirus - I'm fairly certain these two
> projects can work together to create robust mail servers on top of
> Linux.
> 
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/
> http://www.clamav.net/

clamav isn't bad.

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