Critical Eye on SpamAssassin

ErrorBase writes "In this Infoworld article, Logan G. Harbaugh makes a great deal about an ancient (2.44) version of SpamAssassin comparing it with newer comercial variants. Quote : You get what you pay for. [...] However, it took more than 10 times as long to install and configure SpamAssassin as it did any of the other products. " Why did he not ask Kevin Railsback who had the whole thing working some while ago?)"

Comments

Spam Filters . . . and Eudora

[Newt-dog]

I use Eudora and I *tried* to set up a complex system of "filter words". I even it up so that all of the spam would go into a "spam filter" folder. Lotta good that did me . . . Now all of my spam goes directly into my In box, and the good email goes into the spam folder.

Come to think of it, it seems to work out just fine.

Newt-dog

Re:What is a good client-side spam filter for Outl

[uradu]

==> Start|Settings|Control Panel|Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage|Remove

Best one yet!

Re:SpamAssassin

[Cygnus78]

Why not create SlashAssassin ? All incoming mail gets moderated.. Let's see ... aah a +5 Interesting. What about this one. Oh a mail from dad.. moderated Offtopic! How typically. Ah one from my brother.. Flamebait.. !

Re:Logan You Better Run

[sirReal.83.]

.01% (yes Bucko, less than 1/1000)

umm... let me help you out with this.

.01% -> .0001; 1/.0001=10000

"I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit, I always do that, I always mess up some mundane detail."

-1, Troll

[Tom]

Can we moderate the article at -1 Troll, please?

It's just a bit too obvious that he was hoping for a severe slashdotting, driving his own numbers ("look, editor, how many people read my articles!") and the ad numbers of his paper up.

Probably submitted the story himself, too. :)

Re:NonDocumentedSoftwareAssassin

[Anonymous Coward]

What? open source software having crappy and hard to find documentation?

Memo to self: if I ever spend 3 months creating free software to share, take 2 hours to write a web page showing somebody how it freaking works!

Re:Taken from the two articles

[obsid1an]

What really aggravates me is the typical "There are blacklists available that you can subscribe to, and some are updated regularly, but these are noncommercial lists with no guarantees." I'd like to see what guarantees the commercial lists come with.

Apparantly this IT consultant and author of two networking books hasn't read a single EULA.

Re:What am I doing wrong?

[Dr. Evil]

The problem is that you're making the same mistake I am.

(No, I can't expand upon that)

Re:Logan You Better Run

[Refried Beans]

IT are basically monkeys with hands.

Monkey's don't have hands!?!?

Re:a problem with reviewers

[Yo Grark]

Damn. Time to upgrade from RH5.1....

Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering

Re:spamassassin-2.44-11.8.x.i386.rpm

[caluml]

Yep, if I was to mod this, I'd get a spare machine, and spend an hour of so installing Redhat on it to check the version of SA. What do you what, +1 Absolutely-And-Positively-Accurate?

Technical expertise of the media is a factor.

[merc]

... "I installed the software on Red Hat Linux 9, with help from one of Proofpoint's systems engineers. She talked me through getting the Linux system configured properly, getting sendmail set up, and installing and configuring the Protection Server, which includes the MySQL database server for storing quarantined e-mail."

[ ... ]

IT consultant Logan Harbaugh is the author of two books on networking. Contact him at [snipped]

Ok, which one of you helped him with the book?