On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 07:59 PM, Steve Werby wrote:
"Joseph A. Hurdt" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Does anyone know of a Cobalt RaQ4 Pkg install for SpamAssassin? Also, any advice or experiences regarding the use or installation of SpamAssassin or alternatives are welcomed and appreciated.I'm not aware of a PKG (doesn't meant someone doesn't have one). procmail-based SpamBouncer is an alternative. Fairly easy to implement on any RaQ so long as you are familiar with procmail.
Spamassassin is also procmail-based, or at least procmail-triggered. We're using it on our Qube3. I would recommend using the spamd daemon to keep the memory usage down, perhaps bumping the tolerance up to 8 (from 5) in the configuration file, and testing it first for a single user before installing it in the system-wide procmailrc file. MIME-header munging caused some problems for us as well until we turned it off.
It's been quite useful for us and less of a headache than DNSBLs on the user end.
If anyone can compare SpamAssassin and SpamBouncer, performance-wise, I'd love to hear about it. One cannot live by block-lists alone.
pjm