[brlug-general] Open Source SPAM filtering

[-ray]

2nd the Roaringpenguin.com recommendation.  We used the open-source 
version (MIMEDefang) for years and years.  It worked great.  Never had the 
GUI (+postgres backend) or the advanced spam stuff, but i'd tested it and 
liked it.

If you just want a blacklist, spamhaus is the best one out there.

If you intend to go total open source (mimedefang, spamassassin, clamav), 
I'll say it's doable but it's almost a full time job keeping up with the 
rules and making sure you're watching and defending against the attack du 
jour.  For spam fighting, it's definitely not set it and forget it. 
Depending on your mail volume of course.  We ended up going with a 
commercial appliance (IronPort).

ray



On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Shannon Roddy wrote:

> Roaringpenguin.com
>
> GUI-fied open source packages (or debian based appliance) for a not-so-bad
> price with good support and feeds for rules.  Customizable per-domain and/or
> per-user configurations, etc.  It just works.
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone has any well-working SPAM filters based on open
>> source software that they can recommend? The combination of solutions we've
>> been using have worked fairly decently until recently, but fighting SPAM is
>> always a changing war.
>>
>> I'm familiar with a lot of the commercial products on the market, but I
>> want to give Open Source a chance before going 100% commercial. I wouldn't
>> mind a subscription fee for some sort of signature-based service or
>> blacklist if there's a good one out there, but I would love to see a good
>> open source framework to start with.
>>
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