[UFO Chicago] New Linux Website

[Rory O'Connor]

we've tried a couple local spam filtering solutions but finally ended up using a 3rd party service called Postini (http://www.postini.com/) for us and all our clients.  It has worked fabulously well at filtering spam and virus emails (which clients have a nasty habit of clicking on...then of course I have to fix).  There is a cost, but it's minimal and very much worth it.  and it also takes the processing load off our server.

On 09 Dec 2002 15:30:49 -0500
Mike Cathey <mpcathey@catt.com> wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:52, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:
> > In case you haven't thought of this yet, be forwarned that if you ever
> > have to filter 5000 messages at once (say, after a significant crash)
> > SA will bring your box to it's *knees*.
> 
> What kind of system are we talking about here (spec-wise)?  Is it using
> spamd?  I've ran across some alternative daemons that were supposed to
> be faster or provide more features, but I lost track of them. :\
> 
> I'd be interested to know what kind of volume others on the list that
> are using SA are handling and what hardware they're running it on.
> 
> I'm considering setting up a box just for filtering that would
> filter/tag/forward to the backend MX for delivery.
> 
> We're a rather smallish shop.  The existing MX (with procmail as the
> LDA) is handling between 170-285k messages per week, depending on how
> quickly we catch/quarantine the client machines infected with outlook
> viruses.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 


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