[TriLUG] Re: Open source spam control & filtering?

[Chad Thomsen]

Thanks guys.  I am leaning hard toward Symantecs 8200 Brightmail appliance
or getting there software and thowing it on a windows box.  Gartner even
rated Brightmail as the best in class with cyperhtrust, iron port, message
labs and postini as runner ups for comerical solutions.

I would love to run a FOSS solution myself byt I run to many sytems to
dedicate tons of time to that type of sytem.  If I ever have time maybe I
will build a system at home just for the heck of it.... but then again maybe
not.  As it is I work with computer way to much all ready as a Network
Admin.  Right now my computer work at home revolves around studying for
CCNP.  Next computer project is building an centos/apachee web server to
host all my old photos and the new photos I will capture with my Canon Rebel
XT 8 that comes in the mail in a few days!!  8-)

Ya all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.

Chad

On 12/22/05, Lance A. Brown <lance at bearcircle.net> wrote:
>
> Jon Carnes wrote:
> > BrightMail is *very* good. They are a good example of private folks
> > using OpenSource to benefit corporations. One thing they do that is
> > "bright" is put out bait email addresses on the web and use those for
> > gathering spam. They have some nice real-time (grey-listing type) of
> > algorithms that let them get a very high hit ratio on actual spam
>
> My only experience with BrightMail has been as a "user" behind a large
> corporate firewall with all inbound/outbound mail redirected through
> SMTP.  Maybe they had it misconfigured or something, but I was not
> impressed.  The mail server I ran for the organization unit I was in
> caught a ton of spam that made it through the brightmail filters.  After
> hearing several good reviews of BrightMail I'm forced to conclude the IT
> people running the corporate filter had cocked it up somehow.
>
> --[Lance]
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