[geeks] Alternatives to SpamAssassin? (was: testing)

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 05:34:12PM -0700, N. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:01:48 -0400, "Phil Stracchino"
> <alaric at caerllewys.net> said:
> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 04:21:05PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > Speaking of such, SA and mutt are the only mail-related items I haven't
> > > upgraded lately.
> > > 
> > > I'm at Postfix 2.1, Mailman 2.1.5rc2, and am waiting on mutt and SA
> > > releases.
> > 
> > I actually switched to dspam a while back.  I'm finding I like it a lot
> > better than SpamAssassin.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear opinions about the least "overhead" heavy
> spam killer.  SpamAssassin is grinding the U2 (where I do volunteer
> admin work) into the ground.  


Well, one important point to consider in that regard is this:

	SpamAssassin is written in Perl.
	Dspam is written in C.

Draw your own conclusions from that.


(Could your company use an admin with hands-on dspam implementation
experience?)



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