The spammers are winning (was RE: [TriLUG] Port 25 blocked)

[Myrhillion]

Hi Rick,

I've been struggling a bit trying to setup a spam solution.
I have tried assp, but find it wanting..  too much training.

Can you give me your opinions on spamassassin?  I hear a lot of people 
using this,
but was curious what kind of commitment is required to get it setup to 
actually
filter spam as opposed to spam + legit email.

I thought an opinion from someone running it might be helpful.
Thanks for your time.

Doug Taggart

Rick DeNatale wrote:

>So far, my ISP still allows port 25, which is good because they also use
>draconian "spam" filtering on incoming mail to their servers.  For
>example:
>
>* Mail from Yahoo groups which goes to my isp account frequently stops
>because is using a server which is on the Spamcop RBL. 
>
>* I'm continually running into mailing lists which are also on one of
>the RBL's which my ISP uses to trash incoming mails.  This prevents my
>getting the confirmation e-mail when I try to sign up. IIRC I had this
>problem with this mailing list, as well as several of the sourceforge
>lists.
>
>I tried real hard to convince my ISP that throwing away email on this
>basis wasn't a good idea, but failed. That's why I set up a local mail
>server.  I just hope that they keep port 25 open.
>
>In the meantime my local Spamassassin catches lots of spam which they
>blissfully pass through.
>
>  
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