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Re: Spam Solution


From: "Mark Teicher" <mark.teicher () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:25:47 -0400

What you are running into is EUQ (End User Queing) which does not
scale in an enterprise, since each user's perspective on what can be
deemed SPAM is very political. Again, also depending on the
configuration of the master.cf and main.cf in Postfix, it is quite
possible that one could be discarding legitimate email without even
knowing.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Abe Getchell <me () abegetchell com> wrote:
We ran 3.5million pieces of e-mail a day through a bank of
 Postfix/SpamAssassin systems running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0. It
 worked quite well, after much optimization, while it was in production.
 We ended up moving away from running this service in-house and moved to
 a hosted solution with one of our business partners. We found, after
 about two years of providing this service to our customers, that
 performing spam management at an enterprise level is a technical and
 political nightmare (YMMV depending on the structure of your
 organization). The hosted solution we moved to gave our customers more
 flexibility over the configuration for their sites than we were able to
 offer with our in-house solution. I would strongly recommend evaluating
 hosted solutions along with any products you may be considering.

 -
 Abe Getchell
 me () abegetchell com
 http://abegetchell.com/




 On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 21:16 -0600, Jay wrote:
 > Hi There,
 >
 > I am just sending an e-mail out there to you all to find thoughts out
 > there on a good Spam solution to possibly use for an enterprise.
 > Would like to hear positive points and pain points on some solutions
 > out there from you all if you have the time.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 >




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