Re: FN-FORUM: Postfix and SPAM

date posted 5th February 2008 13:25

On 05/02/2008 14:13, Ramnish Kalsi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using Postfix for some time with spamassassin. However, I
> have never been able to do anything worthwhile with the spam, and it
> keeps increasing by the day.
>
> I tried using RulesDuJour with spamassassin and added a bunch of
> rules, however, it turned out to be a major memory cruncher consuming
> 97-98% of 2GB RAM at times. I had to turn it off eventually.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction please, if there is one.
>
> --thanks.
>

I have 512 meg on my current mail server, I run spamassassin + Fuzzy OCR
plugin (for image spam), and amavis/clamav - seems to do a reasonably
good job, don't have any memory problems.

On the new server I'm currently building I'm considering installing:

http://www.maiamailguard.com/maia/wiki/AboutMaia

to allow my users control over the what's filtered etc.

Martin