On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:53 -0400, Alain Terriault wrote: > Hi, > > What is todays most effective combination to filter spam ? > > On my old Redhat 3 system I used Sendmail and Spamassasin .. it was > good, but with the current setup we are getting way to much spam. > > Looking around I found new players, well some I did not know then and > they are very interesting.. > > MailScanner .. http://www.mailscanner.info/ > Sagator .. http://www.salstar.sk/sagator/ > Smf .. http://smfs.sourceforge.net/index.html > dspam .. http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/index.shtml > > I am tempted to go with smfs because it is familiar .. but, mailscanner > seems popular > > thanks, > alain I would recommend using Postfix along with Amavisd-new which in turn would invoke Spamassassin for spam filtering. You can also use an anti virus program like Clam AV with it to filter for viruses also. I have experienced excellent performance using this combination with lesser utilization of system resources as compared to sendmail. As suggested by many others, you must also configure a couple of RBLs which will actually reject a major part of the incoming spam / junk mail and leave very little for subsequent filtering. -- Manish