Re: Outsourcing spam filtering and secuirty

[Dana Rawson <absolutezero273c () nzoomail com>]

In-Reply-To: <200309191525.10937.chrisd () better-investing org>

Chris,

I am looking at possibly outsourcing scanning of my e-mail(the same as Tony) for spam and virus because of the concern 
about how much time is spent maintaining an internal system.  Roughly how much time do you spend 'maintaining' your 
bogofilter?

How much time, on average, is spent maintaining other systems?

thx.

Dana

> Hi.
>
> I would say that if you control your own email server, I would just implement 
> something locally.  If you don't own manage your own email server, then I 
> don't think you will be significantly secure by letting that same company 
> filter your spam.  If you open it up to yet a 3rd company, then obviously 
> your risks increase.
>
> If you are using sendmail, or qmail, I would take a look at bogofilter.  It is 
> available at sourceforge, and it is open.  I have done wonderful things with 
> this package at my place of employment.  After about a week of training, it 
> was better than 99% effective, after two months, it was better than 99.999% 
> effective.  It is simple to use, just plugs right into a procmailrc -- and 
> fast.  We have a rather wimpy email machine, pentium III with ide drives and 
> it doesn't even break a sweat on processing.
>
> I have also heard good things about spamassassin, but found no need to pursue 
> it since bogofilter is working so nicely.
>
> Maybe a little more than you wanted, but my too sense :0).
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> Chris

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