Ok so I'm going crazy with all the spam here! I've tried spamassasin + mailscanner and all that happened is I lost a lot of legit e-mails, some e-mails took a very long time to get delivered to my inbox and server load was much higher. So I stripped it all down and just started doing spam filtering on my side.
I want a better solution and I don't mind paying, I've read a few things abotu ASSP. Is this worth it. What about ASSP deluxe
http://www.grscripts.com/screenshots.html ?
Thanks!
You know, with a little judicious adjustment, SpamAssassin is just about perfect for us. The settings in WHT and cPanel 11 give us plenty of elbow room to block 99% of spam, but we check the option to create a Spam folder, so we can keep tabs on legitimate mail.
My SpamAssassin setting is 4. And we have Exim, via WHT, adjusted to delete anything with a 10 or more rating. and we have also selected the option labeled "Reject mail at SMTP time if the sender host is in the zen.spamhaus.org, or bl.spamcop.net rbl."
We've never lost a single e-mail we needed to receive that we are aware of, and mistakenly flagged legitimate messages are minimal with tha setting.
FYI: We have four busy sites on a VPS system, with several hundred legitimate messages received every day. We have used dedicated e-mail hosting, with supposedly advanced spam settings, and it was no better.
Of course, these settings might not work for you, but for the variety of mail we get, it's just fine and I have no complaints. The Spam filters are not overwhelming, and everything is manageable.
Peace,
Gene Steinberg
Co-Host, "The Paracast"
www.theparacast.com