Spamassassin service?
I've thought of buying one of the vpsland $10/month Xen accounts just to do this, but it seems kinda overkill…
Any suggestions?
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I instead hosted spamassassin on my home linux machine and had the mail relay to it then back to the main server. If the home machine isn't available then the mail bypasses spam checking and goes directly to the inbox.
I use 'balance' to handle the automatic failover. Since the home machine is on a dynamic IP, it uses autossh to connect to the mail machine and open a remote-forwarding port. That secures the mail in transit and if the IP changes then autossh reconnects and reopens the port, so all 'balance' has to do is pick between two local ports when sending the mail.
This allows me to host a reliable mail service on my Linode and host the memory and computationally expensive portions on a non-hosted machine that may not have the same reliability. My home machines runs dspam / amavis / clamav / dcc checks on all the incoming mail, so most of the time my mail is very thoroughly checked for spam or viruses.
I haven't heard of a spamassassin hosting service, but I see one at
Anyone have any experience with this?
I'm thinking I'll go for it as dealing with spam has just become a headache. I'd rather pay someone to do it for me, rather than have to keep up with the latest attacks and countermeasures.
Perhaps your spam filtering setup is flawed.
Have a look at:
I've also found this Postfix anti-UCE guide very useful:
In my case, using just "Stage 1" of the Spamhaus filtering guide along with some additional SMTPD measures from the anti-UCE guide, my server rejects roughly 5000 "spam" connection attempts each month at the SMTPD stage (near zero cost in CPU/RAM resources).
I've had a couple of false-positives in the last several months from mail servers that are poorly configured or spam tolerant, but it is worth it considering the measures have stopped an estimated 35,000 spam/virus attempts.
I still get a trickle of spam coming through, but at a manageable level.
Perhaps adapting your spam strategy just slightly, the spam headache will largely go away … .
Cliff
I get maybe 50 emails a day. Spam Assassin has used 3 CPU seconds in the last month.
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To get the problems reported here people must be getting multiple emails per second. ??? Sounds more like running a spam factory than blocking spam.
Cliff
I've tried out the Out Of Memory page's suggestions. Problem is, the one that has the most impact is removing Bayesian stuff, which also happens to be the thing that is most effective at blocking spam…
Think I'll give this service a go for a month or so. Will report back here.