Which Filter To Use

[Spicer, Kevin]

err. MaiScanner.   Did you really expect any other answer on this list?  ;)
 
Seriously they all do different things.
 
Procmail provides a means of calling external programs, and of filtering mail into different folders etc. based on regular expressions.  It doesn't do any virus/ spam filtering but can call external programs (like SpamAssassin & virus scanners).
 
SpamAssassin provides very good spam filtering based on known spam characteristics and statistical filtering (Bayes) - but doesn't have any anti-virus capability.
 
MailScanner provides an interface to an external virus scanner (or scanners), can integrate spamassassin (very easily!), has its own filename and filetype filters, can filter out certain known exploits, can query RBL lists, etc, etc (RTFWP!)  Its also easy to install, and works out the box (i.e. sensible defaults).  If you're a tweaker theres an almost limitless number of tweaks you can do, especially given the flexibilty of rulesets and the 'custom config' functions.
 
In short, MailScanner rocks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Goga Lee [mailto:manearter at YAHOO.COM]
Sent: 07 July 2003 10:54
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Which Filter To Use


All mail filters:
 
1) MailScanner
2) SpamAssassin &
3) Procmail 
 
Seems to be good enough, can anyone advise and suggest the best spam/virus filter of all?
 
Thanks.
 
GogaLee 





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