Is SpamAssassin really needed?

[Chris]

On Monday 28 June 2004 10:59 am, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> >> Chris wrote:
> >>> Well - as the subject line states, is it really needed to make
> >>> MailScanner work correctly?
> >>
> >> It is not mandatory, but if you don't use spamassassin to filter
> >> spam, your results will be so-so.
> >
> > Indeed - If one opts not to use SA, is there something that
> > can be used in place of? Such as MimeDefang?
>
> MimeDefang does  file checking rather than spam filtering, so I don't see
> how you could replace SA with it.
>
> If you don't use SA for spam checking you could use RBLs in MS, but you
> won't get as accurate results
>
> My two cents
>

Understood - What I'm doing is helping a fellow OpenBSD'er to use MailScanner.
He posed some questions to me, many I found on the MailScanner site - this
only one (I sent him this link:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/278.html) to help him
understand the need to use SA.

I am more or less on a fact finding mission - he's unsure about commiting to
MS.

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Best regards,
Chris

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