[Lias] Re: Spam filters

[David Lloyd]

Hi There,

> I'm using this for my home email server and have found it to be very
> good.  I haven't had any false positives on spam or viruses yet.  If
> anything, the suggested value of 5.0 for $sa_tag2_level_deflt is a bit
> too conservative, and i've played with bumping it up a bit at a time
> (i think my home server is around 6 or 7 now).

Watch out for the combination of:

 * spamassassin
 * clamavis
 * amavisd

They're very good but they -do- increase the load on a busy mail server
significantly. Be prepared for users who decide they'd prefer spam
quickly than mail slowly...

:)

DSL