Re: [PLUG] SPAM from being a list member/poster

["Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Paul said:
> I'm now running Spam Assassin through my Web hosting service.  Here are
> some questions:
>
> Does SA reduce the load on the mail server by blocking spam?

If anything, it uses more CPU, since all of SA are regular expression
matching, written in perl.

> Is there another way to add addresses to the "blacklist" other than
> manually modifying the user_prefs file?

There's a command line invocation to do that, IIRC.

> How will I know if SA blocks non-spam messages?

You won't. SA doesn't block mail; it only tags. If your mail is blocked,
it's because procmail or some other MDA is dropping the mail, based on the
SA tags.

> SA is already catching garbage.  It's great.

It is quite good.

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