Old friends - MPP and SpamAssassin
Despite the fact that all MPP antispam plug-ins out-perform and are far more efficient than SpamAssassin, many MPP users still use SpamAssassin in their antispam arsenal. MPP has many advantages for use with SpamAssassin and I thought I would articulate a few in this blog post.
- Quarantine Management - MPP has an excellent quarantine and archive manager that can be customized and translated and adapted for any application. MPP quarantine management for SpamAssassin is great for service providers because it is multi-domain and supports many different authentication schemes.
- Amavisd replacement - Amavisd is great for super-power users, but for the rest of us it can be complicated, slow and resource hungry. MPP is easy to manage and deploy and offers many features and options not available in AmavisD including GUI management, Archival, Attachment Stripping and much more. MPP is much faster than AmavisD, and even though SpamAssassin is still a horrid performer, MPP will make SA feel faster.
- Scaling SpamAssassin - MPP has native load balancing algorithms to load balance across multiple instances of spamd, either remote or locally.
- Layered spam protection- MPP effortlessly combines commercial spam scanners with SpamAssassin.
- Familiar options like score reports, header/subject marks, spam symbols and more
So here are just a few of the many ways that MPP makes SpamAssassin easier to use, easier to manage and easier to integrate. MPP has been working with SpamAssassin from the beginning, like an old friend who’s sort of a pain in the ass, but is a cheap date, pretty fat and always a good laugh.
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