SpamAssassin Top Anti-Spam Product, Says Datamation   - 1,544 Views,

Not surprising. Aunty Spam uses, and heartily endorses, SpamAssassin. And of course, so do many others. In fact, if you’re in IT and not using Spam Assassin, Aunty has to wonder why.

Explains Jeremy Howard, CEO of Fastmail, it doesn’t just save them money, but it makes them money. ”We know from direct feedback that customers are upgrading their accounts because of our SpamAssassin implementation,” said Howard.

According to Daniel Quinlan, vice president of Apache Spam Assassin, and, says Aunty, a great guy, ”It uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam. It makes it hard for spammers to identify any one single thing they can change in their email to get around the filter. Plus, it’s free software, so obviously that’s attractive.”

While SpamAssassin, which is the choice of many discerning IT specialists, is fundamentally installed on a Unix, Linux, BSD, or other Unix-like plataform, there are also several commercial products available which either incorporate or interface with SpamAssassin, making it available to most administrators and end-users regardless of platform or proficiency. Many ISPs also use SpamAssassin as part of their anti-spam initiatives to protect their users’ inboxes. One of Aunty’s favourite ISPs, sonic.net, has a very active anti-spam program which centers around Spam Assassin.

So, kudos and congratulations to the SpamAssassin team!