I’ve been running ASSP at a client site for Just over a month and I’m really impressed. It was easy to configure and has been quite effective at blocking SPAM.
The nicest feature of ASSP is the way that the Bayes filter trains itself without requiring much in the way of human intervention. I have had to spend some time manually combing the logs for false positives (right at the beginning), but it really hasn’t been too bad.
Auto-Whitelisting
All recipients on outbound emails are automatically whitelisted (nice feature!) and a copy of every email is placed in the “HAM” folder for training the Bayes filter. It really hasn’t taken long for the filter to stockpile a large number of SPAM and HAM and this has really improved the situation for the users.
Conclusion
If you are evaluating anti-SPAM solutions for your network then I suggest you evaluate ASSP before dropping big bucks on a proprietary solution. There really isn’t much point in spending thousands of dollars on a commercial product when ASSP is free, easy to configure and effective.
I like it.
