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Fight the spam with ASSP

Friday, April 17th, 2009

I’ve just beginned the test of ASSP (Anti Spam SMTP Proxy) in a 1000 mailboxes organization.

I’ve set up a very small Ubuntu server on a virtual vmware host (512 Mbytes of RAM, 1 processor, 10 Gbytes of disk), and then I’ve followed the quick installation steps.
In a few minutes I was able to move all incoming mail traffic into my new SMTP proxy.
Monitoring the situation in the web interface at 55555 port of the Ubuntu box, it looks all ok.
Log files on the real mail server are showing all is running ok, too.

Info and Stats page of ASSP web Interface
Info and Stats page of ASSP web Interface

I’m very happy of this experiment: I found ASSP a good spam fighter, easy to install and configure and with a nice web interface for configuration and monitoring the SMTP traffic.