Submitted by Joe Harris
* Vendor
Spamnix Software, www.spamnix.com
* Platform (Wintel, *nix, both)
Wintel, Macintosh OS X.
* Freeware/shareware/paid product
Shareware
* How does it function? (Does it rely on external blacklists a la ORDB,
manually-created black/grey/whitelists, MTA blocking, keyword filtering,
etc.)
Works as a plug-in module within all recent versions of Eudora for Windows
and Macintosh OS X. Uses SpamAssassin modules (link to equivalent section
in SpamAssassin evaluation). Essentially, Spamnix is a Eudora plug-in, enhanced
SpamAssasin client. SpamAssassin and Spamnix support external blacklists
(not recommended), the Razor Spam database, manually created blacklists
and whitelists, and heuristic processing and filtering of message headers
and content which is used to create a Spam rating. Messages are then tagged
by both creating a Spam report and Subject header tag of "SPAM"
for messages definitely identified as Spam and a simple Subject line rating
for others which have Spam-like qualities.
* What is its administrative model? (Centrally administered with Opt-in/Opt-out
functionality, fully end-user-administered, etc.)
End-user administered
* What options does it provide for disposition of SPAM, once it's been identified?
(Deletion, pre-pending "SPAM!" to the subject line, generating
an NDR, etc.)
Eudora filters, alters subject line with rating and SPAM report, can
auto-delete, by default it moves messages identified as Spam into a Spamnix
folder created at installation.
* Ease of administration, server-side. (Installation, sysadmin maintenance,
system resources required, etc.)
Not applicable.
* Ease of use, end-user-side. (Ease of configuration, "learning"
to recognize SPAM, etc.)
Very easy. Installs as a Eudora plug-in which integrates as part of
Eudora (menus, etc.). End-user is able to easily configure, teach, add or
delete rules, etc. Works very well right "out of the box."
Highly configurable through menus, buttons, and Eudora plug-in settings.
Uses Eudora's powerful filtering facility. Can separately disable
HTML spam so that the HTML won't be rendered.
* Effectiveness (false positives, misses, etc.) - use this section to provide
any quantitative data you may have, IE, flagged 85 out of 100 SPAM messages
in the course of a week with 5 fase positives, etc.
Out of 2742 total messages, Spamnix identified 1281 as Spam, with only
16 of those being false positives (they were 4 messages each from 4 legitimate,
opt-in mailing lists). It did not catch 211 Spam messages.
* Vendor-provided documentation, tutorials and technical support
www.spamnix.com/help.html
, www.spamnix.com/support.html
* Community support available: "Billy-Bob's Procmail Page", etc.
Provide URL's where applicable.
www.spamassassin.org, http://useast.spamassassin.org/lists.html,
news.spamassassin.org
* Overall impressions & notes
Spamnix was very easy to install, worked well immediately, and was intuitive
and easy to use. The documentation was simple and clear, yet covered all
the bases. It worked identically in all currently supported versions of
Eudora on Windows and Macintosh OS X. It's a very good product at a reasonable
price.
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