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Do you have a good story to tell? Have you had great success with ASSP? We would love it if you could take a moment and share that positive experience with the newcomers that are trying to consider why they should try ASSP. We all know better now, but it was a guessing game at one point for us too! So pay it forward and share you experiences with future users!
 | After getting totally fed up with the hundreds of spam emails I got on a daily basis and getting nowhere with trying to get our network folks to switch our mail to something which could incorporate some sort of filtering I had nearly given up. Then I ran across ASSP. Since it works as a proxy it was something that I could easily put in place without making any changes to other pieces in the loop and if it didn't work it could be removed in under a minute, so I took the plunge and tried it out. The results were amazing! Even while I was still running in test mode to train the [Bayesian] filter the delaying feature alone dropped our spam level by around 70-80 percent. One of our sales reps was actually to the point that it was taking nearly an hour every morning just to pull her mail down from the server before ASSP, making her email almost useless. Now we're seeing most of the folks here with nearly no spam. I've heard nothing but thank yous since. I probably see a dozen or so spam reports a month. While I'm sure some of the users are just deleting the stuff and going on, I know my personal mail account has dropped from 100+ spams a day to 1 or 2 a week. I recommend ASSP to anyone I know who's doing email servers and having spam issues. It almost disproves the adage of 'Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two.' This is Good, Fast, and FREE! I can only say THANK YOU for a GREAT tool! | 
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| | I set out to find antispam software that was a lot less expensive without tricks and was fortunate enough to find a filter with all the features I needed for free! That's right, free, not a cent, a savings of $12,975. [...] This free, easy-to-use spam filtering tool works with any mail transport and achieves these goals requiring no operator intervention after the initial setup phase. |
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| | Fantastic tool. We have been using it for well over a year and it has wiped out our spam problems almost from day one. |
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| | ASSP works amazingly well (and the fact the users can train it themselves is an added bonus :) ) |
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| | I have used blackhole/razor for quite some time but found it to be disappointing. I am totally in love with "ASSP" or Anti-Spam Server Proxy. The project page is at http://assp.sourceforge.net . As someone who gets 150-200 spams a DAY, this has cut it down to 3-4. It's a Bayesian filter with tons of cool features like auto-whitelist and web-based config. It can even run on the same server as your MTA, just change your SMTP service to use something other than port 25, then have ASSP run on port 25. I highly recommend this software. |
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| | If I was deleting this stuff manually, it would take hours a day. I cannot recommend ASSP strongly enough; |
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| | Wow! I installed ASSP in about twenty minutes on a spare Win32 box and was immediately blown away. Performance is just fine, the feature set is mind-boggling, and once I enabled the Delaying feature, spam became ancient history. A BIG thanks to the entire ASSP team. |
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| | I have used ASSP for over 2 years in an educational setting. Our email server supports k-12 of our entire public school system. The mail server is IMail by IPSwitch. Recently IPSwitch upgraded their IMail and we were convinced to buy the new version because it had anti-spam technology built right in. We ended up having to upgrade our mail server machine! IMail's anti-spam solution required at least a 3 gHz P4 with at least 2 gb RAM! We had been running ASSP and IMail on an AMD K6 350 with 512 mb RAM with no problems. But we went ahead and upgraded. After several months of SPAM nightmares we disabled the IMail solution and went back to ASSP. What an amazing difference! The filtering is SO much better and there are more options than most commercial packages! Plus it didn't require a $3000 machine to run it! I recommend ASSP to schools all over the place but IT departments are skeptical about a free product and don't believe it can do as good of a job as something they are overpaying for. It's their loss! That's just my opinion but I'm right. |
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