anti-spam should be on a mail server, IMHO. I think that this is the
philosophy that m0n0 follows also.
A firewall should be totally secure, extremely reliable. This does not
happen if you have all sorts of software running on your firewall
machine.

There are firewalls out there that have anti-spam and anti-virus
funtions builtin. These are technically suspect solutions that are
marketing fueled and bought by sysadmins that want a simple system
that does everything. However the sysadmin gets the complexity without
getting the reliability that he wants.


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:16:59 +0200, Malte S. Stretz
<msquadrat dot nospamplease at gmx dot net> wrote:
> On Monday 28 March 2005 23:38 CET Habers, Jonathan wrote:
> > Are there any plans for the author of m0n0wall to create an ANTI-SPAM
> > appliance like the m0n0wall? Or is there already one out there.
> 
> Have a look at the SpamAssassin Wiki, I think there are some links.
> 
> Whatever, m0n0wall is designed for diskless and more or less stateless (ie.
> when you reboot everything's gone) appliances with relatively low-end
> hardware.  That would mean that SpamAssassin had to run crippled with
> disabled learning facilities (Bayes etc.) and would probably bog down the
> machine a lot.  Or to sum it up:  It won't work like m0n0 is designed and
> if you created an anti-spam appliance, it wouldn't have too much in common
> with m0n0 :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Malte
> 
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