The Bottom Line
No Spam Today! for Servers makes it easy to configure and use proven and effective SpamAssassin filtering with any mail server on Windows. It sophisticated filtering chain lets you include other filters as well, and setting up a honeypot to feed the Bayesian filter is easy, too.
Pros
- No Spam Today! for Servers provides very effective spam filtering
- Makes it easy to configure and use SpamAssassin with any SMTP mail server
- No Spam Today! for allows you to integrate other filters as well, lets you set up a honeypot easily
Cons
- No Spam Today! for Servers lacks fast, wizard-less access ot its and SpamAssassin's configuration
- The freeware version of No Spam Today! for Servers adds unnecessary signature
Description
- No Spam Today! for Servers is a spam filtering proxy for multiple mail servers.
- It works as an SMTP or POP proxy catching incoming mail, filtering it and relaying it to the mail servers.
- No Spam Today! for Servers uses SpamAssassin 3, SPF, DNS black lists and unlimited external filters to detect spam.
- An easy to use setup wizard makes installing and configuring No Spam Today! for Servers a snap.
- Optionally, No Spam Today! for Servers can bounce (even while delivering) mail determined to be spam.
- Advanced features (Bayesian filtering, for example, or SpamAssassin recipes) can be tweaked easily.
- No Spam Today! for Servers can filter based on spamervertised URLs as reported at SpamCop.
- A spam honeypot to feed the Bayesian engine with junk mail can be set up easily in No Spam Today! for Servers.
- Additionally, No Spam Today! for Servers comes with an attachment filter and can integrate anti-virus.
- No Spam Today! for Servers supports Windows NT/2000/3/XP/Vista and Linux.
Guide Review - No Spam Today! for Servers 3.0 - Spam Filter
SpamAssassin provides a rich and effective set of spam filtering tools for mail servers. Traditionally found with Unix/Linux installations, No Spam Today! for Servers makes SpamAssassin's set of anti-junk recipes available for any Windows mail server. Using virtual hosts, NoSpamToday! can even filter mail independently (and differently) for multiple outgoing servers.
Installation and initial setup of No Spam Today! for Servers happen easily through a standard wizard. It's a bit unfortunate that No Spam Today! for Servers does not offer wizard-less access to the configuration, but the number of options that can be set is impressive.
Not only can you configure SpamAssassin from within No Spam Today! for Servers, you can also set up a honeypot — an email address that is not used for any other purpose but to catch unsolicited email — to feed SpamAssassin's Bayesian filter. And using No Spam Today! for Servers's flexible filtering chain, you can integrate other tools such as virus scanners or (integrated) attachment blocking as well.
