[Ericx]

INIGOML, Thank you for the post on SQLGrey. I'll make that my priority project for Monday. I want to personally thank you or whoever made the wiki for improving spam. It is very well done. I'm sorry if I left the wrong impression.

Since the wiki and forums are community supported, I was nervous about making those changes to my production server. I'm using the commercial version of Zimbra on a Commercial Version of Redhat; which Zimbra recommends. I even received a discount from Zimbra for using RHEL4 instead of Suse, which I normally use. My comments are more for the Zimbra team to officially put something out there for spam management.

Spam is killing me and my users. I've spent more time trying to tame spam than I have all the other tasks combined - including testing and migrating from Exchange (which went extremely well!)

When I did the sales pitch to management for the move to Zimbra from Exchange, the money equation included a comparison of our current Spam Filtering Expenses compared to the built in Spam and Virus filtering in Zimbra. I have never used spamassassian before, but I felt confident that I could figure it out. Wrong! If it weren't for the posts made by the Zimbra community, I would have never figured it out. The spamassasian distro is configured differently enough from the generic configuration that the spamassassian docs were of little help. I would like to see the Zimbra staff put out an official document stating where the config files are stored and how to modify them for basic tasks such as whitelisting. Even a simple admin zimlet that will allow System Admins to manually edit some of the config files would be great! That should not be too hard to do. I'll even try to stub one out and test it and post it on the forums if someone can give me a list of files.

Everything in Zimbra has exceeded my expectations. We are starting to do some very cool integration with workflows and our Project Management system. Everything except spam.... I really want Zimbra to succeed as a company. We need more diversity in the Enterprise. I hope that my comments will be taken as strong need for an area of improvement (spam) and not complaining.

Posts live for a long time! If you are looking at migrating to Zimbra please don't let my comments negatively influence your decision. I still would have migrated knowing this problem existed and chances are the problem will be solved very soon.