SpamAssassin

Does anyone here have experience with SpamAssassin? Do you recommend
it?

Rather than refining anti-spam measures at my end, I am considering
having my dynamic-DNS provider scan incoming mail for spam. I can let
it all through, with spam tagged as such, or cause it to be dropped if
the spam-score exceeds a certain threshold (which I can set to whatever
I want).

What is the lowest threshold to make sure that all legitimate (i.e.
non-spam) email gets through, even at the cost of letting some spam
through? (I would assume that in this case most of the spam would still
be filtered out.)

The main advantage for me is: if I choose to drop the spam, then I don't
have to have an ALPHA always have the cluster alias, but a VAX (with
TCPIP 5.3) would be OK. (A lot of spam is email to non-existent users.
These generate bounces which, because the sender is often faked, bounce
back. With 5.4, I can reject email to non-existent usernames (at least
if they are valid VMS usernames, which most of them are), but that runs
only on ALPHA.)

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