[TriLUG] SpamAssassin is wonderful...

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Sun Jun 2 09:39:52 EDT 2002


You know... This just might be a great topic for our next meeting (or an 
up-and-coming meeting).  Filtering mail for corporate and personal use - 
HowTo Nuke Incoming Viruses and Spam.

Thanks for the tip on MailScanner, I'll take a look at it today.

Jon

On Sunday 02 June 2002 07:04 am, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 01:21, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> > Yup... I really love spamassassin.
>
> DoublePlus 1 to that.
>
> > Even better... there's a daemon version and a *very* lightweight
> > client, so you can run a single global spamassassin daemon and have
> > every user on your system do spam-checking without the overhead of
> > starting the perl interpreter for every mail message.  It seems to be
> > really well done, and the heuristics are very configurable.
>
> This is what I do. MaiLScanner (my favorite incoming mail virus checker
> for sendmail) also has the hooks in it to auto-run spamassassin for you,
> if you want to run it site-wide. So that all incommming mail can be
> flagged for viruses *AND* spam in one go.



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