[afnog] Fighting SPAM

[Noah K Sematimba]

I have found it easier to use mailscanner which integrates spamassassin, clamav and any other AV you want in one tool and then scans all your incoming and outgoing mail. There are howtos on the site for integrating it with exim, postfix and sendmail. See http://www.mailscanner.infoNoah. ( the other one)-------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Fighting SPAM
> From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld at x0.dk>
> Date: Fri, September 05, 2008 4:40 am
> To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
> Cc: Maina Noah <mainanoah at ipexpertz.net>, afnog at afnog.org
> 
> Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer) writes:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:04:41AM -0700,
> > Maina Noah <mainanoah at ipexpertz.net> wrote 
> > a message of 85 lines which said:
> > 
> > > I have fine tuned spamassassin to the best of my knowledge and it
> > > seems to work fine however,
> > 
> > Indeed, it seems so, from the log you sent.
> > 
> > > i am not certain if it is really blocking spam emails all at.
> > 
> > SA never blocks spam. From the FAQ
> 
> If you want to block spam, then use something like amavisd-new
> http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ or DSPAM
> http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/
> 
> Amavisd-new does virus checking as well, and wraps SA as well as Dspam
> if necessary.
> 
> Phil
>

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Noah

 
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