[afnog] Fighting SPAM

[Eliufoo C. Mahinda]

Noah Maina,

Also go through the following tutorails. 

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_users_postfix_courier_mailscanner_clamav_centos

It contains step by step instruction on how to install the mailscanner that is suggested by Noah K. Sematimba.

p.s: read the last two pages of the tutorial. 

Regards,
Elly


--- On Mon, 9/8/08, Noah K Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com> wrote:

> From: Noah K Sematimba <ksemat at psg.com>
> Subject: Re: [afnog] Fighting SPAM
> To: "Maina Noah" <mainanoah at ipexpertz.net>, "Phil Regnauld" <regnauld at x0.dk>
> Cc: afnog at afnog.org
> Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 3:27 AM
> 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
> >
> 
> -- 
> Noah
> 
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