On (17/07/05 19:33), Steve Å wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:59:05PM +0100 or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Yes, I had all that enabled. I was thinking about this last evening, > and decided > what I was trying to do (reject spam at SMTP time), was quite brain dead.
No. It's not ;) I'm doing it here using that reference I posted and it works really well. Many others on the list could confirm that it works. > > What I mean, is that since I use a smarthost, and fetch e-mail with fetchmail, > doing it with SMTP is rather silly. It's my understanding that perhaps it is > appropriate more so for SMTP servers receiving and sending directly ? My setup is almost identical. I installed exim4, sa-exim and clamav originally on my workstation but have recently set up a mailserver as per the notes I posted. I've added greylistd and razor to the mix and the volume of garbage I (and other users) receive has fallen markedly. I've setup up the same for a client with similar results. > So, I've decided to enable Spamassassin filtering with procmail. I tried using procmail a long time ago and could never to get it to work as expected; my inexperience, no doubt ;) > I'm new to SA (I previously used Sarge's Spamprobe). I'm just about to figure > out what's the differences between spamd, spamc, and running spamassassin. It does take some understanding, how all these components work together but I have to say, my understanding is limited but in spite of this, it works. > Thanks for your assistance -- This was a learning experience. You're welcome ;) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
