On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:44:43PM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > > We are getting lot of spam mails.. I am using sendmail on debian box and > trying to load spamassassin software from au.spamassaaain.org. Is there > anything better I can use or anyone has experienxe with this software ?? > > Kindly share your thoughts.. Thanks a lot.. > Why not use the debian package of spamassassin and spamc? For sendmail I think "milter" versions of things are particularly appropriate; "apt-cache search" milter shows several anti-virus options, but no spamassin.
See the many recent threads inspired by the latest wave of viruses: look for bomb, MS, swen, virus, spam, mailfilter in the subject. My crude typology of types of solutions is * anti-virus (amavis, clamav) * spam recognition by rules, possibly tuneable by you (basic spamassin) * spam recognition by internet shared black lists and such (not sure if the rules are shared) (razor or pyzor addin to spamassassin) * spam recognition by Bayesian rules trained on your particular messages (many) The latest stuff, swen, is really a virus not spam, so spamassassin needs a little tweaking to block it (MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE=5, roughly, but that's from memory). Another way of cutting things is where in the process the filter intervenes: * on the pop server to cut downloads over phone (mailfilter, manual inspection with mutt) * during reception by your MTA, possibly rejecting the message (sa-exim for exim4, though it's not in the main archive and not your MTA) * after reception by MTA * on the mail client Some tools like spamassassin can play at several of those levels. There are many more examples of each kind than I gave. And of course, the best solution: * somebody else, like your ISP, does this and you don't have to worry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
