On Monday 03 November 2003 18:36, BruceG wrote: > Hey all, > > My mail server seems stable, so in an effort to confuse things > even more (er, I mean to have a secure system!) - I want to check out > SpamAssassin and an Anti-Virus tool.
Excellent! ;-) > I've used SpamAssassin in a stand-alone mode, filtering my KMail. > I've never used it on a mail server. Right now I am running sendmail, > ipopd and cyrus. I'm also running SquirrelMail from testing for a web > front-end. > > Do I need to install Procmail? My thought is that Procmail, > SpamAssassin and ClamAV would need to be added. If you are serious about getting confused, I would highly recommend going for exim4, and use Exiscan so that SA can be configured to reject spam at SMTP-time and viruses and other malware can be rejected at SMTP-time too. Of course you can install Procmail, Procmail is cool, but you won't need it for this. If you do this, you may need the following apt sources: deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/exim4manpages/ woody/ deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/gnutls/ woody/ >Is there a how-to on this? Paul Johnson posted a simple one to the list not a very long time ago: http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt I had been doing just about the same thing a couple of days before Paul's post. SA is working quite well, and rejecting a lot of crap. That feels better than you can imagine! :-) However, I couldn't get clamd to work... Once I set it up, it rejected all mail, and I didn't want that... It should be straightforward, and Paul got it going, so I don't know what I did wrong. But because of time constraints, I've settled for rejecting MS executables for now (that's also very easy). I may have to change that if the recent spam-virus that carries a ZIP-file gets annoying. > Also, ClamAV only covers some 9900 virus. Are there other > packages that are simple to install and use that cover a larger base > and are simple to use? No idea... Since I have no Windoze users behind it, I don't really worry about getting infected. I just want the garbage out of my way... :-) Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
