On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: > After all the discussions we've had this week, I've decided to try > MailScanner > > It installed fine, as did Sophos (is that the free for personal use one? > Otherwise I'll change it).
Sophos is a great virus engine but it is very expensive. You get it free for the first 90 days and then it runs out. I recommend F-Prot. It's free for personal use and they only charge a relatively small fee for commercial (they charge by the server not by the user like the others). That said, since you have Sophos aleady installed you can run both sophos and F-Prot in parallel if you want. Many large sites do that just for the insurance. If a hot virus hits and one of the virus engines is slow getting the fix out it's likely to be caught by the other one. > > In the maillog, I see it doing it's thing including the virus scanning. > Fantastic. > > However, it's not even catching the most obvious of spam. Casino this, > viagra that, get your free Euro, wanna see me in my underwear etc. > > I've checked /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf and as far as I can see, I > can't tell it to do any more for spam stuff as I'm already doing. > > Is MailScanner THAT bad as a spam remover? Surely not? I've never tried to use MailScanner to check for spam on its own. I suspect it isn't very good as everyone uses spamassassin. MailScanner is written to make direct calls into the spamassassin code. You don't even have to have spamassassin running on your system (no spamd daemon active). > > If so, I guess I'll have to attempt the SpamAssassin integration, but I just > really want to know whether it's that bad or I've missed something first. > The reason I'm hesitant is because I tried SpamAssassin on it's own once and > completely screwed it up. It isn't hard to install spamassassin. Just make sure to read the doc's. There are two packages that need to be installed and they have to go on in the correct order. I also recommend you install Vipul's razor. It is automatically used by spamassassin. Once you have spamassassin installed then update the MailScanner conf file to say it's available and restart MailScanner. BTW, make sure that you aren't running sendmail as a daemon in addition to MailScanner. That's a common mistake. MailScanner will use sendmail automagically. If you have sendmail running too it will mess up. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
