On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 16:31 -0800, John Thomas wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
> > I also use MailScanner as my wrapper for spamassassin and clamav and
> > find it very, very effective (don't listen to the doom and gloom folks
> > that poo poo using MailScanner on Postfix)
>
> I had MailScanner installed and it worked great. I switched to
> Amavis-new because I was afraid the authors of postfix would stop
> support for MailScanner. Amavis-new has the same results as far as I
> can tell.
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it was too hard to work with (amavis-new) whereas MailScanner was a
breeze, is frequently updated, does extra stuff with quarantine,
phishing, etc.
too bad you let the doom & gloom people scare you away from
MailScanner/postfix combination.
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>
> > you do these things, you can forget all about rogue networks as you call
> > them and banned cidr's because you will stop almost all the spam with
> > the proper setup and don't need to do wholesale block of ip addresses.
>
> I agree with your conclusions. Greylisting and a tight postfix set up
> has my Spamassassin mostly idle. In fact, I have eliminated bayes from
> spamassassin because I do not get enough spam to train it well. I do
> use rulesdujour in spammassissn to get most of the few who make it through.
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indeed - this list (CentOS) has a lot of knowledgeable Postfix users
which made my transition from sendmail to postfix easy and very
effective.
and a mostly idle spamassassin is a much happier machine ;-)
Craig
