Re: Why no spam filter in RH?

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I'm running both, although I did have to do a little configuration for
SpamAssassin. I'll try and see if there's stuff that one catches that
the other doesn't.a

--- Vladimir

--------
Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St.                                         vladimir@acm.org
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

"PS" == Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> writes:

  PS> I'm sorry to say but dnsbl does not really help all that much with spam.  
  PS> Even more or less real-time lists are too slow.

  PS> I've been extremely happy with SpamAssassin myself.  Nothing to configure, 
  PS> extremely effective, zero false positives.

  PS> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Vilius Puidokas wrote:
  >> RHs chosen MTA (sendmail) can be easily configured to use rbl:
  >> FEATURE(`dnsbl') in sendmail.mc (then m4-compile it)
  >> 
  >> http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/endorsements.html
  >> This will cause sendmail to reject mail from any site in the Realtime
  >> Blackhole List database. You can specify an alternative RBL name server to
  >> contact by specifying an argument to the FEATURE. The default error
  >> message is "Mail from $&{client_addr} refused by blackhole site
  >> DOMAIN" where DOMAIN is replaced by the first argument. A second argument
  >> can be used to specify a different text. This FEATURE can be included
  >> several times to query different DNS based rejection lists.
  >> 
  >> if you want X-RBL-Warning field in the header instead of rejecting an 
  >> email, try rbl-milter: http://opensource.confusticate.com/rbl-milter/
  >> or http://www.milter.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/10/1624244&mode=thread
  >> v
  >> 
  >> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
  >> 
  >> > I've just set up SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.org) on my system,
  >> > and I was wondering why Red Hat did not include a spam filter in its
  >> > distribution (at least I don't know of such a filter).
  >> > 
  >> > --- Vladimir
  >> > 
  >> > --------
  >> > Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
  >> > 2770 Cowper St.                                         vladimir@acm.org
  >> > Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014
  >> > 
  >> > 
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