On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:48, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > I have added practically every major country suffix in my > > /etc/mail/access file and I am discovering new ones every day! > > Man, I am so close to blocking "net" and "com". Well, in that case > > I might just as well shutdown my email server. Although I must say > > that it's kind of satisfying to see "reject=553" messages in > > syslog. > > > > I am curious to find out how long it takes for SWEN to find the > > email address I am posting this from. > > I was near suicide when some good guy in this list recommended me > spamassissin. It's so easy to get to work and once that you train the > bayesian filter bye bye to all the stupids swen mails.
Yeah, that's one option. I considered it, but the problem is, if you feed the learner with tons of similar viruses, how good will it be to kill spam...? Also, if you feed those to Vipul's Razor, what would it mean for Razor....? With those considerations, I have opted to kill viruses first, then let SpamAssassin take care of the rest. I'm working on it right now, actually. I have just upgraded my mail server to Exim4. I think I would recommend that to everyone. If you ask for help on the Exim users list about Exim 3, people don't remember what it was like running Exim 3 anymore, so you're quite lost... :-) But don't ask me for help if you do, I'm really struggling myself... :-) What I've done is to install exim4-daemon-heavy and clamav-daemon, then have a DATA ACL reject certain executables, then pass it to clamd if that didn't do the trick. They are rejected in the SMTP dialogue, if I got this right (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, ASAP :-) ), so the bounce doesn't hit an innocent bystander. I'm seeing these beautiful lines in my rejectlog: 2003-10-07 21:15:32 1A6xIx-0007Hq-Fi H=vsmtp4.tin.it [212.216.176.224] F=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rejected after DATA: exe files are not accepted here A few docs: http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/exim.php http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/ http://www.tu-berlin.de/zrz/dienste/netz/mail/EXIM/spec_37.html#CHAP37 http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/exiscan-acl-spec.txt Needed APT sources: deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/exim4manpages/ woody/ deb http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/gnutls/ woody/ deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS stable main I've been working hard to get SA-Exim working on the top of this... SA-Exim is one of Marc Merlins beautiful hacks, to use SpamAssassin to reject spam at SMTP-time. It looks so simple; just install the .deb from http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/exim4manpages/exim-sa/sa-exim_3.0-1_i386.deb edit /etc/exim4/spamassassin.conf to enable it, then uncomment one line in /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/15_sa-exim_plugin_path rebuild the config file, and that, I thought, would do the trick.... But nothing happens. It doesn't enter the config file, but there is no error message... Before I run along to the sa-exim mailing list, has anybody here got it working? 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]