and I thought I was a masochist for having a 486 laptop..... One combo I've had luck with is Spam Assasin + MailScanner gets both spam and via Mailscanner plus a number of available anti-virus company dat files ( I recommend Sophos) you wind up with a really solid combo. Low number (I never have had any) of false positives and e-mail virus's get caught and stopped cold.
James On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 20:54, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 20:37, Vox wrote: > > > > This time Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > becomes daring and writes: > > > > > I'd also suggest preparing management for a new box -- classic pentiums > > > are fine for C apps but real dogs when it comes to Perl. > > > > There's a C implementation of spamassassin which comes in the > > package, which is the recommended one to use when you are using it > > in a mailserver. > > > > Vox > > > > spamc and spamd are C hooks, but the base code is still Perl. spamd > basically acts like mod_cgi by loading spamassassin once instead of > every time a message comes through. > > this certainly will help with a classic pentium, but cramming it full of > RAM is highly recommended. For water-cooler benchmark figures, I once > ran a 50-line Perl Squid redirector for filtering banner-ads on a > Pentium 75 with 32M hooked to an ADSL line and running iptables. Booting > took nearly fifteen minutes and when it finally let me log in, w showed > a load of 25.00 and Squid still wouldn't answer for another minute or > two. Once it was up it ran pretty well, but it was slow enough to > obviate the caching benefit. > > > -- > > Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind > > of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ > > technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. > -- > Jack Coates > Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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