> Gerry, > I have mildly looked at SpamAssasin but have not done anything with it > because the company that set up our mail server (RH 7.3 with everything > customized, including sendmail)did a custom install of all packages. I > am afraid to even touch sendmail. Is spamassasin something that will > alter the sendmail configuration - are there any good tutorials about > spamassasin? > thanks, > DF
SpamAssassin doesn't touch sendmail's configuration at all. Sendmail still does its job of receiving emails. SpamAssassin uses a very sophisticated rules set that allocates demerit points depending on how "spammy" the message appears. If the total number of points exceeds a threshold then the message is marked as spam. You can either use procmail to sort those marked messages to a holding directory, delete them (not recommended as you may have false positives), or simply leave it up to your users to sort the messages themselves using their mail client. There are quite a few SpamAssassin parameters that can be tweaked but their defaults work pretty well. Also, it's very easy to install either/both razor2 or pyzor which will be called automatically by SpamAssassin. These enhance SpamAssassin by adding additional spam checks. I don't know of any SpamAssassin tutorial...there really isn't a need for one. It's very straight forward. Check the docs at www.spamassassin.org. If you're thinking about using SpamAssassin then I highly recommend installing MailScanner. It can be installed with an rpm and will call SpamAssassin seamlessly. The bonus is that MailScanner will also perfrom virus scanning using over a dozen commercial or open source scanner engines. I use F-Prot (an excellent commercial scanner that's free for home use) and ClamAV which is open source. None of these applications require modifications to sendmail. Messages containing virii are quarantined. Spam is marked as spam. It works really, really well and is trivial to install. Gerry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
