Re: [Mimedefang] new installation confusion
--- Mike Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just finised installing mimedefang on a Fedora linux box and it > seems to be working but I have a few questions. If someone could be kind > enough to offer some insight I would appreciate it. I'm new to this also. Most of my research and testing has been with the spamassassin module, so that's all I'll answer. > > 1 - I've also got spamassassin installed and it seems that I don't need > the spamd process running for this to work. I understand that it must be > using perl's spamassassin module. Is this correct? Am I losing any > functionality by doing it this way instead of calling spamc/spamd? You do lose some functionality running it under MD instead of spamd/spamc. With the spamc/spamd method, SA uses a per/user bayesian filtering. Since spamc gets spamassassin involved in the local delivery of email after sendmail has handed the email to the local agent, and since spamc generally runs as the uid of the user it's delivering mail to, it's able to tailor itself to that user. I haven't gotten that far, so I don't know how yet, but SA run under MD can do bayesian filtering on a system wide basis. === Al ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
[Mimedefang] new installation confusion
I've just finised installing mimedefang on a Fedora linux box and it seems to be working but I have a few questions. If someone could be kind enough to offer some insight I would appreciate it. 1 - I've also got spamassassin installed and it seems that I don't need the spamd process running for this to work. I understand that it must be using perl's spamassassin module. Is this correct? Am I losing any functionality by doing it this way instead of calling spamc/spamd? 2 - I've installed the clamav antivirus solution. I was initially using the procedure message_contain_virus but it appears that this will try to run ALL installed antivirus products. In this case both clamav and clamd were detected so it would seem that it is calling both of these which is kind of redundant. I have now switched to use message_contains_virus_clamd. The question is this: which is better to use message_contains_virus_clamav or message_contains_virus_clamd, or just the default message_contains_virus??? 3 - Currently I check for virus and then do an action_quarantine_entire_message followe by an action_discard to not deliver the email. I would rather forward the virus email to a special email account [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than put it into a quarantine directory. Is there a way to do this without having MD check the email again and thus geting into an infinate loop? 4 - Since I am new to this I am using the default mimedefang-filter. My end-users will be using outlook express clients. Is there any other recommended checks that I should do in the filter? -- ___ Mike Campbell ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
