OK guys, I played it safe.

I spent more time on trying to discover why Postfix was not working, at 5 AM
on Saturday morning I noticed that my AV scanner was dumping scanned mail
into sendmail. What I thought it was doing was dumping it via smtp on a
backdoor port to postfix. Although I had entered the data in /etc/services,
I failed to tell the AV scanner where to send it, and also failed to enter
the /etc/postfix/master.cf entry for the backdoor service name. I had just
commented out the smtp line.

As I run in a protected network, the backdoor was a safe option.

The end result is that I can now reject mail that I now is dodgy and use the
RBL.

Thanks for all your comments.
David.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim C
Sent: 24 August 2002 03:58
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Spam protection


On August 23, 2002 16:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have to disagree.  I've been using SpamAssassin for a while now, and the
> number of false positives have made me turn it off.  (And I've go the
level
> set at 10)

Hmmm..... That's odd. My experience has been completely opposite. I had a
couple of False Positives in the first week I started using it , but they
were all from HTML newsletters that I subscribe to. I simply whitelisted all
of the newsletters and I haven't had a FP since.( I use the default level 5)
--
Tim C
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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