Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-09 Thread Jerry K
8 mail servers on Solaris 10 Sparc +custom compiled sendmail +clamAV This has been a stable combination for several years for me. Ask List wrote: We can not seem to come to an agreement on the best operating system to run spam assassin. So we have decided to post this question to the mailing

RE: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-09 Thread Herb Martin
Dan wrote: > Thanks guys, > > There isn't a lot of description of this because most people don't > > want to > > do this - most f the value of SA comes in the rules packaged with > > it that > > have been tested to hit current spam. > Must be to many years of building legos, one brick at a ti

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-09 Thread Dan
Thanks guys, There isn't a lot of description of this because most people don't want to do this - most f the value of SA comes in the rules packaged with it that have been tested to hit current spam. The main reason why you're finding little documentation about "starting from the groun

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-09 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan wrote: > Newbie here, > > I've filtered email for years with Declude and am adding SpamAssassin > to my arsenal. I want to build something from scratch and am having > problems getting started. Before we get further: I'd really suggest starting off playing with SA's default setup for a while,

Re: Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-09 Thread Loren Wilton
There isn't a lot of description of this because most people don't want to do this - most f the value of SA comes in the rules packaged with it that have been tested to hit current spam. That said, you probably these days need an init.pre to enable som plugins and a local.cf with some minimal conf

Upgrading from 3.1.1 sa-learn

2006-04-09 Thread cblevins
I am getting ready to upgrade from 3.0.4 to 3.1.1 and I want to check one issue before I do it. I ran perl Makefile.pl, then make. I stopped all spamd processes and (Not sure if this is was necessary) then ran /usr/bin/sa-learn --rebuild in the source directory and got the following errors: Bare

Learning SpamAssassin

2006-04-09 Thread Dan
Newbie here, I've filtered email for years with Declude and am adding SpamAssassin to my arsenal. I want to build something from scratch and am having problems getting started. Thing is, all the guides (books, manual, web pages) seem to be geared toward using the standard configuration

Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-09 Thread mouss
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Re: Cannot install SA-3.1.1 FreeBSD 5.4

2006-04-09 Thread Marc Dufresne
Got it working. Didn't realize I forgot to add perl at the end of /usr/bin. That's what happens when you work later hours!! Marc Dufresne, Corporate IT Officer St. Lawrence Parks Commission 13740 County Road 2 Morrisburg, ON K0C 1X0 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 613-543-3704 Ext#2455 Fax:

Re: apache httpd + spam assassin = web without spam?

2006-04-09 Thread mouss
dny wrote: nowadays, spammer not only goes to mail. they now also spamming blog comments, wiki, guestbook, etc is there a way to setup apache to use spam assassin rule? so that apache will check first (dnsbl or some other way) if the posted content is spam or not? or, perhaps only let thos