Re: upgrading methods

2005-01-12 Thread Martin McWhorter
I like to use RPMs from YUM or APT repositories where ever I can on RPM based distrabutions. But I think for spamassassin, you are better off going with CPAN to keep it up to date. Martin Hans du Plooy wrote: I was wondering what method you guys & gals prefer for upgrading spamassassin on the m

Re: Bayes databases losing file ownership

2004-12-02 Thread Martin McWhorter
Chris Blaise wrote: spamd runs as mail and that's what the bayes_ files are owned as. A few days ago we started seeing an increase in spam and looking into the problem today, I found that the bayes_toks file (but not bayes_seen) was owned as root. Anyone have any ideas what could cause th

Greylisting Considerations

2004-10-06 Thread Martin McWhorter
I am running spamassassin (2.63 soon to be upgraded to 3.0) on a linux machine with the spamass-milter, sendmail and clamav/clamav-milter. This machine is the border gateway for all incoming email. All mail is then forwarded to a server that houses the IMAP mailboxes. I am considering implement