Automatic Deployment

2007-09-13 Thread Rense Buijen
Hi Group, I was wondering, setting up a mailserver with spamassassin and optionaly amavis and/or mailscanner takes a big amount of time if you want to do it right. Is there a system or set of scripts that can speed things up and maybe with some dialoques to configure a debian or redhat box for

SA Updating

2007-08-28 Thread Rense Buijen
Hi Group, Is there a way of updating spamassassin automatically to adapt to new ways of spamming. For instance, when picture spam came I had to install fuzzOCR, now with PDF and RTF, new modules are required. I also heard about rules-du-jour or something, do I always have to manually compile,

Re: Email forwarding and RBL trouble

2007-08-22 Thread Rense Buijen
d getting a bit off-topic so I'll thank everyone for their input, it made me a lot wiser on this issue. And as for spamassassin... keep up the good work, I love it! Rense Kai Schaetzl wrote: Rense Buijen wrote on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:01:09 +0200: I think Exchange is configured the righ

Re: Email forwarding and RBL trouble

2007-08-22 Thread Rense Buijen
d the right way in such a way that it knows what users it has on the system.. I would really like to drop the second mx altogether but policy forbids it :) Thanks for all the help guys! Rense Bowie Bailey wrote: Rense Buijen wrote: Mathhias, The problem is that when the mail enters

Re: Email forwarding and RBL trouble

2007-08-22 Thread Rense Buijen
O rbl checking on the backup MX itself... Matthias Leisi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rense Buijen schrieb: Thank you for your (quick) reply. I cannot utilize the trusted_networks settings because I cannot trust the mail that my backup MX sends to me. But

Re: Email forwarding and RBL trouble

2007-08-22 Thread Rense Buijen
t you will end up sending tons of bounce messages to innocent people from your secondary MX. Even if it does, your primary MX can refuse a spammy message and then you will be generating even more bounce messages. This is not acceptable and you will end up in some RBLs yourself. -- Met vriendeli

Re: Email forwarding and RBL trouble

2007-08-22 Thread Rense Buijen
lease advice further, your (and everyones) help is greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Rense Matthias Leisi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rense Buijen schrieb: The problem now lies with the RBL's, when the SA box dies, the mail will be queued on my Exim box and whe

Re: Email forwarding and RBL trouble

2007-08-22 Thread Rense Buijen
lease advice further, your (and everyones) help is greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Rense Matthias Leisi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rense Buijen schrieb: The problem now lies with the RBL's, when the SA box dies, the mail will be queued on my Exim box and whe

Email forwarding and RBL trouble

2007-08-22 Thread Rense Buijen
Hello all, I have two mailservers, a primary and a secondary MX. The primary MX is a spamassassin (3.2.3 on Ubuntu Linux) box that is placed inline of a MS Exchange machine. Spamassassin is doing a good job, especialy with the RBL's I am using. The backup MX is a simple EXIM which does only for