Re: Questions about SA

[Martin McWhorter]

Ron,
There are many ways to call SA. You can call it from postfix, from 
Mimedefang or how I do it, from a sendmail milter spamass-milter. Beyond 
those three, there are many many ways to call SA.

Martin
Ronald I. Nutter wrote:
I am trying to figure out how SA is being called.  So far, according to
the Scott L Henderson instructions, I installed Spamassassin but don't
see how it is being called.  I tried emailing scott about another
question and didn't get a response, so I didn't even try to ask him on
this.
I looked in maillog and see postfix and amavisd reporting in but no SA.
Will see about adding some more memory.
Ron
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Kasky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:36 AM
To: Ronald I. Nutter
Subject: Re: Questions about SA

Ron -
How are you calling SA?  there are 2 options:
1.  calling the perl script spamassassin for each email to be scanned 2.
using spamc to call spamd - the deamonized version.
I wouldn't suggest anything lower than 512 mb ram.  I am running a 500
mhz 
p3 with 512 but it only handles about 5,000 emails a day.  I am assuming

you're going to have a few more than that...
hth,
Ed
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Ronald I. Nutter wrote:
 

I just finished getting SA up and running using the Scott L Henderson 
document.  It passes the tests in the documents.  I don't see Spam 
assassin running as a process like postfix and amavisd.  Is there a 
way to check that it is running ?

Also, what is suggested for hardware to run it on ?  I will be dealing
   

 

with 1500 faculty/staff/students.  I have it on a 400 mhz pentium with
   

 

32 megs of ram.  I know I will need to add more memory before going to
   

 

production but wasn't sure about the processor.
Ron
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Ron Nutter                          [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Georgetown College                                     
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] Spam FIREWALL software
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 12:05 pm, Raquel Rice wrote:
   

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:00:14 -0400
Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
     

Admittedly SA is tweakable to reduce FP's considerably, but being 
a
SA user the 1/25,000 FP rate doesn't choke me up at all. If it's 
true, it's quite impressive. Very few spamfilters can claim a FP 
rate anywhere near that low.
       

The concern I have is what happens to false positives?  They don't 
get
     

past the firewall, so what if that's something important?
     

Ask yourself this:  What happens to the "important" message just 
deleted by the user in frustration of dealing with 300 spams per day?
   

 

Or the "important" message lost by a still too flaky smtp network.
My take on this is:
Who would send anything "important" by email without a follow-up or 
confirmation of some kind?

If it was important then one should send a follow up or
request a return receipt.