Well that confirms my suspicion on it not doing Content-Checking (quarantining messages based on content/attachments) - can anyone suggest something to do this?
>From the tutorials I've been following it looks like SA will hook into AV software (or vice versa) - I think the key is amavisd-new. I tested telneting into ports 10024 and 10025 but 10024 can't connect - could this indicate a problem or is that normal? On 10/6/05, Loren Wilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was told that I can use spamassassin to do Content Checking but I > > see no evidence of it as yet. > > That may depend on what you mean by "content checking" > > SA is a tool for classifying spam. You seem to have tried it on a virus. A > virus really isn't spam, it is a virus. SA makes little attempt to catch > virui, there are tools designed for that purpose. Now, if you want to catch > messages about mortgage deals and the latest popularity pills and sex clubs, > then SA will do a nice job for you once you have it set up right. > > It is important to realyse that SA is a *filter*. It doesn;t DO anything to > the spam, other than add a score that indicates how likely a message is to > be spam. Something else in your processing chain needs to follow SA, look > at the score, and decide what to do with the mail. If you don't have that, > then all mail, spam included, will get routed to the users. However, the > spam will be scored and marked as spam in the subject line. The user's mail > client can then usually filter on that if they want to. > > It sounds like you don't have SA properly integrated into the rest of your > mail system, and it isn't processing the messages. Unfortunately I don't > recognize the tool you are using, so I can't help. Someone else will > probably be along soon that may be able to. > > Loren > >
