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by **read-the-signat..** » Fri, 16 May 2003 08:21:42

Greetings,

My sendmail is working pretty well with smtp auth and I'm using an RBL,
spamhaus.org, that kills alot of spam. I've heard though, that spamassasin
might do a better job. I haven't investigated how spamassasin works yet
but, I'm wondering if I have to change from sendmail to procmail to use it?

--
John J. Rushford
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by **Kirk Job-Slude** » Fri, 16 May 2003 12:55:04

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| Greetings,
|
| My sendmail is working pretty well with smtp auth and I'm using an RBL,
| spamhaus.org, that kills alot of spam. I've heard though, that
spamassasin
| might do a better job. I haven't investigated how spamassasin works yet
| but, I'm wondering if I have to change from sendmail to procmail to
use it?

Well you can integrate procmail with sendmail using sendmail to transfer
mail to the outside word and procmail for local mailbox delivery
(http://www.viaverio.com/support/virtual/email/procmail/docs/filtering...).

Or you can add spamassasin as a filter to sendmail.
(http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/spamass-milt/)

Personally, I use procmail for more than spamassassin (such as routing
my mailing lists into folders) so adding procmail may be worth doing
anyway.

- --
Kirk
http://www.jobsluder.net/~kirk/
"Power corrupts, powerpoint corrupts absolutely." --Vinton Cerf

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by **Bob Kerste** » Fri, 16 May 2003 17:25:10

Hi,

> I haven't investigated how spamassasin works yet
> but, I'm wondering if I have to change from sendmail
> to procmail to use it?

No, that's not necessary. Just get your hands on the
spamass-milter (it is in the ports if I'm not mistaken) and recompile
your sendmail with milter support. Read the docs on how to add
spamassassin to your sendmail configuration. I've got this combination
up and running for quite some time now, works flawlessly.

--
Ajuus,
Bop (bob at fellownet dot com)

by **Kirk Strause** » Fri, 16 May 2003 23:46:57

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Quote:> Read the docs on how to add spamassassin to your sendmail
> configuration. I've got this combination up and running for quite some
> time now, works flawlessly.

The only reason I'm not using a milter is that I only want to process mail
being delivered locally. As I host a secondary MX for quite outside
domains, I don't want to use my resources to do strange things to email just
passing through my system.
- --
Kirk Strauser
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by **Andrzej Fili** » Sat, 17 May 2003 17:45:33

> Greetings,

> My sendmail is working pretty well with smtp auth and I'm using an RBL,
> spamhaus.org, that kills alot of spam. I've heard though, that spamassasin
> might do a better job. I haven't investigated how spamassasin works yet
> but, I'm wondering if I have to change from sendmail to procmail to use it?

http://www.spamassassin.org/where.html list a few milters available for
integration of spamassassin with sendmail.

I suggests you using MIMEDefang - it can be also use for intgration of virus
scanner [e.g. clamav (free)]

--
Andrzej [pl>en: Andrew] Adam Filip http://www.polbox.com/a/anfi/
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