** Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???> [2008-01-21 16:40]:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 at 03:52:55PM +0000, Paul Tansom wrote:
> > I'm in the process of putting together a new server side anti-spam
> >
> > Alternatively what do other people use. I'm based on Exim and have been
> > using Spammassasin via Procmail. I rebuilt my server a while back and
> > have been surviving on postive filtering with Procmail for a while, now
> > a hard drive has died in the box I was setting up to handle the
> > filtering so I may be back to square one (an easy recovery when I can
> > get at the box to swap the drive and regenerate the RAID, but I have a
> > new dual PIII/750 motherboard that I'll be building up and deciding how
> > to use).
>
> I use stock Exim in Debian. I then run Clam-AV (clam-assassin) and
> Spamassassin (spamd/spamc) from procmail. Dilivery to the end user
> is via Dovecot-TLS (POP or IMAP).
I'm looking to avoid doing it at the procmail stage since I need a
solution that will work nicely with multiple local and virtual domains
and ideally allow some tweaking on a per domain and per user basis.
> You can hook spamassassin into exim at recieve time if you want, but
> I've not done it myself.
That's what I'll be doing if I go the Spamassassin route. I'm looking at
a threshold for rejection, another for greylisting and then finally
accepting the rest. I just need to get my head around putting it all
together!
> I've found that Clam-assassin with added phish.ndb and scam.ndb works
> very well, I find the clam filters out more mail than spamassassin at
> the moment, by a factor of at least 2.
>
> http://www.sanesecurity.co.uk/clamav/
Thanks, more reading :) I didn't mention using clamav, but that's on the
cards too - eventually!
** end quote [Dr Adam J Trickett]
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