Question about spamassasin

[Mike Kercher]

Wasn't there talk a little while back about installing SA before installing
MS due to the changes MS makes to perl?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: Question about spamassasin


> At 12:46 08/08/2002, you wrote:
> >I will try to add spamassasin to my working mailscanner.
> >Ive looked around but there is some things I cant figure
> >out.
>
> There are some notes in the Installation FAQ on the MailScanner web site
> about installing and building SpamAssassin.
>
> >Should I use spamassin with sendmail or mailscanner?
>
> MailScanner.
>
> >With sendmail I think I have to go threw Milter?
>
> Ignore all that.
>
> >If I understand it right mailscanner will call for
> >spamassasin just like it does with AV-programs?
>
> No, it interfaces directly to the SpamAssassin perl API, it doesn't use
any
> extra programs (such as the spamassassin script, or spamc or spamd) to
talk
> to SpamAssassin.
>
> >Best practise, use whitelist etc in mailscanner
> >or spamassasin?
>
> If you use RBLs in your MailScanner setup then you probably want to do
most
> of your whitelisting in MailScanner. However, SpamAssassins
> auto-whitelisting feature is pretty good, and you turn that on via a
> mailscanner.conf entry.
>
> >Any performance differense I should consider between
> >the 2 ways of using it?
>
> Get MailScanner to call it. No process startup cost at all.
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
>