Question about spamassasin

[Julian Field]

At 16:11 08/08/2002, you wrote:
>Wasn't there talk a little while back about installing SA before installing
>MS due to the changes MS makes to perl?

There was? What changes?


>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
> >

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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