Adding other spam scanners

James Pifer mailscannerlist at TNJINFL.COM
Tue May 27 19:35:34 IST 2003


Awesome. That worked thanks. I have both pyzor and razor working now.
Hopefully that takes care of more of the spam.

James

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 14:09, Peter Bonivart wrote:
> Try this:
>
> spamassassin -t -D < sample-spam.txt > /tmp/sa.txt 2>&1
>
> Look in your source directory for SA, sample-spam.txt should be there.
> Then check sa.txt, it will show everything SA does and score so far and
> if something has problem getting through the firewall.
>
> /Peter Bonivart
>
> --Unix lovers do it in the Sun
>
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 20:04, James Pifer wrote:
> > Thanks. I installed pyzor 0.4.0. How do I tell if it's being called and
> > working?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 12:47, Bingham, Ryan wrote:
> > > Razor and Pyzor are both free.  All you have to do is install them and
> > > SpamAssassin will call them automatically from MailScanner.
> > >
> > > To get DCC to run, make the following changes to your
> > > spam.assassin.prefs.conf file:
> > >
> > > Comment out:
> > > score DCC_CHECK 0.0
> > >
> > > And then add
> > > dcc_path /usr/local/bin/dccproc
> > >
> > > Then just look for DCC_CHECK to show up in your message headers.
> > >
> > > That should do it.
> > >
> > > Ryan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: James Pifer [mailto:mailscannerlist at TNJINFL.COM]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:36 PM
> > > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > > Subject: Adding other spam scanners
> > > >
> > > > I apologize for asking a question that's probably been asked a million
> > > > times, but I'm not finding the answer on the website or surprisingly
> > > > searching the archives(although I'm sure it's there.)
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking at adding some other spam scanners such as pyzor because I
> > > > still have a lot of spam sneaking through. Anyway, I have downloaded
> > > > pyzor and it looks easy enough to install, but how does MailScanner
> > > use
> > > > it?
> > > >
> > > > One more question regarding razor. It looks like pyzor was developed
> > > > becayse razor was not open source or something. Does razor cost
> > > > anything? I couldn't tell from its website.
> > > >
> > > > I've also updated MailScanner and SpamAssassin to the latest code.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > James



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