best MailScanner configuration?

[Steve Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Fractal IT Dept.
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 5:31 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: best MailScanner configuration?
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We upgraded to the latest and greatest version of MailScanner a week ago;
> we upgraded to SpamAssassin 3.0.1 at the same time. Unfortunately, the new
> system seems to be good but not as good as the older stuff at detecting
> and stopping spam. I was hoping for an improvement, of course. As far as I
> can tell, spam is still getting points in SA, but the scores tend to be
> lower than they used to be. Looking at the score distribution chart
> (Thanks again Steve!) in MailWatch, it's as though the whole thing is
> shifted to the left.
>
> We have DCC and Razor running and we're getting rule hits there. One thing
> we used to have was the SURBL URI check, but I understand this is now
> built in to SA3. As far as I can tell, we're not getting any such hits. Is
> there anything special I need to enable or configure?
>
> What else should we be installing, etc?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

We have some tools on out website to hopefully make startup a bit simpler.
Go to:

http://www.fsl.com/support/index.html

Try downloading and installing:

Rules_Du_Jour install files
- Simply untar the files and run the new install.sh script. This package has
recently been updated to work better in concert with SA 3.0+ and has an
improved wrapper script. It also installs a static bogus_virus_warnings.cf
file that is customized to avoid blacklisting MailScanner sites.

<<<< If you have previously downloaded this file, you might want to
reinstall >>>>

SA 3.0 spam.assassin.prefs.conf file
-Simply change all the text YOURDOMAIN-COM to the value of %org-name% in
your MailScanner.conf file then install the file in whatever %etc-dir% is
set to asd spamassassin.prefs.conf. This file also sets the location of the
bayes database as /etc/MailScanner/bayes

Bayes Starter DB (Linux SA 3.0)
- Simply untar the files in /etc/MailScanner to create
/etc/MailScanner/bayes and check the permissions on the files.
Hope this helps,

Steve
Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com


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