MailScanner vs. SpamKiller

[Julian Field]

At 15:55 01/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I've been running MailScanner for a while for a few clients. I just signed
>on a new client that was using SpamKiller by Mcafee I believe. The main
>reason for the service is for queueing their mail when their Exchange
>server goes down which it has been every weekend due to scheduled power
>outages. However, they are still relying on the Spam and Virus filtration.
>
>The problem is that they decided to turn off SpamKiller the other day, and
>started getting spam that they assumed MailScanner would stop. Bottom line
>is that when SpamKiller is enabled, they get close to no spam at all. Some
>of the samples that they sent me are the very basic couple of lines type
>of spam that gets a very low score. Here is what I have running:
>
>SpamAssassin 2.63
>ORDB-RBL
>spamhaus.org
>spamcop.net
>dsbl.org
>abuseat.org
>blitzed.org
>Razor2
>
>I'm not doing Bayes at the moment as it seems to be a real hassle doing
>the training.
>
>So my question is what can I do to improve the whole system? What tweaks?
>Will DCC help out a lot? Are there any better RBLs? Tweaks to SpamAssassin?

Make sure you have Net::DNS installed. Use the xbl as well as the sbl from
spamhaus.
What is your Required SpamAssassin Score?
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Julian Field
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