Emails Not Bouncing

[NateDog]

Ok man.  I've installed Razor and Pyzor.  I haven't done DCC yet because
there's quite a bit envolved and I haven't checked my sendmail yet but I may
have to rebuild it with this DCC thing  :(  I have force reinstalled spam
assassin and did the razor tests and everything checked out ok.  But my
question is how to enable these?  I found a file
/etc/MailScanner/mcp/mcp.spam.assassin.prefs.conf  and at the bottom it has:
use_bayes  0
use_dcc    0
use_pyzor  1
use_razor1 0
use_razor2 1

I have quite a few questions :)  First I changed the razor and pyzor to 1 to
enable them?  Then I restarted mail scanner.  But I did a "top" and didn't
ever see a name of razor or pyzor show up as a process when an email comes
through.  So how do I make sure they're enabled?  I also was watching my
mail log and thought I had turned off autolearn but apparently I didn't.  Is
autolearn ok?  And if it's not a good idea how would I turn it off?  Then,
I'm using RBL's with mail scanner.  Should I use spam assassin instead - I
think I've seen that mentioned before?  I think that's all the questions I
have for now.  Oh and I found that file you were talking about on how to
bounce emails.  But instead of that I'm going to do what you talked about
with the razor and pyzor and such as long as you're willing to hang in here
and help me - and I appreciate all your help so far.  Thanks.

--
Nathan Peters


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Spicer" <kevins at BMRB.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: {SPAM} Emails Not Bouncing


> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:45, NateDog wrote:
> > Ah that's cool no prob.  But do you have any ideas for me?  Like any
> > alternatives?  The only problem I have really is that an email from a
new
> > customer gets sent.  And let's say it's detected as spam.  They have no
idea
> > if it's caught as spam and didn't go through or whatever you know what I
> > mean?  I'm okay with the virus warnings not being kicked back to the
sender
> > because the person it was going to inside our network will get an email
> > saying it had a virus and was deleted.  Anyways.....I'm open to
suggestions
> > :)
>
> I created custom spamassassin rules which matched the names of our
> products in the body of messages, this got rid of almost all of the
> false positives from our clients.
>
> Also throwing DCC, Razor, Pyzor and a handful of RBL's into the
> spamassassin mix helps to raise the average spam score, meaning you can
> set your threshold a little higher and avoid some of the marginal false
> positives.
>
> Keep an eye on the spamassassin rules the false positives match and
> tweak their scores if necessary
>
> Finally consider only blocking high scoring spam and just tagging (or
> tagging and stripping) low scoring spam, then lower your high score to
> be just above the highest false positives you are getting.  That way you
> get rid of most spam, but don't lose real mail.
>
>
>
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