Emails Not Bouncing

[Julian Field]

The only bit of DCC you need is the "dccproc" installation. 5 minute job.
No sendmail tweaking or daemons or anything else needed, just one binary to
drop into /usr/local/bin.

At 16:55 11/05/2004, you wrote:
>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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