A couple of questions regarding MailScanner

[Jason Williams]

Hello everyone.

I have a few questions that I wanted to ask, regarding MS and my setup. So
far, everything has been working well. I am continuing to monitor, tweak
and tune my server each day. Work in progress. Here are a few questions
that I have been thinking about lately.


Question 1.) Cleaning out the quarantine directory....how aften?

As it states, what is the recommendation for cleaning out all of the
quarantined items that MS has stored? I should mention that I am running
MailWatch and I have set it up to store all emails that are tagged as spam.

While there is spam in there, i'm assuming that I can train the engine to
learn from the quarantined spam. Probably use sa-learn first from the
stored spam, then clean out the quarantine?



Question 2.) bayes engine....best way to train it?

Continuation of question one. Being as I have probably around 300 pieces of
spam in there, is there a preferred method to train spam for MS? I've seen
and read different ways people use sa-learn for different systems. Wanted
to know if there was preferred method to use in conjunction with MS.



Question 3.) shutting down my machine...recommendations?

I have to shutdown my machine this weekend, because we are moving our rack
from one floor to another. I'm hoping it will only be down for about 20-30
minutes. We shall see. Anyone have any recommendations on what I should do
before I power down the server? I have the usual ideas such as backing up
my config files, but anything else?



Question 4.) Spam emails coming in, that have .pif files attached.

One thing I have noticed is that a lot of emails that are coming in and
that are marked as SPAM, have .pif attachments. For the most part, these
.pif attachments are probably viruses of some sort. I just find it kinda
funny that they are being marked as SPAM. I have no problem with that but
was curious if anyone else has similar things happening as well.


Question 5.) What changes require MS to be restarted?

Something I have thought about a lot recently. But, do you need to restart
MS after any changes you make to any of the configuration files? Rules?
.conf? etc. I'm assuming you do, but thought I would verify.


That is about it for now.

I appreciate the help.
Jason

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