A couple of questions regarding MailScanner

[Ugo Bellavance]

Jason Williams wrote:

> Hello everyone.

Hi Jason.

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>
> 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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