Mailman and MailScanner

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Doc Schneider
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 12:02 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mailman and MailScanner
>
> Stephen Swaney wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> >>Behalf Of Doc Schneider
> >>Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:43 AM
> >>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >>Subject: Mailman and MailScanner
> >>
> >>I run a lot of mailing lists here--using Mailman 2.1.4--and am seriously
> >>thinking of adding MailScanner to the box that hosts them.
> >>
> >>Anyone else doing this and any "gotchas" you can pass along?
> >>
> >>Also going to be using the new Spamassassin 3.0.3 w/SQL bayes on it. Am
> >>running 2.64 currently and doing some procmail magic to keep the spam
> >>down to a minimum.
> >>
> >>TIA,
> >>
> >>-Doc
> >
> >
> >
> > We have a setup exactly like you are proposing. It works well with no
> real
> > issues.
> >
> > My only concern would be capacity / loading but that is more of a
> Mailman
> > issue. Our list server is a system mostly dedicated to running Mailman.
> It
> > has no real mailboxes so the only email is junk and email destined for
> > Mailman. This is a pretty light load for MailScanner and SpamAssassin.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Steve
>
> Steve,
>
> Yes that really helps a lot, thanks!
>
> And same thing here no mailboxes on the server. So guess I'll get to
> hopping and install MailScanner and see how it does.
>
> I was jusy a little leary of running it with all the list and having
> good list mail be tagged as spam. But this gives me a bit of
> encouragement to run this on it.
>

Just create a rule set for Use Spam Assassin =

Form:   127.0.0.1       no
FromOrTo:       default yes

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

> BTW: I'm running MailScanner on my secondary MX box with SA 3.0.2 (need
> to upgrade that) and alls it does is catch spam. Works really well.
>
> MailScanner is one great piece of software. kudos to Julian!
>
> Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it.
>
> -Doc
>
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