I've neglected Mailscanner and my setup for to long...

[Jason Williams]

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for your help. I appreciate it. I have gone ahead and done a few 
things. Here is what I have done so far:

Upgraded SA to 3.0.4. Pretty painless.
I did add both DCC and razor2 to my init.pre file as follows:

#Add DCC
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC

#Add Razor Agents
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Razor2


I am not terribly familiar with either, but one thing I have noticed in 
my maillog is a few of these:

Jun 28 08:39:31 mail dccproc[39538]: continue not asking DCC 8 seconds 
after failure
Jun 28 08:39:31 mail dccproc[39537]: no working DCC servers 
dcc1.dcc-servers.net dcc2.dcc-servers.net dcc3.dcc-servers.net ... at 
208.201.249.233 142.27.70.

I have also been reading over the mailscanner wiki site as well, trying 
to add more items as well as catch up. I thought adding DCC, razor and 
pyzor might make a considerable difference in my blocking of spam. The 
spam is getting progressively worse and getting through. It is my fault. 
I just haven't been able to stay up to date with the server and now I 
need to go over everything and set things up properly.

I'll take a look at the link you offered. I appreciate it.

As far as the surbl.org are concerned, anyone here running FreeBSD? If 
so, did you install through the ports tree? I've run into a few snags 
here recently with this and im working out the bugs.

Thanks,

Jason
Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Hi Jason
>
> first of all upgrade sa to 3.0.4 theres a DOS problem with 3.0.3 and 
> it fixes some URL parsing problems as well..
>
> As to makeing SA better, make sure you have all the Surbl.org 
> URI-RBL's installed - SA 3.0.4 has the jp URI-RBL as well by default.
>
> Adding in the URI-BLACK can also help -- see http://www.uribl.com/
>
> As for the extra rules, you need post300 as you are running a version 
> after 3.0.0.
>
> Yes they go in the same dir as local.cf and you can auto updates them 
> with a rulesdujour script. See the wiki on this and also for some 
> specific things you may need to turn off if you use the 
> bogus_virus_warnings.cf as well.
>
> -- 
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
>
>

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