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

[Jason Williams]

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Martin,

Ok. Simple enough. The plugin was already specified in my init.pre file.

loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL

Does that prety much include it? Is there anything else I need to 
configure? That seems to, simple.

Cheers,

Jason

Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Jason
>
> the URI-RBLs (surbl.org and uribl.org based ones) need  the 
> appropriate plugin loading in init.pre, this is normally enable by 
> default.
>
> I use FreeBSD and install SA via CPAN....
>
> -- 
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Jason Williams wrote:
>
>> 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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