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

[Ugo Bellavance]

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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.

Firewall issue?
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/faq?file=125

> 
> 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.

Isn't it built-in since SA 3.0?

> 
> 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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