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

[Martin Hepworth]

Jason

yup - and Net::DNS needs to be at least 0.48 as well..

do a "spamassassin -p <path-to>/spam.assassassin.prefs.conf -D --lint" 
and it will tell you what tests its doing and if the URI-RBL stuff is 
OK. <path-to> is the dir where MailScanner.conf is...

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Jason Williams wrote:
> 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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