Who does RBL checks - MailScanner or SpamAssassin?

[Martin Hepworth]

Res

Hmm I use 5 as low scoring and 10 as delete....get very few 5-10 false
positives...

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Res
> Sent: 08 June 2006 09:04
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Who does RBL checks - MailScanner or SpamAssassin?
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Logan Shaw wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Res wrote:
> >> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Arthur Sherman wrote:
> >
> >>> Who should do RBL checks: MailScanner or SpamAssassin?
> >
> >> Neither, the MTA should do it.
> >
> > That depends on your policy on what you do with spam.  Do you
> > tag it, or do you delete it?  At my site, we have basically
> > a no-delete policy; spams are tagged and passed through.
> > This approach gives the users more work (have to set up a
> > filter) but more control.
> 
> 
> I'd rather prevent the known spammers connecting, we also use DUL lists as
> well, apart from SORBS listing hotmail, Ive never in many many many years
> had a single problem, most users are glad to be protected (as best we can)
> from scum.
> 
> On the smaller use machines where we use MS with SA, we have low scoring
> of 3 tag, and high scoring of 12 delete it.
> 
> 
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