Who does RBL checks - MailScanner or SpamAssassin?

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Res
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:38 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Who does RBL checks - MailScanner or SpamAssassin?
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> 
> > Res
> >
> > Hmm I use 5 as low scoring and 10 as delete....get very few 5-10 false
> > positives...
> 
> On a box that uses SA I'm amazed at the amount of calais and viagra crap
> that are marked as totaly cleam scoring a bare 0.1 etc...
> 
> 
> --
> Cheers
> Res

We run MS/SA on our own systems and a lot of others. We don't see any: 

> On a box that uses SA I'm amazed at the amount of calais and viagra crap
> that are marked as totaly cleam scoring a bare 0.1 etc...

My guess is that you're not using the SARE rule sets in combination with
Rules_du_Jour. They are very effective, especially when you update them
daily. 

My thanks to the folks who maintain the SARE rule sets; you are much
appreciated :)


Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com