Who does RBL checks - MailScanner or SpamAssassin?

[Alex Neuman]

On Jun 8, 2006, at 6:08 AM, Dhawal Doshy wrote:

> Res wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
>>
>>> Average mail delivery time is 10-15 seconds to the delivery  
>>> servers. And i haven't done any advanced tuning (save using  
>>> TMPFS) on these servers. Of course it helps to have Dual  
>>> Processors and 3 GB RAM with SCSI Disks (Dell PE1850).
>>> </blow your own trumpet>
>>>
>> Yes but you still have not said what your SA tunnings are
>>
>
> None, zilch.. we do not tune SA at all (i compile rpms from the  
> stock tar.gz distro).. moreover we add tonnes of SARE rules to it.  
> If using a dedicated server for MySQL based Bayes is tuning, then  
> yes we do tuning. From that POV, we use djbdns' dnscache for the  
> local caching-nameserver, which helps Net::DNS tremendously. Also  
> thanks to the prolocation chaps, we rsync SURBL for local use..
>

Is using djbdns' dnscache better performance-wise than running Bind  
in caching mode? I know this probably sounds dumb but since Bind w/ 
caching is installed by default on most rh-based linux distros I've  
never bothered to do djbdns...

> I have added wiki entries for both of them quite some time back.
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php? 
> id=&idx=documentation:related_software:caching_nameserver
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php? 
> id=documentation:anti_spam:spamassassin:bayes:sql
>
>
>> I wasnt being a smart ass i was being genuine, but no problems I  
>> take it the way you meant it and you shall be ignored :)
>>
>
> I wasn't being one either.. apologies if i did sound like one.
>
> - dhawal
>
>
>> If anyone on this list processing the levels we do and actually is  
>> bored enough to say how they tuned SA i'd be interested in reading
>>
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