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[Julian Field]

Version 1 of the page is up at www.mailscanner.info/gettingthebest.html

You might find it has one or two little tricks you didn't know about.

Please do also contribute things I should add to it.

Let me know what you think!

Jules.

On 26/06/2009 09:14, Julian Field wrote:
>
>
> On 25/06/2009 21:50, Gerry Maddock wrote:
>>> How about we start with
>>>
>>> MTA Blacklists: Zen, BRBL, bl.spamcop.net?
>>> MTA checks: no invalid recipients or domains at SMTP time, greet-pause,
>>> grey-listing? How to get list of valid recipients out of Exchange, or
>>> configure Exchange to reject invalid recipients at SMTP time?
>>> ClamAV: sane-security -- Which ones? Where's the table that lists the
>>> pros and cons? What are the basic ones that everyone should use?
>>> SA rulesets: SARE, KAM, sought, what others?
>>> SA tools: razor, DCC, pyzor?
>>> MailScanner Virus Scanners: clamd, other commercial fast ones?
>>> sophossavi, f-prot, f-secure?
>>> MailScanner: Don't use MCP.
>>> JKF tools: Version 2 of anti-phishing and anti-spear-phishing rulesets.
>>> DNS: Get feed of ZEN and SURBL, use one DNS server running rbldnsd for
>>> these zones.
>>>
>>> What else have I forgotten?
>>>
>>> Please can people start sending me links to the relevant sites/pages 
>>> for
>>> everything I have mentioned above, together with a brief summary of 
>>> what
>>> is legal/illegal use of anything.
>> Julian,
>>
>>     Just wondering why you don't recommend MCP? I'm using it 
>> currently and
>>     wondering if I should disable it now.
> It has a huge processing overhead and as a result is very slow.
> "SpamAssassin Rule Actions" can do pretty much anything MCP can, and 
> it does it enormously faster.
>
> Jules
>

Jules

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