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[Martin Hepworth]

2009/6/26 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> 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.
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> 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
>>
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Jules

also worth updating or pointing following page at your version..

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin

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Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK