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<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>err.
MaiScanner. Did you really expect any other answer on this
list? ;)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Seriously they all do different things.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Procmail provides a means of calling external programs, and of filtering
mail into different folders etc. based on regular expressions. It doesn't
do any virus/ spam filtering but can call external programs (like SpamAssassin
& virus scanners).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>SpamAssassin provides very good spam filtering based on known spam
characteristics and statistical filtering (Bayes) - but doesn't have any
anti-virus capability.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>MailScanner provides an interface to an external virus scanner (or
scanners), can integrate spamassassin (very easily!), has its own filename and
filetype filters, can filter out certain known exploits, can query RBL lists,
etc, etc (RTFWP!) Its also easy to install, and works out the box (i.e.
sensible defaults). If you're a tweaker theres an almost limitless number
of tweaks you can do, especially given the flexibilty of rulesets and the
'custom config' functions.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=490301110-07072003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
short, MailScanner rocks.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Goga Lee
[mailto:manearter@YAHOO.COM]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 07 July 2003 10:54<BR><B>To:</B>
MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<BR><B>Subject:</B> Which Filter To
Use<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>All mail filters:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>1) MailScanner</DIV>
<DIV>2) SpamAssassin &</DIV>
<DIV>3) Procmail </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Seems to be good enough, can anyone advise and suggest the best
spam/virus filter of all?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>GogaLee </DIV><BR><BR>
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