Looks like you answered my next question: sendmail vs postfix vs exim?
I looked down the list of guides on SpamAssassin's site
(http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedInMta) and just
arbitrarily picked one to go with.
I assume that part of making it a resource hog is rejecting know "crap"
before SpamAssassin has to make a decision on it. Of course, by flat out
rejecting the "crap" you also risk losing mail?
Roger
Jeff Lasman wrote:
On Sunday 27 August 2006 04:11 pm, Roger Rustad wrote:
Anyone know of any good guides for SpamAssassin?
I simply want a relay in front of my Exchange servers (which are
scattered all around).
To make it easy, I'll probably just use Debian or Ubuntu.
I hate spamassassin; it's a resource hog.
That said, if you're going to dedicate a system to it, it'll be great.
I've got some rulesets you can have if you'd like. From various
sources; most of them around, but you never know what I've got that you
might miss.
And I highly recommend using exim on your front-end relay... very easy
to configure, and you can run spam-assassin at data time so you can
refuse email rather than drop it, depending on score.
I'm not as up-to-date on the latter as I should be, but the method I've
been using, scanning afterwards, sucks.
(That's "sucks" in the geek terminology; it uses a lot of resources.)
Jeff
