Hi, As a fellow newbie, I have struggled to get everything working for the past two weeks as well, and I can see you are having some of the same problem I had(still having), so here's my $0.02, hope it helps, and for the experts out there, please correct me if I'm wrong with any of my assumptions! I'm using SpamAssassin, MIMEDefang, and MailScanner with ClamAV
As for writing custom SpamAssassin rules, it's basically perl RegEx. and if you are too lazy to do it yourself. look here http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules and here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets I find the custom rulesets are quite usefull, such as bigevil and anti-drug, they have the rules for what you have mentioned.... download them and drop in /etc/mail/spamassassin, that's all you need to do. IMHO, MimeDefang is useful in a much different way, such as the fiilter_sender and filter_recipient functions enables you to do a lot of different checks before any messages are even accepted. As for MailScanner, I like it's ability to convert dangerous HTML and Javascript codes and strip them, I think MIMEDefang does this as well, but I haven't look into it yet, if that's the case, I need to find a reason to run MailScanner if at all. Yang _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
