Stephen Ford wrote: > Can someone give me some pointers on > rejecting/dropping mail before it gets to > spamassassin? I'm running solaris 9, sendmail, > mimedefang and spamassassin. I'd like to block some > messages at the sendmail level since that doesn't use > much cpu/memory (I'd think most zombie's, ratware, > spoofing can be stopped here). Then within mimedefang > if the email fails the network checks to reject it/by > pass spamassassin testing (again trying to avoid using > too much cpu/memory) and then and only then run the > email through spamassassin.
In sendmail you can use DNSBLs: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/features.html#enhdnsbl I use a three-tier approach with sendmail, MIMEDefang, and spamd: http://www.mimedefang.com/kwiki/index.cgi?SpamassassinSpamcSpamd -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
