From: "Tango Echo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Have any of you successfully setup a spamassassin > proxy on Mandrake for a medium sized network? I'm > thinking of purchasing a barracuda device for spam > filtering, but thought of giving OSS a chance 1st. > But is it worth it, or will it require lots of time > reading docs and configuring? I seem to be finding > that OSS may only work in networks where the admin > isn't low on free time since RTFM seems to be the > mantra. Sure, the commercial packages are expensive, > but you get what you need right away. Would a SA > proxy be as simple as building a 10.1 box w/2 NICs, > installing webmin and SA, then doing a quick config > thru webmin?
Well fr33 (may I call you that for short?) may I suggest a good place to spend some time hanging out would be the SpamAssassin user's list. It can be found at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It will undoubtably prove to be a good friendly place for your learning experience. (Hint, the SpamAssassin documentation could use some rather sincere help.) {^_-} There are some problems with SA 3.0.2 that may mitigate against using it in a production environment. SA 2.64 does not have this problem; but, it lacks features. The problem is peculiar. The site wide setup involves "spamc" and "spamd". Spamc is a tool that accepts a message, feeds it to spamd (the daemon) for processing via an ip connection, and then spits the message back out for further processing. (I call it via procmail here.) Spamd spawns several children that perform the actual processing. It is something like Apache in this respect. The spamd children are reused once they are freed by a current use. I and a couple others have discovered that a setup which allows per user rules does not work right for any given spamd the second time a given spamd is used. The first time it picks up the per user rules and scores just fine. The second time it fails to pick up the per user scores even though it picks up the rules just fine. This is not likely to affect a typical office use for SpamAssassin. Per user rules are regarded as "risky" even though no known risk beyond a generic aversion to running "any old user rule" has been found. So the only time to use 2.64 is when you see enough plus side with "safe users who are clever enough to write their own rules." Otherwise use 3.0.2 and enjoy. It is nice. Once you have it installed visit http://www.rulesemporium.com/. The SARE Ninjas are the spammer's worst nightmares shy if the FBI stopping by to arrest them. The various rule sets on the site are very well maintained and very effective for tagging spam versus ham. I ever so highly recommend the work of the Ninjas. (And once YOU get the knack of writing regular expressions for rules feel free to pass them along.) {^_^} Joanne
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