[Haifux] Spamassassin 3.0.x -- worth the upgrade?
Hello all, I'm still using version 2.63 of spamassassin, and I now saw that 3.0.4 is out. I'm using it for filtering my private mail, so it's not like I need some corporate-scale features. So those of you who are already using versions 3.0.x: Is there any significant change making an upgrade worthy? I simply don't want to play with a stable setup which deals with my communication with the world... Thanks, Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Haifux] Spamassassin 3.0.x -- worth the upgrade?
Eli Billauer wrote: Hello all, I'm still using version 2.63 of spamassassin, and I now saw that 3.0.4 is out. I'm using it for filtering my private mail, so it's not like I need some corporate-scale features. So those of you who are already using versions 3.0.x: Is there any significant change making an upgrade worthy? I simply don't want to play with a stable setup which deals with my communication with the world... I've upgraded mine to 3.0.3 (Debian Stable), and there was some reduction in spam, not something big though so unless you have floods of spam escaping the assassin I wouldn't bother with it. The one thing I did do and made my life so much better is grey-listing, it's a controversial method, but for now it just works. The idea is that you disallow the first mail and wait for a retry after 5 minutes or so, you allow the retry. Legitimate mail is allowed while spam which is not retried is dropped. For identification of an e-mail it uses the triplet of sender-receiver-smtpIP. I'm using postgrey and it has auto-learn so after a few successful passes a mail server is cleared for retransmit bypassing the grey listing. Installation on Debian Stable is easy enough, a simple change to the postfix setup and you're done (after apt-get install postgrey). It works for me but YMMV. Baruch -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Haifux] Re: Spamassassin 3.0.x -- worth the upgrade?
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 12:44, Eli Billauer wrote: Hello all, I'm still using version 2.63 of spamassassin, and I now saw that 3.0.4 is out. I'm using it for filtering my private mail, so it's not like I need some corporate-scale features. So those of you who are already using versions 3.0.x: Is there any significant change making an upgrade worthy? I simply don't want to play with a stable setup which deals with my communication with the world... I've used some versions 2.x of spamassassin. They weren't bad at the time. I think spamassassin 3.0.x has more features and also has more rules adapted to spam that we see more recently. (and so should be better at filtering it). At the moment, I'm using SA 3.0.4 here on my Mandrake box. There's also SA 3.0.3 or 3.0.4 installed on vipe. I'm pretty happy with them. I'm still getting some spam into my inbox, but most of the spam is filtered. You shouldn't worry about upgrading. SpamAssassin 3.0.4 is fully backwards compatible in its interface and external behaviour to SA 2.x. On Mandrake, it's just a matter of building the new SRPM and installing the RPMs it generates. Regards, Shlomi Fish - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of paragraphs. -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Haifux] Oops, I forgot the Penguin at home!
This Thursday at 08:30, August Penguin 4 will open at Gany Hata'arucha, Tel Aviv. For a list of things you might want to bring, see: http://linmagazine.co.il/node/view/10452 For the conference site, please see http://august.penguin.org.il/ See you there, Orna. -- Orna Agmon http://ladypine.org/ http://haifux.org/~ladypine/ ICQ: 348759096 -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
