Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-08 Thread Bill Merriam
Lisa Muir wrote: Is there documentation that someone could point me to for this, or a setup that I can research. I'm getting nowhere with google apart from the above link but its more like a recipe that I won't understand than a documented approach. Lisa, I have been experimenting with

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-07 Thread Lisa Muir
On 2/7/07, Vini Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lisa, I would like to perform spam and virus filtering using a combination of Mailscanner, Spamassassin and ClamAV. I had originally intended building a scanning gateway, but having read the archives here I don't think this is a good

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-07 Thread
The gateway approach appeals to me on more grounds than just scalability, because I'm migrating the mailserver from a postfix/cyrus setup to courier, and I can use the gateway to cleanly decommission the old mailserver too. There is just a backscatter risk to avoid, eg, if the mailserver is

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-07 Thread Lisa Muir
On 2/7/07, Schalk W. Cronjé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gateway approach appeals to me on more grounds than just scalability, because I'm migrating the mailserver from a postfix/cyrus setup to courier, and I can use the gateway to cleanly decommission the old mailserver too. There is

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-07 Thread Harry Duncan
On 2/7/07, Schalk W. Cronjé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are other non-technical issues such as legislation (this varies form country to country) which makes a gateway approach attractive. A recent related blog about this is at http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=194. Since the poster

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-07 Thread
Harry, Since the poster doesn't cite any examples of what countries / what legislation, then I could be wrong, but that post looks to me like someone who got the wrong end of the stick about european traffic data retention legislation where logs of data traffic, and not the data itself, must

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-07 Thread Sergiy Zhuk
hi On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Harry Duncan wrote: Clearly this is outside of my jurisdiction, but from what I've heard it would strike me that SOX requires a caching email server, and courier's features already support this. SOX does not require that. -- rgds, serge

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-06 Thread Harry Duncan
On 2/6/07, Lisa Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for ways to integrate Mailscanner, I came across this link for using maildrop for the handoff: http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/courier-spam.jspx The maildroprc given here doesn't make any sense to me at all. Thats probably

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-06 Thread Lisa Muir
On 2/6/07, Harry Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You won't get mailscanner working with couriers queue directories because mailscanner hasn't been adapted for courier's queues, and unlike postfix etc (which mailscanner does work with) courier splits a queued message into two distinct files,

Re: [courier-users] Spam Filtering Courier

2007-02-06 Thread Peter Ford
Lisa Muir wrote: Got an excellent email offlist detailing how to use bogofilter and spamassassin with maildrop. The nice thing with mailscanner though is the ability to use the blacklists as part of the spam scoring system, along with spamassassin, and along with bogofilter etc etc, so that