I want to implement SpamAssassin http://spamassassin.apache.org/ 3 but I am just a Windows guy. I use McAfee's Spamkiller 2.7 on their e500 (linux) and it's just not doing the job. Someone please step me through the process of where and what to place SpamAssassin on. I see the wonderful reviews but this Windows guy knows nothing about linux.
Thank anyone very much!!!!
Jeff Baker
Network Systems Administrator
The Pantry, Inc.
Sanford, NC 27330
jeff.baker@thepantry.com
All outbound email messages have been scanned for viruses and content with the e500 web appliance.
I am one of the first to have jumped on this wagon, what type of mail server are you planning to install this in? Does it provide some way to tie in an external program? Each mail server is very different how they handle this, we used Vopmail and it provides what's called an "agent" which is a batch file you specify to be executed upon arrivial of mail. This works fine but you need to know how to program batch files... How you accomplish this depends on what your mail server allows you to do. It sure is easier setting up a freebsd box to run only e-mail and not have to worry about it for a long time! We haven't touched our mail servers except to upgrade our clamAV once a year.
When I ran SA under Win32, I had to keep a close eye on things to make sure they didn't blow up and let me assure you THEY WILL!
Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. http://www.i-is.com/ 810-794-4400
Jeff Baker wrote:
I want to implement SpamAssassin http://spamassassin.apache.org/ 3 but I am just a Windows guy. I use McAfee's Spamkiller 2.7 on their e500 (linux) and it's just not doing the job. Someone please step me through the process of where and what to place SpamAssassin on. I see the wonderful reviews but this Windows guy knows nothing about linux.
Thank anyone very much!!!!
Jeff Baker
Network Systems Administrator
The Pantry, Inc.
Sanford, NC 27330
jeff.baker@thepantry.com
All outbound email messages have been scanned for viruses and content with the e500 web appliance. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.surbl.org http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Hi,
I'm using MDaemon (http://www.altn.com/) which has SpamAssasin built in. It's running on Windows 2000 and in the four years I've been using it I've never had it crash on me. Naturally if you want something more stable then perhaps Linux/Unix is the way to go but I'm happy with a system that has resisted spontaneous combustion for 4 years.
Nick
Protect your domain from use by spammers. Set up an SPF record, read more about it here http://spf.pobox.com/.
-----Original Message----- From: "Fred" tech2@i-is.com To: "SURBL Discussion list" discuss@lists.surbl.org Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:34:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Help for the Windows Guy!
I am one of the first to have jumped on this wagon, what type of mail server are you planning to install this in? Does it provide some way to tie in an external program? Each mail server is very different how they handle this, we used Vopmail and it provides what's called an "agent" which is a batch file you specify to be executed upon arrivial of mail. This works fine but you need to know how to program batch files... How you accomplish this depends on what your mail server allows you to do. It sure is easier setting up a freebsd box to run only e-mail and not have to worry about it for a long time! We haven't touched our mail servers except to upgrade our clamAV once a year.
When I ran SA under Win32, I had to keep a close eye on things to make sure they didn't blow up and let me assure you THEY WILL!
Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. http://www.i-is.com/ 810-794-4400
Jeff Baker wrote:
I want to implement SpamAssassin http://spamassassin.apache.org/ 3 but I am just a Windows guy. I use McAfee's Spamkiller 2.7 on their e500 (linux) and it's just not doing the job. Someone please step me through the process of where and what to place SpamAssassin on. I
see
the wonderful reviews but this Windows guy knows nothing about linux.
Thank anyone very much!!!!
Jeff Baker
Network Systems Administrator
The Pantry, Inc.
Sanford, NC 27330
jeff.baker@thepantry.com
All outbound email messages have been scanned for viruses and content with the e500 web appliance. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.surbl.org http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.surbl.org http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 2:21:47 PM, Jeff Baker wrote:
I want to implement SpamAssassin http://spamassassin.apache.org/ 3 but I am just a Windows guy. I use McAfee's Spamkiller 2.7 on their e500 (linux) and it's just not doing the job. Someone please step me through the process of where and what to place SpamAssassin on. I see the wonderful reviews but this Windows guy knows nothing about linux.
Hi Jeff, Fred is probably right that a Unix or Linux machine will be a lot more stable and reliable than Windows in this application. That said, there are some links for using SpamAssassin with Windows on the SURBL Links page:
http://www.surbl.org/links.html
Cheers,
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."
I want to implement SpamAssassin
http://spamassassin.apache.org/ 3
but I am just a Windows guy. I use McAfee's Spamkiller 2.7 on their e500 (linux) and it's just not doing the job. Someone
please step me
through the process of where and what to place SpamAssassin
on. I see
the wonderful reviews but this Windows guy knows nothing
about linux.
Hi Jeff, Fred is probably right that a Unix or Linux machine will be a lot more stable and reliable than Windows in this application. That said, there are some links for using SpamAssassin with Windows on the SURBL Links page:
I don't know... Perhaps so, but I haven't really seen any problems with SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on Windows. Been running it with both CommuniGate Pro and Merak servers. The CommuniGate Pro interface module (CGPSA) has a bug that crashes it when too many recipients are specified on the To: header. But that doesn't seem limited to Windows. Other than that, no problems here at all any more. :)
Bret
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