[WBEL-users] price

Vic whitebox at beer.org.uk
Tue Feb 7 02:55:51 CST 2006


> I never saw it. Perhaps you outta get a mail service with antivirus? I
> recommend SBEL/Sendmail + MailScanner (Google it)

Hactually, I prefer not to use Mailscanner.

I don't know if it's changed recently, but when I used it, it would accept
all emails and then /dev/null the ones it didn't like. That meant that I
was downloading the entire mail body - however dodgy it looked - and
binning it later. I was also being seen as a server that wold accept
spammy mails - although there don't appear to be many spamnets that
collect such info, it appears that a few do.

So these days I don't use Mailscanner. I use the Spamassassin and Clamav
milters for sendmail. That means I reject mail part-way through the SMTP
transaction, and the message is rejected, rather than accepted/binned.
I've had a couple of false-positives with the settings I use, but I really
don't get very much spam at all...

Vic.



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