From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 22:26:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15709106564A for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80098FC13 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:26:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3BMQd2r085942; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:26:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080411171849.02645280@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:28:31 -0500 To: Robert Davison , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <686938.94909.qm@web25009.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20080411164736.02644418@mail.computinginnovations.com> <686938.94909.qm@web25009.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080411-0, 04/11/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6704/Fri Apr 11 08:41:43 2008 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: m3BMQd2r085942 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Milters or SpamAssassin plugings X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:26:47 -0000 At 05:04 PM 4/11/2008, Robert Davison wrote: >Thanks, but that was not exactly what I was asking. > >I know I can configure it in MailScanner, but - which is the best way of >doing it. Through Sendmail as a milter or the p5-mail-SPF plugin ?? > >Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:10 PM >4/11/2008, Robert Davison wrote: > I'm running the base Sendmail with Mailscanner and SpamAssassin from the > ports. > > A simple question.... > > I'm installing SPF to help the fight against spam. > > Which is the most efficient way of doing it.....Sendmail milter or the > p5-Mail SpamAssassin plug-in. They both do the same, but is one a better > way than the other ? > > > If you have Mailscanner and spamassasin installed you just need to > configure mailscanner. Check the setting in MailScanner.conf located in: > /usr/local/etc/MailScanner > > -Derek Sendmail has milter built-in to it for some time. All the mail scanning tools need milter. The easy way to configure these tools is to configure MailScanner. It sits at the top of the tree so to speak, depending on whatever AV you configure it to use, and MailScanner uses spamassasin and many perl libraries. You can see all the dependencies if you do: make depends on the mailscanner port. You will need to configure your AV to get updates. Also you may want to setup some of the rules files for mailscanner for whitelisting, blacklisting, and phishing. One last note, don't bounce spam. If you choose to bounce spam, as most has wrong return addresses you can start your own mail storm of rejected bounces. A mail storm like that will easily bring down an email server. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.