From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 11:24:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D53C716A41F for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:24:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from evil@evildomain.org) Received: from evildomain.org (adsl-68-127-38-225.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net [68.127.38.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7525F43D48 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:24:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from evil@evildomain.org) Received: from [192.168.1.7] (Valect@[192.168.1.7]) by evildomain.org (8.13.5/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j95BOOsQ082802 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 04:24:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evil@evildomain.org) Message-ID: <4343B7FE.7030308@evildomain.org> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 04:24:46 -0700 From: Aaron Holmes User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <43410329.2080902@evildomain.org> <20051004044822.06e66c6a@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20051004050336.75006dc1@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <200510041459.02407.fcash@sd73.bc.ca> <20051005135110.4a119a90@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20051005135110.4a119a90@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Spam filters X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:24:42 -0000 Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:59:01 -0700 >Freddie Cash wrote: > > > >>On October 3, 2005 07:03 pm, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >> >> >>>On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 04:48:22 +0300 >>>Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:02:36 +0200 >>>> >>>> >>>>des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Ion-Mihai Tetcu writes: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Aaron Holmes wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Any recomendations on good spam filters? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>Dspam [is] more accurate that spam assassin,with less >>>>>>resources and less work for the admin >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>Dspam is designed to work as a local delivery agent; all email >>>>>addresses must map to a local user, and it delivers mail to an >>>>>mbox file (though there are patches to make it work with >>>>>maildir). For more complex setups (IMAP server, virtual >>>>>mailboxes / domains), >>>>> >>>>> >>>Just to clarify: >>>We've deployed a solution involving all above a week ago and some >>>months ago I've helped a 40k domains setup for a hosting company. >>> >>> >>I've just started researching dspam and am looking for ways to >>integrate it into our mail gateway (FreeBSD 5.x box running Postfix, >>Amavisd-new, SpamAssassing w/Pyzor and DCC, and ClamAV). The gateway >>receives mail for 15 domains and roughly 5000 accounts spread across >>those domains. Handles about 250,000 messages per month, with maybe >>35,000 of those being legit. >> >>I'll admit, I've only just begun reading through the docs online and >>just picked up the Ending Spam book authored by the coder behind >>dspam, so I haven't touched a lot of the info that's out there. >> >>But, any pointers toward good documentation or example configs would >>be greatly appreciated. >> >> > >Tonni's www.billy.demon.nl/Postfix-amavisd-new-dspam.html comes in mind. > >You'll probably want to use some type of groups to reduce db load and >learn time. You could have a postfix-dspam-clam only setup. You could >also use the sbl joz is providing (both client and server ports are >WIP). > >Drop me an email with more info about your actual setup if you want. > > > > How exactly does spamassassin work? I haven't been able to find very clear documentation on it, and I'm rather new to the anti-spam world.