Re: [SAtalk] A new(?) way to fight spam, blocking their DNS

2003-02-11 Thread jmiller
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > Malte S. Stretz wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 18:51 CET Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: > > > >>[...] > >> When a domain is involved in spamming it's added to a list, and whenever > >>a local user is trying to access that website he gets a "hardcoded

RE: [SAtalk] Is to identify yourself by return email necessary in the future?

2002-11-21 Thread jmiller
I am not a TMDA user or developer, but it does allow for acking of mail that won't pass the challenge/responce (mailling lists, automated e-mails from amazon.com and such). It keeps a queue of stuff that it didn't let through for a configurable time (24hr default). You have to manually add maillin

Re: [SAtalk] MailScanner vs Milter installation

2002-10-27 Thread jmiller
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, John Rudd wrote: > > On Wednesday, Oct 23, 2002, at 14:22 US/Pacific, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > mailscanner started to choke whenever loads of e-mail came in. > > Sounds like my servers. Any time we get a big chunk of messages come > in, I have to worry about whether o

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and mimedefang...

2002-10-26 Thread jmiller
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Kim Leandersson wrote: > Hello! > > We've used spamd/spamc for a while for a limited number of users as > evaluation. It has worked great! Now we have put together a machine that > we wish to use as smtp gateway. We installed Mimedefang and want it to > use spamassassin to sca

Re: [SAtalk] Building A SpamAssassin Box, how much horsepower?

2002-10-24 Thread jmiller
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Scott Lambert wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:01:52PM -0500, Paul Oster wrote: > > I'm building a SA box for a smallish ISP (2500 mailboxes) what kind of > > machine should I be looking at? > > Impossible to say. How much mail do your users receive? If you're running s

Re: [SAtalk] MailScanner vs Milter installation

2002-10-23 Thread jmiller
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Kevin J. Steil wrote: > Also, which will perform better...using mailscanner or a milter in > sendmail?? > > This is an enterprise SMTP Gateway...going to be passing about 10K to > 20k message per day. > I've used both mailscanner and mimedefang, and mimedefang (a milter) is D

[SAtalk] scoring differences between versions.

2002-10-23 Thread jmiller
Hello, I'm trying to determine how many spamassassin hits are appropriate for tagging messages at different levels of it possibly being spam. I have spamassassin 2.31 running on a production machine, and figured out some good numbers for that situation. I installed 2.43 on a different machine, an