SA does not allow running it as 'root' user. It is considered a security
risk. SA files also should not be in 'root' user folder. Should be in
something like /var/filter/.spamassassin (filter being the name of the
user)
You need to have a user such as 'filter' run it.
Here is a fairly good write
This reminded me of this page I read the other day. ;-) (no offense)
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html
It's an amusing read if anyone hasn't seen it yet.
> Two of the great things I have gleaned from this list are:
>
> 1. Greylisting is reported to stop upwards of 80-90% of
If you right click on that link you will see the real URL which is..
http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/supposedtoallow/fdl.viags.com/p/b/kmioa
"fdl.viags.com"
The stuff in front is just to hide the real url and to re-direct your effort.
So I would not give zdnet too hard of a time, else they my have
Woops, I stepped into that one big time.
Sorry you are right.
Some things are not as simple as they look. ;-)
> What on earth are you talking about?! It is an open redirect! I'd love for
> them to have a few choice words for me. Here try this:
>
> http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/blahblahwhatever
Let's try this again... My first response got lost in the ether.
If you right click on that link you will see the real URL which is..
http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/supposedtoallow/fdl.viags.com/p/b/kmioa
"fdl.viags.com"
The stuff in front is just to hide the real url and to re-direct your effor
You don't say what version of SA you are referring to. The best thing is
to upgrade to latest SA which does a terrific job using several URL black
lists. This is a new feature in SA that looks for URLs in spam. This will
likely stop your problem without having to write special rules.
> I have a
I just had the reverse problem. Working for a large company using Exchange
for outbound business email we were always hitting one company's secondary
MX which was broken (sent back rejections).
Our servers just liked the second MX better than the primary MX for some
reason. When I manually telnete
