-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 4:46 PM Theo Van Dinter <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:27:06PM +0100, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: >> It depends on what you want to do; if you want to have hundreds of >> rules with different scores, then SA is way superior, but if you've >> got a simple "hit this one and die die die"-thing then why waste >> your servers time having it start something perl-based? > > Yeah, it's all about cost or "intrusion" into your system, IMHO. I > had a nice rant about this kind of stuff with a guy running an open > relay, who's 100% positive that the "RBL" admins are actually > spammers and there's nothing wrong with an open relay. That's a > different discussion though. Basically, I look at it like this on my > system: > > - SMTP (access db, RBLs, simple header checks, etc) > - Procmail > - SA > - MUA Filter > - My delete key > > As you go down, the "cost" (use of resources, time wasted, user > exposure, etc) goes up. I have an access database (sendmail) of over > 15400 entries. Almost 1600 are IPs, 9300 are class C nets, and 15 > class B nets. The rest are domains, users, or full addresses. > > That alone blocks ~1200 spams a week from my server that don't need to > spend time going through the rest of the stack. > > Just for stats, the spam that came through to me (or the two users who > report their spam to me) during the same period: > > Stats since 2002-12-17 > Scores : 1.4 19 45 > Total Messages: 1116 > SA Caught : 1084 (97.1 %) > Razor Caught : 817 (73.2 %) > Razor Not SA : 1 (0.1 %) > Razor Cause SA: 27 (2.4 %) Tried stripping out all the SA stuff and doing a sendmail USER < x_rotfile and I get a insufficeint permissions error returned to me. Is this correct? - ------------------------------------------- Randomly Generated Quote: Much that is weird could happen on a world on the back of a turtle. Mike Loiterman PGP Key 0xD1B9D18E http://www.ascendency.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 Comment: This message has been digitally signed by Mike Loiterman iQA/AwUBPgqThmjZbUnRudGOEQIvwgCfVWxOu8bQDPwEzg53fox7RRaCd/gAoIlY PowJ4Ygpa8FZstJaC341NoGF =Gw3t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
