On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Matt Kettler wrote:
> At 09:56 AM 1/15/04 +0545, Pankaj wrote:
> >I feel I am being a bit misunderstood. I simply need to configure my MX to
> >have SpamAssassin running.I do not need any antivirus .
> >How do I do it ? Running RedHat Linux 8.1 and Sendmail 8.12.10 in it.
>
[snip..]
> Thus, you NEED another tool to integrate it into the MTA layer.. most MTA
> layer integrations are capable of calling a variety of spam and virus
> scanners, but you can just neglect the virus scanner part.
>
> However, the answer of using amavis or mailscanner to handle the
> integration is good advice.. I personally use mailscanner.
>
> Some people also use spamass-milter, which installs itself as a sendmail
> milter so it's more tightly integrated, but I've heard more complaints
> about it than praise.
However a sendmail milter -does- let you do something that you cannot
do with mailscanner. You can do real-time SMTP rejects of spam, not
just delete or bounce it.
If you SMTP reject the spam, it never hits your queue, so no problem
with the garbage piling up and no bombarding poor innocent 'joe-job'
victims. It's better than auto-deleting spam, as a legit message
that is accidentally mis-identified as spam gets returned to the
true sender and they can remedy the situation rather than wondering
what happened to their message.
Dave
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