On 8-Dec-2006, at 01:46, Mike Kenny wrote:
The configuration that I inherited had only got
TRUSTED_RULESETS="TRIPWIRE
SARE_EVILNUMBERS0 SARE_RANDOM"; in /etc/rulesdujour/config. This
obviously
allows a lot of spam to filter through (or at elaast would allow
the rules
to become outdated). Looking at rulesdujour.sh I notice it
references a lot
mor rule sets than these. What problems might I encounter if I add
all of
these (except for those noted as pre 3.0) to my config file?
Well, ALL of them would be a bit much.
The drawback is that some will add some overheard, both in time and
in resources, to processing messages. The more messages your
mailserver gets, the more you care about that.
I would look at the SARE ones and enable those that sound good to
you, and see how that goes.
--
You may be anti anti-spam-kook if: Despite having invented the FUSSP,
you not only don't know the difference between the SMTP envelope and
SMTP headers; you doubt there is such a thing as the SMTP envelope
because email doesn't involve paper.
