Re: [cobalt-users] (no subject) Can I run Mailscanner and Spamassassin

["Steve Bassi" <steve@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "nathan aleksander marentette" <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:17 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] (no subject)


> Subject: the perpetual mailscanner / spamassassin Q
> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:17:52 -0500
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> forgive me wise aged cobalters :-)
>
> I have been following any number of threads about mailscanner and
spamassassin, done a lot of
> reading in the archives, and a lot of googling.
>
> I've installed Steve Bassi's mailscanner PKG (3.21 ver I believe) which
was a godsend and a
> lifesaver (THANK YOU STEVE - to where can I send the cheque?)
>

My Local Bar would be happy, they are getting tiresome about my tab.

> I want to reduce the incoming spam here in our office and have found
excellent raq-specific
> SpamAssassin instructions at Parker Morse's excellent site
(http://bluebird.sinauer.com/
> ~morse/cobalt/procmail.html) but am worried about SA and MailScanner
playing nicely
> together.
>
> Can anyone assuage my fears?
>
> Has anyone SA and mailscanner running in harmony and can offer me some
pointers?
>
Works fine on a RAQ4, I am running it.

> Is it madness of me to consider manually installing f-prot linux and
spamassassin?
>
No, its the best way to learn.

Sadly the lease on my RAQ4 is running out at the end of this month, and
looks like I shall be retiring from the cobalt world. My real life business
is also taking most of my time these days (not computer related), But if you
get stuck I will do my best to help.

Rgds

Bassi