Re: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner Follow Up Report

["Chris L" <clathem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike At Spy" <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:51 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner Follow Up Report

> While mailscanner and the anti-virus program both are doing well, I could
> not get SpamAssassin to work properly.  Whenever I turned in on in the
> mailscanner config file, something would hold all of the emails on the
> server.  I'm not sure where they were going, but they seemed to be stuck
> someplace (when I would turn spamassassin off in the mailscanner config
> file, all of the emails would suddenly get delivered).
>
> If someone knows something about that, let me know.  I'll be looking into
it
> meanwhile.  The mailscanner mail-list seems to be ignoring my query at the
> moment (or now one knows of this as an issue, which I would find hard to
> believe). :)
>
> -Mike

I'm not using SpamAssassin in conjunction with MailScanner, but I am using
DNSBL. Although SpamAssassin is probably a nice filter, I prefer to reject
messages before the server accepts them for delivery. I feel this is a great
way to reduce spam, and it doesn't use the bandwidth that allowing the
messages to be accepted does. MailScanner and sendmail both have the ability
to reject mail based on DNSBL. You might want to look into using them to
reduce the amount of spam you receive.

Regards,
Chris