Hello all, I've been trying to get spamassassin and clamav working, but got really confused when I realized there are various incarnations of the software. Originally, I started out with just spamassassin, but learned there is also an SA-milter. Can someone tell me which of the various spam fighting packages i.e., sa, sa-milter, clamav, clamave-milter, and so forth? I ran into problems with one package with the system not being able to open a socket, so I just gave up. I hope I'm not too vague here, but essentially, I just would like to know what the milter part does, and if that's the way to go, or the non-milter versions. I'm subscribed via digest, and if it's not too much trouble, I'd appreciate a cc direct to me. Many thanks.. Sam
Sam Drinkard wrote:> Hello all, > > I've been trying to get spamassassin and clamav working, but got > really confused when I realized there are various incarnations of the > software. Originally, I started out with just spamassassin, but > learned there is also an SA-milter. Can someone tell me which of the > various spam fighting packages i.e., sa, sa-milter, clamav, > clamave-milter, and so forth? I ran into problems with one package > with the system not being able to open a socket, so I just gave up. I > hope I'm not too vague here, but essentially, I just would like to > know what the milter part does, and if that's the way to go, or the > non-milter versions. > I'm subscribed via digest, and if it's not too much trouble, I'd > appreciate a cc direct to me. Many thanks..depending on your MTA (postfix, sendmail, ...) or your MDA (maildrop, procmail, ...), there are various ways to integrate spamassassin: - a proxy. an example is amavisd-new (it calls SA internally, so you don't need to run spamd) - a milter, if your MTA supports milters (sendmail and postfix do) and you are confortable with this. - a program or script calls "spamc" and you have spamd running - a program calls spamassassin (not recommended, except for testing and debugging) - other
Reply-To: <47DD3688.2000507 at netoyen.net> Sam Drinkard wrote:> Hello all, > > I've been trying to get spamassassin and clamav working, but got > really confused when I realized there are various incarnations of the > software. Originally, I started out with just spamassassin, but > learned there is also an SA-milter. Can someone tell me which of the > various spam fighting packages i.e., sa, sa-milter, clamav, > clamave-milter, and so forth?Welcome to the club. Setting up anti-spam and anti-virus software can be a very tedious process. I tried various approaches over a period of months before hitting upon our current solution. We now use MailScanner to integrate spamassassin and clamav into our sendmail MTA. This seems to be the least burdensome from a maintenance point of view and still provides a useful degree of configurability . The MailScanner people can also point you to a reasonable fee for service organization to assist you in setting things up.. HTH -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3