[H-GEN] SpamAssassin for secondaries?

David Duffy david at audiovisualdevices.com.au
Mon Mar 15 19:24:03 EST 2004


Tony wrote::

>>I have spamassassin all working fine for my domain.   I handle secondary MX
>>for a few small clients in the event their ADSL goes down, I notice,
>>looking at maillog files, they seem to get a lot of spam, even through my
>>server when their own is down.  Does spamassassin handle all domains that
>>you relay for by default, or is this something I need to specify?
>>    
>>

Josh Marshall wrote:

>It depends on how you've implemented spamassassin. i.e. when do you scan for 
>spam? At local delivery time using e.g. procmail or via a daemon that 
>processes the mail as it comes in e.g. amavis?
>
>I personally use amavisd-new which scans mail for both spam and virii and I've 
>got it configured with postfix to scan emails as they pass through the MTA - 
>that way they are scanned in both directions (stops viruses getting out) and 
>it scans emails before sending them on to other MX's.
>  
>

I like the idea of scanning all mail on the way out, but am not sure of
the exact
mechanisms involved in sending mail through my Debian box. Any pointers?
David...





More information about the General mailing list