Steve Hanson said: > Chris Schumann wrote: >> Thanks for the tips, guys. After noodling around some more on the >> server, it looks like RHEL has it all integrated pretty well (so >> there's hope going forward). >> >> The bad news is that RHEL3 is only up to spamassassin 2.55, while 2.63 >> is required to even apply a patch for the URI blacklist scanning, and >> 3.0 has it built in. >> >> I can update spamassassin, of course, but I'd like to keep the update >> management simple, so I think I will hold off until we can update to >> RHEL4 and go from there. >> > > You're probably going to find that it's best to be in a position to > install Spamassasin yourself anyway - for example, Spamassasin 3.1 is > now out and is a big improvement over 3.0.x in a lot of ways, > particularly if you're trying to use the Bayesian filters for a large > site. It's a pretty easy build and it's pretty easy to build it as an > RPM. Not a bad idea. > How many users and how much mail traffic are you supporting? Don't laugh too hard. We have four users. I don't know about other volume because I haven't looked, but I get less than 50 messages a day. Now down to about 30 using Spamhaus's xbl-sbl list. > Are you giving your users access to the SIEVE filters in cyrus? If so, > how are you doing it? We are currently using a plugin in Squirrelmail, > since lots of our users (University campus, lots of students) use > Squirrel as their only email client. This works fairly well for the > comparatively small number of people who actually set up server-side > filtering. I've done nothing to set up sieve specifically, and really haven't looked into its capabilities. There's always more to learn. Chris > > And since I'm actually sending this email from the address I'm > subscribed to the list from, this will probably actually post to the > list :-(. > > >> Chris >> >> Steve Hanson said: >> >>>On Thu, September 22, 2005 5:02 pm, Chris Schumann wrote: >>> >>>>In what may not have been the smartest move of all time (influenced >>>> by me!), my company is using Cyrus-IMAPd as our IMAP server, and >>>> Sendmail as our SMTP server. >>>> >>>>It works very well, but we get a lot of spam and I'd like to get >>>> SpamAssassin working well too. Since the user's don't have login >>>> accounts, a .procmailrc file cannot be created for each user. >>>> >>>>I would appreciate any tips on where to look for information on how >>>> to configure such a setup. We're using Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 for the >>>> moment. Hopefully switching to 4.0 soon. The default configuration >>>> files don't seem to do anything worthwhile. >>>> >>>>Many thanks, >>>>Chris >>>> >>> >>>Well, you're probably not gonna like this but - >>> >>>What you really should do is just set up spamassassin to run directly >>> under sendmail, and have it spam-mark the mail. >>> >>>Personally I like to use Mimedefang - it's a milter that runs under >>> sendmail and will run spamassassin as well as any of a number of virus >>> filters. It's very flexible and pretty fast (I run it on a mail >>> server with 6000 users and it holds up pretty well. >>> >>>THere are a number of other such beasts available - if you just want >>> to run spamassassin you could install spamass-milter, which will just >>> put spam markings into your email. >>> >>>Then your users can set up filters on the IMAP server to do something >>> useful with the markings - put the mail into the Spam filter, or throw >>> it away if the score is really high (though I never do that myself). >>> >>>I believe there is some info on the spamassassin site on how to set up >>> a site-wide spamassassin implementation. I'd look at Mimedefang if >>> you want a lot of power, and at spamass-milter if you just want >>> something simpler. >>> >>>I'll see if I can dig up a couple of better pointers in the morning >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Steve Hanson >>>Cruiskeen Consulting >>>http://www.cruiskeenconsulting.com >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list